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…
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Standing 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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Continue ReadingPutting Community Voices Front & Center in California Climate Programs
This summer, our nation felt the pain of climate change more than it ever has before. From the terrifying stories of families torn apart by fatal flooding in Texas to…
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