We invite you to attend the National Latino Congreso September 6-10, 2006, in Los Angeles, the most comprehensive gathering of Latino leaders and community members since 1977. We are local co-hosts of the Congreso with our alliance partners the William C. Velazquez Institute, Anahuak Youth Soccer Association, Mujeres de la Tierra, and Prof. Fabian [...]

Who: The Alianza de los Pueblos del Río is an alliance that includes the Anahuak Youth Soccer Association, the Center for Law in the Public Interest, Mujeres de la Tierra, Remapping-LA, and the William C. Velasquez Institute.
What: In August 2006 the Alianza will hold three community meetings to increase local, democratic [...]

By Elaine Woo
Times Staff Writer
August 13, 2006
Arlene Raven, an art historian, critic and educator who helped transform feminist outrage into the Woman’s Building, an iconoclastic Los Angeles institution that for 18 years was a magnet for women seeking to produce art on their own terms, died of cancer Aug. 1 at her home in Brooklyn, [...]

Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2006
CHINESE IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR descendants have had a long and unhappy relationship with Southern California’s various rail systems. The first “coolies” were brought here after the Gold Rush to lay railroad track in slavery-like conditions, then faced decades of legalized discrimination, vigilante violence and withering workaday racism from the leading [...]

The 2006 California Urban Forest Conference is being held at the Hilton Pasadena from September 7-9, 2006. Registration information is now available online.
The theme is “Urban Forest Advocacy - Growing Possibilities,” and California Urban Forests Council, along with their partners, California ReLeaf and the national Alliance for Community Trees, has created a [...]