Unemployed Live-Events Workers Have a Drive-Through Rally at LA Live
Chris Willman Music WriterWhat if you set up for a big party and no one came? That was the idea — purposefully — at LA Live Wednesday evening, as “One Voice: A Day for Action in Los Angeles” had a coterie of organizations representing unemployed or furloughed live-events workers set up more than 50 banquet tables and almost that many klieg lights in the plaza outside the Microsoft Theater… for strictly sad, symbolic purposes.The empty tables and underutilized lights stood as a backdrop for a succession of speakers from decimated businesses in Los Angeles, mostly representing various rental and catering companies whose work has ground to a complete halt, although Social Distortion singer Mike Ness added some punky celebrity presence to the