Dispatches From Across the Southland
Welcoming Mauritanians to Bell
After release from Adelanto Detention Center in Summer 2023, 19 Mauritanian asylum seekers alight at Grace Lutheran Church in Bell. Learn about their journey and CLUE’s efforts to support immigrants like them.26 March 2024
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Boycott Fairmont Miramar, Hotel Maya, and Laguna Cliffs Marriott!
Hotel workers at the Hotel Maya in Long Beach, Laguna Cliffs Marriott in Dana Point, and Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica officially called for a boycott of the three hotels because of management’s use or condoning of violence during the largest hotel strike in at least 50 years. A boycott signifies a call for the public to join the workers’ fight in a new way:Read…
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Young Religious Leaders Fellowship Graduation
YRLF-CLUE Fellows Graduate have become Certified Faith-Rooted Organizers! Our talented fellows have successfully completed an intensive summer program and are now certified to make a difference in faith-rooted organizing. These are what our Young Religious Leaders are saying about spending their summer with CLUE: “I made some many beautiful friends from the other fellows thisRead…
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Tisha b’Av Contemplation and Action
CLUE commemorated Tisha b’Av, uniting interfaith and Jewish faith leaders Unite Here Local 11, and community members. It was a powerful experience because it created a space for us to connect the Jewish community’s mourning over tragedies in their history and the world with the struggle for economic justice for hospitality workers. We mourn for theRead…
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Delegation At The Laguna Cliffs Marriott
On July 25, together with UNITE HERE Local 11 and the workers of Laguna Cliffs Marriott, we are demanding a contract with the FIVE PILLARS – a living wage, pensions, healthcare, fair workloads, and union growth. Despite being owned by the University of California Pension Fund, the workers at the hotel currently do not haveRead…
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LA Welcomes Collective
Los Angeles has seen an influx of asylum seekers from Texas since mid-June, with six busloads arriving. The most recent bus, which arrived on July 13, 2023, brought twenty-six people from Venezuela, Mexico, Honduras, and Peru, with over a third of them being children and teenagers aged 17 and under. These arrivals are part ofRead…
