Dispatches From Across the Southland
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CLUE and LA Welcomes Collective: Another Challenge for 2024
Collect gently used car seats, boosters, and strollers. Or give new, unopened bottles and baby formula for immigrant families bused from Texas.Read More
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Join us 1/19/24 for the 2024 King Chavez Brunch
Join Pastor Cue Jn’Marie and Rev. Walter Contreras, CA Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, and Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia for a Latino Soul Food Brunch at the 4th Annual King Chavez Celebration. This event, co-sponsored by CLUE, SCLC-LA, and Blue Avenue LLC, will facilitate a space for our Black and Brown clergy and community membersRead…
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As Advent begins, opportunities to accompany workers as they wait for justice.
Dear Friends, We’re now in the liturgical season of Advent: waiting for Christmas and the birth of Jesus. But it is more than about counting down the days between now and December 25th: at its foundation, Advent asks us to “recalibrate our hearts and minds for the justice work we are called to do,” asRead…
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Spiritual Wellspring gathering offers sustenance in trying times.
On November 20, 2023, we gathered to partake from a rich spiritual wellspring in this demanding season. CLUE members near and far heard from Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Jewish faith leaders about the teachings and practices that sustain them in these trying time. Thank you to our guest speakers: Rev. Jennifer Gutierrez, CLUE’s Executed directorRead…
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Santa Monica Truth Commission – “Let us listen with a spirit of reconciliation…that we would be moved to work for justice.”
On Thursday, November 16, 2023 faith leaders, community members, and workers packed in to the basement of St. Augustine-By-The-Sea to listen deeply to stories of violence, exploitation, and retaliation at Santa Monica hotels. To bear witness to the impact of actions by hotel employers. And to commit anew to their righteous fight forRead…