Black and Latinx Pastors Working Together
The Black/Brown Clergy/Community Coalition (BBCCC), builds a common advocacy agenda for African American and Latinx pastors in Southern California.
BBCCC Goals:
- Ensuring healthcare for all
- Building a larger, fairer economy
- Ending homelessness and pushing for affordable housing
- Defeating laws that over-police low-income people and people of color
- Protecting union rights and the labor movement
- Ending police violence in our communities
- Working for true immigration reform
Check the Sheriff
On July 15th, 2020 a coalition of religious leaders, unions, and community partners representing tens of thousands of Angelenos presented a letter to the LA County Sheriff’s Department to demand the resignation of Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
A Larger, Fairer Economy
This is Holy Work
By Bailey Payne, 2025 Young Religious Leadership Fellow I’m a seminary student in LA in 2025. I feel like a rare breed. As religious affiliation has been on the decline in America, so has seminary enrollment. Coming from the Protestant tradition, my coming-of-age questions have been along the lines of, “How do you lead a22 August 2025
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This is Holy Work
By Bailey Payne, 2025 Young Religious Leadership Fellow I’m a seminary student in LA in 2025. I feel like a rare breed. As religious affiliation has been on the decline in America, so has seminary enrollment. Coming from the Protestant tradition, my coming-of-age questions have been along the lines of, “How do you lead a
Freedom Cruise Wrap and Next Steps
Los Angeles, CA – On Thursday, July 3, community members of all kinds from across Southern California will come together in the epicenter of the region to launch a new solidarity movement to pressure local governments and corporations that are wreaking havoc on families and communities.
DEF Justice – A New Campaign of Economic Resistance
Southern California communities are at a breaking point with families being ripped apart, and threat of irreparable harm from the current administration’s wantonly cruel policies. A new solidarity movement is coalescing to meet the moment and recommit to dignity, equity, and freedom.
New Living Wage on the Horizon for Long Beach
Hope for Pay Equity for Excluded Long Beach Hospitality Workers Long Beach Airport and Convention Center Workers are one step closer to a new living wage ordinance that will help them achieve parity with hospitality workers in Long Beach who won the highest wage in the nation last year with the passing of Measure RW.
Defend the Wage!
By Rev. Gary Williams and Rev. Dr. James Thomas It has been said that poverty is the worst form of violence. If so, withholding a living wage from workers who depend on one makes wealthy business owners complicit. This is precisely what members of the airline and hotel industries are doing by funding a ballot
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