National Park Service, Anahuak Youth Sports Association, and The City Project tour great parks in Los Angeles. Rio de Los Angeles State Park. David Szymanski, Superintendent, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, National Park Service, and Kate Kuykendall, Public Affairs Officer, join Raul Macias of Anahuak and Robert Garcia, Ramya Sivasubramanian, Lynnete Guzman, and Daphne [...]

Click on the text or images for more information.  KCET Departures Launches Green Justice Column by Robert Garcia   Diversifying Access to and Support for Proposed San Gabriels National Recreation Area   Diverse Allies Support Equal Access to the L.A. River; SB 1201 Signed into Law   Providing Quality Physical Education in Los Angeles Unified [...]

The City Project’s article on Environmental Justice for All: Struggle in Baldwin Hills and South Central Los Angeles appears in the Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy (Nov/Dec 2012). The Baldwin Hills and South Central Los Angeles constitute the historic heart of African American Los Angeles. . . . These communities have long strived [...]

We ask you to make a year end contribution to support equal justice, democracy and livability for all. Thanks to your support, The City Project is celebrating our second decade. In the past year alone we have enjoyed remarkable victories with diverse allies to define access to parks and recreation as an environmental justice issue, [...]

The Baldwin Hills is an epicenter of excellence in African American culture across the United States, along with Sugar Hill in Harlem and, now, the White House. Even so, black folks in Baldwin Hills and adjoining South Central Los Angeles have constantly struggled for green justice. The community, which has long suffered from environmental degradation and discrimination, has been fighting to create the two square-mile Baldwin Hills Park.

Southern California Panel Robert García, Founding Director and Counsel, The City Project “Baldwin Hills Park in Los Angeles” 2:00-4:15 pm Click here to register for the 2012 ELJ Symposium on California’s Urban Wildlands. For more information email Conference Director Professor Paul Kibel at pkibel@ggul.edu. Click to read about The City Project’s advocacy for health and environmental justice [...]

As rising crude prices make old fields now surrounded by homes economically viable again, oil companies are making many concessions with local officials to revive them. . . . The mitigation agreements have intensified not just because of the proximity of neighbors but also because of a legal settlement two years ago by the Los [...]

Click on the image to see the urban state parks video on YouTube. Los Angeles County has over 10 million people, a larger population than 42 states. Community advocates have fought to create great urban state parks in park poor communities disproportionately populated by people of color and low income people. Los Angeles State Historic [...]

The Sanchez Adobe in the Baldwin Hills, said to be the oldest building in Los Angeles. The Sanchez Ranch is an official cultural and historic monument. Native Americans lived in the area for thousands of years. Archaeological evidence indicates a prehistoric Native American village existed on this site. Spaniards, Mexicans and Californios lived in the [...]

“Gov. Andrew Cuomo has joined the honor role of governors and conservation groups that have stepped forward at critical moments to protect large parts of the Adirondacks from commercial development. On Sunday, Mr. Cuomo announced that the State of New York had bought 69,000 acres of timberland . . .  including stretches of the upper [...]