Antiracism

In Los Angeles, Unsolved Killings Reflected Era

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and REBECCA CATHCART     July 19, 2010

In a not widely reported incident, at the press conference called by police and elected officials to announce the arrest of the "Grim Sleeper" suspect, a reporter asked to hear from Margaret Prescod, who founded the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders in 1985, as well as to hear from some other family members. LAPD Chief Beck responded and was ready to go to the next question when Prescod took the mike and introduced herself to the crowd, much to the surprise of all officials present and to the delight of family and community members who quite liked what she had to say.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/07/08/ac.grim.sleeper.cnn

TRIBUNE, March 8, 2009

Cary Gee talks to Leddy Mozombite and Manju Gardia, two campaigners battling for the rights of domestic workers and victims of bonded labour

THERE are 700,000 domestic workers in Peru. Ninety per cent of them are indigenous women who have migrated from the countryside to the cities in order to escape poverty. Many are underage and illiterate, denied access to even basic education. It is little wonder that the situation they find themselves in once they have secured employment is little better than slavery.

_{Margaret Prescod takes mic from chief of police to credit decades of work by the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders including family members. Claiming credit: CA Attorney General Brown, LA Mayor Vilaraigosa, LAPD Chief Beck, Police Commission’s Mack, Councilman Parks, Sheriff Bacca …}