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CNN
2 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
LA protesters and police in standoff as Trump doubles National Guard deployment
Update: Date: 7 min ago Title: In pictures: Protesters clash with police in Downtown Los Angeles on Monday Content: Update: Date: 8 min ago Title: Who is protesting in LA? Content: The protests appear divided into separate groups: progressive citizens who felt called to defend the rights of the undocumented, and protesters who appeared determined to drag the city into violent chaos. A senior law enforcement source told CNN that intelligence analysts have been conducting assessments on the crowds that gathered Sunday night. They found the many of the protesters were motivated by the recent immigration raids and disdain for the federal government's deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles. But some protesters, the intelligence source said, fit law enforcement profiles of so-called 'professional rioters,' who continually seek out confrontation with law enforcement. Defending 'La Raza': Unión del Barrio, an organization whose members are dedicated to defending the rights of 'la raza' — or Mexican and indigenous people — within the US, praised the efforts to fight back against ICE and other agencies. The Los Angeles community has 'the moral authority and universal right to defend our people from kidnappings and family separation,' a spokesman said. Toll on vulnerable communities: After being informed ICE agents were questioning workers at a Pasadena hotel, Pablo Alvarado, the co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, began calling for protests to protect vulnerable immigrant communities throughout the city. 'The Pasadena community showed up in large numbers and the message was loud and clear, we don't want to see your armored vehicles, men in masks coming to our communities to pick people up to rip families apart.' But, Alvarado added, he felt the violence that spread throughout the city in response to the raids was tainting their cause. Read the full story. Update: Date: 8 min ago Title: Analysis: LA's crisis rests on what Trump does next Content: Donald Trump is talking and acting like an authoritarian as he escalates a constitutional clash with California over his migration crackdown. Much now depends on whether he's simply talking tough or if he's ready to take an already-tense nation across a fateful line in his zeal for strongman rule. On Monday, the president of the United States — the country seen as the world's top steward of democracy for 80 years — endorsed the arrest of the Democratic governor of the nation's most populous state. 'I think it would be a great thing,' Trump said. Trump's decision to deploy troops despite the opposition of California Gov. Gavin Newsom represented the latest example of his willingness to flex extraordinary executive power and marked a break with a first term when he was often talked out of his extreme impulses by establishment officials. For all Trump's multiple previous challenges to the rule of law and democracy, a grave new chapter may be opening. The trajectory of the crisis could now turn on whether Trump follows through on his dictator's theatrics by crossing lines not approached by modern presidents — notably on the use of troops in a law enforcement capacity. It may also rely on the restraint of protesters, who would play into Trump's hands by taking part in more unrest that creates alarming television pictures that can fuel Trump's dystopian rhetoric. Creating or escalating a law-and-order crisis or threat to public security and then using it to justify the use of the military on domestic soil would mirror the methodology of tyrannical leaders throughout history. Read the full analysis. Update: Date: 8 min ago Title: Newsom hasn't done anything to warrant arrest, Trump's border czar says Content: White House border czar Tom Homan joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins to discuss comments President Donald Trump made suggesting Homan arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom.
CNN
2 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
LA protesters and police in standoff as Trump doubles National Guard deployment
Update: Date: Title: In pictures: Protesters clash with police in Downtown Los Angeles on Monday Content: Update: Date: Title: Who is protesting in LA? Content: The protests appear divided into separate groups: progressive citizens who felt called to defend the rights of the undocumented, and protesters who appeared determined to drag the city into violent chaos. A senior law enforcement source told CNN that intelligence analysts have been conducting assessments on the crowds that gathered Sunday night. They found the many of the protesters were motivated by the recent immigration raids and disdain for the federal government's deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles. But some protesters, the intelligence source said, fit law enforcement profiles of so-called 'professional rioters,' who continually seek out confrontation with law enforcement. Defending 'La Raza': Unión del Barrio, an organization whose members are dedicated to defending the rights of 'la raza' — or Mexican and indigenous people — within the US, praised the efforts to fight back against ICE and other agencies. The Los Angeles community has 'the moral authority and universal right to defend our people from kidnappings and family separation,' a spokesman said. Toll on vulnerable communities: After being informed ICE agents were questioning workers at a Pasadena hotel, Pablo Alvarado, the co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, began calling for protests to protect vulnerable immigrant communities throughout the city. 'The Pasadena community showed up in large numbers and the message was loud and clear, we don't want to see your armored vehicles, men in masks coming to our communities to pick people up to rip families apart.' But, Alvarado added, he felt the violence that spread throughout the city in response to the raids was tainting their cause. Read the full story. Update: Date: Title: Analysis: LA's crisis rests on what Trump does next Content: Donald Trump is talking and acting like an authoritarian as he escalates a constitutional clash with California over his migration crackdown. Much now depends on whether he's simply talking tough or if he's ready to take an already-tense nation across a fateful line in his zeal for strongman rule. On Monday, the president of the United States — the country seen as the world's top steward of democracy for 80 years — endorsed the arrest of the Democratic governor of the nation's most populous state. 