UCLA LPPI Policy Fellow Alan B. Rivera penned an op-ed for Caló News where he analyzed the political climate surrounding the Los Angeles City Council. He argued for the resignation of Councilmember Kevin de León due to his racist and homophobic remarks as well as a recent altercation with an activist.

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In an article for UCLA Newsroom, UCLA LPPI’s Director of Mobilization Paul Barragan-Monge breaks down the key findings of UCLA LPPI’s new report: “Differential Rights: How Abortion Bans Impact Latinas in their Childbearing Years.” The article also features UCLA LPPI’s Founding Executive Director Sonja Diaz, who states that the report’s data, “…makes clear that Latinas must be at the forefront of policy discussions on reproductive justice and health care reform.”December 13, 2022

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David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the UCLA School of Medicine, said “hard work and family values” make Inland Latino consumers and entrepreneurs a “tremendous source of economic vitality.” “If it were not for Latinos, the labor force and the number of households in the Inland Empire would have declined.”

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“Los Angeles is a city at a crossroads,” said Sonja Diaz, the founding director of UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute. “We’ve seen great increases in housing insecurity, food insecurity and widening economic inequality.” While these issues are long-standing, Diaz noted that they’ve been “exacerbated because of a lack of leadership from City Hall and coordination across jurisdictions,” especially during the coronavirus pandemic.

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With us was UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez. Her recent book “Bad Mexicans” tells the Magonista saga in cinematic detail. She explained how in 1907, the location where we stood was a hideout for Ricardo Flores Magón, the brilliant but problematic leader who lent his name to the Magonistas.

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