Tag: Marcos Olascoaga
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After Years As Youth Volunteer, City Heights Activist Hired To Lead Others
The newest community organizer at the nonprofit Mid-City Community Advocacy Network has a long history of pushing for change in her neighborhood and now hopes to inspire others.
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Skatepark: Necessity or Disturbance?
For Marcos Olascoaga, the push for a Mid-City skatepark is personal. He was hit by a car while skating two years ago. Above, Olascoaga explains how the incident motivated his work with the Mid-City Skatepark Advocacy Group. By Manny Jimenez, Oscar Perez, Trevor Seines, Beckett Browning, Eliana Weinthal, John Fields, Alex Angleman and Tia Hill…
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Canyons Considered Dangerous Despite Improvements
By Brian Myers Rosa Olascoaga never walks alone through the canyon next to her home in City Heights, opting to take the longer route to get to the other side of the neighborhood. Despite steep illegal dumping fines, garbage, broken furniture and toxic pollution find their way into the canyons from residents and storm runoff.…