When some one says, “Social Change,” a polling station is definitely not the first image that comes to my mind. Instead, I think of bullhorns filing the air as thousands… Read more
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Make Civic Engagement the new SEXY!
by Alicia on Sep 1, 2010
Honoring the Dream
by Jakada Imani on Aug 28, 2010
This Saturday, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream Speech, conservatives will gather for a “Restoring Honor” rally at the foot of the… Read more
Stepping into Greatness with an Ecological Policy Fabric
by Evelyn Rangel-Medina on Sep 1, 2010
I’m riding the train back to Oakland from Sacramento with a renewed sense of strength. This rarely happens when I ride back to Oakland from California’s State Capitol, but yesterday we stepped into a realm of new possibilities when the Legislature passed the Climate Change Community Benefits Fund—the… Read more
Soiling the Southland
by Meredith Fenton on Aug 31, 2010
This morning, Toxic Twins: Soiling the Southland was released- a new Los Angeles-specific report by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the California Environmental Justice Association. This report shows that the two largest financial backers of Proposition 23, the Dirty Energy Proposition, have been cited dozens… Read more
Bringing Our Histories Forward for Reflection and Healing
by Crystallee on Aug 30, 2010
A conversation about race is a difficult sell for many Americans. Being faced with our mistakes over race and racism throughout the years brings shame and pain. Careful use of language and a few generations brought up to believe in a “color blind” mentality have landed us… Read more
5 years ago, it happened
by Abel Habtegeorgis on Aug 28, 2010
“How, then, did we get here? How did the richest country on Earth end up watching children cry for food in putrid encampments on the evening news? How did reporters reach crowds of the desperate in places where police, troops and emergency responders had not yet been–three days after… Read more
I Sure Do Miss Trees…
by Meredith Fenton on Aug 26, 2010
Need any more reasons why our communities must unite to stop the dirty energy prop? Let N2O3, a lonely robot Californian from the future tell you why.
Certified Organic circa 1916
by Jessica De Jesus on Aug 25, 2010
94 years ago today, Congress signed the National Park Service Organic Act, which created the National Park Service. Today, the
National Park Service oversees almost 400 designated properties, including 58 with “national park” status.
Growing up in the heart of Los Angeles, near the notorious Rampart… Read more