If you are looking for somewhere to be tonight where you can express your support for today's Ninth circuit ruling on the unconstitutionality of Proposition 8, WeHo will be where it's at. more ›

Hollywood, prepare. Over 400 activists are taking it to the streets this afternoon, specifically the intersection of Sunset and Vine, to protest those who have failed to pay the U.S. corporate tax rate, namely FedEx. more ›

Hundreds of airport workers will descend on LAX this afternoon to march and rally for healthcare. Aviation Safeguards, the contractor providing passenger services at LAX, recently announced plans to terminate its contract with employees. As a result, workers will lose their healthcare benefits on February 1. more ›

Downtown drivers, prepare for a few obstacles this morning. A Philadelphia-based healthcare reform group will march and rally starting at 11am to "Occupy Anthem Blue Cross." Healthcare-Now!, a volunteer group organizing for a national single-taxpayer healthcare system, will march in support of SB 810, a Sacramento bill dubbed the California Universal Healthcare Act. more ›

To show solidarity with the Occupy LA movement and the 99% of Americans the movement asserts is a majority unrepresented by the political and financial power of the 1%, a group of members of the LGBT community will stage a march in West Hollywood tomorrow. more ›

At around noon today, a second large protest got underway in Downtown Los Angeles involving participants in the Occupy LA movement. The group has been moving down Broadway, and currently is near 3rd, where arrests are taking place. The Los Angeles Police Department have declared the protest an "unlawful assembly," according to a live news report on KCAL-9, and are displaying a show of force to control the crowd. more ›

Over 1,000 activists - including Occupy L.A. protesters, Good Jobs L.A. advocates, unemployed residents, community groups, clergy and labor organizations - have successfully taken over the intersection of 4th and Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles this morning. Their march and rally began at 7am at the Bank of America Plaza on S. Hope Street, calling on Congress to make Wall Street accountable for fixing the economy as well as demanding jobs, not cuts. more ›

Occupy LA was launched in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street in New York's Zuccotti Park, and late last night, while the New York Police Department conducted a raid on the encampment, Occupy LA's protesters took to the streets here to show their support. more ›

On the heels of National Bank Transfer Day, more than 10,000 college and university students, in conjunction with the ReFund California Coalition, will keep the heat on big banks. Rallies and marches are slated at 13 California college campuses this week to make banks pay to end cuts to higher education. more ›

You didn't think something like Bank Transfer Day would be ushered in quietly, did you? That's definitely not the case, as cities across the nation are going to show their support for consumers moving their money from big banks to credit unions November 5 by holding marches and rallies. more ›

A massive rally and march is slated for this evening in downtown Los Angeles. Hundreds of participants are expected to show, including Occupy L.A., Good Jobs L.A., immigrants' rights groups and labor organizations. Said activists will combine forces to protest corporate gluttons and urge Congress to pass urgent job creation legislation. more ›

A group of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers, parents, students, and other district employees will march with the Occupy L.A. protesters this afternoon. The groups will leave the Occupy L.A. site at City Hall at 4 p.m. and head to the LAUSD headquarters on Beaudry for a rally and press conference. more ›

The U.S. Senate voted against the American Jobs Act on Tuesday evening, and as promised, Good Jobs LA is unleashing more aggressive actions against Corporate America today. The coalition of community members and organizations, whose mission is to hold corporations accountable for fixing the economy and foster investments in struggling communities to create jobs, feels that the Senate "stood for corporate greed over desperately needed good jobs," per today's release. more ›

Just how long will the one hundred or so people camped out on the streets in front of Los Angeles City Hall stick around? The Occupy LA protesters say they'll stay until December, reports ABC7. more ›

Celebrating the progress in L.A.'s struggle to transform poverty-level jobs into good jobs, 500 service workers will descend upon LAX today at noon. Their message? "Don't reverse our progress." The march and rally event also supports East Coast janitors whose contracts are expiring soon and is part of a national day of actions. more ›

"Boobies are for babies!" cries out a bare bellied, and bare chested, expectant mother amid a small crowd of her topless sisters. It is Venice Beach, on a sunny Sunday, and the cause is laid out for all to see: Women should be allowed to go topless, just like men. This is the annual Go Topless Day protest, march, and gathering. more ›

Hundreds of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) delegates from the 2011 NAACP Convention will assemble in downtown Los Angeles this afternoon to march in support of 62,000 Southern California grocery workers. more ›

LAPD is prepared for the May Day rally and march expected to draw tens of thousands to the downtown streets on Sunday. Organizers expect up to 50,000 activists -- well short of the hundreds of thousands who showed up for the downtown and MacArthur Park rallies of 2007. more ›

USC is probably the last school in town at which you'd expect to find a student body actively engaged in administrative injustices and campus policy but that may be starting to change. "The tide is beginning to turn as USC continues to upset certain members of its community," said Max Hoiland, one of the student organizers behind the march and rally, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Thursday in the United University Church parking lot. more ›

If you follow filmmaker, writer, and activist Jason Pollock on Twitter, then you probably know he's all about getting involved and taking part in democracy (after all, he's the guy behind the documentary The Youngest Candidate). He approached us today and asked if he could share a post about an event tomorrow and we thought it was worth passing along. Thanks, Jason! more ›

If you are going to be in the Century City area this afternoon, or need to pass through, the LAPD has advised that there are several streets that may be affected between Noon and 6 p.m. due to the scheduled Justice for Janitors march and demonstration today. more ›

Before Venice Beach became the tourist hot spot it's known as today, it was one of L.A.'s secrets. Actually, it was a topless secret. Before 1974, Venice Beach was a nude mecca and apparently pretty private. But thanks to some media attention, a gubernatorial candidate campaigning in the nude and word spreading throughout town, people started to come and check out the spectacle. Controversy, of course, came to a head and the city banned nudity. But that didn't stop people from coming to Venice. "... it was too late to turn back the clock," wrote historian Jeffrey Stanton wrote in Venice California: Coney Island of the Pacific. "For people had discovered that Venice still existed and was actually a relatively safe place to visit during the day." more ›

Some LAist readers have been asking when a decision in the Prop 8 case will be made. In short, the answer is: we have no idea. But we do know that whenever a decision, the streets in Los Angeles, West Hollywood and across the state are sure to fill up in celebration... or protest. more ›

One of the most vocal and high-profile local protesters of Arizona's controversial new immigration law is Cardinal Roger Mahony, who braved the crowds yesterday to attend and speak out at the immigration reform march and rally in Downtown Los Angeles. more ›

Thousands of people filled the streets of Downtown Los Angeles today to take part in a march and rally held to bring attention to the issue of immigration reform and immigrants' rights. more ›

A May Day march and rally focused on immigration reform and rights taking place in Downtown today may turn out to be less well-attended and far more orderly than anticipated, LA Now is reporting. more ›

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck yesterday emphasized that immigration status, in itself, is not a matter for police action. That directive comes under the controversial Special Order 40, which has been around since 1979, and is the opposite of Arizona's recently passed SB 1070. more ›

Add another May Day march to the growing list for this Saturday. Locally based American Apparel announced this afternoon that they will join the cause and march from their downtown headquarters and factory to Broadway, joining up with the already-planned rally. more ›

Police estimates put Saturday's May Day protest in downtown at only 100,000 people (in 2006, a downtown May Day rally brought around 500,000 out, one that went down Wilshire was estimated at even more), but officials are warning of major delays as the march and rally goes up Broadway. Participants will be arriving as early as 6 a.m. with road closures beginning at 5:45 a.m. around the staging area between 11th and Olympic along Broadway. more ›