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César Chávez Day activities on March 31 after it learned of “troubling” allegations against Chávez, who co-founded the labor organization in 1962., the organization said it learned of allegations that Chávez acted in ways that are “incompatible” with the union’s values.
UFW also said it does not have any direct reports or firsthand knowledge of the allegations, but that they include claims about abuse — possibly of young women or minors."These allegations have been profoundly shocking," the union said."We need some time to get this right, including to ensure robust, trauma-informed services are available to those who may need it."The announcement is a blow to one of the most revered legacies in the fight for farm workers’ rights. However, Chávez wasn’t without controversy. He was known for efforts to stop undocumented immigrants, often referring to the group withThe union said it’s working with experts to set up an “external, confidential, independent channel” for people Chávez may have harmed to come forward with their stories and seek accountability. In lieu of César Chávez Day, on Tuesday March 31, UFW is also calling on allies to instead show up to immigration justice events and support farmworkers in their communities.Registering enters you into a drawing for a slot in April to buy tickets. You will be notified between March 31 and April 7 if you’ve been selected for one of those slots.The ticket pre-sale for L.A. locals in certain ZIP codes takes place April 2 - 6. Everyone else selected for a slot will be able to buy tickets April 9 – 19.People are limited to 12 tickets, but there are group rates for 50 or more. Babies and kids will love the Olympics, but each one needs a ticket.The Women’s March Foundation recently opened a coffee shop, Caféina, in its West L.A. hub. It's serving drinks inspired by notable women of recent history and other social justice concepts.Recognizing trailblazers like Gloria Steinem, Delores Huerta and Billie Jean King is part of the Women’s March Foundation’s overall effort to lift up women who have contributed to history, like the group’s effort to name more streets after women of note.Caféina opened as part of the organization's new meeting space in West L.A. because, organizers say, community is often built around gathering for a little coffee and tea.The drinks themselves are both named for and inspired by the taste of famous women. For example, the Madam Vice President, named for the first American woman to hold the office, is based on Kamala Harris's preference for iced coffee with foam.Fancy a Madame Vice President Iced Coffee? It's what's on the menu at Caféina, a coffee shop that's part of the Women’s March Foundation’s new West L.A. hub on Overland and Pico. Emiliana Guereca, founder of the Women’s March Foundation, which advocates for social justice, told LAist it was designed to be a space to gather. “We require energy in advocacy and Caféina, which is Spanish for caffeine, is just a natural part,” she said. “When we gather, we gather around coffee, we gather around tea. So now for us, this space also has a coffee shop.” In the spirit of its mission, Caféina is serving up tea and coffee drinks inspired by the names and personal habits of key women in recent history.Guereca said the spiced chai latte, named for American journalist and activist Gloria Steinem, is inspired by Steinem's own drinkThe creamy iced coffee is informed by Kamala Harris, the first American woman vice president. “We know that she was always with her iced coffee with foam,” said Guereca. Not every drink is named after a person. Some are dedicated to feminist concepts, like the Ally Brew. Guereca said right now, the Marching Matcha Latte is her favorite. “It's vibrant and so yummy but also it's not too sweet,” she said. “I'm ready to march with it.”Other drinks include a café de olla named for California labor leader Dolores Huerta, an espresso named for American tennis great Billy Jean King and the Equal Pay Cortado, which speaks for itself. Caféina is open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday, inside the Women’s March Westside Hub at 2456 Overland Ave., Los Angeles.If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less.has a modest proposal: FIFA should learn from other organizations that have faced this dilemma and triumphed. Among others, the team behindthe musical, the National Park system, and the NYC Marathon have developed clever ways to fairly distribute tickets, hiking permits, and marathon bibs despite overwhelming demand.World Cup tickets are wildly popular, and there are only so many seats and matches. Not everyone will be able to see a World Cup match. Any approach to ticket sales, no matter how well-designed, will leave some fans disappointed. But the incredible popularity of the tournament and people's passion for soccer and its stars mean FIFA could choose to model fairness and thoughtfulness, too.Last October, I had a decision to make. Did I want to spend around $775 on World Cup tickets? For the first time