Coliseum - The LA Flood Project (sitios de interés)
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Stage 1
The Coliseum is not full, but for today this is the Super Bowl, or at least the Rose Bowl, as these two long time rivals gather for the first ever East LA Classic to be held in this stadium. Named for two very different kinds of Presidents, stand-and-deliver Garfield and current all-time leader Roosevelt meet for bragging rights for the year. Though the field is now a swamp and the rain obscures all visibility, the players duke it out, old-school style before a crowd huddling in ponchos and under tarps, mothers and fathers, tios and tias, who remember when they were students watching this same game. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, in memory of Los Angeles, they remember. No one is going home early.
Stage 2
The first to take it over was a group of families from Leimert Park, lead by the neighborhoods coalition. With bullhorns and rafts and blankets, they arrived and took quick control of the area. A clearinghouse was set up, goods and services being pulled and redistributed through a network. When the 118th street gang arrived, a group of men from the Nation of Islam quickly approached them and convinced them to work with the community.
Stage 3
The call it Astrodome West, but it is uncovered and rather than servicing hundreds of thousands, it is opening itself up to millions, and what’s more, it is not a government rescue operation. It is not some FEMA fiasco, but a space fully claimed by the people. Inside, it is the global village with a robust micro-economy. Ethnic divisions still exist but more in the division of labor. Armenians run the imports. Mexican Americans the distribution networks. Koreans run the service shuttles. African Americans run the books and maintain the house, the Coliseum itself. Some Caucasian refugees from USC maintain the facilities. They call it the Arc of the Coliseum.
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The Coliseum is not full, but for today this is the Super Bowl, or at least the Rose Bowl, as these two long time rivals gather for the first ever East LA Classic to be held in this stadium. Named for two very different kinds of Presidents, stand-and-deliver Garfield and current all-time leader Roosevelt meet for bragging rights for the year. Though the field is now a swamp and the rain obscures all visibility, the players duke it out, old-school style before a crowd huddling in ponchos and under tarps, mothers and fathers, tios and tias, who remember when they were students watching this same game. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, in memory of Los Angeles, they remember. No one is going home early.
Stage 2
The first to take it over was a group of families from Leimert Park, lead by the neighborhoods coalition. With bullhorns and rafts and blankets, they arrived and took quick control of the area. A clearinghouse was set up, goods and services being pulled and redistributed through a network. When the 118th street gang arrived, a group of men from the Nation of Islam quickly approached them and convinced them to work with the community.
Stage 3
The call it Astrodome West, but it is uncovered and rather than servicing hundreds of thousands, it is opening itself up to millions, and what’s more, it is not a government rescue operation. It is not some FEMA fiasco, but a space fully claimed by the people. Inside, it is the global village with a robust micro-economy. Ethnic divisions still exist but more in the division of labor. Armenians run the imports. Mexican Americans the distribution networks. Koreans run the service shuttles. African Americans run the books and maintain the house, the Coliseum itself. Some Caucasian refugees from USC maintain the facilities. They call it the Arc of the Coliseum.
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