[Roman Catholic Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera] was murdered as he returned to his Guatemala City residence on April 26, 1998. Two days earlier he had released a four-volume report on the civil war that formally ended in 1996, after it had claimed some 200,000 lives over four decades. The indigenous Mayan population, which makes up [...]

Proposed O.C. tollway would violate environmental laws, report says
L.A. Times September 29, 2007
Coastal Commission staff analysis recommends denying certification of the Foothill South project that would pass through San Onofre State Beach
By Dan Weikel and David Reyes
Los Angeles Times
September 29, 2007
Building a six-lane toll road through San Onofre State Beach near San Clemente would cause [...]

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Griffith Park Merry Go Round

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Anahuak youth eating marshmellows at the September 15 campfire in Marsh Park along the Los Angeles River. Anahuak Youth Association, The City Project, and Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority hold camp fires there as part of Transit to Trails. The project takes North East Los Angeles [...]

Media Advisory
For Immediate Release: Contact: Charles Porter, UCEPP
September 11, 2007 [...]

New York Times September 11, 2007
Complex Defeat for Nobel Winner in Guatemala
By MARC LACEY
SANTIAGO ATITLÁN, Guatemala, Sept. 10 — There are two ways to win political office in this traditional Mayan town nestled on the southern shore of Lake Atitlán, and campaigning is but one of them.
The other is to call on Maximón, a quasi [...]

Anahuak Youth Association and The City Project have submitted the attached letter and report to join the public call urging the Los Angeles City Council to assert jurisdiction over the building permit, final parcel map, and other ministerial permits associated with the development of 24 luxury homes on Elephant Hill in El Sereno on September [...]

Turlough O’Donnell, Chairperson of the Irish Bar Council and a very senior barrister, studied public interest law in action with The City Project the week of August 13, 2007. The Bar Council is the governing body of the barristers’ section of the legal profession in Ireland. Turlough is a very successful senior counsel, [...]

The City Council on September 4, 2007, approved the El Monte Transit Village, a comprehensive 65 acre mixed-use transit oriented development that will help revitalize the remarkably diverse community of El Monte, CA, with up to 1,850 residential units including affordable housing, about 491,000 square feet of retail and office space, better parks to improve [...]