Los Angeles Daily Journal Anne Marie Ruff Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES – A 20-year legal battle over 14 acres at the corner of Alameda and 41st streets in South Los Angeles points up how legal strategies have evolved, as part of the Urban Park Movement, for securing open space in a city that [...]

By Kimm Groshong Staff Writer Pasadena Star-News ALTADENA – A county lawsuit against the La Vina Homeowners Association, seeking public access to trails around the upscale development, won a small victory in court Wednesday morning. Judge Joseph De Vanon overruled the association’s motion to dismiss the case, clearing the way for a trial to proceed. [...]

Quest for Environmental Justice—The new book The Quest for Environmental Justice captures the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights abuses at the grassroots level around the world and challenging government and industry policies and globalization trends that place people of color and the poor at special risk. The Center [...]

L.A. history, widescreen version By Alex Dobuzinskis, Staff Writer LA Daily News VALLEY GLEN Painting the world’s longest mural took the work of 400 teens armed with brushes and rulers, many of them from communities as ignored as the social history they splashed along a half-mile of the Tujunga Wash. More than 20 years later, [...]

The Transportation Research Board will address Katrina: The Demographics and Infrastructure of Disaster and Reconstruction, at its annual meeting in January 2006 in Washington, D.C. The details and contact information are below. Katrina: The Demographics and Infrastructure of Disaster and Reconstruction Monday, January 23, 2006, 10:15am-12:00pm, Hilton, International West, Washington, D.C. Marc Brenman, Washington State [...]

The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board awarded the 2005 Water Quality Award to the Center, our client the Anahuak Youth Soccer Association, and others “for making an important contribution to restoring habitat along and water quality in the Los Angeles River” by creating new state parks in the Los Angeles State Historic Park [...]

Does this transit elbow out the masses? By Caitlin Liu Los Angeles Times Op-Ed November 6, 2005 THE METRO Orange Line busway opened in the San Fernando Valley last weekend amid much political grandstanding and media hullabaloo. Transportation officials call the new transitway a shortcut across the Valley, and they liken the buses to trains [...]

The proposed Foothill-South Highway 241 Toll Road Extension threatens the San Onofre State Beach and public access to the beach. The “preferred alignment” for the proposed multi-lane highway would bisect San Onofre State Beach, eliminating precious open space on the California coast, impacting world-famous Trestles Beach, forcing the closure of San Mateo Campground, and destroying [...]

The community celebrated the groundbreaking for the new 140 acre park in Ascot Hills in East Los Angeles on November 1, 2005. The park will provide passive recreation and green space in one of the most park poor areas in the city. This dream has come true after 75 years of public calls for a [...]

The William C. Velásquez Institute (WCVI) will be holding its 20th Anniversary Conference: Re-Envisioning California: A Progressive Latino Strategy for Civic Participation and Sustainable Development on November 12 and 13 in Los Angeles. The conference will feature Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, Los Angeles School Board President Marlene Canter, and others in [...]