Green Justice reports The City Project’s Assistant Director and Counsel Ramya Sivasubramanian testified before the California Assembly Committee on Local Government to promote community health, parks and recreation for all through reform of Quimby park funding on May 8, 2013 (AB 1359 – Hernandez). KCET’s SoCal Connected will also air the news story “Quimby and [...]

Listen to the complete story on KPCC Southen California Public Radio: Los Angeles mayoral candidates talk about improving quality of life, and for many residents that translates into access to parks and recreation programs. But today’s parks system is financially stressed. It’s a story of closed pools, locked gates, unlit fields, canceled or diminished recreation [...]

Quimby and The Laws That Govern L.A. Parks Fri May 10 at 9:30PM on KCET-HD “An investigation into the little-known Quimby law: Ever wonder why there aren’t more parks in your LA neighborhood? It’s not a lack of money. There are millions of dollars just sitting there ready to be spent, but a little known [...]

KCET SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > Full and Fair Funding for Parks and Recreation, and a Healthier, Prosperous City Full and Fair Funding for Parks and Recreation, and a Healthier, Prosperous City by Robert García and Daphne P. Hsu* The budget that outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has proposed for [...]

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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Chicano Park in San Diego, CA was founded on April 22, 1970 — the same day as the first Earth Day — when the community of Barrio Logan joined activists to protest the construction of a Highway Patrol station on the present site of the 8 acre park. The community had already been degraded by [...]

KCET > SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > Race and Place Do Matter: Economic Hardship, Obesity, and Equal Justice Race and Place Do Matter: Economic Hardship, Obesity, and Equal Justice by Robert García and Ramya Sivasubramanian on April 18, 2013 1:30 PM Child obesity is intolerably high even for children in the best neighborhoods, but children of color suffer first and [...]

Tens of thousands of acres in and around the San Gabriel Valley are proposed to become part of the National Park Service, according to a plan put forth to Congress last week. It’s the featured recommendation in a 10-year study of the San Gabriel watershed and mountains to identify if any part of the area [...]