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City Rising

"City Rising" is a documentary series that examines social justice issues affecting California communities. The program illuminates the journey of California's neighborhoods advocating for policy change to improve upward mobility for their communities. The effects of these movements are far-reaching, and their voices will ultimately impact the social health of communities across the country and beyond.

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Chiqui Diaz at work advocating to end social isolation | Courtesy of Chiqui Diaz

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Youth Leaders Making a Difference Honored by The California Endowment

A 2011 crime scene in Tulare County, where one of Jose Martinez's victims was found. | Courtesy of Marion County Sherff’s Office via FOIA/Buzzfeed

A 2011 crime scene in Tulare County, where one of Jose Martinez's victims was found. | Courtesy of Marion County Sherff’s Office via FOIA/Buzzfeed

City Rising

California's Unincorporated Places Can Be Poor, Powerless — and the Perfect Place to Commit Murder

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City Rising: The Informal Economy (Preview)

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City Rising: Gentrification and Displacement (Preview)

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Gentrification and Displacement: Impact

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Gentrification and Displacement: The Future

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Gentrification and Displacement: Return to the Cities

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Gentrification and Displacement: Resilience

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Gentrification and Displacement: Legacy

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Gentrification and Displacement: Mobilization

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City Rising: Youth & Democracy (Preview)

Protesters confront police outside the 3rd Police Precinct on May 27, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota after the George Floyd killing | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

Protesters confront police outside the 3rd Police Precinct on May 27, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota after the George Floyd killing | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

City Rising

In California, A History of Young, Powerful Voices in Journalism Emerge

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The History of South Central Los Angeles and Its Struggle with Gentrification

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, including Emma Gonzalez (C), stand together on stage with other young victims of gun violence at the March for Our Lives rally on March 24, 2018 in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, including Emma Gonzalez (C), stand together on stage with other young victims of gun violence at the March for Our Lives rally on March 24, 2018 in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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City Rising

How Youth Are Taking the Lead in Issues Local to Global

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Aerial view of Los Angeles

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People marching during the Oakland teacher strike. | Image from "City Rising: Youth & Democracy"

People marching during the Oakland teacher strike. | Image from "City Rising: Youth & Democracy"

City Rising

Youth & Democracy

This third season of the “City Rising” series will demystify the role and work of youth organizations in California, demonstrating how young people are organizing their communities to participate in public policy and make lasting change.

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Caridad - Los Angeles Street Vending Campaign - City Hall

City Rising

The Informal Economy

California is the world's fifth largest economy — yet, hiding in plain sight are workers who labor off the books, unprotected and unregulated. Follow four California workers organizing to find pathways for legalization and protection.

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Aerial view of Los Angeles

City Rising

Gentrification and Displacement

City Rising shows how gentrification is deeply rooted in a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States.

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Faith leaders, activists and family members hold a public memorial in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco to honor 17 people who died of COVID-19 while in prison or ICE detention. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Image

Faith leaders, activists and family members hold a public memorial in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco to honor 17 people who died of COVID-19 while in prison or ICE detention. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Image

Power & Health

Health Over Punishment: Organizing Efforts to Stop ICE Transfers in California and Beyond

The gas-powered Valley Generating Station is seen in the San Fernando Valley at sunset. | David McNew/Getty Images

The gas-powered Valley Generating Station is seen in the San Fernando Valley at sunset. | David McNew/Getty Images

Power & Health

‘The Fight Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure is the Fight for Healthy Communities’

Farm worker picking strawberries from low lying strawberry plants in Watsonville, California | David Gomez/Getty Images

Farm worker picking strawberries from low lying strawberry plants in Watsonville, California | David Gomez/Getty Images

Power & Health

Farmworkers Are Both #AlwaysEssential and Perpetually Disposable: How Can We Change All That?

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A homeless man sitting on a stoop | Ben Hershey / Unsplash

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Liquor Stores, Dispensaries and Smoke Shops: Our Neighborhood Is Killing Us

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The First Angry Man (Preview)

Los Angeles California, October 8, 2020: Voting ballot material. | Jorge Villalba / iStock

Los Angeles California, October 8, 2020: Voting ballot material. | Jorge Villalba / iStock

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How Proposition 13 Fueled a ‘Play to Play’ Ballot Initiative System

Activist Howard Jarvis featured in THE FIRST ANGRY MAN.

