Spending cuts at the grassroots
Bill Boyarsky

Amazingly, the city community building meeting room was filled with anti-spending cut protestors at the inconvenient hour of 6 p.m. Wednesday, and the stars of the evening were the students from Lincoln High School.
The meeting was held at Ramona Hall Community Center on North Figueroa Street by the Los Angeles [...]

The Center for Health Improvement and California Health Policies Forum highlights The City Project’s work in a Policy Brief on Tackling Obesity by Building Healthy Communities: Changing Policies Through Innovative Collaborations in December 2009.
The Policy Brief reports as follows:
Attacking Obesity Among the Underserved in Los Angeles
The City Project in Los Angeles envisions creating “a comprehensive and [...]

Convening the 2010 Governor’s Summit on Health, Nutrition and Obesity: Action for Healthy Living, in Los Angeles on February 24, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bill Clinton will bring diverse stakeholders — including members of the California Convergence — to discuss the best policy and practices to combat obesity and
improve the health and physical fitness [...]

The City Project celebrates Black History Month
Juanita Tate, a longtime community activist and founder of Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles, passed away on July 5, 2004.
Juanita Tate was our hero, our inspiration, and our long time client. The City Project had the honor of representing her and Concerned Citizens in the people’s victories [...]

The Los Angeles Unified School District, in response to a community campaign, has adopted a plan to enforce physical education requirements requiring an average of 20 minutes of physical education in elementary schools every day and 40 minutes in middle and high schools. The school district, the second largest in the nation, is enforcing [...]

Saturday, January 02, 2010
CALIFORNIA
City falls years behind in finishing Eastside park
* Ground was broken at Ascot Hills in 2005, but only scant areas are open to the public.
Home Edition, Main News, Page A-3
Metro Desk
21 inches; 850 words
By Louis Sahagun
Against a backdrop of smiling children, cheering officials and rolling grasslands, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa [...]

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Ascot Hills Where’s the Park?

Griffith Park on the East Bank of the Los Angeles River

Preserve History and Green Space at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument and Father Serra Park

Keep Baldwin Hills Clean and Safe for Generations to Come

Diversify Access to and Support for National Parks and [...]

Diverse allies have sent a letter to the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the City of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Commission, and Department (”RAP”) demanding that the City take immediate steps to improve parks and recreation for all and to alleviate unfair disparities.  The allies call for:
1.  Developing and implementing a strategic plan with [...]

The 28+ acre site of Griffith Park on the East Bank of the Los Angeles River in Atwater Village could be the Next Great Urban Park in Los Angeles.
Picture a bucolic stream, a tree-shaded picnic area, a path for walkers and equestrians, a playground for little ones and athletic fields to enjoy organized sports. Now [...]

“Celebrate Preservation”: NOT
Ironically, the City of Los Angeles has a double crossed native hanging from a street lamp at El Pueblo Father Serra Park. The City has double crossed the people with a war memorial that has no material ties to the history of the founding of El Pueblo without complying with applicable laws. The [...]