Protests and Demonstrations

Occupy Protest Outside Century City Deutsche Bank Blocks Traffic; 6 Arrested

Occupy L.A: Not dead yet, it seems. Almost a year after the raid on Occupy's encampment at L.A. City Hall, the movement moves on -- this time targeting Deutsche Bank in Century City. Six people were arrested this afternoon for allegedly ...

Occupy Used a 'People's Microphone' to Spread Info Through a Crowd. Now There's a People's Mic Choir

The Occupy Movement's one-year anniversary is today. This means, nation-wide, morning headlines say things like "Why Occupy Fizzed," "Occupy in Disarray but Spirit Lives On" or "Can Occupy Come up with a Second Act?" Yesterday, a few hundred protesters who returned to Zucotti Park, where the Occup ... More >>

Art Walk Riot Averted; LAPD, Occupy Can All Get Along, Apparently

See also: *The Messages of Chalkupy Slideshow. The news media prepared for the worst, but it turned out the only riot was over news van parking spaces at the monthly event called Art Walk in downtown Los Angeles. We kid. The LAPD was geared up as notoriously vociferous demonstrators from Occupy Oa ... More >>

Anaheim Clashes Inspire Protest at LAPD Rampart Station in Westlake

Protesters planned to march outside the LAPD's Rampart Division station in Westlake today in a show of solidarity with demonstrators who have been clashing with police in Anaheim over a rash of deadly officer-involved shootings in that city to the south. LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman told the Weekly ... More >>

CBS talks to Voltaggio, Andres California's Only Foie Farmer About the Upcoming Ban

As California's foie gras ban rapidly approaches, more and more media outlets are starting to pay attention. This morning, CBS ran a story about diners, protesters and the chefs in L.A. They interviewed chefs Michael Voltaggio (Ink) and Josiah Citrin (Melisse), and captured the tensions between dine ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Tattoo Art Trailblazers

This week, Karl Haendel asks embarrassing questions meant for his dad, Rona Yefman champions female tattoo artists and MOCA delves back into the Occupy movement. 5. The situation When Paul Pescador staged What Have I Done to Deserve This in Lincoln Heights a year and a half ago, visitors had to put ... More >>

Did Malibu Lagoon Activists Issue Death Threat to L.A. County Worker?

The unshakeable activists who've been fighting the Malibu Lagoon "restoration" project since it was proposed 20 years ago have always been passionate. But have some waxed a bit overzealous? LA Observed reported this morning the L.A. County Department of Beaches and Harbors "notified county official ... More >>

Andrew Breitbart Was L.A.'s Implausible Native Son

How L.A.'s liberal Westside produced a fierce conservative provocateur

Occupy L.A.'s So-Called Destruction of The City Hall Lawn Cost ... $76,000!? Policing of Occupy, Including Raid, Cost More Than $1.5 Million

​Updated at the bottom: The city is going with a Cadillac plan. First posted at 8:05 a.m. If you were part of the occupation of the L.A. City Hall lawn late last year, prepare to be very mad. Remember when the mayor sent 1,400 officers to clear Occupy protesters from their City Hall encampme ... More >>

VIDEO: UC Students, Occupy L.A. Protesters Shot With Rubber Bullets at Out-of-Control Regents Meeting

University of California police became iconic "bad guys" of the Occupy Wall Street movement back in fall, when an officer from UC Davis pepper-sprayed a peaceful line of protesters directly in the eyes as they sat, motionless, on the ground. (That incident has since been ridiculed, memed and Christm ... More >>

Occupy the Rose Parade: 5,000 Protesters, Giant Octopus Fail to Make Live TV

Apparently the 70-foot octopus float carried by an estimated 5,000 Occupy L.A. protesters at the end of today's Rose Parade wasn't awesome enough for KTLA, the premiere local station covering the event. Reporters gushed over marching bands, floral arrangements and even a police horse brigade led by ... More >>

