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Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL) formerly known as Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles (Advancing Justice LA), is a non-profit legal aid and civil rights organization dedicated to advocacy, providing legal services and education and building coalitions on behalf of the Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities. [1]
Free software movement. The free software movement is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedoms to run, study, modify, and share copies of software. [1][2] Software which meets these requirements, The Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software, is termed free software.
Membership discrimination in California social clubs has been based on sex, race, religion, political views and social standing. In the late 1980s, a successful effort was made in many of the clubs to open up membership first to racial or religious minorities and then to women. Strictly private clubs that are not open to the public, and for ...
September 26, 2023 at 8:28 AM. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., will introduce legislation Wednesday to rename the Los Angeles U.S. Courthouse in honor of a Latino family who paved the way for school ...
Advocates say they deserve a social safety net, too. Akilah Wise. December 23, 2023 at 5:00 AM. Getty Images. ... Davis, a Black woman from Los Angeles, does not have a spouse, siblings, or ...
Warren Thomas Farrell (born June 26, 1943) is an American political scientist, activist, and author of seven books on men's and women's issues.Farrell initially came to prominence in the 1970s as a supporter of second wave feminism but has since become a leading figure of the men's rights movement.
A 2002 survey of 2,784 open-source-software developers found that 1.1% of them were women. [9] A 2013 survey of 2,183 open-source contributors found that 81.4% were men and 10.4% were women. [10] This survey included both software contributors and non-software contributors and women were much more likely to be non-software contributors. [11]
In 1970, there were 763,000 African Americans in Los Angeles. [20] They were the second largest minority group after the then estimated 815,000 Mexican Americans. Los Angeles had the west coast's largest black population. Between 1975 and 1980, 96,833 blacks moved to Los Angeles while 73,316 blacks left Los Angeles.