TACO arrived early on the scene in Westwood last Friday to witness the eviction of 2 people who had been squatting for months in a house slated to be torn down for... (no surprise here, really) CONDOS! We watched as two people's possessions were swept into a dumpster and couldn't help thinking of the city's many housing issues being swept under the proverbial rug.
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A West L.A.-raised photographer looks back at his sacred place in high school, turning his lens on the ruins that remain.
“We need to support each other. If we don’t do it, nobody’s going to do it,” one of the volunteers said through his N-95 mask.
An interview with Stephen Ladochy, a professor emeritus at Cal State L.A. who specializes in climatology, addresses the diminishing air quality affecting Boyle Heights and what residents can do about it.
These videos can be dangerous, causing mass panic, outrage, danger, and enmity where it doesn’t need to be. It’s more urgent than ever that we learn to question what we see and avoid sharing things we cannot confirm or just outright created by AI.
Many of the protestors were children of immigrants, as well as young people born in the city, appearing there on behalf of their parents, who are living in fear amid widespread allegations of ICE Raids on the city’s streets.
