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At the #Sundance Film Festival, The Times’ @ducassi caught up with 94-year-old civil-rights activist and labor union leader Dolores Huerta, who was at the festival to promote a screening of Gregory Nava’s 1983 film “El Norte,” for which Nava was nominated for best original screenplay.
“El Norte” tells of the plight of undocumented immigrants from Guatemala who flee to the U.S. after their family is murdered by the government during the Guatemalan civil war.
#Huerta knows real-life stories like the one depicted in #ElNorte well. After co-founding the United Farm Workers Union alongside Cesar Chavez in 1966, Dolores Huerta spent the next six decades (and counting) advocating on behalf of immigrants, women and the LGBTQ community. The founder of @doloreshuertafd, she is credited with originating the famous rallying cry “Sí, se puede” and is currently the subject of filmmaker Gregory Nava’s latest project: a biopic about her life.
Given her life’s work and the timing of the @sundanceorg screening – a little over a week into Trump’s second term, which has already drastically altered reality for many in the U.S. and has incited panic in America’s immigrant communities – The Times asked Huerta for her thoughts on the state of affairs in the U.S. and how she has stayed optimistic during her difficult, decades-long fight for civil rights. Here’s what she told us.
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#DoloresHuerta #ElNorte #Trump #Immigration #sisepuede
29 Jan 2025
If women had run Hollywood from the very beginning, what would be different? 🎥 📺 👩
At WIF’s 50th Anniversary Gala, we asked Hollywood’s best and brightest to imagine a Hollywood run entirely by women. Apparently, nothing would be the same (starting with “fewer war movies” and Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie starring in “Fast and Furious”).
Founded as Women in Film, Los Angeles, in 1973, @womeninfilmLA has now spent half a century fighting for gender equity in the screen industries. Women in Film rebranded in 2020 to WIF, in order to expand the mission to include today’s screen alternatives to film, and to include trans people and nonbinary individuals.
In the years since the organization’s founding, WIF has initiated numerous programs to bring change to the screen industries. They include fellowships, writing labs, grants for short films, a helpline to address sexual misconduct and within the ReFrame project, WIF awards stamps to gender-balanced movies and TV shows.
Check out more from the gala at the link in @latimes_entertainment’s bio.
🎥 @ducassi
08 Dec 2023
The one and only Zoe Saldaña sits down with The Times’ @ducassi to answer our Very Important Questions about her burgeoning pop music career, Dominican vs. Puerto Rican food, @emiliaperezfilm and so much more. #EmiliaPerez is available to view on @netflix now.
✏️ Editor’s Note: @zoesaldana is actually 3/4 Dominican!
Watch more #VeryImportantQuestions at the link in @latimes_entertainment’s bio.
🎥 @ducassi, @markpottslat
#ZoeSaldana #EmiliaPerez #Film #Cinema #Netflix #Oscars2025 #oscars
25 Nov 2024
“The displacement of families with ICE.” “Democracy.” “Affordability.”
LA Local reporter @ducassi stopped by the Anderson Munge YMCA in Koreatown (@amfymca_ktown) to chat with voters in line about the issues that brought them out to the polls on Election Day.
Check out all of @hey.lalocal’s election coverage at thelalocal.org/elections or at the link in bio.
🎥 @ducassi
#LosAngeles #Koreatown #Mayor #Election #Election2026
03 Nov 2026
Meet Jack, the good boy who’s safeguarding LA County’s elections workers.
He’s two years old, a yellow lab, and one of two specially-trained good boys, also known as K-9s, who, together, will sniff all 2 and a half million or so of LA County’s vote by mail ballots in the 2026 midterm elections.
He’s looking for dangerous substances hidden in the ballots that could harm or kill election workers and officials. According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, those substances include lethal powders like anthrax, ricin, and fentanyl.
Now, Jack’s not new to this. In fact, this will be Jack’s third election. He works at LA County’s Ballot Processing Center in City of Industry, which has been using ballot sniffing dogs since 2024.
You can check out all of The LA Local’s election coverage at the link in @hey.lalocal’s bio or at thelalocal.org/elections
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📸 Courtesy of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission
🐕 Jack, courtesy of @lacountyrrcc
#losangeles #cutedog #workingdog #election2026 #vote
02 Nov 2026
How does LA County process and tally the millions of ballots cast every election? LA Local reporter @ducassi drove out to @lacountyrrcc’s massive Ballot Processing Center in City of Industry, which receives every ballot cast in LA County, to find out.
Now get out there and vote!
Check out all of @hey.lalocal’s election coverage at the link in bio.
🎥 @ducassi
📸 J.W. Hendricks / For The LA Local
#losangeles #election2026 #voting #la #election
30 Oct 2026
Speed cameras have been activated in two locations in Koreatown and Westlake to help curb speeding and reduce traffic deaths.
In Westlake, the cameras are on Beverly Boulevard from Belmont Avenue to Witmer Street. In Koreatown, the cameras are on West 8th Street from South Westmoreland Avenue to South Hoover Street.
The fines start at $50 for 11 mph to 15 mph over the speed limit, all the way up to $500 for going 100+ mph. While the cameras are currently on, there’s a 60-day “warning period” when speeders will receive a warning, officials said.
