At the beginning of this year, the Coronavirus pandemic put thousands of L.A. County residents out of work. With no steady income, many were left at risk of homelessness, with some eventually losing their homes.
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Santa Monica College (SMC) has been approved by Los Angeles County to serve as a voting center for the 2020 November general election.
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On Sept. 22, the California State Audit released documents that revealed inappropriate acceptances by four University of California (UC) institutions. Over the past six years, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara have admitted a total of 64 under-qualified students based on donations and insider connections, according to the documents.
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A Breakdown of the Propositions on the ballot for California for the 2020 Election.
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A breakdown of the Candidates in the upcoming 2020 Election.
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A student information breach occurred at Santa Monica College (SMC) on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. The Latino Center sent an email out to 321 students in the Adelante Program to promote an upcoming Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG) workshop; however, a document was mistakenly attached that contained the personal contact information of over 300 students including their names, home addresses, and SMC student identification numbers.
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Colleges across the nation are devising plans to create more equitable environments for their students and staff - including Santa Monica College (SMC). SMC’s 2019-2020 Equity Plan states that “Santa Monica College continues to see pervasive data across every student success indicator demonstrating that the College is not effectively serving Latinx and African American students specifically.”
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*On July 6th, 2020, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that students on F-1 visas must leave the country if their school began offering online education only. This directive put students and institutions in a precarious situation, and even though it was eventually walked back on, they are still dealing with the consequences.*
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Coastal Cleanup Month is a worldwide movement that started over 30 years ago and has gathered the support of over 6 million volunteers, according to Surfrider Foundation and Ocean Conservancy, two environmental nonprofits. The movement has been picked up nationwide and worldwide, including in our own coastal community of Santa Monica.
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Santa Monica College (SMC) announced it will continue conducting all classes, support services, and activities online for the Winter and Spring 2021 semesters as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement came via email from SMC president Dr. Kathryn Jeffery today, Sept. 21, to all students and faculty.
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Santa Monica College (SMC) kicks off the semester with a program geared to educate students and shift the culture and conversation around sexual violence.
SMC will begin the second year of its Title IX Leadership Program for Students this coming Thursday, Sept. 10. The free series of workshops are designed to raise awareness and promote student empowerment, particularly in the areas of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
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During an ongoing quarantine caused by a global pandemic that has taken the lives of roughly 190,000 Americans, and a record-breaking heatwave, people flocked to Santa Monica State Beach to celebrate Labor Day over the weekend.
A sea of umbrellas spanned across the beach. California’s COVID-19 positive case rates, hospitalizations, and deaths have been slowly declining, but local officials worried that gatherings over Labor Day weekend may cause a spike in cases, threatening the progress made.
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Even during these unparalleled times, the line to get into the Santa Monica Farmers Market begins to build and grow robust by as early as 6:45 a.m. Restaurant owners, chefs, and patrons alike patiently wait in a line - six feet apart with masks on - for up to an hour to go into the Farmers Market.
Laura Garcia, a Venice local who has been an advocate of fresh sustainable food since long before the pandemic, regularly commits to the wait time.
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It appears as though President Donald Trump’s May 29 proclamation that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” did not have its intended effect.
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Protests originally forming in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin have quickly spread nationwide, as many organized protests continue to take place across Los Angeles county and neighboring cities. Los Angeles protests sparked as early as May 28 and public officials have since called for police and military intervention.
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In light of the recent death of George Floyd, multiple petitions surfaced on the internet in order to call for charges against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who had killed Floyd. Other petitions regarding deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and other deaths from police brutality are being widely spread through social media, reaching over a million signatures each. Petitions are nothing new and are one of the founding rights that Americans have used to induce social change.
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After ten days of nation-wide protests against police brutality in response to the death of George Floyd, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a series of reforms to be made to the LAPD.
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City officials announced curfews effective immediately today until tomorrow morning around the city of Los Angeles. Individuals violating curfew are subject to arrest, according to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Curfews are subject to change and updated on a day-to-day basis.
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A protest sparked in Santa Monica, Calif. in response to police brutality and racial injustice on Sunday, following multiple demonstrations taking place throughout the country in the last few days. These protests started in Minneapolis on May 26, the day after the killing of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25. Protests have occurred in Los Angeles since May 27, taking place in downtown Los Angeles (L.A.) and Beverly Hills and turning violent in some areas.
Read MoreWhen President Trump labeled COVID-19 the “Chinese Virus” in late March, he initially received opposition from Chinese officials and those connected with WHO (World Health Organization). Although Trump eventually walked back his comments, xenophobic fears towards people of Asian descent have continued to persist as a product of the coronavirus.
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