Nithya Raman, the Glossary
Nithya V. Raman (born July 28, 1981) is an Indian American urban planner, left-wing activist, and politician serving as the Los Angeles City Councilmember for the 4th District since 2020.[1]
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65 relations: Armenpress, Azerbaijan, Bachelor of Science, Black Lives Matter, Blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, Cahuenga Boulevard, Chennai, Cruel and unusual punishment, Curbed, David Ryu, Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Socialists of America, Eric Garcetti, Gavin Newsom, Gil Cedillo, Green Party of the United States, Harvard University, History of Armenian Americans in Los Angeles, Homelessness in California, Incumbent, India, Indian Americans, Joe Buscaino, Karen Bass, KCBS-TV, KCRW, Kerala, Kevin de León, Koreatown, Los Angeles, Left-wing politics, List of Democratic Socialists of America public officeholders, Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles's 13th City Council district, Los Angeles's 4th City Council district, Louisiana, Martin v. Boise, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master's degree, Mayor of Los Angeles, Mitch O'Farrell, Net zero emissions, Network18 Group, Nury Martinez, Ron Herrera, ... Expand index (15 more) »
- American people of Malayali descent
- California politicians of Indian descent
- California socialists
- Women from Kerala
Armenpress
Armenpress (Armenian Press; Արմենպրես) is the oldest and the main state news agency in Armenia.
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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.
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Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
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Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people and to promote anti-racism.
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Blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh
The blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh was an event in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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Cahuenga Boulevard
Cahuenga Boulevard is a major boulevard of northern Los Angeles, California, US.
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Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
Cruel and unusual punishment
Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase in common law describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the person subjected to the sanction.
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Curbed
Curbed is an American real estate and urban design website published by ''New York'' magazine.
David Ryu
David Eun Seok Ryu (born 1975) is an American politician, who served as the Los Angeles City Councilman for District 4 from 2015 to 2020. Nithya Raman and David Ryu are California Democrats and los Angeles City Council members.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a broad tent, democratic socialist political organization in the United States.
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Eric Garcetti
Eric Michael Garcetti (born February 4, 1971) is an American politician and diplomat who has been the United States ambassador to India since May 11, 2023.
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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving since 2019 as the 40th governor of California.
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Gil Cedillo
Gilbert Anthony Cedillo (born March 25, 1954) is an American politician, who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council for the 1st district from 2013 to 2022. Nithya Raman and Gil Cedillo are los Angeles City Council members.
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Green Party of the United States
The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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History of Armenian Americans in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles metropolitan area has a significant Armenian American population.
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Homelessness in California
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated that more than 181,399 people were experiencing homelessness in California in January 2023.
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Incumbent
The incumbent is the current holder of an office or position.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian Americans
Indian Americans are people with ancestry from India who are citizens of the United States.
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Joe Buscaino
Giuseppe "Joe" Buscaino (born) is an American politician and former police officer, who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council for the 15th district from 2012 to 2022. Nithya Raman and Joe Buscaino are California Democrats and los Angeles City Council members.
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Karen Bass
Karen Ruth Bass (born October 3, 1953) is an American politician, social worker and former physician assistant who has served as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles since 2022.
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KCBS-TV
KCBS-TV (channel 2), branded CBS Los Angeles, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of the CBS network.
KCRW
KCRW (89.9 MHz FM) is a National Public Radio member station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, where the station is licensed.
Kerala
Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.
Kevin de León
Kevin Alexander Leon (born December 10, 1966), known professionally as Kevin de León and colloquially as KDL, is an American politician serving as the Los Angeles City Council member for District 14 since 2020. Nithya Raman and Kevin de León are los Angeles City Council members.
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Koreatown, Los Angeles
Koreatown (코리아타운, Koriataun) is a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth Street and Irolo Street.
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Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.
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The Democratic Socialists of America is a political nonprofit organization and not a political party, therefore DSA members and endorsees usually run as members of the Democratic Party, Green Party, Working Families Party, or as independents.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Los Angeles City Council
The Los Angeles City Council is the lawmaking body for the city government of Los Angeles, California, the second largest city in the United States.
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Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) is the central labor council for unions and worker organizations in Los Angeles County, California.
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Los Angeles Daily News
The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California, after the unrelated Los Angeles Times, and the flagship newspaper of the Southern California News Group, a branch of Colorado-based Digital First Media.
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Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) is a public library system in Los Angeles, California.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Los Angeles's 13th City Council district
Los Angeles's 13th City Council district is one of the fifteen districts in the Los Angeles City Council.
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Los Angeles's 4th City Council district
Los Angeles's 4th City Council district is one of the fifteen districts in the Los Angeles City Council.
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Louisiana
Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.
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Martin v. Boise
Martin v. Boise (full case name) was a 2018 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in response to a 2009 lawsuit by six homeless plaintiffs against the city of Boise, Idaho regarding the city's anti-camping ordinance.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.
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Mayor of Los Angeles
The mayor of Los Angeles is the head of the executive branch of the government of Los Angeles and the chief executive of Los Angeles.
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Mitch O'Farrell
Mitch O'Farrell (born 1960) is an American politician, who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council for the 13th district from 2013 to 2022, during which he spent eight days as President of the City Council during the 2022 Los Angeles City Council scandal. Nithya Raman and Mitch O'Farrell are California Democrats.
