Justice and Collaboration, L.A. State Historic Park, World Wall, Prop 84
Robert Garcia will speak on The Power of Justice and Collaboration at the Congress of the National Recreation and Park Association in Seattle, Washington with Fran Mainella, Director, The National Park Service, and Gene Duvernoy, President, Cascade Land Conservancy, on Thursday, October 12, from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Over 10,000 people will attend the Congress.
Councilman Ed Reyes and the Los Angeles City Council are celebrating the new Los Angeles State Historic Park by presenting resolutions honoring the Chinatown Yard Alliance(pdf), the California Department of Parks and Recreation, the California State Parks Foundation, and Not A Cornfield on Friday, October 13, at 10:00 a.m. at City Hall in the Council Chamber.
The struggles, hopes, and triumphs of the people in creating the Park are described in Robert Garcia and Erica S. Flores, Anatomy of the Urban Park Movement, a chapter in the book The Quest for Environmental Justice edited by Dr. Robert Bullard. The book is available and reviewed on Amazon.
A community meeting for people to be heard on Concept Designs for the Los Angeles State Historic Park Design Team Competition will be held Saturday, October 14, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Goodwill Southern California Auditorium, 342 N. San Fernando Road, Los Angeles, 90031.
We joined Judy Baca and SPARC celebrating the public art premiere of the World Wall depicting a future without fear at the Sixth Annual Mexico City Book Fair, October 8 through 15.
The Los Angeles Regional Workshop on Proposition 84 — the Clean Water, Parks & Coastal Protection Bond of 2006 — will be held Thursday, October 12, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon, at the Los Angeles River Center, 570 West Ave 26, Los Angeles, 90065.
