Showing posts with label Echo Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Echo Park. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Monday, July 07, 2014
Recall Echo Parque gang injunction supporters saying it was unrelated to real estate prices?
Recall Echo Parque gang injunction supporters saying it was unrelated to real estate prices? http://t.co/kDjsRUFbX7 pic.twitter.com/5lbzMseOw3
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) July 7, 2014Friday, April 11, 2014
Vote STAY for 90026 Echo Park GEPENC this Saturday!
Vote for Kwazi Nkrumah
for President, Greater Echo Park/Elysian
Neighborhood Council (GEPENC)
Saturday, April 12, 2014
for President, Greater Echo Park/Elysian
Neighborhood Council (GEPENC)
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Kwazi Nkrumah: Long-time Echo Park resident and life-long community activist and Human Rights advocate.
Founder of the Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater Los Angeles; former Chair of KPFK Community Advisory Board;
2-time Board Member of GEPENC, he has served as Budget Rep to the City,
Regional Liaison to other Neighborhood Councils and currently chairs our Parks, Public Works and Environmental Concerns Committee.
Kwazi has worked to fight mortgage foreclosures, extend protection for renters, and is a strong proponent of human rights for the homeless.
Kwazi opposes the destructive impact of both the re-opening of the Scott Avenue gate and the Barlow Plan on Elysian Park and our community.
He is working for more balanced development that limits economic displacement and preserves the historic multi-cultural character of Echo Park.
Vote for Kwazi Nkrumah for President of GEPENC!
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Edendale Branch Library, 2011 Sunset Blvd., 10am-4pm
TO VOTE YOU MUST BRING TWO FORMS OF DOCUMENTATION.
CITIZENSHIP IS NOT REQUIRED!!!
(Go to echoparknc.org for more info.)
Founder of the Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater Los Angeles; former Chair of KPFK Community Advisory Board;
2-time Board Member of GEPENC, he has served as Budget Rep to the City,
Regional Liaison to other Neighborhood Councils and currently chairs our Parks, Public Works and Environmental Concerns Committee.
Kwazi has worked to fight mortgage foreclosures, extend protection for renters, and is a strong proponent of human rights for the homeless.
Kwazi opposes the destructive impact of both the re-opening of the Scott Avenue gate and the Barlow Plan on Elysian Park and our community.
He is working for more balanced development that limits economic displacement and preserves the historic multi-cultural character of Echo Park.
Vote for Kwazi Nkrumah for President of GEPENC!
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Edendale Branch Library, 2011 Sunset Blvd., 10am-4pm
TO VOTE YOU MUST BRING TWO FORMS OF DOCUMENTATION.
CITIZENSHIP IS NOT REQUIRED!!!
(Go to echoparknc.org for more info.)
Monday, March 24, 2014
Echo Park STAY's GEPENC voter guide and appeal for support
Currently, Standing Together Advocating for our Youth (STAY) is being kept alive and afloat with the help of YJC & Stop LAPD Spying and approximately 10 people from Echo Park. All of us are are volunteering endless hours for justice to our communities. BUT we cannot do this alone! Please, come support us at least for the Campaign elections for the Neighborhood Council April 12. Every single one of us are volunteering our time, energy, resources and money to get the STAY voice in our neighborhood council. NO ONE gets paid, we do this for love and passion of our communities. Please, if you can just come and vote that would be great. If you receive this email, we will be adding your name to a list that will allow you to vote even if you don't live here, because you have volunteer many hours! Please please vote for us!!
VOTE APRIL 12 EDENDALE LIBRARY 2011 SUNSET. VOTE FOR YOUR DISTRICT REPRESENATIVES AND KWAZI AS PRESIDENT! HERE IS THE LIST OF PEOPLE UNDER STAY AND THOSE WE SUPPORT!
- PRESIDENT: KWAZI
- DISTRICT 1: VERONICA ARELLANO & BILLY MAVROPOULOS
- DISTRICT 2: CHERYL ORTEGA
- DISTRICT 3: RIO CONTRERAS AND GORDON LAKE
- DISTRICT 4: PAULA GUADRON, OSCAR TORRES AND TAD YANIWINE
- DISTRICT 5: CHENTE VINCENT RODRIGUEZ, CAROLINA JIMENEZ, JENNIFER VALENTE, LUIZA PADILLA-MAVROPOULOS.
** FOR THOSE VOTING YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A REGISTERED VOTER, NOT A CITIZEN, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE HERE. ANY PICTURE ID IS ENOUGH AND A DOCUMENT SHOWING YOUR RESIDENCE OR A LETTER FROM STAY. PLEASE CONTACT US SO WE CAN PROVIDE THIS FOR YOU, SINCE YOU ARE A STAKEHOLDER IN OUR COMMUNITY AND WE WANT YOU TO VOTE!! http://empowerla.org/gepenc/greater-echo-park-elysian-nc-2014-elections/
Standing Together Advocating for our Youth (STAY) website
Standing Together Advocating for our Youth (STAY) facebook
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!
