Over the last week, faith leaders and community members have met at Fairview Community Church in Costa Mesa, St. John’s Episcopal Church in San Bernardino, and the Los Angeles Episcopal Diocese to articulate the grave threats to immigrants and our communities in the face of the incoming Administration.
Liza M. knew what it meant for her and her family when the Taliban captured the country as the American and Allied troops hastily retreated in August 2021. Liza’s mother raised her and her five siblings alone after the Taliban killed her father in 2000. During the years of western presence, her mother emphasized the importance of education for her daughters, as well as her sons. Liza and one sister became doctors; another sister became a lawyer, one brother became an engineer and the 2 youngest were still in college when they had to flee. She had a bright future in Afghanistan until 2021.
The first day that the immigrants rights coalition turned out to resist the incoming administration, CLUE members showed up in force, amplifying the call for Sanctuary for more than a million undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Join us Sun, Nov 10 at 4:30 PM to break bread, grieve, share, mourn, and find a way way forward in the wake of the election.
by Liz Bar-El, CLUE Communications Liaison This story continues our series highlighting CLUE’s work to build a network of faith partners to arrange and offer shelter to migrants arriving to the LA region, including those who are walk-in clients of our LA Welcomes Collective partner organizations and those sponsored by CLUE for release from inhumane
For asylum seekers arriving in Los Angeles, it is a daunting challenge to find a safe and affordable place to live. In order to avoid the very real possibility of new arrivals finding themselves sleeping on the streets, CLUE coordinates a network of faith-based partners (CLUE Welcome Network) willing to welcome and provide temporary shelter
We mourn the plight of tourism workers and call on the LA City Council to to pass the Tourism Workers Rising Living Wage Ordinance!
On the saddest day of the Jewish calendar, people of all faiths will join together for sacred rituals of mourning and action in solidarity to pass the Tourism Workers Living Wage Ordinance!
UPDATE: PROGRESS TOWARD WELCOMING AN AFGHAN REFUGEE FAMILY We are excited to share an update from the volunteer team that has applied to the State Department’s Welcome Corps (WC) program to reunite the Mosawis, an Afghan family that CLUE has been assisting in our migrant outreach mission. CLUE learned of this family when the father
On Tuesday, February 27th, Santa Monica CLUE members and workers joined together to present a letter from more than 500 CLUE members and faith leaders to the City Council demanding accountability and an investigation into retaliation and unfair labor practices at the Viceroy and Le Méridien Delfina hotels. Before submitting the letter to the Council,
Sayed Mosawi and his 18-year-old son, Salar, could finally breathe a sigh of relief, when they were reunited at the home of their host, Episcopal church member and CLUE Justice activist Conrad Nordquist.