Public access to government documents is being threatened by stealth amendments to the California Public Records Act. The amendments are part of a “trailer bill” to the new state budget. Currently, the government must provide electronic records in any format in which the agency holds them and provide reasons for denying a written request for public [...]

English / Español El Instituto de Medicina (IOM) publicó un importante informe sobre la obligatoriedad de la educación y la actividad física en las escuelas: Educating the Student Body: Taking Physical Activity and Physical Education to School (Educando al estudiantado: llevando la actividad y la educación física a la escuela) (2013). Las recomendaciones emitidas por [...]

All students deserve a quality education, including physical education. The City Project recommends that the Los Angeles Unified School District budget: (1) provide funding for quality physical education, including trained teachers and ongoing professional development, facilities, and equipment,(2) prioritize funding for under-resourced schools,(3) dedicate Physical Education Teacher Incentive Program (PETIP) funds to their intended purpose [...]

Español / English / Francais SOLIDARITÉ AVEC LE PEUPLE MAYA IXIL DU GUATEMALA La Coalition TOUS POUR LE GUATEMALA (Todos por Guatemala) déclare au monde : Que c’est un acte historique pour l’humanité, que le 10 mai 2013, le Tribunal « Primero A de Alto Riesgo » au Guatemala, a reconnu coupable de génocide et de crimes contre [...]

Español / English / Francais Solidarity with the Mayan Ixil People, and with the Organizations and People of Guatemala Who Struggle for Justice The coalition “Todos Por Guatemala”, before the entire world, declares the following: 1. That on May 10th., 2013, in an historic act for humanity, the Court “Primero A de Mayor Riesgo” declared General José Efraín Ríos Montt, former [...]

Español / English / Francais SOLIDARIDAD CON EL PUEBLO MAYA IXIL, CON LAS ORGANIZACIONES Y CON EL PUEBLO DE GUATEMALA QUE LUCHA POR LA JUSTICIA  La Coalición “Tod@s por Guatemala” manifestamos ante el mundo: •     Que en un acto histórico para la humanidad, el 10 de mayo de 2013, el Tribunal Primero A de Mayor Riesgo declaró culpable de Genocidio y [...]

English / Español The Institute of Medicine has published a major report on requiring physical education and physical activity in school, Educating the Student Body: Taking Physical Activity and Physical Education to School (2013). The IOM recommendations parallel the results that The City Project has achieved for quality education including physical education in virtually all [...]

Great Wall of Los Angeles by Judy Baca © and SPARC  From June 3 to June 13, 1943 servicemen stationed at the Chavez Ravine naval station beat up young Mexican American and Black men throughout Los Angeles. The servicemen brutalized their victims and left them lying in the streets; police and sheriffs then arrested the [...]

By Andrew Contreiras UC Irvine School of Law 2015 Legal Intern, The City Project Fred Korematsu was twenty-two years old when the Japanese military struck Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Mr. Korematsu lived in the Oakland area. After being rejected by the Army and Navy, he worked as a welder in a shipyard, but [...]

The Institute of Medicine’s Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention will host “Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight – A Workshop” on June 6 and 7, 2013. A report by the Institute of Medicine, a unit of the National Academy of Sciences, documents that physically fit students do better academically.  This is common sense, [...]