>Just months ago, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass approved a $17.6 million reduction in the budget for the Los Angeles Fire Department for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. The LAFD reduction was the second largest budget cut for this year, following a $21.4 million cut to Street Services. As the Bass administration fought for cuts to be made across crucial social services such as Fire, Sanitation, and Public Works, the Los Angeles Police Department received a colossal increase of $126 million to their annual budget.

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LA wildfires are due to criminal capitalist negligence, not ‘natural disaster’

Palisades Fire that started in Los Angeles. Credit: Flickr/CAL FIRE_Official (CC BY-NC 2.0) The Palisades wildfire is now the most destructive in Los Angeles history. The mass destruction of people's

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