since 1994, the men's World Cup is being held in the U.S., as well as in Mexico and Canada. I had just hours to decide. At this point, I also began to question the economic logic of FIFA's approach to World Cup tickets. Was FIFA, as soccer's governing body and the guardian of the beautiful game, bungling the ticket sales? For millions of soccer fans, buying World Cup tickets has been an ordeal. My friends and I had signed up for updates from soccer's governing body, FIFA, and their emails about how to buy tickets felt a bit like receiving the fine print of an insurance policy in monthly digests. First there was a presale—but it was sponsored by Visa and only for people with Visa cards, and it was a lottery. Winning the lottery didn't get you a ticket, though. You won the chance to buy a ticket. If you missed the presale, more lotteries followed. Winning one earned you the right to buy tickets. Another involved submitting an application for certain types of matches and then having your credit card charged automatically if you won and if your application was accepted. You could just browse and buy tickets on the FIFA website, but only expensive"hospitality packages" that included VIP perks. Or you could buy"special digital assets" During that time, I talked to economists about when high prices mean that something has gone wrong vs when high prices are a smart method for allocating scarce resources. And about cases when prices alone fail to achieve fair or efficient outcomes. Based on these conversations, I suspect that me staying home is a good outcome for society. I could have afforded the World Cup tickets, but I'm a bandwagon fan. So the high price nudged me toward instead spending my time and money on something I'd enjoy more. That's good! But selling tickets to unique, uber-popular events like the World Cup is a profound economic challenge—it's one of those exceptions to the otherwise incredible ability of prices to coordinate economic activity. World Cup tickets are incredibly popular and in short supply, so they should be expensive. But World Cup tickets shouldn't just be for rich people, so they should be affordable. How do you square that circle?have a modest proposal: FIFA should learn from other organizations that have faced this dilemma and triumphed. Among others, the team behindthe musical, the National Park system, and the NYC Marathon have developed clever ways to fairly distribute tickets, hiking permits, and marathon bibs despite overwhelming demand.In some ways, this would be more"fair" and pro-fan. But low prices can backfire. Instead of tickets going to true fans, they'd get scooped up by resellers—or by bots and whoever happens to have enough schedule flexibility to buy tickets the second that sales start. Plus, if tickets were only $20, some people with only mild interest in soccer would buy tickets. You could end up with empty seats at a Brazil–Argentina match because they saw rain in the forecast and skipped the game. Alternatively, FIFA could sell every ticket for $20, but only to superfans. But how do you identify the superfans? Or the working-class octogenarian whose last wish is to see a World Cup game? Do you make everyone write a personal essay? Ask people to rate their obsession with soccer from 1 to 10—and hope they don't lie? Figuring out who most values World Cup tickets, or any scarce resource, is a hard problem, and high prices are often an elegant solution. Want World Cup tickets? Then prove how much you value them by paying the high ticket price. This system works perfectly if everyone has the same amount of money. And it works well for goods that can be mass produced, like smartphones, or that only some people need or want, like Pokemon cards or Aspirin. But we live in a world where mildly interested millionaires can pay more for World Cup tickets than working-class families that live for soccer. That's probably why FIFA announced in December that it would sell some additional tickets for just $60—a move likely prompted byWatching the Marathon is free, but more people want to run than the course can accommodate. So New York Road Runners, the nonprofit that organizes the Marathon, has to sell or allocate spots. In fact, NYRR faces a similar mismatch of supply and demand. In December, FIFA announced that demand for World Cup tickets—in terms of the number of people entering its drawings—. In 2025, meanwhile, NYRR reported that around 200,000 hopeful runners entered a drawing for ~6,000 spots. That's also a ratio of around 30 to 1! NYRR could simply charge high prices and maximize their profits. But it's a nonprofit that relies on the goodwill of New Yorkers—the race shuts down dozens of busy streets across all five boroughs of New York. The same is true of FIFA. It is, officially, a nonprofit—a FIFA spokesperson stressed to us that"the revenue FIFA generates from the World Cup is reinvested to fuel the growth of the game ." And FIFA relies on the goodwill of the host country or countries, which shoulder the cost of building soccer stadiums and endure extra noise and traffic. So