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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 the…
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…
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…
Kent Wong remembers the transformation of the Los Angeles labor movement with the birth of the “Holman Group.”Read More…