Who are L.A.’s unsung grassroots heroes?

Each of these six grassroots leaders faces major opportunities to advance the cause of men, women and children in Los Angeles who are poor or discriminated against. They are confronting head-on some of L.A.’s most entrenched problems: failing schools, substandard and unaffordable housing, poverty wages, discrimination. The political opportunities they face this year will test their mettle, strategic smarts and sheer determination.

Sentayehu Silassie will pit his Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance against the powerful taxi cooperative ATS, with its 30-year grip on taxi drivers. Hamid Khan is working hand-in-hand with Silassie to fight practices that keep LA’s 4,000 taxi drivers driving poor. 
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Rev. Eric Lee is fighting for marriage equality in California and for greater acceptance of this civil right among LA’s African-American community. More details>>

Chris Gabriele is an engine for change, advocating for a long-awaited mixed use housing ordinance for LA’s low-income residents that will begin to address L.A.’s worst-in-the-nation affordable housing crisis. More details>>

Amy Schur and colleagues left the embattled ACORN to build a new organization with a similar mission and the same talent for organizing, but free of the distractions that have paralyzed ACORN in recent days. More details>>

Maria Brenes and InnerCity Struggle are making sure that as desperately-needed reforms come to LAUSD the solutions reflect the needs and understanding of students, parents and communities.
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