CLUE South Bay

Starting in 2004, CLUE-LA  expanded its work to include the south bay areas of Los Angeles and Long Beach. A key economic player in Southern California, the trucking industry at the Port pollutes the skies at record levels and has been labeled a “sweatshop on wheels”. Standing with impoverished truck drivers and asthmatic residents, faith leaders have called public officials and private industry to account for such...

Faith for Food Justice

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy (Deuteronomy 24:14) Food, and how it is brought to our tables, is a critical issue of justice in our community.  The bounty of the earth is a gift from God to all people.  Yet food, and the process of its production, has become an industry of exploitation.  People of faith are joining the struggle to ensure that God’s bounty is distribute with fairness and...

Victories

Over the past year, CLUE has contributed to significant victories for tens of the thousands of low-wage workers (60,000 grocery workers, 4000+ security officers, 8000+ janitors, 1000+ hotel workers). CLUE’s contributions have reflected the diverse strategies we have developed under the rubric of faith-rooted organizing in support of worker justice. On Century Boulevard, CLUE’s committee of religious...

Young Leaders Project

The Young Religious Leaders Project at CLUE is a training program for leaders interested in the work of economic justice. The Project works with young adults, from local high schools, colleges, seminaries and rabbinical schools, as well as at large, to train them in the struggle to eradicate poverty in our community. Through concrete organizing projects, direct action, and shared vision...