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6 days ago · After Years of Fighting Landlords, Activists Say the Problem Is Not High Rent – It Is Rent Itself. Unenforceable laws and failed “affordable housing” policies show that public housing and tenant-controlled buildings must become the norm, say the founders of the Los Angeles Tenants Union in their new book.
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Oct 17, 2024 · Capital & Main has had stories co-published in more than 30 media outlets, from The Atlantic, Time, Reuters, The Guardian and Fast Company to The American Prospect, Grist, Slate and the Daily Beast.Working with top writers, editors and visual artists, we cover income inequality, climate change, the green economy, housing, health care, public education, immigration, race, and criminal justice.
How to Practice Democracy When There Isn’t Any
2 days ago · In his new book, People, Power, Change — Organizing for Democratic Renewal, Marshall Ganz draws from personal experience as a labor and political organizer to lay out a vision for returning power to the people. If power is what regular people need more of, Ganz outlines the ways that you get it through knowing who you are, what your strategy is and what the actions are that will lead to success.
Striking Back Series
Sep 6, 2024 · STRIKING BACK: Can American Workers Disrupt Inequality? This two-year series explores how American workers across political, geographic and racial lines
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This series explores how public schools are now a battleground in the culture war of U.S. politics. Capital & Main will report from the classrooms and communities being divided as school boards and legislatures increasingly adopt book bans, limit the teaching of race and history and pass policies targeting gender identity in schools.
CLASS WAR SERIES
Mar 8, 2024 · This series explores how public schools are now a battleground in the culture war of U.S. politics. Capital & Main will report from the classrooms and communities being divided as school boards and legislatures increasingly adopt book bans, limit the teaching of race and history and pass policies targeting gender identity in schools.
Here Are Our Most-Read Stories of 2021 - capitalandmain.com
Dec 31, 2021 · If 2021 was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Capital & Main readers were also hungry for other stories. Our most-read articles of the past 12 months include examinations of everything from California’s water shortage to Kaiser Permanente’s denial of adequate mental health care to USC’s hiring of officers fired by the LAPD.
Ten Capital & Main Stories That Had an Impact in 2021
Dec 29, 2021 · The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Last Stand in California Oil Country. Aaron Cantú obtained documents showing that a fund used by oil companies to mitigate their pollution emissions in the San Joaquin Valley wasn’t benefitting the people most affected by the pollution. In public comments and legal filings, the Center for Biological Diversity cited our story in their effort to stop the issuance ...
Once Bright-Red Orange County Could Help Turn Congress Blue
Oct 14, 2024 · The battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives could well lie in what was once the most unlikely of places: Southern California’s Orange County.. For decades, Orange County and the surrounding area functioned as a firewall for Republicans, a reliable bastion of conservative votes nearly guaranteed to produce a handful of GOP U.S. House members.