Sarah Mason, TIME's Protester of the Year: More Photos, Details Behind Occupy L.A. Cover

UPISarah Mason, TIME covergirl sans beanie and bandana, far left.​Updated on second page with even more up-close shots of Mason -- these ones taken by Ted Soqui, the LA Weekly photographer behind the TIME cover. Originally posted December 15 at 4:40 p.m. Ah, the elusive Sarah Mason -- she of ... More >>

Street Food Vendor Protest TODAY

Guzzle & NoshStreet food vendors in Tijuana, Mexico.​ Street food vendors are staging a protest today at 4:30 p.m. outside the Metro subway station on Alvarado and Seventh streets (that's near Langer's, for you gluttons) to protest the LAPD's crackdown on allegedly illicit street food vendors. ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Infiltrated by Undercover LAPD Detectives Before Raid

Dennis Romero​As occupiers took to downtown's Pershing Square today and at least one arrest was possibly made, news that cops infiltrated the Occupy movement in L.A. weeks before Wednesday's raid was reverberating across the nation this weekend. Undercover detectives blended in at the City Ha ... More >>

UCLA Protesters to be in Full Effect Today as UC Regents Consider Costs: Occupy Principles Invoked

Updated at the bottom with the UC Regents voting to essentially head off another tuition increase. First posted at 6:05 a.m. As expected, UCLA students and other protesters will be out in force at the Westwood Campus today as some of the UC Regents hold a meeting that could ultimately decide the fa ... More >>

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Tells Occupy L.A. To Leave By 12:01 a.m. Monday

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa​Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced late this afternoon that City Hall Park, the home of Occupy L.A. for the last 56 days, will close at 12:01 a.m. on Monday.LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said that police would move to clear the park at some later, unspecified time, after Occ ... More >>

Occupy L.A.: City Hall Plans To Clear The Camp As Early As Monday

​Updated below with details from today's meeting. L.A. City Hall officials informed representatives of Occupy L.A. today that they intend to clear out the two-month-old encampment sometime next week.The Occupiers will be given 72 hours' notice to pack up and get out. City officials said the "evacu ... More >>

Occupy L.A. to March in Financial District Downtown For Bank Transfer Day

Alexis Tejada​L.A. has played second fiddle to Occupy Wall Street, where the American movement started, and Occupy Oakland, where it has exploded. But on Saturday the spotlight could finally be on us. That's because National Bank Transfer Day, which has roots here, will be highlighted by the ... More >>

City Council Unanimously Passes Occupy L.A. Resolution -- Protesters Struggle to Distance Themselves From Democrats, Unions

Los Angeles TimesCity Council President Eric Garcetti shows his support.​Just now, the L.A. City Council unanimously approved a joint resolution to officially "support" the Occupy L.A. demonstration and "demand accountability and results from the banks we invest taxpayer dollars in." (Full tex ... More >>

Powerful Unions Back Occupy L.A.'s Class Warfare Downtown

Those rabble-rousers that have been stirring things up downtown L.A. in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement just got some powerful backers. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) said hell yes to Occupy L.A. in a statement released last night. Lest you forget the federatio ... More >>

Animal Rights Activists Sue UCLA Police: Claim Campus Cops Target, Harrass and Crush Free Speech Over Monkey Love

​It's no secret that animal rights activists aren't too fond of the medical experiments being done at UCLA. Faculty members and researchers have been on the scary end of bombs, letters filled with razor blades, vandalism and verbal threats. In response, UCLA admits that it has taken steps to ... More >>

Protesters Gather Outside LAPD Station To Decry Police Shooting Of Man With A Knife In Westlake

Google Maps​Updated with LAPD Chief Charlie Beck's comments, after the jump. Originally posted at 1:13 p.m. Monday. Read about the L.A. police union's response to the protests here. Four people were arrested and three officers sustained minor injuries from thrown rocks and bottles after poli ... More >>

