On Thursday, April 5, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., please join us at the White House Hispanic Community Action Summit in Los Angeles, California. The summit will connect senior Obama Administration officials from diverse policy areas with community  leaders, business owners, and other stakeholders to discuss issues critical to the Hispanic community, Los Angeles, and [...]

HAVANA — In the heart of Revolution Square in Cuba, with towering images of guerrilla heroes staring back at him, Pope Benedict XVI called Wednesday for “authentic freedom” . . . . But reflecting an effort to stay in the good graces of his hosts and usher in even more religious freedom on the island, [...]

Cesar Chavez Monument by Judy Baca “The end of all education should surely be service to others.”

La Raza Law Students Present Cesar Chavez Week Robert Garcia: Equal Justice, Human Health, and the Built Environment Thursday March 29, 2012, at Noon, Room 1001 UC Davis Schooll of Law, Martin Luther King, Jr., Hall Robert Garcia is the Executive Director, Counsel, and founder of The City Project, a non-profit legal and policy advocacy [...]

The Chicano Park Mural Restoration project in Barrio Logan in San Diego, CA, is restoring the murals painted on the columns and retaining walls that are part of the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge. The murals have deep transcending values and are recognized at the local, state and national levels as historical, cultural and social and political [...]

Diverse allies have submitted public comments on the draft environmental impact report for the Los Angeles State Historic Park (DEIR). Each of the allies is a committed advocate for the creation of the Park and for equal justice, public health and the built environment. Some have worked together from the earliest days to create a [...]

We are deeply saddened by the death of John Payton, LDF’s Director-Counsel, on March 22, 2012. John was the sixth leader of LDF, the nation’s premier civil rights law firm (where I served as Western Regional Counsel).  John was an accomplished lawyer at many levels.  The greatest tribute we can pay John is that he [...]

SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > The Grass Roots Fight for Clean Water and Green Justice Share Green Justice The Grass Roots Fight for Clean Water and Green Justice by Robert Garcia on March 22, 2012 2:04 PM The City of Los Angeles is complying with the Clean Water Act [...]

Mark Williams writes: We share sad news with broken hearts and great sorrow that Reverend Eugene Williams III passed on Friday, March 16, 2012. We ask that no one send flowers. Our family needs your prayers and your patience more, while we mourn our father, our brother, our uncle, our grandfather, our friend, and our [...]

The Garvanza Park Stormwater BMP Project captures and cleans more than one million gallons of rain and runoff.  Water is diverted into two large cisterns under the park.  Water is cleaned and filtered and soaks into the soil to replenish the groundwater.  The other chamber stores water to  irrigate the park.  The project will help [...]