SCOPE is fighting to create green jobs in South Los Angeles. Through their LA Apollo City Retrofit Program, they are working hard to provide construction, operations, maintenance, and manufacturing jobs for the residents of South Los Angeles and other Los Angeles inner-city communities.
For SCOPE, the access to green jobs serves multiple purposes. Not only will [...]
In Los Angeles, California labor and community organizations have long-recognized the need for a joint campaign training program — a program that would include both in-class and field training components.
That’s exactly what took place the weekend of April 5-6, 2008, when over 25 community and labor activists, including PBN reps, gained the skills [...]
On March 25th, members of the Pushback Network (Sondra, Carl, Henry, and Micaela, all from New York; Scott from Alabama, Rodney, and myself) presented at a NYRAG Members Briefing sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Ford Foundation, New York Foundation, North Star Fund, and Open Society Institute.
Our presentation was called, Capturing [...]
“To me, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop signifies the rising challenge that communities of color and progressive communities are posing, in that we are a majority in California and we need to recognize the power that we have and recognize that this power will only continue to grow.”– Emily Lee, Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco, CA
Over [...]
