Subject:

Miguel Contreras

  • News

    December 4, 2008

    What Happened at the Botanica

    The death of a labor leader and its reverberations

  • News

    October 26, 2006

    The Final Hours of Miguel Contreras

    The 911 call said he went in for a card reading. But the death of the labor leader prompted a prostitution raid. What really went down at the botanica?

  • News

    October 26, 2006

    Our Town, Our Paper

    L.A. and the Weekly, in hindsight and foresight

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    Life of Labor

    Miguel, Martin and Maria Elena

  • News

    February 9, 2006

    Trouble in the Big Purple Trucks

    How SEIU's mobile phone bank and L.A. politicians may have landed on the wrong side of campaign law.

  • News

    November 10, 2005

    Terminatable

    Beaten by unions and beset by Angelides, Arnold looks shaky for 2006

  • News

    November 10, 2005

    The Comeback Kids

    Labor’s moment of victory

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2005

    Element of Suspense

    Unions are shaken — and that may affect the vote

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2005

    Damn, Not Another Election

    Sitting this one out could be bad news

  • News

    June 30, 2005

    Made for Each Other

    How unique odysseys of Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles brought them together

  • News

    June 30, 2005

    The Amazing Adventures of Super Mayor

    Antonio’s heroics have suddenly inspired the citizens of Metropolis, but will he be brought down by his own brand of Kryptonite?

  • News

    June 23, 2005

    We Recycle!

    Herb Wesson bids to succeed Ludlow, shuffling a familiar deck

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    In Miguel’s Shoes

    Ludlow leaves the council to run L.A. labor

  • Stage

    May 19, 2005

    Snap!

    Ludlow leaves the council to run L.A. labor

  • News

    May 19, 2005

    Winners and Losers

    Scenes from Election Night

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    The Architect

    Miguel Contreras, 1952 – 2005

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Miguel’s Legacy

    Taking labor to the next step

  • News

    April 7, 2005

    Your City Council (Not) at Work

    What keeps L.A.’s politicians from delivering on their progressive dreams

  • News

    March 3, 2005

    A Bobzilla-Tony Runoff?

    Big Labor deals itself out of the deck

  • News

    December 30, 2004

    Labor's Dirty Move

    County Fed’s unprincipled backing of Hahn kills the Latino-labor coalition

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Antonio Moves for Mayor

    After pledging to stay in council, Villaraigosa says duty made him do it

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    Hahn’s (Un)Finest Moments

    The Mayor’s embarrassing performance in Sherman Oaks sums up his first term

  • News

    February 26, 2004

    Unplugging City Hall

    L.A. reforms could cost commissioners their clout

  • News

    October 30, 2003

    Stuck in Idle

    Political reasons for the sluggish MTA contract talks

  • News

    October 9, 2003

    Who’s Gonna Vote?

    How a Democratic state could elect a Republican

  • News

    September 25, 2003

    Recallus Interruptus

    Republicans on memory lane, Clinton on the pulpit and the Supremes on the spot

  • News

    August 21, 2003

    It’s Democracy, Stupid

    The people want to vote

  • News

    June 5, 2003

    The Godfather

    Miguel Contreras and the New Los Angeles

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Labor Is Back

    Ludlow’s victory revives dreams of L.A. movement

  • News

    April 17, 2003

    Running With Dennis

    When war goes well, what else can a peace candidate do but hit up his L.A. fans for money?

  • News

    March 13, 2003

    Antonio Reborn

    Loser of 2001 L.A. mayor’s race revives hopes of Latino-labor coalition

  • News

    February 20, 2003

    Los Lobos

    Antonio "The Heartthrob" Villaraigosa vs. Nick "The Choirboy" Pacheco for the welterweight championship of the city

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    Say It. Ain't So, Miguel.

    L.A.'s top labor leader shills for the HMO vultures

  • News

    May 23, 2002

    Undoing Davis

    Issues, not Simon, pose greatest threat to the governor

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    A Place for Us?

    Why the city needs a real affordable housing program

  • News

    October 25, 2001

    On the Edge

    In times of war, living-wage backers fight for the jobless

  • News

    June 21, 2001

    A House Divided

    On the Hahn coalition, and other short-lived phenomena

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    The Movement’s Mayor

    The new-model unions pick a new-model candidate

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Flying High

    More money for airport workers

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    The Part-Time Machine

    Sometimes it’s enough to save full-time jobs

  • Calendar

    October 5, 2000

    MTA Game Plan

    The poor walk, so that the middle class can shrink

  • News

    August 17, 2000

    What the Democrats Need To Know About Los Angeles

    A guide to a city that has everything but a middle class

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Free To Protest

    Thanks to Judge Feess, you can say more things in more places

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Amnesty!

    Labor leads the battle to grant legal status to millions of America’s — and L.A.’s — undocumented immigrants

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    The Red Sea

    How the janitors won their strike

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Enter the Janitors

    Transforming L.A.

  • News

    March 16, 2000

    Bore and Gush

    America’s nominees

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    The New Unionism Finds a Home

    Once the nation’s most anti-union big city, L.A. has now become America’s most dynamic labor town

  • News

    April 22, 1999

    Capital 1, Labor 1

    Riordan and unions win big at the polls

  • News

    July 23, 1998

    No Justice, No Growth

    A new labor-left alliance scrambles L.A.'s growth politics - and creates middle-income jobs in a city where they're vanishing

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