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Why LA is the Country’s Fulcrum for Change
8th District Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson, from left, 10th District Councilman Herb J. Wesson, Jr., Former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, SCOPE President & CEO Gloria Walton, Congress Woman...
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A Vision for Ferguson, Baltimore, L.A. and Everywhere
Los Angeles Youth Marching in unity with Ferguson. Photo by Gonzalo Rios Photography This month, the nation will acknowledge two political milestones. On Aug. 9, we mark the one-year anniversary of the...
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SCOPE member featured on Univision
Claudia Botero of Univision profiles Maria. Watch the video here! When Maria immigrated to the US from Honduras in 1979, she knew life here wouldn’t be easy. Maria has lived in South LA for 36 years...
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Ten Years After Katrina, Low-Income Communities Are Still Vulnerable to...
Hurricane Katrina survivors wade through water on the street on Aug. 31, 2005, two days after the storm made land fall. Photo Credit: News Muse, flickr It’s been 10 years since my mother lost the only...
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LA Wage Theft Coalition Looks to Past to Continue Fighting for Future or Workers
Worker Assembly held at the UCLA Labor Center. Photo Courtesy of KIWA On August 18th, the Los Angeles Coalition Against Wage Theft held a worker assembly to review the new law they won with coalition...
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South L.A. has its sights set on the Air Resources Board
Members of the LA Equity Alliance at a speakers training held on July 23, 2015. As the legislature session wound down last week, finalizing which bills would pass this year, we saw that California is...
View ArticleCA Legislative Session Closes With Wins & Loses
California’s legislative session came to a close on September 11th and with it, news and updates on various bills that will have impacts on our work to ensure that communities like South Los Angeles...
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Three Questions About Poverty the Republican Presidential Candidates Should...
The Center for Community Change asked me, along with long time SCOPE member and grassroots leader, Pat Jones, what we would like to see the Republican candidates debate. This piece continues a campaign...
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Realizing the Promise of Solar for South Los Angeles
I recently wrote a piece for Capital and Main about how the Department of Water and Power’s residential rooftop solar initiative has left South L.A., along with Wilmington, Boyle Heights, Pacoima and...
View ArticleCommunity Meeting with Marqueece Harris-Dawson
8th District Council Member Marqueece Harris-Dawson visited the SCOPE offices to meet with community members and share his plans for the neighborhood. Residents touched on issues of empty lots,...
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Giving Community Resilience Real-Life Meaning in South LA
SCOPE members, Maria Dubon and Landry Thomas review what kind of environmentally friendly improvements can be made at a South LA Church. What do you think of when you hear the word resiliency? I think...
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South LA LADWP Rate Increase Townhall
On Tuesday November 3rd, SCOPE and the RePower LA Coalition hosted an important and much-needed conversation with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) on their proposed rate...
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Looking Back on our Work in 2015
For SCOPE, 2015 was a year of victories benefiting working families in Los Angeles, including an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour and the passage of wage theft enforcement policies that...
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Our Take: We need a spending plan that reflects the values of voters
Our Take: We need a spending plan that reflects the values of voters SCOPE Organizer, Tracy Beltran, speaking at a CA State Budget press conference in Downtown Los Angeles in response to the Governors...
View ArticleGloria Walton on the Tavis Smiley Show
Our CEO & President, Gloria Walton, was recently featured on the Tavis Smiley Show. Gloria shares her personal experiences growing up in the South, what inspired her to strive for a college...
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Support SCOPE on Amazon Smile
Amazon Smile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization, at no cost to you. When you shop through smile.amazon.com, Amazon will donate .5% from your...
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SCOPE Member Taqwa Bowie Giving Public Comment at BSCC Meeting on Prop 47...
One year after the passage of Proposition 47, communities across the state are beginning to see the positive impact the new law will have on thousands of families. In changing certain low-level...
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POWER UP: Path Ways to Careers in the Green Industry
For more than 23 years, SCOPE has worked with strategic partners to create the kind of jobs our communities need—jobs that pay a living wage, offer an opportunity to build towards a career, and uplift...
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Prop 47 Savings Undermined by Miscalculations
Caravan of community members traveling from Los Angeles to Sacramento in support of Prop 47. As state budget negotiations approach the June 15 deadline, community groups across California are...
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Volunteer to Door Knock with SCOPE
This year, SCOPE has a goal of contacting more than 50,000 voters–but we can’t achieve this without the help of SCOPE members, community residents, students, and our allies. That is why we are...
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