James didn't try heroin until after he got out of the Air Force. His roommate smoked heroin and James never saw any ugly side effects so he thought all the warnings were hyperbole. "I know now he didn't have side effects because he only used on Fridays."

After spending four months camped out in front of the house dubbed 'Fort Hernandez' in an effort to save it from foreclosure, Occupy LA activists were...

This story comes courtesy of Neon Tommy. By Sarah Parvini It was a familiar scene in downtown Los Angeles Monday, as hundreds of activists gathe...

Occupy protesters were able to chalk on the sidewalk in peace during LA's Downtown Art Walk Thursday. In comparison to Occupy LA's first Chalk Walk...

Members of the Occupy LA movement have made plans to chalk up Downtown LA Thursday evening, but event organizers promise the "chalkupy" won't interfer...

Story comes courtesy of LA Weekly By Dennis Romero Occupy LA organizers claim police went over the line in confrontations with Chalk Walk de...

Riot police formed skirmish lines in the streets of downtown Los Angeles Thursday night in response to what appeared to be a demonstration over the ri...

A new report saying that Occupy Los Angeles cost taxpayers $4.7 million -- almost double the estimate reported in February -- has reignited the Occupy...

After an early morning with no emergency vehicle sirens or overhead helicopters, I realized I didn't know when or where the planned Occupy LA May Day demonstrations were taking place.

Do you remember the epic block party at the end of the 1995 cult classic, "Empire Records"? Well, now it's our turn to "Damn The Man! Save The Emp...

Occupy LA has gone from drum circles and tent cities to meetings with high-powered bank executives. Seven activists met with six Wells Fargo execu...

The pressing question is what's next for the 99 percent movement? The answer is big mass protests in 2012 the likes of which the U.S. has never seen. ...

Forty-eight years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson handed the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. the pen he'd just used to sign the Civil Rights Act...

LOS ANGELES -- A preliminary report released Friday by the city administrative officer estimates the nearly two-month Occupy LA encampment at City Hal...

Sometimes it seemed like our world was about to end in 2011. Riot squads and protestors faced off in the streets. Santa Ana winds tore the city apart....

As the frontrunner for the American Dialect Society's 2011 Word of the Year, "Occupy" seems to be just about everywhere you look. And, from Occupy the...

Pasadena is known around the world for its New Year's Day Rose Parade. About 51.9 million Americans watched the 2010 Rose Parade on television. It was...

Arthur S. Rodrigeuz--grandson of labor leader Cesar Chavez and a Santa Monica College student--was among the nearly 300 Occupy L.A. protesters jailed ...

A phrase I keep hearing from friends, "they can't Occupy forever," is certainly worth some consideration. After all, people tend to get more done when they're on deadline.