Category Archives: Viva!

LAPD will not help deport immigrants under Trump, chief says

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-los-angeles-police-immigration-20161114-story.html 😄

Lupita Tovar Dead: ‘Dracula’ Actress Was 106 | Hollywood Reporter

The Mexican film legend was the mother of ‘Imitation of Life’ star Susan Kohner and grandmother of screenwriters Chris and Paul Weitz.Lupita Tovar, the Mexican actress who starred in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Dracula that was shot concurrently with the famed Bela Lugosi version, has died. She was 106.

Source: Lupita Tovar Dead: ‘Dracula’ Actress Was 106 | Hollywood Reporter

Photos: Largest Anti-Trump Protest Yet Swarms In Downtown L.A. For Fifth Day : LAist

An enormous gathering of more than 8,000 people expressing their disapproval of President-Elect Donald Trump have taken to the streets of downtown Los Angeles. The thousands of people began gathering this morning in MacArthur Park at around 10:00 a.m. Soon after, the march began walking east towards downtown Los Angeles on Wilshire Boulevard. By 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, the protest has begun circling through downtown Los Angeles’ streets.Wick reports that the gathering is a largely peaceful assembly of Angelenos from different backgrounds, many of whom have brought their kids along for a taste of their first amendment right to peaceful assembly.The march was organized the group Union del Barrio, a political organizing group that aims to increase political literacy in America’s growing Latinix community.

Source: Photos: Largest Anti-Trump Protest Yet Swarms In Downtown L.A. For Fifth Day : LAist

German Greens call for wealth tax | Germany | DW.COM | 12.11.2016

The gap between the rich and the poor is wide in Germany. For the Greens, it is a matter of fairness that the state tries to narrow it. Billions will be needed for the fight against child poverty and for the construction of affordable housing in major metropolitan areas. Party delegates were split on where that money should come from – a wealth tax or another source. The Greens do not want to be viewed as the party of higher taxes, nor to be seen as paying mere lip service to the idea of social cohesion. This resulted in no fewer than five proposals being put to a vote during the conference.

Source: German Greens call for wealth tax | Germany | DW.COM | 12.11.2016

NYTimes: Jury Deadlocks in Trial of Ex-Officer in Killing of Unarmed Black Driver in Cincinnati

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/ray-tensing-samuel-dubose-trial-deadlock.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
Go stand on the corner of any street and count the number of cars and trucks that do not have a license plate on the front. This is why this man was stopped and killed. How crazy is that? When some police want to exercise power just to feel powerful or to keep “people” down/scared, they pick people on their own biases. If it goes bad, people can and do die for?