The Labor/Community Strategy Center is a multiracial, intergenerational "think-tank/act-tank," based in Los Angeles County working to impact local, national and international public policy and grassroots organizations and movements from a regional base of 10 million people.
For 25 years the Center has built successful campaigns and developed publications and popular education workshops on environmental justice, civil rights, public health, mass transit, workers and immigrants' rights, climate change and the growing criminalization of communities of color. The broader context of all of our campaigns is to expand the social welfare state and environmental justice rights and protections for our communities and stop the expansion of the police and prison state becoming more palpable each day. Our transformative organizing model addresses the totality of urban life. We’ve developed Fight for the Soul of the Cities as frame and program to take on the polluting, policing and privatizing corporate agenda in Los Angeles.
The Center is known for building "big picture campaigns" rooted in counter-hegemonic demand development—bringing the most radical and structural demands on the system, engaging in long-term campaigns, and "fighting to win." The Center's victories include:
The Labor/Community Strategy Center is a multiracial, intergenerational "think-tank/act-tank," based in Los Angeles County working to impact local, national and international public policy and grassroots organizations and movements from a regional base of 10 million people.
For 25 years the Center has built successful campaigns and developed publications and popular education workshops on environmental justice, civil rights, public health, mass transit, workers and immigrants' rights, climate change and the growing criminalization of communities of color. The broader context of all of our campaigns is to expand the social welfare state and environmental justice rights and protections for our communities and stop the expansion of the police and prison state becoming more palpable each day. Our transformative organizing model addresses the totality of urban life. We’ve developed Fight for the Soul of the Cities as frame and program to take on…