what's a fair way to decide who should get to run the NYC Marathon? Fairness is subjective and debatable. But the genius of the NYC Marathon is that NYRR's system uses four main methods to allocate spots, each of which optimizes for a different form of fairness:As the marathon's popularity grew, the first tool NYRR reached for was a lottery, or random drawing. Aspiring marathoners mailed in a postcard with their name on it, and staff picked lucky winners who got to run 26.2 miles. Eventually an online form replaced the postcards. It's brute-force fairness: straightforward and perfectly egalitarian.If NYRR distributed every spot by luck of the draw, the Marathon would not be an elite athletic event. That's why NYRR directly invites elite runners and Olympic-level marathoners to participate, and nonprofessionals can earn a spot by running another marathon or half-marathon extremely fast. NYRR effectively allocates some spots through high prices. If you spend $5,000 or $10,000 a year for a charitable NYRR membership, rather than the standard $60, you're guaranteed a Marathon bib. Or international runners can buy marathon packages that include a bib, hotel stay, and flights. Another approach to fair allocation is to give marathon spots to people who value them highly, but measured in ways other than money. NYRR has developed a clever metric: People prove their enthusiasm by running nine of NYRR's qualifying local races and volunteering at another. They effectively pay in time and effort for a Marathon spot. This 9+1 program helps local New Yorkers qualify and filters out wealthy people who have minimal free time—or can spend their free time on expensive diversions—all while helping new runners train and stay motivated. Or runners can earn a spot by fundraising for pre-approved charities. The NYC Marathon offers a smattering of other ways to earn a spot. But most race bibs are allocated through these methods. Each method has ways they feel fair and unfair. Each method has flaws and leaves people out. Taken together, though, they give just about everyone a shot at running the Marathon. With this framework in mind, you can spot organizations around the world allocating extremely popular tickets and permits using a portfolio of fair methods. Yosemite National Park, which only allows 300 hikers per day up to the summit of Half Dome, distributes permits via one main lottery and smaller, daily lotteries . Many popular musicians offer discounted tickets to their followers during presales. The team behindgenerated plenty of revenue by selling expensive tickets, but also ran lotteries for $10 tickets and partnered with local public schools so students could see $10 matinees.Tickets to the World Cup are frustratingly expensive, and the system for buying FIFA's mostly expensive tickets is complicated and exasperating. But there's some method there. With the NYC Marathon's example in mind, we can see FIFA using allocation methods that map to the four kinds of fairness:FIFA's random drawings allow them to sell tickets for less than the market-clearing price, but give everyone an equal shot at buying tickets that cost less than ticket reseller prices.FIFA gives 16% of each match's tickets to the competing country's Member Associations. That way, the Canadian Soccer Association or Egyptian Football Association can come up with an application process or criteria to reward loyal fans with tickets. According to FIFA, 50% of the tickets sold by Member Associations are in the"most affordable range," although only 10% are those budget, $60 tickets.FIFA's"hospitality packages" that cost thousands of dollars and include VIP perks allow people to claim a ticket via high prices. And the far-from-inexpensive prices for lottery winners mean prices still play an allocation role in the random drawings.If I interpret FIFA's digital collectibles program generously, I can see an attempt to allow fans to get access to tickets through the effort of figuring out the rules and collecting the right cards. A less generous interpretation is that it was a cash grab. Last year,reported that FIFA made more than $10 million from the collectibles before ticket sales had even started, and collectors at best won the right to buy tickets at prices that had That said, FIFA could make its World Cup ticket sales much simpler. Complexity itself is a way to restrict access, and if not done with intention, it usually rewards those with more resources and time to navigate it. So why not have just one lottery? Or at least not have an extra lottery just for people with Visa cards?FIFA's random drawings introduce some fairness via luck, but since most winners still have to pay hundreds of dollars, it's far from the shining example of$10 lottery tickets. When we asked FIFA about $10 lottery tickets and fan criticism of FIFA's high prices, they pointed to their $60 tickets, and also said, tellingly,"The pricing model adopted for FIFA World Cup 2026 reflects the existing market practice for major entertainment and sporting events within our hosts on a daily basis." FIFA could