As COVID-19 rates continue to rise in our county, SCOPE is dedicated to finding safe, alternative ways to help the South LA community. Since the onset of the pandemic, it has been confirmed that the elderly are at a higher risk of infection—meaning, simple everyday errands have become a threat to those with pre-existing conditions…
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#Juneteenth 2020
June 19th 2020 marked 155 years since enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas were informed of their freedom—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. “Juneteenth” is a day for reflection, education, and celebration. A reminder of where we’ve come from and how far we still have to go. And a testament to the…
Continue ReadingStanding with the Movement for Black Lives
We hope you and your loved ones are safe and caring for one another during this time that weighs heavy with injustice. Against the backdrop of a global pandemic that is disproportionately impacting Black people and people of color, the horrific killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery (among so many others) fully…
Continue ReadingFighting for Climate Justice: Updates from City Hall and the Capitol
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 geared towards supporting workers in high carbon industries transition to a green economy. We’re excited to see that the legislature’s budget aims to increase access…
Continue ReadingA 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 avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Specifically, we must transition to a low carbon economy and we must do this faster than we previously…
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 and supports the intersectional relationships we all share in our fight for social, economic, gender, racial justice with workers from all professions. In the short…
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 a breaking point, the sanitation workers went on strike to demand a safe work environment, decent wages, better benefits, the right to form a union,…
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 rents and growing homelessness in South LA as well as the new sports stadium in Inglewood, the Metro Los Angeles Crenshaw line, and the expansion…
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 development of accessible pre-apprenticeship programs at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2011 to our current work on climate justice and transitioning…
Continue ReadingBetween the 110 and the 405: Environmental Injustice in South Los Angeles
When Olivia Barbour steps out of her home in South Los Angeles, she inhales a flurry of fumes from the heavy trucks passing along Imperial Highway on their daily routes, commuter traffic off the I-110 and I-105, and low flying airplanes on their way to LAX. She knows the air quality in her neighborhood isn’t…
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