Constumed Superheroes Protest At City Hall For Return To Hollywood

Steve La​ A small contingent of super heroes and one Sith Lord assembled outside the steps of City Hall Tuesday to protest the arrests made by LAPD of costumed characters along Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Superman, The Hulk, The White Ranger and Darth Vader showed up in force holding signs tha ... More >>

Police Arrest 13 People At Janitors' Union Rally

​ Police arrested 13 people Thursday during a rally in which union members were protesting the layoffs of 16 janitors. SEIU's United Service Workers West organized the march and rally that drew about 300 people outside the Century Plaza Office Building, which is where the laid off janitors w ... More >>

Arizona Immigration Law: Wilshire Boulevard Blocked By Protesters

KCAL9​Updated with arrests. Originally posted at 10:43 a.m. Los Angeles police on Thursday afternoon were in the process of arresting demonstrators who laid down on Wilshire Boulevard near Highland Avenue in Hancock Park to protest Arizona's controversial immigration law, according to KCAL9. ... More >>

Parts Of Arizona Immigration SB 1070 Law Blocked; L.A. City Council Won't Remove Boycott Yet

Steve La​ Updated with reaction from labor leaders and the mayor. Local labor leader Maria Elena Durazo declared victory in response to today's decision by a federal judge to stay the more controversial aspects of Arizona's SB 1070 immigration measure. Durazo, head of the county labor fede ... More >>

Protestors Want Dodgers Out Of Arizona For Spring Training

​Union members amassed outside Dodger Stadium over the weekend during a game with the Arizona Diamondbacks to protest the Dodgers' use of an Arizona-based spring-training facility. About 150 people showed up to deliver the message to team management that they're unhappy with Arizona over its ... More >>

Queer Town: Tens of Thousands Protest Prop. 8 at LA City Hall

On Saturday, tens of thousands of people--young and old, gay and straight--loudly protested the passage of Proposition 8 in downtown Los Angeles near City Hall. The peaceful demonstration, organized by a newly-formed group of young gay and lesbian activists called F.A.I.R., was probably the best-att ... More >>

The Ex-Mormon Factor

A Safe, Early Night at the Silver Lake March

By the end of the weekend, the "No on 8" protests had moved out of the gay enclave of West Hollywood. Marches went down in Long Beach, East L.A., and downtown Los Angeles, and an estimated crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 people showed up in Silver Lake on Saturday night. It was probably the largest protes ... More >>

Election '08: Taking Down Amy Goodman and Donna Brazile

The scene outside MSNBC's outdoor RNC studio at St. Paul's Rice Park, just outside Xcel Center. BY VANESSA SILVERTON-PEEL The 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle were like the Big Bang in the evolution of modern police tactics and policies toward protesters. When the political b ... More >>

Seeking the Rage: Among the Protesters at the Democratic National Convention

The group Recreate '68 tries to ignite the passion of another generation

Arrest This Woman . . . Pretty Please

The Smartest Movement

Immigrant advocates just may have figured out how to change America for the better

What Adults Don't Get

Inside the minds of student marchers

Stirring the Other L.A.

How the media and immigrant advocates got 500,000 people to protest

Rebel, Rebel, Your Face Is a Mess

Why protests fail . . . and fail

Lighten Up, Bloomberg

The demonstrators yelled a lot, so what?

World vs. GOP

War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

Manic Monday

Raging against the Establishment

Rage and the LAPD

Ruling keeps alive protesters’ lawsuit in aftermath of Democratic Convention

Your Friends and Neighbors for Peace

A weekend's march through time

World to New York: Move On

Hackers Unite

Geeks rally for jailed Russian programmer. But it’s hard to explain why it really does matter.

Naked in Quebec

Why the three-day trade summit will fail

Cradle of Democracy

A letter from West Palm Beach

The Great Bicycle Race

Make Nice

The GOP goes gooey

Free To Protest

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

LAPD Secrets

Judge refused to keep you from reading this convention plan