Stay updated with breaking news from Violence Increase. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Danny J. Bakewell, Sr. and several Black citizens hosted a gathering for L.A. mayoral candidate Karen Bass and 150+ leaders of the city’s African American community. Audience members unanimously vowed to support the Bass campaign.
Local Groups Unite to Offer Violence Prevention Strategies Kellie Dillon expresses support for the violence prevention collective. (Karim Saafir photo) A consortium of local and regional violence prevention leaders recently united to offer proven violence prevention strategies to residents of impacted neighborhoods throughout greater Los Angeles. The organizations, connected by their advocacy for criminal justice reform, held a press conference on April 21, to announce their intention to form the Southern California/L.A. Peacekeepers Collaborative (SCLAPC). ADVERTISEMENT Dr. Aquil Basheer,...
To do fundraising. >> the schedule is moving forward for the president so he is going to head out for a three-day fundraising trip. his team is working hard on the ground in the region and the president is keeping in contact with the secretary of state. and we have the violence increase in israel and palestinian. the president is going to three different cities with six different events. it is a big mid-term election. the white house insist the president has air force one and security phone lines to keep in touch with the team. but there is pressure on him about the fundraising >> when you ask...
Officials. do they have any kind of ideas or ways the u.s. can help or other people can get involved in stopping the fighting and stopping what's going on there? >> you know, it's got to come from the government. the u.s. is talking about sending weapons to help nouri al maliki. it's a shia-led government, he's got the battle going on in anbar province, which is sunni, of course. but the whole root cause of it at its core is the fact that the al maliki government since 2006 has been a sectarian government. has shut out the sunnis, disenfranchised them, alienated to the point where they're now ...