Dispatches From Across the Southland
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In Solidarity With Hotel and Hospitality Workers
Los Angeles and Santa Monica CLUE leaders continued to take leadership and show solidarity with hotel and hospitality workers in various inspiring ways! By the end of the month, four hotels, the Westin Bonaventure, Millennium Biltmore, Loews Hollywood, and Laguna Cliffs Marriott, had reached a contract agreement with the union. Still, the fight for transformativeRead…
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LA Welcomes Collective: A CLUE Partnership with the Good People of Los Angeles
Let’s begin with an acknowledgement that people who live in safe communities, with some modicum of economic sufficiency, do not choose to leave their homes, social structures, cultures, friends and family, and undertake difficult and possibly dangerous journeys to a new country. Yet war, starvation, violence and natural disasters are driving millions of people around…
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A Prayer for Justice on the Occasion of another Round of Negotiations- Unify Your Voices and Set Your Minds on Justice
Opening Prayer | Unite Here Local 11 and Local Hotel Reps | Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels | Rabbi Emeritus, Beth Shir Shalom, Santa Monica Within the All-Embracing, the All-Encompassing, the Grand Connectedness, the Interbreathing-of-Life, we feel ourselves interwoven into the Endless Possibilities and the enduring strength of the Universe. We know that when we unify ourRead…
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Co-Conspirators for Justice – María Elena Durazo
State Senator María Elena Durazo remembers songs, sit-ins, and so many lessons learned rom Rev. Lawson that helped transform the lives of low-wage workers in Los Angeles.Read More
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Teaching Nonviolence for Justice – Kent Wong
Kent Wong remembers the transformation of the Los Angeles labor movement with the birth of the “Holman Group.”Read More
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Muchos Autobuses, Mucha Necesidad
El LA Welcomes Collective ha dado la bienvenida a 14 autobuses llenos de migrantes enviados desde Texas. Mientras que el gobernador de Texas no proporciona ninguna advertencia o apoyo, el LA Welcomes Collective ofrece compasión, humanidad y una bienvenida amistosa.Read More