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Green Space: A Community Changing its Urban Landscape

August 7, 2012 / By
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[youtube]http://youtu.be/TPtyG4CAJqs[/youtube] 2012 YOUTH MEDIA BOOT CAMP: SAN DIEGO In July 2012 the Media Arts Center San Diego, with funding from The California Endowment, hosted a three-day boot camp to train Southern California youth journalists how to effectively tell individual stories within a community context.

Residents’ Help Needed to Curb Costly Problem

August 3, 2012 / By
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By Johnny Flores, Jr. Coachella Unincorporated COACHELLA, Calif, — In the 2011-12 fiscal year, the City of Coachella budgeted $91,372 to combat the costly problem of graffiti or “tagging,” as it commonly known.

The Diary of Joaquín Magón: An Organizer Defined

July 30, 2012 / By
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  The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 16: An Organizer Defined As I look at the desolate power of a voice that cannot be heard, hands that can lift a million crates, eyes that can see through lies, and smiles that bend like the crescent moon our mothers worshipped, I see that the hope is at times as thin as the space in between strawberry rows that flow through the ground like tuned guitar strings.

Are We Not Even Safe Inside Movie Theatres?

July 24, 2012 / By
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  By: Johnny Flores, Jr. Coachella Unincorporated   During last week’s midnight premiere of “Dark Knight Rises,” James Holmes walked into a Colorado movie theatre armed with a semi-automatic rifle, a shotgun, and two handguns.

Garden Brings Community Together

July 20, 2012 / By
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  By Johnny Flores, Coachella Unincorporated Coachella, Calif. – When Hilda Hinojosa’s baby has colic, all she has to do is walk across the parking lot and pick some manzanilla from among the various vegetables, fruits and herbs at Las Casas Apartments Community Garden.

Raices Shares Results of Youth Research Project

July 18, 2012 / By
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Rescuing Produce to Feed the Hungry

July 16, 2012 / By
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  By Aurora Saldivar, Coachella Unincorporated Coachella, Calif. — Inspired by the mass quantities of food Americans throw away, Christy Porter decided to tackle the hunger problem in the Coachella Valley over ten years ago.