The LAUSD Board met June 26 and heard opposition to the Pay to Play proposal that would require non-profit youth groups to pay for school fields and other facilities after school and on weekends. The Board is expected to vote on the proposal tomorrow, June 28, at 1 pm. We urge you [...]

LAUSD is considering a budget that would require non-profit organizations to pay to play on school fields after school and on weekends and to otherwise use public school facilities.
This is particularly inappropriate because LAUSD does not enforce physical education requirements and does not provide the quality physical activity that students need.
There are unfair [...]

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The Los Angeles City Council voted today to require a supplemental environmental impact report (EIR) for a luxury housing project on Elephant Hill in El Sereno in Tract 35022. The supplemental EIR will help engage and empower the community to decide the future of North East Los Angeles Open Space.
As [...]

Elephant Hill Environmental Review and Justice

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The Los Angeles City Council will vote June 20 on a supplement environmental impact report (EIR) for a luxury housing project on Elephant Hill in El Sereno in Tract 35022.
To help achieve equal access to open space throughout the Los Angeles region, we urge the City Council to [...]

Paul Vandevanter, President and CEO of Community Partners, writes:
No one working in this city’s communities can afford to ignore the wider civic context swirling around their efforts. Take, for example, the leaders of a Los Angeles after-school program helping low-income kids enjoy the outdoors. This city’s poor neighborhoods have a disproportionate lack of [...]

Anahuak Youth Association and The City Project have submitted Public Comments urging the City of Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee to require a supplemental environmental impact report (SEIR) for the development of luxury houses in Elephant Hill Tract 35022, in light of the new information and changes to the project that [...]

Mapping Healthy Parks, Schools, and Counties
The City Project presents its Policy Report Healthy Parks, Schools, and Counties: Mapping Green Access and Equity for California.

California voters in November 2006 approved $40.2 billion in park and clean water, flood control, housing, education, and transportation infrastructure bonds. Natural public places, including parks, school fields, rivers, beaches, forests, [...]

Learn more about the Los Angeles River Bike Ride.

From the Los Angeles Times
OBITUARIES
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
June 7, 2007
Jim Clark, a former Alabama sheriff whose violent confrontations with voting rights marchers in Selma shocked the nation in 1965 and gave momentum to the civil rights movement, has died. He was 84.

Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu, a Mayan woman from Guatemala, calls on public officials to promote children’s health and happiness through places for play and sports in parks and open spaces, speaking at the Tournament of Peace and Hope sponsored by the Anahuak Youth Association and The City Project.