LA Dodgers built Stadium on displaced Mexican communities—Today, their owner funds ICE
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Chavez Ravine
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The article directly references the displacement of Mexican communities for Dodger Stadium - Chavez Ravine was the specific neighborhood destroyed, with families forcibly evicted in the 1950s in one of LA's most controversial urban renewal projects
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Battle of Chavez Ravine
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Documents the specific resistance and forced evictions of Mexican-American families from their homes, including the famous 1959 eviction of the Arechiga family that was broadcast on live television
LA Dodgers built Stadium on displaced Mexican communities—Today, their owner funds ICE
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