Category Archive: 'Health and Equality'

Temescal Gateway Park Support Public Access for All; Oppose Private Palisades Lease Special Hearing July 7, 2008 7:30 pm

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

A diverse and growing alliance urge the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to support public access for all to the Temescal Gateway Park.
Temescal Gateway Park is a crown jewel in the precious little parklands of the Los Angeles region. Temescal Gateway Park was purchased and is maintained with public funds by a public agency to benefit [...]

Diabetes: Underrated, Insidious and Deadly — New York Times

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

By TARA PARKER-POPE

Published: July 1, 2008

New York Times

[D]iabetes is anything but minor. It wreaks havoc on the entire body, affecting everything from hearing and vision to sexual function, mental health and sleep. It is the leading cause of blindness, amputations and kidney failure, and it can triple the risk [...]

KNX 1070 News Radio Clean and Green Baldwin Hills

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

KNX 1070 News Radio’s Michael Lindner conducts exclusive interviews on the Baldwin Hills oil field with members of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance and others. Listen to the KNX broadcast.

Learn more at www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org and www.baldwinhillsoil.org.

Miguel Contreras School Pool a Squandered Opportunity Downtown News Editorial

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Editorial Downtown News June 30, 2008
Contreras School Pool a Squandered Opportunity
Stakeholders in City West and adjacent communities received dispiriting news last week, when city and Los Angeles Unified School District officials announced that the swimming pool at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex once again will be off-limits to the general public this year. This is [...]

Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas Applauds Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance Oil Community Standards as “the Quintessence of Citizen Empowerment”

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Senator Applauds Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance for Development of Oil Field Community Standards
Monday, June 23, 2008
Senator cites CSD as “the Quintessence of Citizen Empowerment”

LOS ANGELES –Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Los Angeles/Culver City) today commended representatives of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance (GBHA) on the occasion of a GBHA press conference announcing the release of their Baldwin [...]

Speaker Karen Bass Commends Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance for Ensuring Community Participation and Human Health Protection

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

ASSEMBLYMEMBER KAREN BASS 47TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT For Immediate Release: June 23, 2008 Contact: Richard Stapler Phone: (916) 319-2047 Speaker Karen Bass Issues Statement on the Environmental Impact Report Regarding Oil Drilling in the Baldwin Hills Region LOS ANGELES —- Speaker Karen Bass issues the following statement regarding the release of the Environmental Impact Report for [...]

Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 537 Eagle Rock Women’s Clubhouse

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Built in 1915 by the members’ husbands, the clubhouse is one of the few large-scale Craftsman structures in Los Angeles.
Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.

Williams Complaint To Remedy Physical Education Deficiencies in Public Schools

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Diverse allies have filed a Williams complaint with the Los Angeles Unified School District to remedy physical education deficiencies. Physical education teacher vacancies, misassignments, and lack of subject matter competency are recurring problems in various schools from semester to semester and year to year. Teacher deficiencies are part of a pattern and practice by LAUSD [...]

abc7 Keeping Baldwin Hills Green and Clean for All for Generations to Come

Friday, June 20th, 2008

The Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance draft Community Standards District will protect human health and the environment for the community and the Baldwin Hills Park, the largest urban park designed in the United States in over a century. Visit www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org and www.baldwinhillsoil.org.

Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 562 Eagle Rock Women’s Temperance Union Home for Women

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Built in 1927, this building has social significance as the sole physical reminder in Los Angeles of the Temperance and Women’s Suffrage Movement.
Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.