COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Community Coalition outreaches and recruits residents to identify solutions to their most pressing problems and to wage issue campaigns to transform their community. South Los Angeles residents meet to understand issues, analyze who has power, develop plans to mobilize other community members, and strategize ways to bring about change. Member leaders use a variety of tactics to exercise their power, including but not limited to: delegation visits, house meetings, protests, pickets, media, town hall meetings, social media, and other actions.
Community Coalition members are currently engaged in campaigns to address housing affordability and security, poverty, educational inequity, public safety, food apartheid, access to green space, land use and the social safety net.
The People’s Assembly
Community Coalition gathers residents for the monthly People’s Assembly to get informed around key campaigns, learn from each other about issues impacting them, to then develop community driven solutions. For example, during the assemblies Black and Brown South LA residents learn about the Housing and Houselessness crisis through political education on the history, current conditions, and opportunities for collective action. The assemblies ultimately serve as space to build Black and Brown solidarity by building community with each other.