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Lucy Guanuna

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Lucy Guanuna,  a freelance journalist, reports on a variety of issues including business, culture and social justice movements in her native Los Angeles. Her work has been published in The Eastsider L.A. and the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. You can catch her on air Wednesday nights with her bi-monthly segment focusing on the politics, culture and identity of the Latino community on KPFK-FM 90.7. 

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Homeless Along LA River (1)
For two years, St. Johns’ team of outreach workers, medical staff and caseworkers have been using the mobile clinic to reduce financial, geographic, and psychological barriers that prevent the homeless population from getting medical care.
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Earlier this year, a woman came into Contra Costa County Supervisor Mitchoff’s office in northern California. She had a message for the supervisor, but…
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Enjoy the greenery and contemplate the river's natural and urban wonders
MISP Farm landscape
When Fresno lost its MISP, thousands of undocumented immigrants lost health care access. Today, a glimmer of hope lies ahead.
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Wage enforcement offices are expected to keep employers in line
With homeless funding stalled and the nearest services as far as Skid Row and Glendale, Recycled Resources decided to take the homeless crisis into its own hands.
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The city's increasing need for water is pushing lawmakers and water agencies to use the river's function as a flood control channel to their advantage.
Cities are now embracing their rivers, digging them out of the concrete to which they were exiled, in the hopes that they will breathe new life into their urban communities.
Efforts to transform the concretized Los Angeles River have reached critical mass this year and it seems that before the ink dries on newly penned river projects, another project starts taking shape.
The recent storm was just a fraction of what is to be expected if the predictions for a "Godzilla" El Niño this winter are realized.
A freeway overpass at the edge of the L.A. River is both an unlikely and perfect place to have an exhibition and screening. Photo courtesy of EYCEJ.
The event, #ReclaimingtheLAriver, was a guerrilla-style, bike-in film screening and photography exhibit organized by East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ).
Graffiti on the L.A. River 1999 I Photo by Juan Devis
The river plays a host to tags that date as far back as the early 1900s, making the river a physical timeline of the human experience along the river.
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