Tag: LAPD
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Stop the Cooperation between the Police and the INS
Read more: Stop the Cooperation between the Police and the INSA flyer announcing a protest rally and march organized by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) in the fall of 1990. Formed in the wake of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, CHIRLA drew together organizations and activists from many communities to demand inclusion for immigrants. Reflecting growing progressive coalition […]
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Police Violence in Century City
Read more: Police Violence in Century CityOn June 15, 1990, the Justice for Janitors mobilized their largest action to date: a march down Olympic Boulevard in Century City against ISS (International Services Systems). ISS was a Danish-owned cleaning contractor, the largest in the world at the time, and had acquired a Southern California based cleaning company (Doral Industries) and severed existing […]