In Case You Missed It: More Than 200 Community Members, Grassroots and Labor Organizations Rallied to Reach the New Majority Voters
On Saturday, September 21st, more than 200 community members, movement organizations, labor, and elected officials joined the rally which is part of the largest field campaign in the state aiming to reach “new majority voters”—low-income families, parents, young people, Black, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, immigrants, refugees, communities of faith, and people who were formerly incarcerated.
We came together as a broad movement of labor, community and grassroots organizations committed to mobilizing Angelenos to vote for real solutions to housing and safety on November 5. This kickoff launched our countywide “Get Out The Vote” program. Volunteers engaged voters to build support for Measure A and Prop 5 to fully fund affordable housing and homeless services–AND to defeat Prop 36 which will take us back to criminalization and over incarceration. By working together to educate and mobilize our friends, families, neighbors to vote, we can ensure that communities have the resources, programs and services necessary to keep our neighbors housed and safe.
Supervisor Mitchell Talks About the Importance of Measure A.
LA County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell (2nd District), Yvonne Wheeler, President of the LA County Federation of Labor, Kyle Patterson, Special Representative, Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, Alberto Retana, President & CEO, Community Coalition addressed more than 200 volunteers, community members, and advocates to elevate the importance of Measure A. As part of the field campaign, Los Angeles-based organizations, labor leaders, and community members canvassed door-to-door and phone banked in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, and Korean.