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 [...]

Lawyers for LDF from left, Louis L. Redding, Robert L. Carter, Oliver W. Hill, Thurgood Marshall and Spottswood W. Robinson III.  NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. “Robert L. Carter, a former federal judge in New York who, as a lawyer, was a leading strategist and a persuasive voice in the legal assault on [...]

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.

Fray Antonio de Montesinos landed with the first band of Dominican friars from Spain in Hispaniola. He was the first, in 1511, to denounce publicly in America the enslavement and oppression of the Indians as sinful and disgraceful, and to call for reform. That sermon launched a Spanish debate about protecting the indigenous people, contributed to [...]

“As the United States completes its withdrawal from Iraq, it is worth pausing to remember the determined peace activists who opposed the war from the start, including one who took up their cause and became president. “On Friday, some of them will gather in Chicago at the Federal Plaza, where in October 2002 Barack Obama, then a [...]

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Visit the slide show of reader photos of the 99% to the New York Times. Read the commentary by Tom Hayden and Robert Garcia on the Occupy Movement.

Diverse allies have submitted public comments to improve the Department of Interior’s (DOI) draft Environmental Justice Strategic Plan. We commend the National Park Service (NPS) for addressing park and health disparities in its recent Healthy Parks, Healthy People US Strategic Action Plan (the HP/HP Plan). As the HP/HP Plan explicitly recognizes, “People of color and low income populations still face disparities [...]

We commend the National Park Service for addressing park and health disparities in its November 2011 Healthy Parks, Healthy People US Strategic Action Plan (the HP/HP Plan).  The HP/HP Plan explicitly recognizes that: “People of color and low income populations still face disparities regarding health and access to parks.” “In regard to obesity, 36 percent [...]