Just got great news that the @GEPENC_Official voted not to support the racist gang injunction and seeks community based alternatives! #90026
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) August 28, 2013
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Showing posts with label Barrio Echo Parque. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barrio Echo Parque. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Just got great news that the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council voted not to support the racist gang injunction and seeks community based alternatives!
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Ethnic Cleansing Illustrated: The Echo Parque Gang Injunction. Join the resistance!
Ethnic Cleansing Illustrated: The Echo Parque Gang Injunction. Join the resistance! http://t.co/XoLXq3Ft1Y pic.twitter.com/eAhm27E1A6
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) July 25, 2013
Ethnic Cleansing Illustrated: The Echo Parque Gang Injunction
The rapid gentrification of Echo Parque and its surrounds just can’t happen fast enough for development firms like Van Daele Homes and others waiting to profit from the Glendale Boulevard Corridor Project. Standing in their way are low income households with children—predominantly families of color and indigenous peoples.
On the right is an overlay of the proposed gang injunction over the area income map. Neighborhoods that poor families of color have lived in for decades, and in some cases generations, are targeted. This damning visual evidence confirms the project as being what can only be termed ethnic cleansing. Both the former and current Los Angeles City Attorneys received donations from developers with stakes in the Glendale Boulevard Corridor.
Join the the resistance: http://j.mp/12njtiv
“Gentrification is Genocide!” — 2008 Graffiti on the Patras’ parking lot wall
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Los Angeles public education events for the first weekend of June 2013
Logan Street Elementary School Celebrates 125th Birthday
Posted by Cheryl Ortega, May 23, 2013 at 10:46 am on Echo Park-Silver Lake Patch
Saturday, June 1, 2013, 10:00 AM
1711 W. Montana Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026
See previous entry for more photos
In 1888 children came to Logan St. School in horse-drawn wagons. In a wooden building on the corner or Montana and Logan St. classes began in the oldest school in Echo Park, one of the 10 oldest schools in the city, and perhaps the oldest public structure in the community. On June 1, public officials, school district dignitaries, former teachers and administrators, alumni, students, teachers, parents and community will celebrate Logan's 125 years of service to the children of Echo Park. We would love to know if you are an alum, a former parent or an interested community member who would like to help out with the party or with a donation. We are very interested in photos, old or new, of the schools or of Echo Park in general. Please contact Principal Luis Ochoa at 213-413-6353
Allesandro and Silver Valley CEJ will be honored on Saturday at CTA at the Bonaventure Hotel
CEJ folks and supporters: On Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 6:00 pm, California Teachers Association's* Peace and Justice Caucus will be recognizing the work (mostly in environmental justice) that the Allesandro chapter and the Silver Valley chapter of CEJ have been doing this school year with a Youth Activist certificate.
Just wanted to let you know! If any of you are attending CTA's State Council this weekend, please check us out at 6:00 PM
The CTA YOUTH ACTIVIST CEREMONY WILL BE AT 6:00 PM IN SANTA MONICA C (the room name)
Westin Bonaventure Hotel
404 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, California 90071
East Side Stories Conference: A Grassroots Vision for Education and Community
The Community Forum for the Campaign of the Schools that LA Students Deserve
East Side Stories Conference: A Grassroots Vision for Education and Community by Robert D. Skeels
Inviting Community, Students, Teachers, to the East Side Vision Forum of the Campaign for the Schools that LA Students Deserve!!!
East Side Stories Annual Conference
atRoosevelt High School
Saturday, June 1, 2013
8:00am to 2:30pm
456 S Mathews St
Los Angeles, CA 90033
The conference will run from 8am to 2:30pm. It will include student- and youth-led workshops, speakers on educational justice, a curriculum fair, and vendors from the community. Lunch will be served, and translation will be provided.
The Vision Forum for the Schools LA Students Deserve will take place in two workshop sessions, from 9:45am to 10:45am and 11am to 12pm. In the first session we will discuss what we want to change in our schools across LA, and in the second we will envision how we can accomplish our goals. We encourage people to attend the whole day if possible!
The Eastside Schools LA Students Deserve forum is a unique opportunity for parents, youth, educators and community members to share their ideas and hear from each other about what they think the main issues are in public education on the Eastside.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
In Anticipation of the Lake Reopening
Posted on Echo Park-Silver Lake Patch on May 18, 2013
Photos by Robert D. Skeels,
The June 15, 2013 reopening of the park can't come soon enough after the seemingly endless rehabilitation.
My long fondness and fascination with our intriguing body of water goes back decades. On the weekends during the mid nineteen eighties and early nineties I used to ride my VFR to Lago de Echo Parque to escape the city just north of Los Angeles proper. The soothing sound of Spanish speakers, the city skyline, the ubiquitous waterfowl, and the lotus beds were all important sources of solace.
When I was finally able to move to Echo Park in 1994, I was overjoyed that the lake was only a few minutes away. The park was a nearly daily destination, including weekend basketball pickup games on the other side of Bellevue. In those years I began teaching Catechism at St. Teresa's, became fully immersed in the immigrant rights movement, and started researching and writing about the privatization of our public school system.
The lotus beds in full bloom were always harbingers of summer. Attendance at each day of the Lotus Festival was a given. A cultural celebration, the festivals reflected the diversity of the community. In fact, I took Yoon Jung to the 2005 Festival for our first date. We married 2008, and bought our house in Historic Filipinotown right before they drained the lake.
A lot has changed in the past twenty years, and as a transplant myself, it's not my place to remind lifelong residents of those changes. However, the hardest thing for me witness was the slow death of the lotus beds. It felt like the community was loosing one more thing that gave it its unique character. I remember commenting on a LA Times article discussing the issue. Bitter over the rapid changes in the neighborhood that included the park being overrun by fixie bikes and impromptu skinny-jean croquet matches, I wrote something to the effect that the lotus were dying off in direct proportion to the gentrification.
The years without the lotus beds were depressing. While there was some confort in the announcement that the rehabilitation would restore the aquatic plants, the lengthy time frame was daunting. Finally the lake will be returned to the community for all of us to enjoy — even fixie bike riders.
Yoon Jung and I still live within walking distance of the parque, albeit a bit longer walk than before. We can't wait for the reopening, and in anticipation are posting a few old photos.
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