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 [...]

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 [...]

L.A. River for Sale…Again? by Juan Devis Taylor Yard for Sale The community coalition that made El Rio De Los Angeles State Park a reality in 2007 and brought the river revitalization efforts one step closer to fruition are being called into action one more time. As we reported on an earlier post, a parcel [...]

We are proud and happy to work with diverse allies, the United States Department of the Interior, and the National Park Service as these agencies increasingly recognize that access to parks and green space is an environmental justice and human health issue nation wide. Recent reports focus on parks, health and equal justice; the Los [...]

Click on the text or images for more information. Save Watts Towers! LACMA New York Times Why Didn’t They Just Stop? Public Outcry Stops Excavation at El Pueblo Campo Santo Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Orange County Policy Report / Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el [...]

Read the appeal by diverse allies to stop an industrial development that threatens the community vision for a 100 acre Rio de Los Angeles State Park at Taylor Yard.

Read the appeal by diverse allies to stop an industrial development that threatens the community vision for a 100 acre Rio de Los Angeles State Park at Taylor Yard. The pictures shows an aerial view of Taylor Yard. The 40 acre parcel of Rio de Los Angeles State Park lies between San Fernando Road and [...]

The community celebrated the grand opening of the first 40 acre parcel of Rio de Los Angeles State Park on Earth Day 2007 to give children a place to play, after the Coalition for a State Park at Taylor Yard stopped a commercial project there. Since that day the Los Angeles Unified School District has [...]

The North Broadway bridge stands on the site where members of the Portola expedition originally forded the Los Angeles River. Built in 1910 and recently reinforced, it is one of twelve bridges across the Los Angeles River that have been named to the National Register of Historic Places. Learn more about Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom.

The Great Wall of Los Angeles is the largest monument to inter-racial harmony in the United States. The Great Wall was created and directed by Judy Baca, California Chicana muralist and the Founder and Artistic Director of SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center, Debra J.T. Padilla, Executive Director). The Great Wall is a half-mile [...]