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| Vacation in LA - Take the Gang Tour!; Show your kids poverty and crime | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 4 2009, 05:57 PM (70 Views) | |
| kenny | Dec 4 2009, 05:57 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The Whole Story SNIP A group of civic activists, united by faith and a belief that the poor economy in the interior of Los Angeles is a social injustice, is preparing to offer bus tours of some of the grittiest pockets of the city, including decayed public housing, sites of deadly shootouts and streets ravaged by racial unrest. After a VIP preview last weekend, L.A. Gang Tours expects to open to the public in January, giving tourists a look at the cradle of the nation's gang culture -- the birthplace of many of the city's gangs, including Crips and Bloods, Florencia 13 and 18th Street. "This is ground zero for a lot of the bad in this city. It could be ground zero for a lot of the good too," said Alfred Lomas, a former Florencia member who has become a leading gang intervention worker in South Los Angeles and is spearheading the tours. "This is true community empowerment." The nonprofit group plans to offer two-hour tours at an initial cost of $65 per adult, with profits funneled back into the community through jobs, "franchised" tours in new areas and micro-loans to inner-city entrepreneurs. Early routes will focus largely on South L.A., with forays through Watts and Florence-Firestone. The concept appears to have no equal in L.A. -- for good reason, some might argue. It seems to echo, more than anything, the "slum tours" of such sites as India's Dharavi slum and Rio de Janeiro's favelas. Those operations have been lauded as innovative economic tools and mechanisms for humanizing poverty -- and also attacked as exploitative and voyeuristic. |
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| kenny | Dec 4 2009, 06:04 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I want to go on this tour. I think it will not last long. |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 4 2009, 06:13 PM Post #3 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Be sure to wear kevlar. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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