MONDAY BOYCOTT; STABILIZING LA'S HOMELESS POPULATION; FILMWEEK
MONDAY BOYCOTT
Immigrant rights advocates, in response to a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment in congress and locally, are planning a massive boycott for Monday...illegal immigrants and their supporters plan to walk off the job and out of the classroom. Is this a great social movement, or a misplaced effort that will damage the economy and turn people against the immigrants? Larry asks listeners what they think.
STABILIZING LA'S HOMELESS POPULATION
County Supervisors backed down from a proposal to locate homeless centers in suburban areas in an attempt to break up the concentration of the homeless in downtown LA's skid row. This controversial proposal was quickly abandoned in favor of an alternate scheme that would instead provide $100 million to existing shelters dispersed throughout the region and then only to the regions that want it. Needless to say, some community activists still aren't too thrilled about bringing more of the dispossessed into their neighborhoods. Larry talks with experts about this controversy.
FILMWEEK
Larry Mantle and critics Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor, and Jean Oppenheimer of New Times discuss this week's new releases including United 93, Akeelah and the Bee, The Beauty Academy of Kabul, The Devil's Miner, Guys & Balls, Look Both Ways, The Lost City, Stick It, and Water.