Spike FriedmaninKNOCKThe Worst Part of LA’s A Bridge Home Program Could Be Coming BackJoe Buscaino wants to bring back LAPD-enforced Special Enforcement and Cleaning Zones in the midst of a pandemicJul 27, 2020Jul 27, 2020
Spike FriedmaninKNOCKDo Black Lives Matter In The Privatized Public Spaces of LA?A protest last Saturday in Century City brought the question of who gets to live in LA to some of the city’s least accessible public spacesJun 11, 20201Jun 11, 20201
Spike FriedmaninKNOCKLA’s Next Budget Disaster Is Already On The Calendar: LA 2028If allowed to proceed, Los Angeles’ impractical pursuit of the Olympics will likely cost the city billionsJun 10, 2020Jun 10, 2020
Spike FriedmaninKNOCKLA County Supervisors: I Defunded the SheriffBut I did not defund the deputies who are needlessly enforcing truancy laws during a pandemic.May 19, 2020May 19, 2020
Spike FriedmaninKNOCKMayor Garcetti’s Austerity Budget A Typically Conservative Response For “Progressive” Los AngelesLAPD protected from the fiscal impact of COVID-19 while the rest of us sufferApr 30, 2020Apr 30, 2020
Spike FriedmaninKNOCKIn Boyle Heights, Residents Fight Off Another Unfair EvictionThe Ellis Act strikes the neighborhood again, as more low income tenants are put at riskOct 7, 2019Oct 7, 2019
Spike FriedmaninKNOCKRaquel Rolnik is Back In Los Angeles And Our Housing Crisis Is Worse Than EverWhy? “The housing crisis became systemic and it is clearly linked to the financialization of housing.”Aug 21, 2019Aug 21, 2019
Spike FriedmaninKNOCKA Tale Of Two Olympic Robots In JapanOr, How The LA Times Missed The Real Story Of Robots At The 2020 Tokyo OlympicsAug 19, 2019Aug 19, 2019
Spike FriedmaninKNOCKSweeps Are Not Services: What LA’s Newest Proposal For Homeless Cleanups Gets Dangerously WrongThe city again chooses to fund policing rather than the services the unhoused need to survive.Jun 27, 20191Jun 27, 20191
Spike FriedmaninKNOCKHow UCLA Is Taking About Housing Justice Where Housing Injustice HappensAnd activists from Skid Row’s LA CAN are leading the conversation.Jan 30, 2019Jan 30, 2019