Based in Los Angeles, this self-described "people's movement for justice" consists of "direct action" activists who profess to "offer our resources to help labor, immigrant, youth, environment and economic justice movements across the city and California."

Working closely with World Can't Wait, the anti-war group founded by C. Clark Kissinger of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Action LA supports anti-war and anti-President Bush protest marches throughout California. Prominently featured at its rallies are placards that read "Bush Step Down" and "Impeach Bush." Among the anti-war personalities that Action LA most reveres is Cindy Sheehan, the founder of Gold Star Families for Peace.

Action LA's website is replete with allegations of U.S.-perpetrated war crimes and atrocities against the Iraqi people: "Massacres in Iraq," blared one boldfaced, representative headline in July 2004. The website also features photographs showing scenes of the U.S. military's alleged torture of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison; but it makes no reference to the Arab terrorists whose actions include videotaped beheadings, car bombings, and suicide bombings (directed not only against American troops, but also Iraqi women and children). In Action LA's presentation, evil is exclusively the domain of the U.S. military and its Commander-in-Chief. The Action LA website also features an "Iraq Body Count" display, showing the ever-escalating number of estimated deaths caused by the war. The underlying premise is that every war-related death in Iraq is a moral tragedy resulting from an unnecessary and unjustifiable American invasion.   

As a manifestation of its belief that the United States is to blame for most of the world's international conflicts, Action LA has endorsed a Peace Action-initiated program called Campaign for a New Foreign Policy, which exhorts America to finally "support human rights and democracy," "reduce the threat from weapons of mass destruction," and "cooperate with the world community." Among the additional organizations to endorse this campaign are: the American Friends Service Committee; Code Pink; the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; the Feminist Majority Foundation; Friends for a Non-Violent World; Iraq Action Coalition; the League of United Latin American Citizens; Military Families Speak Out, the NACCP; the National Organization for Women; the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; Pax Christi USA; Physicians for Social Responsibility; the Service Employees International Union; United for Peace and Justice; Veterans for Peace; Witness for Peace; Women Against Military Madness; Women Against War; Women's Action for New Directions; and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Action LA also aggressively supports open borders and expanded rights for illegal aliens currently residing in the United States, characterizing all efforts to apprehend such lawbreakers as evidence of  American racism and xenophobia. The organization candidly advocates amnesty for all illegal aliens, whom it generically calls "immigrants." Action LA endorses "immigration reform leading towards a path of permanent status for immigrants here now and wider legal channels for those coming in the future."

On June 15, 2004, Action LA posted an article that read, "Last week, the Border Patrol created a frightening environment for Latinos, by conducting arrests of suspected undocumented people, which always means brown people, regardless of status or country of birth." That same article alerted readers to the fact that the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) was "launching an investigation into the conduct of the Border Patrol during recent raids in Southern California." "Were you arrested recently by the U.S. Border Patrol?" readers were asked. "Or did you know of someone who was?" Anyone who answered "yes" to either of those questions was encouraged to contact MALDEF for advice.

In January 2006, Action LA presented, to the Los Angeles City Council, a petition opposing a House of Representatives bill calling for the felony prosecution of illegal aliens and the authorization of local police to enforce immigration laws. Predicting that such measures would create "unsafe conditions for all Angelinos," Action LA instead advocated the prohibition of police officers from "questioning, detaining or interrogating persons solely because of suspected undocumented immigration status."

Elaborating on its pro-open borders ideals, the Action LA website provides a link to a December 15, 2005 editorial depicting Republicans who favor immigration controls and border security as "America's real enemies," "xenophobes," and "well-fed racists" intent on "erod[ing]" the "basic freedoms" of "the very people who made this nation what it is - immigrants." Noting that the 14^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution "guarantees birthright citizenship to anyone born on this hallowed soil," this editorial defended the practice of granting the American-born children of illegal aliens access to all the taxpayer-funded social welfare, health care, and educational benefits offered by the United States, a nation which "was formally created by a bunch of aging, rich white guys who owned slaves." "Rather than change the Constitution for your own racist motives," the editorial advised Republicans, "start your own party and call it what it really is, the Nazi Party, or the Klan Party, because that's how you apparently think, and that's how you are perceived by anyone who really loves America and its many blessing [sic] of diversity."

Action LA endorsed the 2002 Market Workers Justice Campaign of the activist coalition Communities in Solidarity with Immigrant Workers. This campaign called for increased wages and benefits for Korean and Latino immigrant workers, including those living illegally in the United States.