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Net zero emissions
Global net zero emissions describes the state where emissions of greenhouse gases due to human activities, and removals of these gases, are in balance over a given period.
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Network18 Group
Network18 Media & Investments Limited, is an Indian media conglomerate, based in Mumbai.
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Nury Martinez
Nury Martinez (born July 9, 1973) is an American former politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council for the 6th district from 2013 until her resignation in 2022.
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Ron Herrera
Ron Herrera is an American labor leader, who served as the President of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (colloquially called the "Fed") until his resignation on October 10, 2022, following the disclosure of his presence during a conversation where racist comments were made regarding black & indigenous peoples.
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Screenwriting
Screenwriting or scriptwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games.
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September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes
On 12 September 2022, a series of clashes erupted between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops along the Armenia–Azerbaijan border, marking a major escalation in the current border crisis between Armenia–Azerbaijan and resulting in nearly 300 deaths and dozens of injuries on both sides by 14 September.
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Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California originally home to a small community called Ivanhoe, so named in honor of the novel by Sir Walter Scott.
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South Coast Air Quality Management District
The South Coast Air Quality Management District, also using the acronym South Coast (AQMD), formed in 1976, is the air pollution agency responsible for regulating stationary sources of air pollution in the South Coast Air Basin and the Coachella Valley portion of the Salton Sea Air Basin, in Southern California.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Time's Up (organization)
Time's Up (stylised in all caps) was a non-profit organization that raised money to support victims of sexual harassment.
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UNITE HERE
UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with roughly 300,000 active members.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts.
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Urban planner
An urban planner (also known as town planner) is a professional who practices in the field of town planning, urban planning or city planning.
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Urban planning education
Urban planning education is a practice of teaching and learning urban theory, studies, and professional practices.
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Vogue (magazine)
Vogue U.S., also known as American Vogue, or simply Vogue, (stylized in all caps) is a monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine that covers style news, including haute couture fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway.
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Vox (website)
Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media.
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2022 Los Angeles City Council scandal
On October 9, 2022, an audio recording surfaced of a private meeting involving Los Angeles City Council members and a union leader that involved racist and disparaging comments and led to a local political scandal.
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41.18
41.18, also known as Los Angeles Municipal Code, Section 41.18(d) (1963, amended 2021), is an ordinance in Los Angeles prohibiting by law that there will be no "sitting, lying, or sleeping, or...
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American people of Malayali descent
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- Paul Varghese
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- RK DreamWest
- Rachel Paulose
- Rajan Devadas
- Saleka
- Sanjena Sathian
- Serena Varghese
- Shelley Malil
- Shishir Kurup
- Sreenath Sreenivasan
- Suma Josson
- Sunil Nayar
- Syma Chowdhry
- Thomas Kailath
- Thomas Zacharia
- Vidya Vox
- Vivek Ramaswamy
California politicians of Indian descent
- Ami Bera
- Ash Kalra
- Dalip Singh Saund
- Harpreet Sandhu (politician)
- Harry Sidhu
- Kamala Harris
- Kashmir Gill
- Kesha Ram Hinsdale
- Mervyn Dymally
- Neel Kashkari
- Nithya Raman
- Ro Khanna
- Savita Vaidhyanathan
- Shefali Razdan Duggal
- Adam McKay
- Albert E. Kahn
- Alex Lee (politician)
- Alice Constance Austin
- Alonso Duralde
- Angela Davis
- Anne Draper
- Bambu (rapper)
- Bobby Seale
- Bogdan Denitch
- Cornel West
- Dalton Trumbo
- Dan La Botz
- Danielle Perez (comedian)
- Dean Preston
- Eunisses Hernandez
- Hal Draper
- Hasan Piker
- Innosanto Nagara
- James H. Coleman
- Jamie Loftus
- Joel Kim Booster
- Johanna Brenner
- John Early (comedian)
- Jovanka Beckles
- Kenneth Mejia
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Majid Naficy
- Mike Davis (scholar)
- Molly Lambert
- Moshe Kasher
- Nithya Raman
- Olive M. Johnson
- Peter Camejo
- Rob Delaney
- Ron Dellums
- Soul Khan
- Thomas Mooney
- Tim Commerford
- Tim Heidecker
- Tom Gallagher (Massachusetts politician)
- Travers Clement
- Vaush
- William Ross Knudsen
- Zack de la Rocha
Women from Kerala
- Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception
- Bharani Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi
- Bharani Thirunal Parvathi Bayi
- Bindu Ammini
- Euphrasia Eluvathingal
- Gowri Lakshmi Bayi
- Indira Joseph Venniyoor
- Karthyayani Amma
- Kollakkayil Devaki Amma
- Kuriyedathu Thatri
- Latheefa Koya
- Letika Saran
- Maliyekkal Mariyumma
- Mariam Thresia Chiramel
- Mariamma Chedathy
- Mayilamma
- Nithya Raman
- R. Sreelekha
- Sarah Jacob Cohen
- Sethu Lakshmi Bayi
- Shoba Sivasankar
- Umayamma Rani
- Unniyarcha
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nithya_Raman
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