Category Archive: 'The City Project'
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
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 [...]
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, L.A. River, San Gabriel Mountains Forever, The City Project, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
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 [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Everyday Heroes, The City Project
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
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 [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Employment Opportunities, Everyday Heroes, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, L.A. River, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Schools and Communities, The City Project, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, December 30th, 2011
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.
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, L.A. River, Schools and Communities, The City Project, Urban Parks Movement
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, The City Project
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
“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 [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, The City Project
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
The Protester Time Person of the Year
Posted in The City Project
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
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.
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, The City Project
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in The City Project
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in The City Project