Community struggles in Los Angeles.

The article examines the community and class struggles in Los Angeles, California against corporate development forces. The political isolation of Los Angeles communities also occurs within the setting of a city tremendously segregated by race and class, intentionally designed is such by private developers in the early 1900s. Pico Union, Skid Row, and Route 2 are only three of the communities in Los Angeles that have organized to gain political autonomy. The lack of political accountability to working-class communities in Los Angeles had bred the need for creating mass based solidarity within communities.