Downtown Los Angeles, prepare for yet another occupation. Over 200 activists, including those from Occupy L.A., will take to the streets in a series of "flash occupations" today. But protesters aren't only occupying downtown. Occupations are planned in other neighborhoods across Los Angeles, including Westwood, Inglewood and Compton, at branches and buildings owned by Wall Street banks. more ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

The Orange County Fairgrounds was the site of a small Tea Party rally this morning, where people gathered to hear a speech by Republican presidential candidate hopeful Michele Bachmann. A few hundred fans were there to hear the Congresswoman from Minnesota speak, according to the OC Register. 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 ›

Friday afternoon was declared a half-day by LAUSD as an estimated 5,000 teachers and supporters descended on Pershing Square to protest the budget cuts. How bad is it? California has laid off 30,000 teachers in recent years with an estimated 20,000 pink slips already issued this year. And now Gov. Jerry Brown is looking to slash billions of dollars from the state education budget, according to the Calfornia Teachers Association. 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 ›

Mayor Villaraigosa will join local Congressional leaders and celebrity activists in a rally opposing federal budget cuts at Federal Plaza downtown this afternoon. Organizers are expecting thousands to attend the 2:30 p.m. protest and rally against H.R.1, the House Appropriations act that would potentially cut $61 billion from the federal budget. Get your rally caps on because it's ON this afternoon -- rain... or clouds... more ›

Despite the heated connotations from both camps, two protests went head-to-head without incident in Claremont over the weekend. One group of about 30, considered a Neo-Nazi organization affiliated with with National Socialist Movement, assembled and marched for about an hour, with an aim of drawing attention to their objection to illegal-immigrant enrollment at the nearby Claremont Colleges. more ›

A few hundred demonstrators attended a Claremont for Peace rally this weekend at Memorial Park while a few hundred more immigration rights activists counter-protested on the scene of a neo-Nazi rally at Foothill and Indian Hill boulevards held by white supremacists affiliated with the National Socialist Movement. more ›

A press conference and rally was held yesterday morning on the steps of City Hall in support of keeping Barnsdall Art Park a public facility. Tomas O’Grady, a board member of the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council who is running for Los Angeles City Council, along with a group of supporters called the Barnsdall Alliance organized the rally. more ›

As part of a pre-Midterm Election week tour of West Coast cities, First Lady Michelle Obama spent some time in Los Angeles yesterday to speak at a small fundraiser event for incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer. more ›

This afternoon candidates Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer will be among the many California Dems taking part in the "Rally in the Valley" hosted by the Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley, according to CBS. more ›

From the outside looking in, it was a political rally like any other. A stream of elected officials, cheered on by adoring supporters, urged them to vote for what's right and ignore the naysayers during a bitter election that has pitted party against party. But, whenever the President of the United States is involved, there's no such thing as normal. more ›

A union stagehand working the USC rally for President Barack Obama this morning was reportedly fired for wearing a sweatshirt that said "George H. W. Bush" on it, according to Eric Spillman at KTLA. But get this, it was a shirt that pictured the U.S.S. George H. W. Bush aircraft, where his son is currently serving, the worker said. Duane Hammond said he wasn't making a political statement, just supporting his son. A union supervisor gave him a choice: wear something else or go home. Hammond refused and said he was fired. more ›

LAist's Jeremy Oberstein and photographer Joey Maloney are at USC covering President Barack Obama's rally. For live updates, see Oberstein's tweets below and to stay tuned, keep reloading this page or follow @LAistLive on Twitter. more ›

Street closures for Obama's visit to USC are already in effect, but less talked about his what he's doing after the campus rally this afternoon. He's heading to the Valley for a radio interview. ABC7 predicts his motorcade will likely snarl traffic. more ›

Jon Stewart has found 'Sanity' in MacArthur Park. The festivus for the rest of us dubbed the "Rally To Restore Sanity" ran into a harshed mellow last week when LA's West Coast organizers were denied a permit to gather in Pershing Square. more ›

Break out your Gadsden flags and poorly-spelled signs: The Tea Party Express is comin' to town tonight! The nationwide campaign tour stops at 6:30 this evening in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl as part of a 15-day venture--not backed by any individual candidates--ahead of the November 2 midterm elections. more ›

The White House is not going to announce days ahead what streets President Barack Obama will be using when he comes to town on Friday, but the administration is definitey aware of the anger caused back in August when a 30 minute drive turned into a three hour one. If anything, things shouldn't be as crazy this time. Obama is scheduled to attend a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Barbara Boxer and hold a rally at USC. more ›

Onetime Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is in California this week, stumping for her fellow conservatives. The Tea Party-ing Palin will be at the Anaheim Marriott today, however "Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and Senate candidate Carly Fiorina will not be among Palin’s so-called Mama Grizzlies on hand for the Republican National Committee’s Victory Rally," reports CBS. more ›