Labor Community Strategy Center
Labor Community Strategy Center
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About this organization
Mission
The Labor/Community Strategy Center is a multi-racial social justice organizing addressing the totality of urban life. Our work spans sustainable communities, urban transportation, climate change, criminal justice, environmental justice and youth leadership and organizing development, focused on low-income working class communities of color. We see ourselves as a national organization with a strong regional base in LA County.
About
THE STRATEGY CENTER CURRENTLY HAS THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM PROJECTS:1. VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES RADIO ? FEATURING FRONTLINE MOVEMENT ORGANIZERS, AUTHORS, ACTIVISTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD. BROADCAST LIVE ON MONDAYS AT 4PM (PST) ON PACIFICA RADIO KPFK 90.7 FM, ONLINE AT WWW.KPFK.ORG (STREAMING LIVE), AND TO ARCHIVES AT THE ABOVE LINK. 2. BUS RIDERS UNION (BRU) - FEATURES CREATIVE TACTICS, FROM A GROUNDBREAKING CIVIL RIGHTS CONSENT DECREE TO DIRECT ACTION AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, DRIVE A MULTIRACIAL DYNAMO OF 200 ACTIVE MEMBERS, 3,000 DUES-PAYING MEMBERS, AND 50,000 SUPPORTERS ON THE BUS. THE BRU HAS LITERALLY SAVED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN LOS ANGELES AND BECOME THE LARGEST MULTIRACIAL, MASS TRANSPORTATION GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATION IN THE U.S.3. TRANSIT RIDERS FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION (TRPT) - THE STRATEGY CENTER IS INITIATING A NEW NATIONAL CAMPAIGN, TRPT ,THAT WILL BE FOCUSING ON MOBILIZING LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES AND THE MOST TRANSIT DEPENDENT TO IMPACT THE FORTHCOMING FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION BILL, T4, WHERE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE AT STAKE AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES MUST BE SEIZED.4. CLEAN AIR CLEAN LUNGS CLEAN BUSES / PUBLIC HEALTH AND GLOBAL WARMING CAMPAIGN - WE ARE LEADING A GROWING COALITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH GROUPS AND DIRECTLY IMPACTED LOW-INCOME COMMUNITY RESIDENTS AND BUS RIDERS IN AN INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO GO FAR BEYOND KYOTO IN THE WORLD'S CAR CAPITAL. WE ARE SHOOTING TO CUT L.A.'S 7 MILLION AUTOS IN HALF AND REDUCE L.A.'S GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY 50% OVER THE NEXT DECADE.5. COMMUNITY RIGHTS CAMPAIGN - WE ARE CONFRONTING AN EPIDEMIC OF CRIMINALIZING LOW-INCOME YOUTH, ESPECIALLY BLACK AND LATINO YOUTH, IN THE URBAN CORE COMMUNITIES WHERE WE ORGANIZE. INSTEAD OF TEACHING PRE-MED AND PRE-LAW, SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME PRE-PRISONS WHERE HUGE NUMBERS OF STUDENTS ARE WAREHOUSED, "ENROLLED AND "DATA-BASED" INTO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM FROM EARLY ON. WE HAVE OPPOSED EXPANDED FUNDING FOR POLICE THROUGH THE 1,000 MORE BUSES, 1,000 LESS POLICE CAMPAIGN, AND ARE WORKING IN FIVE LA HIGH SCHOOLS.6. NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR STRATEGIC ORGANIZING - ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN "GRADUATE SCHOOLS" IN MOVEMENT BUILDING IN THE U.S. MORE THAN 80 ORGANIZERS HAVE GRADUATED SINCE 1991, COMPLETING 6-12 MONTHS OF RIGOROUS 60-HOUR WEEKS IN THE CLASSROOM AND ORGANIZING ON THE BUSES. THEY NOW COMPRISE A NATIONAL NETWORK OF "LONG DISTANCE RUNNERS" WHO WILL COMMIT YEARS AND HOPEFULLY A LIFETIME TO HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL AND EFFECTIVE ORGANIZING WORK, WITH THE STRATEGY CENTER AND MANY OTHER GROUPS.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing outlines the non-profit's goal as “The strategy center is a think tank/act tank for regional, national and international movement building, founded in 1989 and based in the 10 million-person world city of los angeles. our campaigns, projects, and publications are rooted in working class communities of color, and address the totality of urban life with a particular focus on civil rights, environmental justice, public health, global warming, and the criminal legal system. we build consciousness, leadership, and organization among those who face discrimination and people of color, women, immigrants, workers, lgbt people, youth, all of whom comprise our membership. linking mass struggles to the need for structural change, we develop campaigns and demands that help build a revitalized social justice movement.”.
When explaining its purpose, the activities were outlined as: “Education of the low-income community around their special economic needs and education on urban environmental problems as they impact on low-income communities.”.
- As per legal reporting requirements, the state of operation for the non-profit is CA.
- The non-profit's address for 2020 is listed as 1506 CRENSHAW BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA, 90019 in the filing.
- As per the non-profit's form, they have 5 employees as of 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $456,961.
- The organization has 2 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1988.
- The organization pays $523,286 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $93,225 in fundraising expenses.