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Inspiring and Educating Voters
Inspiring and Educating Voters In 2008, a historic number of LA’s residents participated in the presidential election, yet only 15 percent of registered voters turned out at local polls five months...
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Creating Neighborhood Leaders
Creating Neighborhood Leaders SCOPE began 20 years ago by trying things a little differently: rather than offering the community solutions to its problems, we’ve asked community members to speak for...
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Creating a Level Playing Field for the Past 20 Years.
Dodger Stadium, site of SCOPE’s 20th anniversary celebration on March 13, 2014. To purchase tickets, please click here. Creating a Level Playing Field for the Past 20 Years. April 29, 1992. On this...
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L.A.’s New Budget: Who’s in the Driver’s Seat?
Does anyone believe torching a car will actually fix it? The Mayor’s office seems to think so. L.A.’s New Budget: Who’s in the Driver’s Seat? At the beginning of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s first of three...
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California’s Prisons: Are They Fighting Crime, or Causing It?
A rally calling for prison reform held last year. California’s Prisons: Fighting Crime, or Causing It? In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that California’s prisons were so overcrowded that the state...
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An Experiment 20 Years in the Making
Gloria Walton and Anthony Thigpenn An Experiment 20 Years in the Making “When we started AGENDA back in 1993, we characterized it as an experiment. Because we kind of knew where we wanted to go, but...
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What’s Missing From the Mayor’s Agenda?
What’s Missing From the Mayor’s Agenda? On April 10, Mayor Eric Garcetti delivered his first State of the City address at the California Science Center, which focused on defining his “back to basics”...
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Breaking Down Political Jargon
Courtesy Gilda Haas Breaking Down Political Jargon Earlier this month, SCOPE spent a week with students enrolled in Antioch University’s urban sustainability program to explore the history of...
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SCOPE’s Members: The Foundation of Our Change
At SCOPE, a big part of our message is, and has always been, simply this: as residents of South LA, we are the ones who will make the change we seek. And we disseminate that message—throughout our...
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1 in 4 Million: Telling the real story of LA
Once upon a time… We all know what follows this phrase. It’s a jumping off point from which we hear a story. But how do you start off a story that’s complex, with a laundry list of characters and...
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From LA to NY, Broken Windows holds up racially biased policing
Youth Marching in unity Photo by Gonzalo Rios Photography Over the last several months, we have witnessed race return explosively to the forefront of American political discourse. Horrible tragedies in...
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A Vision for Ferguson, Baltimore, L.A. and Everywhere
Los Angeles Youth Marching in unity with Ferguson. Photo by Gonzalo Rios Photography This month, the nation will acknowledge two political milestones. On Aug. 9, we mark the one-year anniversary of the...
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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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SCOPE Members Share share Personal Journeys Toward Political Activism
SCOPE Members Patricia. SCOPE Members Sirenia. What makes someone get involved in their community? To fight that feeling that it doesn’t matter? Not just during election season, but every day, how...
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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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