The Santa Monica College Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt goals aimed at aggressively combating racial inequities among students. A crowd of students and faculty members spilled into the overflow room and erupted into applause when the measure passed.
Read MoreMayor of South Bend, Indiana and Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg, as well as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, spoke in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif. today to a crowd of union representatives.
Read MoreIn honor of Santa Monica College’s (SMC) 2nd Annual First Amendment Month, the Communication & Media Studies Department hosted a screening of two student-made films on the Center for Media and Design’s campus on May 7. The films, ‘Undocumented’ and ‘Muñecas’, both shine a light on the immigrant experience.
Read MoreFrom Corsair news editor Theo Greenly: Activists took to the streets on Wednesday, demanding rights for workers, labor unions, and immigrants, as this year’s International Workers’ Day
Read MoreOn Tuesday, April 23 Santa Monica College (SMC) hosted yet another College Fair, bringing out colleges from across the nation to speak to students. Over 150 schools present, ranging from UCs and CSUs to private universities and international schools.
Read MoreIn honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, SMC invited Mary Bauer, a Holocaust survivor, to share her story. Mary Bauer, 92, sits on stage before a large audience. Her voice does not waver. She remains steadfast and composed. For the most part, the audience remains somber. At times, however, their reaction to Bauer's words is palpable.
Read MoreTwo students, Brianna Lopez, an Illustration major and Katie Soriano, an Anthropology major at Santa Monica College (SMC), unknowingly find themselves walking into a free clothes swap to check out the layers of clothes hung on racks. The clothes were donated to Jasmine Warren, an Environmental Biology student
Read MoreAs the spirit of Earth Day—April 22—often inspires people to reflect on their treatment of the world around them, many find themselves realizing that they do not respect their planet as much as they would like to. However, this is not an irreparable relationship; environmentalists and activists all across the globe have been devising practices for decades that can help humans to coexist with nature, therefore conserving the earth and improving the overall well-being of society.
Read MoreDozens of Trump supporters gathered to protest California’s sanctuary state law (SB 54) on the corner of 2nd Street and Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach on Saturday, April 27. People holding Trump 2020 flags and wearing red Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats filled the street corner, chanting messages such as “Build the wall!” over megaphones.
Read MoreLoud, upbeat pop music, a variety of carnival-style games, and a peculiar half-dozen Spider-Man and Deadpool doppelgangers greeted students on the Santa Monica College (SMC) quad last Thursday. Although admittedly a confusing sight to the uninformed, it didn’t take long for student representatives to pitch their clubs to those who lingered around for the festivities.
Read MoreBack in 2010, years before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez caught the nation’s attention with her Green New Deal proposal, Jon Rynn was already pushing the plan. Students packed into a mid-size lecture hall at Santa Monica College (SMC) last week to hear Rynn speak about the Green New Deal as part of SMC’s Earth Week lecture series. The crowd overflow left many standing in the aisles.
Read MoreIn a brightly-lit studio in Santa Monica College’s (SMC) Core Performance Center, female students line up in front of a bank of mirrors to stretch, warming up for a rigorous hour and a half of self-defense instruction. The 16-week, one-credit course meets on Mondays and Wednesdays, and teaches students practical, hands-on methods to protect themselves from assault.
Read MoreTrump supporters stood shoulder to shoulder with hardline Socialists, united in their cheer for their new hero. “Yang Gang, Yang Gang, Yang Gang!” The mantra erupted from the mouths of hundreds of supporters who stood in Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles on Easter Sunday t
Read MoreOn the evening of April 24, people flocked to Santa Monica City Hall decked in denim jackets, jeans and t-shirts. This crowd’s matching attire was no coincidence; all arrived to attend the city’s third annual Denim Day gathering. Santa Monica’s event was organized by the Commission on the Status of Women and included a multitude of speakers, performances and tabling by various sexual violence activist groups.
The students grasped their soldering irons with sweaty shaking hands as they attempted to melt metal onto the heart-shaped circuit boards in small exacting pinpoints. Keeping close as possible to their iron, white puffs of smoke rose to their faces as they tried not to inhale the potentially harmful fumes of burning metal.
Read MoreThe squares of white paper float in the water, drifting aimlessly in the inflatable pool. A group of students stand around, watching as a girl crouches down and gently offers her own paper to the water. The blue ink from the marker bleeds, and the hateful words scrawled on the piece of paper blur, first becoming illegible, then dissolving altogether.
Read MoreThe blue walls of the spacious Cayton Center housed more people than usual. The often present crowds of cliques, divided into tables were now a minority. Instead, a group of students sat stone-faced before two podiums, their eyes glued to the two speakers debating the issue of women’s rights.
Read MoreGovernor Gavin Newsom will be traveling to Southern California this week to participate in a roundtable discussion addressing the state's homelessness crisis. He will meet with service providers and local officials in the hopes of finding new solutions to a rapidly growing problem.
Read MoreOn December 18, 2017, five-year-old Gabriella Gonzalez was at Portland International Airport when she was attacked by an emotional support animal (ESA) in the waiting area. Gonzalez’s mother filed a $1.1 million negligence lawsuit against the dog’s owner on February 25, 2019.
Read MoreAttorney General Xavier Becerra joined the attorneys general from 13 other states on Monday, sending a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that urged them to reject President Donald Trump’s proposal to roll back parts of the Clean Water Act.
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