(This post originally appeared on August 10, 2008, on the now-defunct LAEastside blog.)
For sure, everyone reading this
blog cares about keeping up with local happenings, not just of cultural or
artistic significance, but also of social and political—of
human-life—consequence, which the commercial media cover so poorly on the
Eastside (a problem exacerbated over the years with the disappearance of
once-competing newspapers and the continual downsizing of the Los Angeles
Times). So even if the Times doesn’t
shed much light on the life and times of the people of Boyle Heights/East LA
(we really are a single entity, you know, despite the city’s borderline at
Indiana), I know many of you have heard about the struggle to save our homes at
Wyvernwood Garden Apartments (most recently, the marching hundreds on two
separate occasions last month) and that you might be hoping to get a little
more background on it all. Here is this
piece, which I hope answers some basic questions about what Wyvernwood and this
fight are all about.
