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April 2012 LA RISING the 1992 Civil Unrest, the Arc of Social Justice Organizing, and the Lessons for Today’S Movement Building
Full Report April 2012 LA RISING The 1992 Civil Unrest, the Arc of Social Justice Organizing, and the Lessons for Today’s Movement Building Manuel Pastor and Michele Prichard With: Jennifer Ito and Vanessa Carter Acknowledgements Every research project begins with a thousand hopes and ends with a thousand debts. We are indebted to the Solidago Foundation for first suggesting to Michele Prichard of Liberty Hill Foundation that she take on the modest task of chronicling twenty years of movement building in Los Angeles. And USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) is indebted to Michele for asking us to partner with her when she realized the full (and perhaps overwhelming) scale of that mandate. In developing this document, we asked for the most precious thing busy organizers can give – time – and they were uniformly gracious in doing so. A full list of those who were interviewed or participated in a focus group is provided at the end of this document. They are all important leaders in Los Angeles, and we thank them not only for their words and wisdom but also for their work in changing the political and social landscape of our city. If there is one secret to L.A.’s rise in social movement organizing, they collectively are it. Of course, when they were done talking, someone had to transcribe, read, and process all the interviews. A veritable village of students worked with Michelle Saucedo to do the patient work of moving the wisdom of our interviewees from audio to Word files, including USC undergraduate students Charday Adams, Noelia Callejas, Tiffany Pereira, Gabrielle Roffe, and Charnan Williams as well as UCLA graduate student Cassie Gardener. -
Acknowledgments Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LOS ANGELES RIVER REVITalIZATION MASTER PlaN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The development of the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan is a historic The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ Gloria Molina, First District, and moment in the City of Los Angeles galvanized by a strong partnership of government, Zev Yaroslavsky, Third District, have executed the River revitalization goals outlined environmental and community groups, and residents. These people came together in the County’s Master Plan that was adopted in 1996. The County Department of with the vision to renew our historic River using this Plan to guide us for the next two Public Works and its Watershed Management Division have collaborated on the Plan decades. The Master Plan was spearheaded by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Los throughout its development. Angeles River led by Chair Councilmember Ed P. Reyes, Vice Chair Councilmember Eric Garcetti, and Councilmembers José Huizar, Tom LaBonge and Jan Perry, The passion of many environmental and community groups has been a driving force in and former Committee member, Councilmember Wendy Greuel. The Ad Hoc River the River restoration. These groups include: Alianza de los Pueblos del Río, Anahuak Committee, approved by Councilmember Alex Padilla, focused on major opportunities, Youth Soccer Association, Audubon Center at Debs Park, Friends of Atwater Village, including environmental restoration, parks and trails, neighborhood revitalization, Friends of the Los Angeles River, Heal the Bay, Livable Places, Los Angeles Audubon economic development and civic pride. Society, Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council, Natural Resources Defense Council, North East Trees, The River Project, Santa Monica Mountains The Plan idea was received with strong enthusiasm by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Conservancy, TreePeople, The Trust for Public Land, and Parks for People. -
Jackie Goldberg Keynote Speaker
Jackie Goldberg Keynote Speaker Jackie Goldberg has had a long and distinguished career as a public advocate. She began her professional life as a classroom teacher at Centennial and then Dominguez High School in Compton, and worked as a teacher, specializing in reading, for more than 18 years. She was also an active member of the Compton Federation of Teachers and was a founding member of Coalition of Labor Union Women. Armed with first-hand understanding of the problems and challenges of the Los Angeles public school system, Goldberg ran for and won a seat on the Los Angeles Unified School Board in 1983. Goldberg was elected in an upset victory over the incumbent and served two terms. During her second term, Goldberg served as President of the Board from 1989 through 1991. In 1993, Goldberg won a seat on the Los Angeles City Council 13th District. She was re-elected without opposition in 1997. Goldberg's Council legacy includes authorship of the "Living Wage" ordinance which guarantees a living wage and benefits to all employees working directly or indirectly for the City of Los Angeles, Domestic Partner benefits for City employees, and inspection of commercially owned apartments to guarantee that landlords meet basic health and safety livability requirements for tenants. Goldberg was elected overwhelmingly to her first term in the California State Assembly on November 7, 2000 and served for six years where she was the author of legislation that gave LGBT couples almost all the rights and responsibilities of marriage. She was also a principal author of the two State Education Bond Issues that helped LAUSD build new schools to relieve half-day sessions, and multi-track year-round schools. -
UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Naming LA
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Naming L.A.: Ethnic Diversity and the Politics of Urban Development A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology by Anup Arvind Sheth 2014 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Naming L.A.: Ethnic Diversity and the Politics of Urban Development by Anup Arvind Sheth Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology University of California, Los Angeles, 2014 Professor Jack Katz, Chair My dissertation explains why local governments in Los Angeles have given certain neighborhoods ethnic place names which are publicly manifested in street and freeways signs. Over the past decade in Los Angeles, as in many cities across the United States, ethnic activists and businesses have lobbied local governments for official designations that publicly acknowledge their presence in a neighborhood. Yet ethnic place names have been adopted predominantly in neighborhoods where Latinos represent a majority. Street and freeway signs throughout the city promote the public identity of places such as Thai Town, Little Ethiopia, and Little Armenia, neighborhoods in which the ‘official’ immigrant community is in the minority. ii Employing comparative historical and ethnographic methods, I find that demographic changes initiated by immigration reform and the social movements of the 1960’s have established a new ‘collective act’ responsible for shaping the public identity of ethnic spaces in Los Angeles. With new immigrant populations arriving to Los Angeles and the increasing demands