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Dispatches From Across the Southland

January 2024 – Sacred Solidarity Scoreboard in the Hospitality Workers Campaign

CLUE celebrated the holidays on the strike lines with hospitality workers continuing to struggle for justice. And we’re thrilled to share their victories with you! Here’s a recap of December and January news to date.Read More…

JANUARY 2024 NEWSLETTER

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come. – Greta Thunburg January 2024 Welcome to a new year of envisioning, planning, and working for justice! I hope you are excited about acting to build a more sacred and justRead…

Celebrate 2023 and look forward to the new year with CLUE

JOIN US FOR A ZOOM GATHERING Monday, January 29, 2024, 7PM to 8PM You are cordially invited to join faith leaders and community members for a time of reflection, visioning, and inspiration for the new year.Read More…

CLUE and LA Welcomes Collective: Another Challenge for 2024

Collect gently used car seats, boosters, and strollers. Or give new, unopened bottles and baby formula for immigrant families bused from Texas.Read More…

Join us 1/19/24 for the 2024 King Chavez Brunch

Join Pastor Cue Jn’Marie and Rev. Walter Contreras, CA Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, and Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia for a Latino Soul Food Brunch at the 4th Annual King Chavez Celebration. This event, co-sponsored by CLUE, SCLC-LA, and Blue Avenue LLC, will facilitate a space for our Black and Brown clergy and community membersRead…

As Advent begins, opportunities to accompany workers as they wait for justice.

Dear Friends,      We’re now in the liturgical season of Advent: waiting for Christmas and the birth of Jesus.  But it is more than about counting down the days between now and December 25th: at its foundation, Advent asks us to “recalibrate our hearts and minds for the justice work we are called to do,” asRead…

Spiritual Wellspring gathering offers sustenance in trying times.

On November 20, 2023, we gathered to partake from a rich spiritual wellspring in this demanding season.  CLUE members near and far heard from Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Jewish faith leaders about the teachings and practices that sustain them in these trying time. Thank you to our guest speakers: Rev. Jennifer Gutierrez, CLUE’s Executed directorRead…

Santa Monica Truth Commission – “Let us listen with a spirit of reconciliation…that we would be moved to work for justice.”

     On Thursday, November 16, 2023 faith leaders, community members, and workers packed in to the basement of St. Augustine-By-The-Sea to listen deeply to stories of violence, exploitation, and retaliation at Santa Monica hotels. To bear witness to the impact of actions by hotel employers. And to commit anew to their righteous fight forRead…

In Solidarity With Hotel and Hospitality Workers

Los Angeles and Santa Monica CLUE leaders continued to take leadership and show solidarity with hotel and hospitality workers in various inspiring ways! By the end of the month, four hotels, the Westin Bonaventure, Millennium Biltmore, Loews Hollywood, and Laguna Cliffs Marriott, had reached a contract agreement with the union. Still, the fight for transformativeRead…