You can hear the radio interview here You can view the tenants open letter to developers and city here Today, the LA Right to Housing Collective with Union de Vecinos, LACAN, and Comunidad Presente supported tenants as they organized a press conference outside 2913 Flower St. near USC. Recently a developer working through a third […]
Clean Up Green Up LA on Track to Become Official City of Los Angeles Policy NOV 25 2013 Happy Thanksgiving! It’s been a while since you have heard from the Clean Up Green Up initiative—the policy that would establish Green Zones in three LA toxic hotspot neighborhoods to reduce and prevent pollution and support economic […]
Watch “SoCal Insider with Rick Reiff” that discusses Union de Vecinos, LACAN and LA Right to Housing Collective struggle around redevelopment in LA. http://video.pbssocal.org/video/2363271985#sthash.wgPjRi9S.dpuf
The order from the South Coast Air Quality Management District comes after recent tests showed that Exide Technologies is posing a health danger to as many as 110,000 people in neighboring cities. By Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times A battery recycling plant in Vernon is being told to reduce its emissions after recent tests showed […]
Alma Salcido and her husband Nicolás have lived in Boyle Heights for more than 20 years and raised their family in the majority-Latino community just east of downtown across the Los Angeles River. Boyle Heights is a vital community with a rich history as a West Coast gateway for Mexican, Japanese and European Jewish immigrants. […]
Court Fails to Rule on “Hubbing” After two days of arguments, a Federal Judge dismissed a request for a restraining order to stop LA County Superior Court from “hubbing” eviction cases heard in its jurisdiction. The judge’s decision was based on the doctrine of “abstention,” — basically, the idea that the Federal court shouldn’t tell […]
Alegria Committee of Union de Vecinos Begins Their Street Build One of Union de Vecinos’s neighborhood committees, Alegria, began their construction today of benches and tables to be installed along St. Louis St near Hollenbeck Park. They also began building benches for their mini mobile movie theater the plan to use for movie nights in […]
General Services Police violates brown act in City Hall On Frebruary 5th, 2013, members of the Los Angeles Human Right to Housing Collective were prevented from attending a City Council meeting. When the Collective members entered the City Hall building they were asked to show identification. The Collective representatives explained that they were attending […]
Boyle Heights Community, Metro Clash at Meeting Over Development at MTA Owned Property Disparate Homeowners, longtime residents, advocacy groups and other stakeholders hijacked the discussion at Thursday night’s Metro community meeting concerning Metro owned properties in Boyle Heights. The meeting was supposed to be Metro’s sole opportunity to get community input before submitting design guidelines […]
Democracy in Action with Union de Vecinos Corinne Smith For Generation Green, CEH Justice Fund Water justice is beyond the science of contamination and clean up, it is about democracy. For the members of Union de Vecinos, this truth has mobilized and empowered their struggle for clean, healthy water for the city of Maywood, a […]