'I think it would be a great thing,' Trump said. Trump's decision to deploy troops despite the opposition of California Gov. Gavin Newsom represented the latest example of his willingness to flex extraordinary executive power and marked a break with a first term when he was often talked out of his extreme impulses by establishment officials. For all Trump's multiple previous challenges to the rule of law and democracy, a grave new chapter may be opening. The trajectory of the crisis could now turn on whether Trump follows through on his dictator's theatrics by crossing lines not approached by modern presidents — notably on the use of troops in a law enforcement capacity. It may also rely on the restraint of protesters, who would play into Trump's hands by taking part in more unrest that creates alarming television pictures that can fuel Trump's dystopian rhetoric. Creating or escalating a law-and-order crisis or threat to public security and then using it to justify the use of the military on domestic soil would mirror the methodology of tyrannical leaders throughout history. Read the full analysis. Update: Date: Title: Newsom hasn't done anything to warrant arrest, Trump's border czar says Content: White House border czar Tom Homan joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins to discuss comments President Donald Trump made suggesting Homan arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Chicano Movement collection of Raul Ruiz acquired by the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has acquired a gold mine of resources that document the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles. The cultural institution in Washington, D.C., now has a collection from activist and journalist Raul Ruiz that includes more than 17,000 photos and almost 10,000 manuscripts. The vast archive was donated by Ruiz's daughter, Marcela Ponce, and Marta E. Sánchez, a close friend of Ruiz and a professor at Loyola Marymount University. Read more: The Chicano Moratorium: A loss of innocence Ruiz, who died in 2019, was a co-editor of La Raza, a pioneering Chicano newspaper that documented Mexican American life across the country from 1967 until it folded in 1977. The publication ran Ruiz's photo of slain former L.A. Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's purported killer on its cover under the headline in English and Spanish, 'The Murder of Ruben Salazar." He let The Times reprint and syndicate the shot worldwide to expose what he called a 'farce' of an investigation into the columnist's death. "We captured it. No one else was covering it," Ruiz said of the events of the Chicano Moratorium in an interview with PBS. 'It turned out to be a police riot. The police rioted against the people. The police assaulted the people." Ruiz ran for a state Assembly seat in 1971 under the La Raza Unida Party banner, a political party created by activists who believed the Democratic Party ignored Chicanos. Ruiz earned 7% of the vote, enough for Bill Brophy, Democrat Richard Alatorre's Republican opponent, to pull off a stunning upset. Read more: The Chicano Moratorium: Reading Ruben Salazar Ruiz taught for 45 years in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge, retiring in 2015. Included in the trove of documents are unpublished drafts of Ruiz's book on Salazar, photographs from La Raza's coverage of the Chicano protests of the 1960s and '70s, a photo of Salazar being tear-gassed by L.A. County sheriff's deputies during a Vietnam protest, handmade layouts of several important issues of La Raza and a photo of Cesar Chavez protesting. Audio recordings, photo negatives, correspondences and videos are also a part of the collection. 'The Ruiz collection speaks to the heart of the Chicano Movement and will be an important resource for the study of journalism and Latino history and culture at the Library of Congress,' said Adam Silvia, the Library of Congress curator of photography in the prints and photographs division. Parts of the collection will be available to see only at the physical Library of Congress location in Washington. Select photographs will be available for viewing through the institution's online catalog in the coming weeks. Times columnist Gustavo Arellano contributed to this report. Get our Latinx Files newsletter for stories that capture the complexity of our communities. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Los Angeles Times
Chicano Movement collection of Raul Ruiz acquired by the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has acquired a gold mine of resources that document the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles. The cultural institution in Washington, D.C., now has a collection from activist and journalist Raul Ruiz that includes more than 17,000 photos and almost 10,000 manuscripts. The vast archive was donated by Ruiz's daughter, Marcela Ponce, and Marta E. Sánchez, a close friend of Ruiz and a professor at Loyola Marymount University. Ruiz, who died in 2019, was a co-editor of La Raza, a pioneering Chicano newspaper that documented Mexican American life across the country from 1967 until it folded in 1977. The publication ran Ruiz's photo of slain former L.A. Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's purported killer on its cover under the headline in English and Spanish, 'The Murder of Ruben Salazar.' He let The Times reprint and syndicate the shot worldwide to expose what he called a 'farce' of an investigation into the columnist's death. 'We captured it. No one else was covering it,' Ruiz said of the events of the Chicano Moratorium in an interview with PBS. 'It turned out to be a police riot. The police rioted against the people. The police assaulted the people.' Ruiz ran for a state Assembly seat in 1971 under the La Raza Unida Party banner, a political party created by activists who believed the Democratic Party ignored Chicanos. Ruiz earned 7% of the vote, enough for Bill Brophy, Democrat Richard Alatorre's Republican opponent, to pull off a stunning upset. Ruiz taught for 45 years in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge, retiring in 2015. Included in the trove of documents are unpublished drafts of Ruiz's book on Salazar, photographs from La Raza's coverage of the Chicano protests of the 1960s and '70s, a photo of Salazar being tear-gassed by L.A. County sheriff's deputies during a Vietnam protest, handmade layouts of several important issues of La Raza and a photo of Cesar Chavez protesting. Audio recordings, photo negatives, correspondences and videos are also a part of the collection. 'The Ruiz collection speaks to the heart of the Chicano Movement and will be an important resource for the study of journalism and Latino history and culture at the Library of Congress,' said Adam Silvia, the Library of Congress curator of photography in the prints and photographs division. Parts of the collection will be available to see only at the physical Library of Congress location in Washington. Select photographs will be available for viewing through the institution's online catalog in the coming weeks. Times columnist Gustavo Arellano contributed to this report.
