Category Archive: 'The City Project'

America’s Great Outdoors, the San Gabriels, and Equal Justice July 7 & 8 Whittier Narrows and Los Angeles

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

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Robert Bracamontes, Acjachemen Nation, Juaneno Tribe, will be a panelist at the July 7 Whittier Narrows Listening Session.
Click here to see the Policy Brief of diverse allies on America’s Great Outdoors and Equal Justice.
In addition to the Whittier Narrows listening session, the following America’s Great Outdoor events will take [...]

The Legacy of Thurgood Marshall

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

The City Project’s Robert Garcia writes:
Thurgood Marshall dedicated his life to achieve equal justice for all. He pioneered public interest, civil rights, and constitutional litigation and advocacy. He founded the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (where I served as Western Regional Counsel), which served as a model for all other legal defense funds [...]

Webinar Healthy People Healthy Places Convergence Partnership June 29, 11:00-12:00pm PDT (1-2 pm CDT, 2-3 pm EDT)

Friday, June 25th, 2010

The Convergence Partnership
Healthy People Healthy Places Webinar Series
A PATH FROM HOPE TO CHANGE: IMPLEMENTING EQUITY-FOCUSED PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES

JUNE 29, 11:00-12:00pm PDT (1-2 pm CDT, 2-3 pm EDT)
Join us for a webinar on Implementing Equity-Focused Principles and Strategies. This webinar is the third in a five-part series titled “Healthy People, Healthy Places,” offered by the [...]

Historic groundbreaking for Ascot Hills Park in East Los Angeles! Again

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

In response to community demands led by The City Project, Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles, California Pan Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN), and PolicyLink, as well as hard hitting coverage in the Los Angeles Times, the city of Los Angeles held a ground breaking – again – for the Ascot Hills Park in East [...]

People of color 48.6% of all births, 48.3% of children under 5

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

“[M]minorities edged closer to becoming a majority of the nation’s youngest children. More than 500 of the nation’s more than 3,000 [counties] now fall in that category. . .  .  As of July 1, 2009, racial and ethnic groups other than non-Hispanic whites accounted for 48.6 percent of all births and 48.3 percent of children [...]

World Cup Miscellany NY Times

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Ben Schott, New York Times, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/10/opinion/20100611_SCHOTT.html

2010 World Cup Begins!

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

These twelve books are discussed in Melvyn Bragg’s Twelve Books that Changed the World and an article in The Sunday Times.

Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
Married Love by Marie Stopes
Magna Carta
*Book of Rules of Association Football*
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade by William Wilberforce
A Vindication of the Rights of [...]

Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

From The New York Times:
[T]oday, the practice of excluding blacks and other minorities from Southern juries remains widespread and, according to defense lawyers and a new study by the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit human rights and legal services organization in Montgomery, Ala., largely unchecked. . . .
While jury makeup varies widely by jurisdiction, the [...]

GreenInfo Network New ParkInfo Web Mapping Launches!

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

The City Project’s friends and allies at GreenInfo Network report on their new ParkInfo Web Mapping:

Special MapLines Edition

ParkInfo.org, our public parks web portal, has just undergone a  major and exciting makeover and we wanted to let you know about it, with this special edition of MapLines!
The new ParkInfo features outstanding and fast-drawing new [...]

TAKE MY PICTURE AND BLUE PRESS BOOKS PRESENT

Monday, June 7th, 2010