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LA Wage Theft Coalition Looks to Past to Continue Fighting for Future or Workers
Worker Assembly held at the UCLA Labor Center. Photo Courtesy of KIWA On August 18th, the Los Angeles Coalition Against Wage Theft held a worker assembly to review the new law they won with coalition...
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Looking Back on our Work in 2015
For SCOPE, 2015 was a year of victories benefiting working families in Los Angeles, including an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour and the passage of wage theft enforcement policies that...
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Prop 47 Savings Undermined by Miscalculations
Caravan of community members traveling from Los Angeles to Sacramento in support of Prop 47. As state budget negotiations approach the June 15 deadline, community groups across California are...
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Volunteer to Door Knock with SCOPE
This year, SCOPE has a goal of contacting more than 50,000 voters–but we can’t achieve this without the help of SCOPE members, community residents, students, and our allies. That is why we are...
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Passage of State Climate Bills, A Win for Equity and Justice
SCOPE organizers & staff from Physicians for Social Responsibility in Sacramento visiting elected officials. In the final hours of the last day of the California legislative session, lawmakers sent...
View ArticleBuilding Community Power in South L.A. One Block at a Time
SCOPE partner, the Center for Community Change profiles our neighbor-to-neighbor civic engagement model for building community power. What inspires SCOPE member Shay Salter and President & SCOPE...
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Youth Voter Engagement in South Los Angeles
Youth Voter Engagement in South Los Angeles SCOPE volunteers checking in with organizers before going out to door knock. At SCOPE, our members’ experiences attest to the power of a peer-to-peer civic...
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A Grassroots Lead Vision for Equitable Climate Investments in South Los Angeles
In September 2016, SCOPE celebrated the passage of three key climate policy wins that extended California’s climate change goals, increased transparency at the agency overseeing air quality, and...
View ArticleBetween the 110 and the 405: Environmental Injustice in South Los Angeles
When Olivia Barbour steps out of her home in South Los Angeles, she inhales a flurry of fumes from the heavy trucks passing along Imperial Highway on their daily routes, commuter traffic off the I-110...
View Article#Juneteenth 2020
June 19th 2020 marked 155 years since enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas were informed of their freedom—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. “Juneteenth” is a day for...
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