Last week, the Legislature passed the 2019-2020 budget, which once approved by the Governor in the coming weeks, will set up the first ever worker transition fund in the state…
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A Roadmap to an Equitable Low Carbon Future: Four Pillars for a Just Transition
Last year, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a groundbreaking report which found that countries must take drastic action within the next twelve years in order to…
Continue ReadingMake Your Voice Heard in the LA County Sustainability Plan on May 11!
The County of Los Angeles has been working on a plan to guide how unincorporated areas and smaller cities in the county should address green space, food access, transportation, biodiversity,…
Continue Reading2018 California Calls Voter Guide
California will be voting on ballot initiatives that impact affordable housing, access to clean water, schools, healthcare, roads, and other public services. We will decide who will represent us at…
Continue ReadingCommunity Investment Principles for South Los Angeles
Prop 70: An Attack on Frontline Communities
As temperatures increase and natural disasters like fires and mudslides occur more and more frequently, low-income communities, communities of color and those who live in pollution burdened areas are hit…
Continue ReadingMarch with SCOPE This May Day 2018
This May 1st, SCOPE members and staff will be marching in solidarity with workers, unions, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, and many others in honor of International Workers Day. SCOPE understands…
Continue ReadingTowards King’s Vision: Jobs and Justice in South LA
Fifty years ago, 1,300 black sanitation workers went on strike in Memphis, Tennessee after Echol Cole and Robert Walker were tragically crushed to death while on the job. Having reached…
Continue ReadingPushing for Equitable Development in South LA
At a community meeting last fall, we asked our members if they feared being pushed out of South Los Angeles. All hands were raised. This spurred a conversation on rising…
Continue ReadingContinuing the Fight for Equitable Investment in South LA
For over a decade, the link between economic and environmental injustice has been a part of the fabric of SCOPE’s work– from the Green Jobs campaign in 2006 to the…
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