The 63rd ANNUAL NORTHEAST LOS ANGELES CHRISTMAS PARADE held Sunday, December 2, 2007, begins at 1 p.m. The city’s second oldest annual holiday parade offers the best of family entertainment including marching bands, equestrian units, dancers and musicians representing diverse cultures, drill teams floats and celebrities. The City Project, Anahuak Youth Association, Joe Edmiston of [...]

The City Project is proud to serve on the steering committee of the United Teachers of Los Angeles Physical Education Campaign to help students move more, eat well, stay healthy, and do their best in school. See the campaign videos on YouTube or below. UTLA In Focus Why P.E.? Just for the health of it! [...]

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BC SPACE Gallery 235 Forest Ave Laguna Beach, CA 92651 Please join us for a great opportunity to learn about the struggles faced by Tribes in Washington through a viewing of the environmental film “Unconquering the Last Frontier” AND participate in an environmental roundtable this Sunday in Laguna Beach. The screening will be held in [...]

The Los Angeles County Health Department recently reported childhood obesity levels up to 37%. Obese children run a greater risk of developing diabetes that can cause blindness, limb amputations, and premature death. Physically fit students do better academically and in life. Yet the Los Angeles Unified School District does not enforce state laws requiring just [...]

Los Angeles is park poor, and there are unfair park, school, and health disparities. Children of color living in poverty lack access to parks, to school fields, to healthy food in grocery stores and restaurants, and to cars or transit to reach parks, schools, or healthy foods. They suffer from the highest levels of child [...]

The Los Angeles Times recently editorialized: “Los Angeles is chronically short of park space, a civic failure that generations of leaders have only glancingly addressed. In 1930, the brilliant but ignored Olmsted-Bartholomew plan envisioned a county where every resident enjoyed easy access to beaches, vistas, recreation areas and parks.” The Olmsted proposals remain valid today [...]

Red Nation (representatives from various Native American tribes) planted a tree at the Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield in honor of the victims of the Native American holocaust on November 21, 2007. Elizabeth Kucinich, who is a member of the Sacred Woman’s Council, attended along with Sean Woods, Director of California State [...]

New York Times November 12, 2007 California Zeros In on the Intractable By DAVID M. HALBFINGER “The California Endowment’s impact is already being felt; it helped to end soda sales in the Los Angeles schools, a move later repeated at the state level. It is also helping the City Project, a fledgling nonprofit organization working [...]

UTLA Physical Education Campaign: Helping Children Move More, Eat Well, Stay Healthy, Do their Best in School Robert García* Forthcoming in United Teacher, the newspaper of United Teachers of Los Angeles, http://www.utla.net/unitedteacher/index.php UTLA has launched a physical education campaign to provide places and polices for children to move more, eat better, stay healthy, and do [...]