It would be Cesar Chavez's 85th birthday. Every year, his holiday is an opportunity for us to reflect on his legacy. But Cesar's legacy is not just the thousands of lives he helped change, it's also values that he stood for, and reminds us of our obligation to continue to...

By Maria Elena Durazo and Denny Zane

While Washington, D.C. has been stuck in what amounts to a partisan traffic jam on the 405 at rush hour, unresponsive and unwilling to rebuild our national economy and infrastructure, we took matters into our own hands in Los Angeles.

In November of...

Californians and Angelenos are facing a devastating economic crisis. The national unemployment rate is just over nine percent. California unemployment is 12 percent -- only Nevada is higher. And in Los Angeles, it's more than 13 percent. Bottom line: tens of thousands of people who want jobs simply can't find...

"Tell me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like!" That is a chant that could just as easily come from the millions of Egyptians in Tahir Square in Cairo as it has from hundreds of thousands of citizens in Wisconsin.

I had the privilege to go...

They make us take off our shoes and throw away our water.

I think we can all admit to being frustrated when we're screened to get into an airport terminal.
But nobody questions the value of transportation security officers. It is their job to make...

Apparently not content with denying its own workers access to affordable health care, the anti-worker Associated Builders & Contractors has teamed up with its right-wing friends to fight President Obama's health care reform efforts.

Using the profits its member companies have reaped by denying unorganized construction...

Longtime immigrant basher Lou Dobbs recently declared on Telemundo that he's now one of the Latino community's "greatest friends, and I mean for us to work together."

This comes from a xenophobe, mind you, who has falsely accused undocumented workers of spreading leprosy, once said "Mexico has become our enemy"...