L.A. Keeps MLK's (Green) Dream Alive and Growing

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The largest living memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King is still alive and going strong in Los Angeles. Eighteen years ago a multi-racial cadre of hundreds of volunteers joined together and in a single day to plant 400 Canary Island Pines along seven miles of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in South Los Angeles.

Led by L.A.'s environmental nonprofit, TreePeople, these volunteers committed to keeping Dr. King's dream alive, and for more than ten years they have mulched, watered and cared for the trees. Today, the results on what was formerly a treeless corridor are now visible from space.

Last week TreePeople Founder and President Andy Lipkis paid homage to Dr. King's trees - now stately, beautiful and still growing - in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Dr. King's assassination. Says Lipkis, "The trees are living, and the dream is living, because people went beyond simply planting. Month after month, year after year, neighbors cared for these trees. That's the profound impact of one committed individual to heal a community and the earth."

Martin Luther King Blvd, in LA January 14 , 1990 (BEFORE THE TREE PLANTING)

Andy Lipkis, TreePeople President, visiting the same location (note yellow arrow) March 31, 2008

Comments

[Vote4Prosperity]

Here's a few more lies MLK would not be proud of Obama and there are much much much more but the media have made it a point to give Obama a free pass, the media is irresponsible and we will probably be stuck with an Anti-American Supporter..Shame on Obama and shame on the media!
more lies:I am very Anti-Terror - LIAR. [03/30/2008] One of your good pals is long time radical and terrorist William Ayers, with whom you have been seen in the last 12 months and who has helped the now jailed khalidi, Professor at Columbia who invited Ahmadinejad to the University, to raise money for Palestinian terrorism attacks against Israel. PS - Your church published a pro Hamas Manifesto - guess you weren"t there on THAT Sunday either? How lucky for you.
63.) I have the best plan to cure the Mortgage Crisis - LIAR. [03/30/2008] You and your campaign buddy Penny SubPrime Bank Collapse Prizker have had your little fingers full of subprime cash - Obama has taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans: Obama received $266,907 from Lehman, $5395 from GMAC, $150,850 from Credit Suisse First Boston, $11,250 from Countrywide, $9052 from Washington Mutual, $161,850 from Citigroup, $4600 from CBASS, $170,050 from Morgan Stanley, $1150 from Centex, and last but certainly NOT LEAST - Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs. I am sure that cash all came from folks who knew the subprime loan they had was a dream, eh?

[Vote4Prosperity]

Where was Obama? Was this not MLK remembrence of his death and a recollection of what he sttod for? Obama did not appear at the Black Caucus Convention and now now show at the MLK remembrance..Is there something wrong with this picture..Or is Obama just a hypocrit that thinks give a another speech and the idiots will far for it once again!