Pending confirmation by the City Council, Mayor Karen Bass has appointed Renata Simril to the Board of Recreation and Parks Commissioners. Here’s why City Council
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What you need to know to report on the Olympics responsibly The Olympics catalyze and intensify a myriad of issues: gentrification and displacement, police militarization,
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We take a moment to catalog our work this year and reflect on the fact that LA 2028 – and its boosters – did nothing to engage with the communities who are already feeling the effects of their unchecked greed.
We conducted an independent survey of Californians on the 2028 Olympics. The results paint a very different picture than the one claimed by boosters and reflect a reality much closer to what we’ve observed from talking to actual Angelenos.
There are 5 especially pervasive myths about the Olympics in LA. In order to truly understand the negative consequences of LA 2028, we must unpack them to discover what is truly being sold to us.