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Riot-torn South Central Los Angeles, California - Includes partial list of organizations rebuilding Los Angeles
Mayor Tom Bradley started the Rebuild LA project to rejuvenate devastated businesses and property in the South Central area. The partnership between the public and private sector needs to emphasize job training and business development.See the full content of this document
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Resurrecting the city of angels.
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Out of the spontaneous combustion that black Los Angeles refers to as "The Rebellion" has come a grand plan for economic revolution in America's most watched urban center. Mayor Thomas Bradley has staked the future of Los Angeles on "Rebuild L.A." (now called R.L.A.). The challenge of this partnership between government, corporate America and Los Angeles' multicultural communities cannot focus solely on resurrecting buildings. Nor can it simply return things to the way they were before the riots. The only way to truly "Rebuild L.A.," as well as the rest of the nation's urban centers, is to establish a program of job training, job creation and business development with the long-term support of government, major corporations and residents of the communities involved. But the concept of teaming up three entities--government, private industry and the community--that have a history of adversarial and parasitic relationships, while the subject of much lip service, during this election year, has never been tested on a significantly large scale. Can this trinity cooperate long enough to resurrect the City of Angels? Or is this just another smoke screen to pacify the poor residents of South Central Los Angeles whose angry response to the Simi Valley verdict in the Rodney G. King beating sparked the riots? To be successful, the members of this alliance must trust ...See the full content of this document
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