Activist Howard Jarvis featured in THE FIRST ANGRY MAN.

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Why We Spent a Decade Making a Prop 13 Documentary

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A roll of "I Voted" stickers | Element 5 / Unsplash

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Proposition 13 Under Increased Scrutiny as California Faces Economic Crisis

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The Origins of Prop 187

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Communities Divided

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Taking Action

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187 Chapter 4 card

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Los Angeles Skyline, 2019. | Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin

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PHOTOS: Los Angeles at Night

Katheryn Cabanillas, a newly-divorced mom with four kids, has worked at the UPS Ontario hub for 16 years.

Katheryn Cabanillas, a newly-divorced mom with four kids, has worked at the UPS Ontario hub for 16 years.

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Katheryn: UPS Manager

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Seneca white corn grown at the Cultural Conservancy. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode “Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy."

Seneca white corn grown at the Cultural Conservancy. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode “Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy."

Tending Nature

A Return to Heirloom Corn Unpacks Powerful Cultural Histories

A group at the Cultural Conservancy removes dried grain corn from the cob to preserve the seeds in their seed library. | Still from the "Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy" episode of "Tending Nature."

A group at the Cultural Conservancy removes dried grain corn from the cob to preserve the seeds in their seed library. | Still from the "Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy" episode of "Tending Nature."

Tending Nature

5 Indigenous Stories to Help Us Reckon with the Past and Honor Native Peoples

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S3 E4: Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy (Preview)

Tending Nature

S3 E4: Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy

Chiqui Diaz at work advocating to end social isolation | Courtesy of Chiqui Diaz

Chiqui Diaz at work advocating to end social isolation | Courtesy of Chiqui Diaz

City Rising

Youth Leaders Making a Difference Honored by The California Endowment

A 2011 crime scene in Tulare County, where one of Jose Martinez's victims was found. | Courtesy of Marion County Sherff’s Office via FOIA/Buzzfeed

A 2011 crime scene in Tulare County, where one of Jose Martinez's victims was found. | Courtesy of Marion County Sherff’s Office via FOIA/Buzzfeed

City Rising

California's Unincorporated Places Can Be Poor, Powerless — and the Perfect Place to Commit Murder

City Rising

City Rising: The Informal Economy (Preview)

City Rising

City Rising: Gentrification and Displacement (Preview)

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Telling L.A.: The Search for Home

Telling L.A.

Antonio Sacre: Following the Hollywood Hopeful

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Telling L.A.

Trini Rodriguez: Seeking Freedom

Nurse Yvonne Yaory checks on a coronavirus patient who is connected to a ventilator. | Heidi de Marco/California Healthline

Nurse Yvonne Yaory checks on a coronavirus patient who is connected to a ventilator. | Heidi de Marco/California Healthline

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No More ICU Beds at the Main Public Hospital in the Nation’s Largest County as COVID Surges

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. | LAist

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. | LAist

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Your No-Panic Guide to the COVID-19 Vaccine: Is It Safe, and When Can I Get It?

Nurse Michael Lowman gets the first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from nurse practitioner Christie Aiello at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA, on Dec. 16, 2020. | Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty

Nurse Michael Lowman gets the first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from nurse practitioner Christie Aiello at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA, on Dec. 16, 2020. | Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty

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Orange County Gets First Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine

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A healthcare worker vaccinates an elderly person. | iStock via Getty Images

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Los Angeles City Attorney Warns Residents of COVID-19 Vaccine Scams

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Autonomous Vehicles - A Conversation with Dr. Ken Washington

Town Hall Los Angeles

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Town Hall Los Angeles

Barbara Boxer - The Art of Tough

Town Hall Los Angeles

Charter Schools - A Conversation with Marco Petruzzi

Tending the Wild

Cultural Burning

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Keeping the River

Paiute man protests at the LADWP Board of Commissioners meeting | Photo: Big Pine Paiute Tribe

Paiute man protests at the LADWP Board of Commissioners meeting | Photo: Big Pine Paiute Tribe

Tending the Wild

LADWP Finally Fixes Broken Pipeline on Big Pine Paiute Reservation

Smoke from a 2013 controlled burn | Photo: Mob Mob, some rights reserved

Smoke from a 2013 controlled burn | Photo: Mob Mob, some rights reserved

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Part of Sequoia National Park is On Fire Right Now, And For a Good Reason