Project GROW was a pilot project designed to provide the benefits of horticultural therapy to clients and staff of battered women shelter projects; empower women and their families with access to healthy food; and facilitate a more systemic approach to improving community food security for those involved.
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Project GROW Publications
Environmental and Social Justice Movements and Policy Change in Los AngelesBook Chapter)
Food JusticeBook)
Food Access in South Los AngelesBook Chapter)
Activists Breathe New Life Into May DayCan Rush Keep It Up?
C. Wright Mills Would Have Loved Occupy Wall Street
Conservativism, Compassion, and Cruelty
Another Factory is Possible
Cafeteria Food Fight
Article)
California Homeowners Mount a Growing Protest Movement Against ForeclosuresBaseball’s error
Article)
Banks should pay for foreclosuresA Multiracial and Multilingual Progressivism Is Born in Los Angeles
Article)
Immigrants and Food: Another Way to Shape the National ConversationArticle)
Executive Summary: Global Trade ImpactsReport)
Locally Grown Veggies Spring up in SchoolsArticle)
Darrell Issa Invites His Capitalist Cronies to Cry WolfThe Cost of a Global Food Chain
Article)
Baseball JusticeArticle)
ACORN’s Kick-Ass ActivismDoes Public Housing Have a Future?
At the Top, Signs of a Slide
Farm to Cafeteria Initiatives
Article)
California in CrisisACORN Is Back in the News, but the News Still Gets it Wrong
A Poor Fit for Los Angeles
Article)
ACORN “Not Guilty”Demonstrations at CEO Mansions?
Community Organizing, ACORN, and Progressive Politics in America
First They Came for ACORN
Cigna CEO Hanway
Citizens Confront WellPoint
The Right to Place: Food, Streets and Immigrants
Policy Brief)
Divorce–Union StyleCredit Card Sharks Crying Wolf
Beware
Crying Wolf Again
The Employee Free Choice Act
Crying Wolf
Green Technology High School Academies
Bearing Fruit
Community Organizing Never Looked So Good
A New Wave of Community Organizers for the Obama Era
Where We Live, Work, Play…And Eat: Expanding the Environmental Justice Agenda
Journal Article (Peer Reviewed))
A Chicago, la lutte syndicale a payeArticle)
Arnold, GOP Legislators Get an “F” in EducationCommunity Organizing, Acorn, and Progressive Politics in America
Book Chapter)
The Chicago Sit-inCommunity Organizers
Baseball’s Biggest Scandal
ACORN Under The Microscope
Candidates Must No Longer Ignore America’s Metro Areas
Edwards Poverty Campaign Met With Media Blackout
Democrats Challenge GOP on Mortgage Mess
Does Obama Really Have a Race Problem?
Fresh Food Distribution Models for the Greater Los Angeles Region
Report)
Bikeway or the the HighwayArticle)
Biking on the Freeway — It Can Happen HereArticle)
Activists Demand TESCO Sign a Community Benefit AgreementBush’s Class Warfare
The bus stops here for First Transit contract
Article)
A Just Route to a Green L.A. CountyArticle)
Can Pasadena Become a City of Justice?A Growing Movement
Report)
California Tribal Casino Compact AmendmentsMine deaths follow weak regulations
A new superintendent and PUSD’s future
Article)
Going LocalReport)
Community Organizing for What?Act First, Ask Later
Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor
Cities Should Invest in Local Schools
Falling down on the job on labor coverage
Bush Helps Disaster Profiteers
Builders Clucking Like Chicken Little
Can a City be Progressive?
Democrats Should Fight for a Moral Minimum Wage
Athletes deserve to be heard on significant political issues
A “Local” Walkout Can’t Work
Article)
A Liberal Push in LA City HallCommunity Organizations and Social Change
Enraging the Right
Putting Pleasure Back in the Drive
Report)
Economic Inequality and Public PolicyCalifornia’s Housing Crisis Affects Us All
Alternative LA
Why America’s Workers Can’t Pay the Rent
Campus Activism Has Returned
Anti-corporate insurgency making itself seen, felt
The Devolution Revolution
Business Would Have Its Way
Educators Need to Join Labor’s Fight Against the Paycheck Protection Act
Environmentalists torn between elitism and justice
A Brief Triumph for Progressive Housing Policy
A Ten-Point Plan
Don’t Make This Doctor a Symbol
Courting Racial Justice
Canadian Beacon
Democrats Should Lead on Labor Reform
Clinton verdient einen New Deal
Clinton Deserves a New Deal
A Partisan War on Public Housing
Bob Dole on “Socialism”
Community Empowerment Strategies
Fed Must Make Wells Fargo a Good Corporate Citizen of L.A.
Homeward Bound
Report)
Boston’s West End 35 Years after the BulldozerMansions on the Hill
Article)
A political allegory of failed American populist movementDetouring the Motor-Voter Law
A Federal agency prolongs Oakland blight
Article)
Bush to Cities: Drop DeadDowntown Development and Urban Reform
Affordable Housing
Deductio ad absurdum
Census count no help to homeless
A long view forward for the American left
A Party for a Change
Condo Mania