also offer would-be attendees a real path to earning tickets through effort. FIFA's digital collectibles involve effort, but fans had to buy them just to pay again for a ticket. It was not a way to pay in time in exchange for discounted tickets. The genius of NYRR's 9+1 and fundraising programs is that marathoners pay for a spot with effort and time. But unlike standing in line or filling out tons of paperwork—which economists call"ordeals," because they filter people out by forcing them to waste their time—the marathoners do useful things: train for the big race or raise money for charity. For FIFA, a comparable approach could be partnering with host countries' schools and soccer clubs, especially in low-income neighborhoods, to offer discount tickets to students who never miss a practice. Or rewarding fans who contribute to the growth of the game by coaching youth soccer or supporting women's soccer clubs in countries where the women's game is underfunded. World Cup tickets are wildly popular, and there are only so many seats and matches. Not everyone will be able to see a World Cup match. Any approach to ticket sales, no matter how well-designed, will leave some fans disappointed. But the incredible popularity of the tournament and people's passion for soccer and its stars mean FIFA could choose to model fairness and thoughtfulness, too.. Each chapter asks questions like: What's the deal with credit card points? Or: Why does my bank seem so eager to give me free stuff? And the book is filled with illuminating stories, like the time the president of Argentina tried to use tariffs to boost manufacturing—and force BlackBerry to manufacture smartphones on a remote island near Antarctica.and get a free poster. Or join us in April at any of our live events across the country. We've got a free tote bag to go with event ticket purchases while supplies last. Find tickets and details atThe head of the National Counterterrorism Center has resigned in protest over the war with Iran. Joe Kent, an Army veteran who completed 11 combat deployments to the Mideast and elsewhere, said he"cannot in good conscience" support the war.Kent said that Israel pushed the U.S. into the conflict with a pressure campaign to"deceive" President Trump, and that Iran"posed no imminent threat to our nation." He shared his resignation letter in a social media post. Kent called on Trump to"reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for." He said Trump could"reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos. You hold the cards."In response, Trump said Tuesday he"always thought" Kent was a nice guy but also"was weak on security, very weak on security." The senior vice president of the pro-Israel political nonprofit J Street, Ilan Goldenberg, said Kent's warnings of an Israeli conspiracy to deceive the U.S."plays on the worst antisemitic tropes."The head of the National Counterterrorism Center has resigned in protest over the war with Iran. Joe Kent, an Army veteran who completedHe said that Israel pushed the U.S. into the conflict with a pressure campaign to"deceive" President Trump, and that Iran"posed no imminent threat to our nation." Kent ran two unsuccessful congressional bids in Washington state as a Republican and Trump loyalist. He said in his resignation letter that he supported"the values and the foreign policy" that Trump campaigned on. "Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation," Kent wrote to Trump in the letter.Kent called on Trump to"reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for." He said Trump could"reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos. You hold the cards." In response, Trump said Tuesday he"always thought" Kent was a nice guy but also"was weak on security, very weak on security." "I didn't know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy, but when I read his statement, I realized that it's a good thing that he's out because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat every country," Trump said during an Oval Office event.as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in February 2025. The Senate confirmed him to the position in July 2025,, without Democratic support. Ahead of his confirmation, numerous reports detailed his links with extremist figures, including to people affiliated with the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, both far-right extremist groups., a neo-Nazi who has become influential within younger ranks of the GOP, about the possibility of assisting with his congressional campaign social media strategy. Kent later tried to distance himself from that call and said he had no further associations with him. The senior vice president of the pro-Israel political nonprofit J Street, Ilan Goldenberg, said Kent's warnings of an Israeli conspiracy to deceive the U.S." "Donald Trump is the President of the United States and he is the one ultimately responsible for sending American troops into harms way," Goldenberg wrote on X, noting his own opposition to the war.
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