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…
Continue ReadingSouth 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 increases. With our community…
Continue ReadingGiving Community Resilience Real-Life Meaning in South LA
What do you think of when you hear the word resiliency? I think of a rubber band being twisted and stretched in all directions. The resilient ones stay in tact,…
Continue ReadingCommunity 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, blight,…
Continue ReadingRealizing 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,…
Continue ReadingCA 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…
Continue Reading Three Questions About Poverty the Republican Presidential Candidates Should Answer
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…
Continue ReadingSouth L.A. has its sights set on the Air Resources Board
As the legislature session wound down last week, finalizing which bills would pass this year, we saw that California is at a pivotal moment. Our state legislators are forging a…
Continue ReadingLA Wage Theft Coalition Looks to Past to Continue Fighting for Future or Workers
On August 18th, the Los Angeles Coalition Against Wage Theft held a worker assembly to review the new law they won with coalition members and to plan for next steps.…
Continue ReadingTen Years After Katrina, Low-Income Communities Are Still Vulnerable to Disaster: Here's Why
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…
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