One in five fatal crashes in LA could be directly attributed to speeding, according to LADOT’s findings in 2024. The speed cameras are an attempt to curb speeding and dangerous driving in particularly speed-prone intersections and areas of LA.
There are 125 speed cameras across the city and 26 are now issuing warnings. The rest are slated to go live later this year.
Read more about the speed cameras at the link in @lalocal_ktown.picounion’s bio.
✍️ @ducassi
🎥 @ducassi; @tarantulaarms
#LosAngeles #SpeedCameras #Koreatown #Westlake #Speeding
29 Oct 2026
Marlo has a list of demands. And it will break you.
Watch “The Eternity of Grief” to marvel at Marlo’s acting debut. Just don’t tell him how good he is. We’ll never hear the end of it…
#petcomedy #dogactor #hollywooddreams #jamescameron #famousdog
29 Oct 2026
Rest in Peace to @doloreshuerta, an icon and model for bravery, integrity, strength and justice. May her light shine on and her life continue to inspire. Thanks to @ivechie for making this interview possible.
Here’s what I wrote in January 2025 shortly after I met her. It’s all still true:
l've met very few people like Dolores Huerta (hell, very few people like her have ever existed). If you've never heard of her: Dolores Huerta, 94 and still as spry and feisty as the day she organized her first rally, has spent her life fighting for the rights of immigrants, the LGBTQ community, women and more.
And looking into her eyes shook me - hard. It's taken me a few days to figure out why.
I'm not Mexican, I've never worked in a field, and I'm not undocumented. But I am the son and grandson of Cuban refugees who arrived in Miami in the '60s with just suitcases of clothes to their names.
Growing up, my parents told me about the family and friends who gave my tired, poor family a place to sleep and a few dollars from their own pockets. And here I was six decades later, staring into the eyes of a woman who spent her entire life fighting on behalf of strangers like my grandparents.
It took me until rewatching the video on the plane ride home to realize that it was saying "thank you" that caught me like a left hook.
Because I wasn't just thanking her for five minutes of her time.
I was thanking her for spending a lifetime fighting on behalf of people like my grandparents, so that one day someone like me could stand in the very spot I now stood. I realized that I, and so many like me, am the embodiment of the very dream she, and Cesar, and all the rest had fought so hard for.
Because you don't have to be Latino - or a woman, or in the LGBTQ community, or have loaded baskets of grapes onto a flatbed truck - to be grateful for her work or what she sacrificed. Because she fought for more than just fair wages; she fought for Respect. Respect for where we come from, what we do and who we are. I realized that I, too, am a part of her legacy. And that was a lot to say "thank you" for.
So thank you to Dolores. I've been changed forever, and I deeply, deeply appreciate it.
28 Oct 2026
Street vendors have become a major talking point among local politicians. During this current election season, gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton held a press conference on a Westlake sidewalk, accusing vendors of “killing small businesses in California.”
Vendors have also been a flashpoint in the Los Angeles mayor’s race since Mayor Karen Bass said they should not be allowed to set up in front of restaurants during a debate in August.
Both Bass and Nithya Raman have since laid out how they’d support vendors: Raman said she’d ensure vendors benefit from major events like the 2028 Olympics, create special vending zones and bring state and county permitting closer in line with how vendors operate, while Bass has pointed to the city funding that’s gone toward providing vendors with free compliant carts and assistance with permit costs. Street vending has been legal in Los Angeles since 2018, but the permitting has not kept pace with the tens of thousands of vendors across the county, according to the latest estimates.
With their livelihoods up for debate, The LA Local spoke to vendors across different neighborhoods and invited them to share their thoughts, experiences and ideas. They told us about the decrease in sales they’ve experienced as foot traffic plummeted after immigration raids, their desire for a simpler permitting process, worries about affording healthcare and their wish for respect.
Read more at the link in @lalocal_ktown.picounion’s bio.
🖊️ @isaacnceja
🎥 @ducassi, @isaacnceja
#LosAngeles #StreetVendors #Mayor #California #Election2026
27 Oct 2026
@tomcruise is calling. Marlo is not impressed.
Watch Marlo’s acting debut in “The Eternity of Grief” for the cutest five minutes of your day 🐾❤️
#petcomedy #hollywooddreams #sketchcomedy #dogactor #marlo
21 Oct 2026
People who have never relied on a food bank before are increasingly walking through the doors of Community Space Food Bank looking for something to eat.
Some tell @laspacefood co-founder Gaines Newborn that their CalFresh benefits have been reduced or ended. Others say they recently lost their jobs and do not know where else to turn.
The food bank typically saw between two and 10 new people a day. Since the beginning of this year, Newborn said, that number has climbed to about 30 to 40.
That demand is coming as the food bank is dealing with its own financial challenges. Community Space Food Bank is trying to raise $17,000 to cover its expenses for the next two months while also working to buy the building where it operates.
The food bank has been open seven days a week for more than two years, including through a fire last year. It serves about 150 hot meals a day and about 100 families through its pantry, Newborn said.
Community Space Food Bank is located at 3615 Beverly Blvd. near Beverly Boulevard and Virgil Avenue. It’s open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Read more at the link in @lalocal_ktown.picounion’s bio.
🖊️📸 @ha.nnakang
🎥 @ducassi
#LosAngeles #FoodInsecurity #LA #foodbank
19 Oct 2026
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