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
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.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Cheryl Ortega: Logan St. 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 90026
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
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.
Monday, October 03, 2011
Mayberry Street Elementary School Needs Help!
"The original vision of charter schools was that they would help strengthen public schools, not compete with them." — Diane Ravitch (celebrated education professor and author)
NOTE: This is happening precisely because the deep pocketed CNCA Charter Corporation was allowed to go outside of its attendance boundaries and poach students from neighborhood public schools including Mayberry. LAUSD promissed that CNCA would not effected our local public schools, but clearly that isn't the case. Once more, our neighborhood public schools are being sacraficed so that lucrative charter-voucher companies can increase market share and profitability. — Robert D. Skeels
Mayberry Street Elementary sent out an urgent email asking for help - please read the following communication and help take action:
Hello Everyone - WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We are calling on you today to please take action and take a stand!
At Mayberry we need 6 new student enrollments to meet NORM DAY requirements. If by next week, October 5th we don't have these 6 students (K-3rd) then we lose Mr. Avina, 6th grade teacher.
That's not all! It will also have a domino effect in all grade levels and most would be forced to become split classes to meet the numbers. We can't permit this mass disruption for our children and fine teachers. Our students are not just numbers that you pack into a classroom! LAUSD promised that Mayberry would not be affected with a new school less than a mile away! We have already lost 2 of our fine teachers due to enrollment... NO MORE!!
WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME TO MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD.
DON'T PUT OFF THIS EMAIL FOR MONDAY.
WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION TODAY!
PLEASE EMAIL OR CALL THE DECISION MAKERS THAT CAN STEP UP AND STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING.
FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, AND STAKEHOLDERS. HAVE THEM CALL OR EMAIL.
Important phone numbers and contact information:
Mónica García, Board President, Board District 2: monica.garcia@lausd.net, 213-241-6180, Fax 213-241-8459
Bennett Kayser, Board Member, District 5: bennett.kayser@lausd.net, 213-241-5555
Dale Vigil, Local District 4, Superintendent: dale.vigil@lausd.net, (213) 241-0100
John Deasy, LAUSD Superintendent: john.deasy@lausd.net, 213-241-7000
Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte, District 1: marguerite.lamotte@lausd.net, 213-241-6382
Echo Park Improvement Association
PO Box 261021
Los Angeles, CA 90026
NOTE: This is happening precisely because the deep pocketed CNCA Charter Corporation was allowed to go outside of its attendance boundaries and poach students from neighborhood public schools including Mayberry. LAUSD promissed that CNCA would not effected our local public schools, but clearly that isn't the case. Once more, our neighborhood public schools are being sacraficed so that lucrative charter-voucher companies can increase market share and profitability. — Robert D. Skeels
Mayberry Street Elementary sent out an urgent email asking for help - please read the following communication and help take action:
Hello Everyone - WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We are calling on you today to please take action and take a stand!
At Mayberry we need 6 new student enrollments to meet NORM DAY requirements. If by next week, October 5th we don't have these 6 students (K-3rd) then we lose Mr. Avina, 6th grade teacher.
That's not all! It will also have a domino effect in all grade levels and most would be forced to become split classes to meet the numbers. We can't permit this mass disruption for our children and fine teachers. Our students are not just numbers that you pack into a classroom! LAUSD promised that Mayberry would not be affected with a new school less than a mile away! We have already lost 2 of our fine teachers due to enrollment... NO MORE!!
WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME TO MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD.
DON'T PUT OFF THIS EMAIL FOR MONDAY.
WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION TODAY!
PLEASE EMAIL OR CALL THE DECISION MAKERS THAT CAN STEP UP AND STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING.
FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, AND STAKEHOLDERS. HAVE THEM CALL OR EMAIL.
Important phone numbers and contact information:
Mónica García, Board President, Board District 2: monica.garcia@lausd.net, 213-241-6180, Fax 213-241-8459
Bennett Kayser, Board Member, District 5: bennett.kayser@lausd.net, 213-241-5555
Dale Vigil, Local District 4, Superintendent: dale.vigil@lausd.net, (213) 241-0100
John Deasy, LAUSD Superintendent: john.deasy@lausd.net, 213-241-7000
Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte, District 1: marguerite.lamotte@lausd.net, 213-241-6382
Echo Park Improvement Association
PO Box 261021
Los Angeles, CA 90026
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