Archive for the ‘Stories ’ Category
Gas Prices or Public Health?
As you may or may not know, Friday September 25, 2009 was a day where the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas in the basin suffered from some of the worst air quality due to a refinery explosion in Wilmington, CA. Communities around Wilmington, San Pedro, Gardena, Del Amo and many others literally [...]
October 19, 2009
· 
Monte · 
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Tags: Allergy, Asthma, Fire, Los Angeles, Refinery, South Coast., Wilington · Posted in: Stories
EJ in Oxford
I was sitting in a cafe in Oxford, UK today when I noticed an article in the Oxford Journal, which encouraged readers to formally speak out against two potential county council-backed incinerators that would both be placed within Sutton Courtenay. The campaign group called Sutton Courtenay Against the Incinerator has facilitated the formal opposition by [...]
October 2, 2009
· Christine · No Comments
Posted in: News , Stories
What We Can Do!
Let us take action Let us take a stand As we march and clap our hands let our voices be heard We can all wonder and sit and ponder We can all say what if and whose who, but what I know is environmental justice is true Transit racism, pollution all things we fight against Opression [...]
August 15, 2009
· Travis · One Comment
Tags: poetry, pollution, transit racism · Posted in: Stories
Slow Traffic Move Right
I have been interning with Communities for a Better Environment (CBE), an Environmental Justice Organization in Huntington Park, since June. I drive through South LA and Vernon to get there, and once I get into Vernon, the traffic pattern changes immediately. I suddenly have to compete with enormous trucks for road space. Because the behemoths [...]
August 12, 2009
· Christine · No Comments
Tags: air quality, CBE, goods movement, pollution, traffic, trucks, Vernon · Posted in: Stories
A Place for Me!
There is this place that does not consist of race. Where we care about our sea that is not full of debris. Where there is understanding in everything being demanding. Where we are not concern but eager to learn. Where we are buy generic soft tab viagra the changers and not the strangers. Where buses [...]
August 11, 2009
· Tamara · No Comments
Tags: air pollution, livable streets, poetry · Posted in: Stories
Community Rights Campaign Workshop
On Saturday, August 1st I held a workshop that dealt with the Labor/Community Strategy Center‘s Community Rights Campaign. The workshop discussed in great detail the campaign itself, the demands on LAUSD, and how we want to change pre-prison conditions in high schools. I was able to present to the group the background and tools needed [...]
August 10, 2009
· Jackie · No Comments
Tags: Community Rights Campaign, LC, LCSC, leadership, school to prison pipeline, Stop Pre-prisoning, truancy tickets, Youth Training Institute · Posted in: Events , Stories
Fantasy City: Update #1
This is my second post on the book called Fantasy City (first post here). With the exception of a few large metropolitan centers like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, there was little attraction by tourists or suburban day trippers to come to the city . In the ten years between 1948 and 1958 there [...]
August 9, 2009
· Ryan · 2 Comments
Tags: book review, consumption, entertainment, materialism · Posted in: Stories
Star Transit
The first time I took the subway in LA was with greenRELAY’s youth training program this summer. After living in New York City for two years my expectations where high, and to my surprise, the LA subway blew me out of the water. I was genuinely impressed. It was clean and spacious with fabulous art [...]
August 8, 2009
· Christine · 3 Comments
Tags: Los Angeles, New York, Segregation, transit · Posted in: Stories
The Electric Car: The Death and Resurrection
In 1996, the first ever electric car made by General Motors made its debut. The Ev1 was the newer generation electric powered automobile. It was very popular among many cities in the Pacific and Southwest regions of the United States. It was a success for 3 years, until in 1999 Gm decided to pull the [...]
August 8, 2009
· Monte · 2 Comments
Tags: environment, EV, hybrid, Lead Battery, Nissan, Prius, Toyota · Posted in: Stories
Hey Arnold !
Higher prices for gas that’s causing the pain in our a**. Higher cuts toward our in-home health care that’s causing old people to fear. HEY ARNOLD ! Transit racism still proceeding as the minorities keep bleeding. They keep fa cialis online iling and the President keeps bailing. HEY ARNOLD ! I wish some companies would [...]
August 4, 2009
· Tamara · 3 Comments
Tags: California, California budget cuts, poetry, state budget · Posted in: Stories , Youth Training Institute
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