The South Central Los Angeles Wetlands Park is funded in part through the settlement agreement resolving the Clean Water Justice action to improve the City of Los Angeles sewer system city wide. The action resulted in a $2 billion settlement agreement and court order in 2004. The settlement has also provided funding for revitalizing North [...]

Policy makers must work together to provide places to play in schools, parks, and green space so children can get physically fit and perform better academically. Without exercise at school, children are unlikely to get enough elsewhere. There are unfair disparities in access to parks and recreation space based on income, race, ethnicity, and access [...]

Click here to see The City Project’s policy report and maps on Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Ventura County in English. Síga este enlace para ver el reporte y mapas del City Project de Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Ventura en Español. Click here to view other reports [...]

Click here to see The City Project’s policy report and maps on Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Ventura County in English. Síga este enlace para ver el reporte y mapas del City Project de Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Ventura en Español. Click here to view other reports [...]

Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park commemorates Colonel Allen Allensworth and the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. Allensworth is a best practice example for a monument to celebrate diversity, democracy and freedom and for the Heritage Parkscape.    

Click here to read Tom Hayden and Robert Garcia on Occupy. . . The New York Times has analyzed the demographics of the 1% in a series of features linked in green below. The Wealth Gap The wealth gap, as measured by net worth, is much more extreme than the income gap. The New York [...]

Occupy Nation Freedom Park D.C. Occupy Movement: Tom Hayden and Robert Garcia

Green Justice What Is Green Justice? by Robert Garcia I am a civil rights attorney. I have represented people on Death Row, helped free Geronimo Pratt, the former Black Panther leader, from prison after 27 years for a crime he did not commit, prosecuted public corruption and international drug trafficking conspiracies, and litigated international banking cases [...]

Agenda January 25, 2012, 3:30 to 5:00 The Next Generation of America’s Parks: New Models and Opportunities (download summary) (additional resources) Our National Park System is dynamic, it evolves as America evolves. It celebrates our past with places like the Lincoln Memorial, Statute of Liberty, and Independence Hall. It preserves our amazing natural wonders like [...]

Click here to see The City Project’s policy report and maps on Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Riverside County in English. Síga este enlace para ver el reporte y mapas del City Project de Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Riverside en Español. [...]