Labor Community Strategy Center Civil Rights and Climate Justice Campaign Dear Friends, We are asking you to endorse the Labor Community Strategy Center’s Civil Rights/Climate Justice Campaign–No [...]

February 21, 2017 Ms. Yvette Rivera Associate Director U.S. Department of Transportation Departmental Office of Civil Rights   Ryan N. Fitzpatrick, Esq. Lead Civil Rights Analyst [...]

        December 1, 2016 Mr. Philip A. Washington Chief Executive Officer Los Angeles MT A One Gateway Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90012 Mr. Jim McDonnell Sheriff Sheriffs [...]

April 17, 2016 Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Office of the Board 333 S. Beaudry Avenue, 24th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 Dear Board Members of the Los Angeles Unified [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  April 13, 2016 Contact: Eric Mann, ericmann@mindspring.com, (213) 387.2800 Nancy Treviño, nancy@dignityinschools.org, (786) 201-8958 Manuel [...]

The just concluded Paris Climate Conference — the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — was a critical juncture in human and planetary history. Could the [...]

We’ve gotten a taste of what police militarization looks like—in cases like the events following police killings of black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore. Barbara Lott-Holland, associate [...]

About 50 students and activists disrupted the LA Unified school board meeting on July 30 in a protest over the district police force’s having dozens of M-16 rifles from the federal government’s [...]

It was a beautiful, sunny LA day. A great day for a rally as Strategy Center members joined with over 50 organizations and over 2,000 people as they took over the streets to honor and support [...]

Grassroots Global Justice and the World March of Women March 8th International Working Women’s Day Action Meet at City Hall 11:30 A.M. 200 N Spring Street “Women Leaders and Women’s [...]

  Dear Mayor Garcetti: We are writing to request a meeting with you to discuss our proposal below to dedicate the March 29 Public Hearing to discuss our comprehensive proposal for the best [...]

Source: “Black, Brown, and Over-Policed in L.A. Schools” www.CommunityRightsCampaign.org       LAUSD Schools with the Highest Rates of Ticketing in 2012-2013 Arresting [...]

On November 7, 2013, Fight for the Soul of the Cities hosted an online presentation of Community Rights Campaign Organizers discussing their new report: “Black, Brown, and [...]

Join us on Thursday, November 7th at 5pm PST for a live, online discussion about “Black, Brown, and Over-Policed in L.A. Schools.”  CLICK PLAY TO WATCH THE LIVE BROADCAST: Community [...]

Whether it was First Nations people on reservations or poor white folks in Appalachia the entire country is abuzz with resistance and it’s beautiful.  By Ron Collins, Fight for the Soul of the [...]

Join the Labor/Community Strategy Center and the Fight for the Soul of the Cities in taking to the streets of South Los Angeles. We are demanding that President Obama and Attorney General Holder, [...]