About The Los Angeles Garment & Citizen

Historically, Los Angeles in the early part of the 21st century resembles New York in the early 20th century, when immigrants from all over the world poured into the city in hopes of a better life. 

The Los Angeles Garment & Citizen, founded in 2000, was created as an English-language publication to serve as a bridge of assimilation for immigrants and a journal that offers the native-born an understanding in the changes that come with significant amount of immigration in the daily life of the people and institutions of Downtown Los Angeles.

Assimilation goes on every day--everywhere from kindergarten classes to City Hall. But it's happening fastest on the streets of Downtown Los Angeles, where the native born work and live each day with immigrants from Latin America, Korean, Armenia, China, Japan, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Israel, Nigeria, the Philippines, Vietnam and elsewhere.  It's a mix that sometimes brings strains, but in the long run brings strength--a strength that is evident in every issue of the Garment & Citizen, as the paper chronicles the triumphs and challenges of a great city working mightily toward its destiny.

The diversity of Los Angeles--which the recent U.S. Census shows is on the leading edge of the national demographic curve--has proved a challenge to policy makers, educators, healthcare providers, and marketers alike.

The Garment & Citizen provides news, features and analysis that spans the spectrum of Downtown Los Angeles and surrounding district, offering insight on events that affect the population generally, and also focusing on various ethnic and socio-economic segments of our readership, explaining how and why developments in one community very often affect the others.

Jerry Sullivan, Publisher and Editor
Los Angeles Garment & Citizen

For more information, contact the Garment & Citizen at:

117 W. 9th Street, Suite 410-411
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Tel: (213) 892-9983
Fax: (213) 892-8075
www.garmentandcitizen.com