Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White will be speaking today at a meeting in Maywood, a predominantly Hispanic section of Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles and Orange Counties, known as centers of Southern California wealth and glamour, are now home to half a million people seeking help from food pantries.
Well-known filmmaker James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News) has directed an insipid, fairly pointless comedy.
On December 22, leaders of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) announced a postponement of a scheduled strike authorization vote until the guild’s national board meets in Los Angeles to discuss the matter January 12 and 13.
The Screen Actors Guild, which has been working for four-and-a-half months without a contract, held its annual national membership meeting in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Writers, directors, performers, technicians and others in the film and television industry will be obliged to take up a fight against the giant companies.
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Striking film and television writers were back on the picket line Monday as the fifth week of their strike against the studios and networks began. After a great deal of fanfare last week, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) came up with an offer November 29 that Writers Guild of America presidents Patric Verrone (West) and Michael Winship (East) termed “a massive rollback.”
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As of Sunday, the Santiago Fire in Orange County, having burned more than 11,000 acres, was still raging to the north of the city of Irvine and east of the city of Orange. It is threatening to jump into Riverside County’s Cleveland National Forest.
God Grew Tired of Us, written and directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn, co-directed by Tommy Walker
At the January 27 demonstration in Washington DC, organized by United for Peace and Justice, members and supporters of the Socialist Equality Party intervened distributing the ICFI statement, “For an international mobilization of workers and youth against the war in Iraq,” as well as a statement appealing for students to join and build the International Students for Social Equality.
For Your Consideration, directed by Christopher Guest, written by Guest and Eugene Levy
In the largest demonstration in California’s history, well over half a million people marched through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, March 25, in defense of immigrant rights and to protest the government attacks on immigrants, especially undocumented workers.
1984, world premiere, based on the novel by George Orwell; adapted for the stage by Michael Gene Sullivan; directed by Tim Robbins for the Actors’ Gang at the Ivy Station, Culver City, California, through April 8, 2006.
