Getting Our Message Out

Strategically, mainstream media is important to our organization because there is a huge gap between public opinion on poverty and homelessness and the realities of our community. LA CAN utilizes mainstream media to raise awareness, with the intent of closing the perceived distance between extreme and abject poverty and create a sense of “this can truly happen to me.”

Articles/Clippings:

Cop a Hero To Some, a Villain to Others
By Steve Lopez - Los Angeles Times - 12/24/2006 (37k)

L.A. Cops Crack Down on Skid Row as Gentrification Looms (34k)
By Jessica Hoffmann - The NewStandard - 11/6/2006

Lincoln Place Reprieve, (Un)Doing the Shuffle (99k)
Los Angeles City Beat - 9/15/2006

Police Tactic Strips Homeless of Comfort (208k)
Los Angeles Alternative - 9/25/2006

Asignan Mas Policias a Skid Row (48k)
Hoyinternet.com - 9/25/2006

LAPD Dumping in Arts District (66k)
Los Angeles Garment & Citizen - 8/25/2006

Skid row Makeover (49k)
Salon.com News - 8/8/2006

Caught in Downtown's Conversion Crossfire (23k)
By HOWARD FINE - 6/26/2006
Los Angeles Business Journal Staff

City Attorney Sues Predatory Apartment Owner; Dozens of Allegations of Fraud, Harassment (50k)
City Attorney News - 6/14/2006

Legislation Aims to Fight Drugs, Homelessness (429k)
Los Angeles Times - 2/18/2006

Criminalizing the Homeless (92k)
ACLU News Feature - February 2003

'Jobs, Not Jails,' Skid Row Protesters Shout at Politicos (283k)
By Anat Rubin - Daily Journal Staff Writer

San Julian Street Standoff (136k)
Los Angeles Garment & Citizen

Splash Clippings by La Opinion (246k)

Media Clippings--Series #1* (6MB)

Community Connection

While LA CAN has been quite successful in framing our work in a way that is frequently highlighted in mainstream media, these “sound-bites” only scratch the surface of the real work and the real stories of our community. LA CAN’s community-based newspaper, the Community Connection, tells our whole story from the perspectives of those living it.