Ari Bloomekatz

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• Alleged tool thieves booked

  June 9, 2005 at midnight

  University police are continuing an investigation of facilities management, after an employee and a manager of a local tool shop were both arrested in an alleged scheme involving the theft ...

• Wal-Mart debated at UCLA

  June 6, 2005 at midnight

  Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in the world. It generates hundreds of billions of dollars in sales each year and employs millions of workers both at home and abroad. But ...

• AgJobs offers aid to workers

  May 25, 2005 at midnight

  Much of California’s agricultural workforce is undocumented, a chronic problem for both unions and growers that resulted in an unlikely bipartisan plan to legalize the workforce. The Agricultural Job Opportunities, ...

• [A closer look] Student activists campaign to support farm workers

  May 25, 2005 at midnight

  A small handful of students are trying to create a new student group focusing on farm workers, a population seemingly far away from the urban noise, traffic and bustle of ...

• [A closer look] Union may boycott winery

  May 25, 2005 at midnight

  SONOMA — Escaping the sweltering Sonoma County sun during his 30-minute Friday lunch break, 60-year-old Domingo Garcia stopped eating his meal of oranges, strawberries, a large cucumber and burrito to ...

• Cuts endanger center

  May 23, 2005 at midnight

  On a scorching Friday afternoon, the UCLA Downtown Labor Center seems bustling. There are meetings going on in different conference rooms, members of a local union stream in and out, ...

• [A closer look] Project BRITE to put funds to good use

  May 18, 2005 at midnight

  After a 45-minute drive north through traffic on the 405 Freeway along a labyrinth of other highways and roads winding away from campus, about 12 undergraduates went to another class ...

• UCPD cracks down on buckling up

  May 16, 2005 at midnight

  University police will begin issuing $87 citations today for drivers and passengers caught not buckling up during a period of special police enforcement dubbed “Click it or Ticket.” “These next ...

• Battling a stigma

  May 9, 2005 at midnight

  SAN FRANCISCO — The advertisement in The Daily Bruin caught Zeb Tortorici’s eye in 1999 when he was in his fourth year at UCLA studying history. “Male models; up to ...

• Protestors march against animal testing on campus

  April 29, 2005 at midnight

  During demonstrations Thursday morning in front of UCLA Medical Center laboratories and buildings, about 15 animal rights protestors asked, “Hey UCLA, what do you say? How many animals did you ...