National Park Service, Anahuak Youth Sports Association, and The City Project tour great parks in Los Angeles. Rio de Los Angeles State Park. David Szymanski, Superintendent, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, National Park Service, and Kate Kuykendall, Public Affairs Officer, join Raul Macias of Anahuak and Robert Garcia, Ramya Sivasubramanian, Lynnete Guzman, and Daphne [...]

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Mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti are committed to goals and principles that help protect equal opportunity for all, and create a prosperous future in an increasingly diverse city. In response to a letter from diverse allies, each is committed to local green jobs, physical education and healthy foods in public schools, equal access [...]

Click on the text or images for more information.  KCET Departures Launches Green Justice Column by Robert Garcia   Diversifying Access to and Support for Proposed San Gabriels National Recreation Area   Diverse Allies Support Equal Access to the L.A. River; SB 1201 Signed into Law   Providing Quality Physical Education in Los Angeles Unified [...]

General Anthony Jackson (right), Director of California Department of Parks and Recreation, discusses green access, community health, and equal justice with The City Project’s Robert García (left). Photo by City Project Board Member Tom Hayden. The City Project provided recommendations for working together on green space and equal justice with General Jackson on January 23, [...]

We ask you to make a year end contribution to support equal justice, democracy and livability for all. Thanks to your support, The City Project is celebrating our second decade. In the past year alone we have enjoyed remarkable victories with diverse allies to define access to parks and recreation as an environmental justice issue, [...]

Southern California Panel Robert García, Founding Director and Counsel, The City Project “Baldwin Hills Park in Los Angeles” 2:00-4:15 pm Click here to register for the 2012 ELJ Symposium on California’s Urban Wildlands. For more information email Conference Director Professor Paul Kibel at pkibel@ggul.edu. Click to read about The City Project’s advocacy for health and environmental justice [...]

 KCET SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > If You Want Jobs and Justice, Keep Our National Parks Open by Robert Garcia In the summer of 1963, when I was growing up in what is now Pico Union near downtown Los Angeles, my father decided we should go on our first camping trip [...]

With five square miles of chapparal and landscaped parkland and picnic areas, Griffith Park is the largest municipal park with urban wilderness area in the United States. Col. Griffith J. Griffith donated the land to the city in 1896 for a park. “It must be made a place of recreation and rest for the masses, [...]