Although Mayor Villaraigosa did rescind the eviction of community organization SCOPE yesterday, this morning The Daily News reports that Councilman Parks will push on and ask the City Council to cancel SCOPE's lease. The L.A. Times has also gotten wind of the story. The most thorough coverage, however, can be found on the blogosphere.

Why does Councilman Parks want to evict one of his district's most effective community organizations?

Two Saturdays ago, I crowded into the Convention Center with six thousand other people. We were hooked up through a satellite connection to concurrent gatherings in Chicago and Birmingham which together brought a total of 15,000 people. With huge screens set up throughout the hall showing the people present at the other cities, it really did feel like we were there with 15,000 people. Hundreds and hundreds of tables were set up. Each table had a laptop computer so that we could share our input with other tables and with people in Chicago and Birmingham.

The 10 largest foundations in California—known as the Big Ten—have put an important proposal on the table. They plan to build the capacity of minority-led, grassroots nonprofits, and build a pipeline of diverse nonprofit leadership in California. This is important. It could mean millions of new dollars and a chance to build strong community leadership in communities that desperately need both.

I love Liberty Hill because it’s all about people standing up, taking on challenges that others can’t or won’t take on.

That’s what I think we’re doing with this blog.

For years I’ve been frustrated with how many of L.A.’s great heroes go unheralded, how much gutsy work is being done all over L.A. and nobody hears about it. So we’re taking matters into our own hands.

We’re going to start to report out on what we’re doing. And what other people are doing. What we like. And what we don’t like.

Here’s what we hear when we put our ears to the ground.

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