Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki

Calling for Action on Human Rights Violations in Chinanew

The Pasadena Human Relations Commission recommended that City Council members make a strong statement decrying human rights abuses in China and present it to officials of Pasadena's Chinese sister city, Xicheng.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 10-01-2007 | International

Tags: international

America the Bullynew

Author Chalmers Johnson gives his controversial view of what our nation is really all about.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 09-24-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of Empire, Chalmers Johnson

Bukowski Home Threatenednew

Activists in Los Angeles are calling on artists, writers, historic preservationists and concerned citizens to help save the onetime Hollywood home of poet and novelist Charles Bukowski from possible demolition.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 09-18-2007 | Books

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scientists vs. the Fedsnew

Scientists resist a Homeland Security directive that could allow intense government scrutiny of their private lives.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 08-27-2007 | Civil Liberties

Tags: civil liberties

Putting on the Ritznew

Minority workers push for union representation and claim discrimination against the hotel.

Pasadena Weekly | Andre Coleman and Joe Piasecki | 08-20-2007 | Business & Labor

Tags: business & labor

Killing the Messengernew

Dozens of journalists are murdered every year to silence reports of human rights abuses, criminal enterprise and government corruption.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 08-14-2007 | Media

Tags: media

Roses are Rednew

Human rights groups push the City Council and Tournament of Roses to rethink a controversial Chinese Olympic-themed float.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 07-20-2007 | Race & Class

Tags: race relations

Rose Parade Float Sparks Human Rights Questionsnew

Persecuted for their beliefs by the Chinese government, Falun Gong practitioners decry that nation's inclusion in the New Year's parade.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 07-02-2007 | International

Tags: international

A Federal Drug Raid Turned a Comic into a Marijuana Missionarynew

During a stop on her way home from a radio interview last week, Tere Joyce found herself at the wrong end of a rifle, caught up in a surprise DEA raid on a medical marijuana dispensary.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 04-23-2007 | Drugs

Tags: Drugs

Major Media Hide Behind Fog of War, Protesters Gear Up for More Bloodshednew

Since before the war began, hundreds of thousands of people have marched against the war with little substantive coverage by local media.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 03-26-2007 | War

Tags: Iraq, WAR, in

Tapped Outnew

Pasadena police deny wrongdoing in using wiretaps against controversial officer.

Pasadena Weekly | Andre Coleman and Joe Piasecki | 03-19-2007 | Civil Liberties

Tags: civil liberties

Hey -- You Can't Draw That!new

David Wallis finds a Fourth-rate Estate in his new book, which contains nearly 100 editorial cartoons and other works of art that American newspaper editors have refused to publish.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 03-12-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: David Wallis, Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression