A son on the way to the airport to say goodbye to his dying father watched time slip by. On Thursday, that group and other allies shut down major roads and bridges in several major cities including Philadelphia and Washington. Freeways are touchstones to the story of modern Los Angeles: The division of historic neighborhoods in Boyle Heights and South L.A. They stopped on the freeway and got out of their cars near Beaudry Avenue to form a human chain across the highway. A lot of tactics carried out during the Civil Rights Movement was exactly this type of thing, he said.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 16, 2023 08:43 UTC