Ed O’Keefe reports in the Washington Post column Federal Eye: Keeping Tabs on the Government as follows:
The Interior Department is implementing new workplace rules for diversity and inclusion amid years of reports that it hasn’t done a good job hiring and promoting minorities.
A study conducted by the department’s black employees last year found that Interior was [...]

The City Project with a diverse and growing alliance urges the California Department of Parks and Recreation (the Department) to adopt an equity plan to ensure that the benefits and burdens of state parks and recreation are distributed fairly for all, including underserved communities in park poor and income poor areas of California who disproportionately [...]

Kevin Starr writes in Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003:
Organized as the Bus Riders Union, a project of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, and backed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Bus Riders Union filed suit in September 1994 in federal court charging that the MTA was violating the civil rights [...]

Edward W. Soja writes in the book Seeking Spatial Justice (2010):
A remarkable moment in American urban history – and geography – occurred in October 1996 in a courtroom in downtown Los Angeles.  A class action lawsuit brought against the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) by a coalition of grassroots organizations on behalf of those [...]

Dan Weikel writes in the Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles officials will hold a major event Friday near Staples Center to mark the 20-year expansion of urban rail service in the county and what they see as a dynamic shift that will transform the nation’s car capital into a model for mass transit.
But although the region [...]

Martin Nava, Director of Community Health of Old Timers Foundation, calls for a national recreation area in the San Gabriel Mountains to provide recreation, green space and Transit to Trails for park poor communities of color and low income communities who disproportionately suffer from obesity and diabetes in South East Los Angeles, citing The City Project’s work … More on [...]

Robert Bracamontes: ‘Preserve Our Land, Parks and Sacred Sites’
“America’s Great Outdoors”
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Whittier Narrows Recreation Center, CA
http://nativeunity.blogspot.com/2010/07/robert-bracamontes-preserve-our-land.html

Addressing Secretary Ken Salazar, Department of the Interior; Nancy Sutley, White House Council on Environmental Quality; Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency
Thank you all for attending, and thank you to those who made all of this possible.
In the [...]

Diverse allies united through the San Gabriel Mountains Forever campaign hosted cabinet level federal officials at a Listening Session for America’s Great Outdoors at Whittier Narrows Regional Park on July 7, 2010. Speakers included the following community panelists.

Robert Bracamontes America’s Great Outdoors and Equal Justice: Save Our Land, Parks and Sacred Sites
Robert Bracamontes of the [...]

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Robert Bracamontes of the Acjachemen Nation, Juaneno Tribe, asks cabinet level federal officials: “The bankers and financial corporations have been saved. Now it is time to save the people and their land.”  MIT Professor Noam Chomsky writes: ”Very eloquent piece.  Packs a lot in to a few minutes.  [...]

Saturday, in the park, I think it was the 3d of July.
Picnic, barbecue, soccer, volleyball, and just hanging in Whittier Narrows Regional Park.
Learn more about America’s Great Outdoors and Equal Justice in English and Spanish.