South Coast Air Quality Management District AB 617 Community Steering Committee Meeting
2021-03-11 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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South Coast AQMD will host a virtual meeting for the formation of the South Los Angeles Community Steering Committee (CSC).
Thursday, March 11, 2021
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Zoom Link: https://scaqmd.zoom.us/j/95558564942
Zoom Webinar ID: 955 5856 4942
Teleconference Dial In: +1 669 900 6833
Spanish Meeting ID: 932 0955 9643
English Meeting ID: 955 5856 4942

Community members interested in joining the Community Steering Committee should complete an
AB 617 CSC Interest Form.
Please submit your completed form to: AB617@aqmd.gov by March 26, 2021.
The virtual meeting will be open to the public and there will be an opportunity for public comment. Questions and public comments should be sent to AB617comments@aqmd.gov
Spanish interpretation will be available.
(Additional language accommodations can be made with at least 7-day advanced notice)
For more information, please visit our website at www.aqmd.gov/AB617
Documents to be electronically distributed at this meeting/event will be made available upon request in appropriate alternative formats to assist persons with a disability. Disability-related accommodations will also be made available to allow participation in the meeting/event. Any accommodations must be requested as soon as practicable. Requests will be accommodated unless providing the accommodation would result in a fundamental alteration or undue burden to the organization. Please telephone the Public Advisor (909) 396-2432 from 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
South Coast AQMD is the air pollution control agency for major portions of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties including the Coachella Valley.

Reimagining LA: What's Next?
2021-03-17 18:00 - 19:00
Join the Empowerment Congress and Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas for a discussion regarding new investments to address and prevent homelessness and re-envision public safety across the 10th Council District and the City of Los Angeles.
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LAHSA State of Homelessness Town Hall
2021-03-18 18:00 - 19:00
Join the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) for a town hall on their system’s efforts to end homelessness. During the event, they w ill provide an update on our COVID-19 response, the rehousing system, and host a Q&A discussion about their system’s 2020 performance and our goals for 2021.
LAHSA is a joint powers authority of the city and county of Los Angeles, created in 1993 to address homelessness in Los Angeles County. LAHSA is the lead agency in the HUD-funded Los Angeles Continuum of Care, and coordinates and manages over $800 million annually in federal, state, county, and city funds for programs providing shelter, housing, and services to people experiencing homelessness.
Register for the town hall.
Submit questions for the town hall.

Leimert Park COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Site
2021-06-26 09:00 - 14:00 | Leimert Park Plaza, 4395 Leimert Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90008, United States
Do you or someone you know need a COVID-19 test or vaccine? Head to Leimert Park for a FREE COVID-19 Mobile Vaccination & Testing site, sponsored by Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas, and the Empowerment Congress.
All Angelenos 12 years or older are eligible.
Appointments are available and walk-ups welcome.
Remember:

Bring proof of identity
Bring proof of LA residence or workplace
If under 18 years old, parent/guardian must be present. If the parent/guardian is unable to be present, then a responsible adult must be present and must bring the completed, signed permission form.

COVID-19 vaccines are avaialable to ALL, regardless of insurance or immigration status.

"Space Jam 2" Screening
2021-07-31 19:00 - 22:00 | Leimert Park Plaza, 4395 Leimert Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90008, United States
Join Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas, the Empowerment Congress, and the Leimert Park Merchants Association for a FREE screening of Space Jam 2 in Leimert Park Plaza!
RSVP is required to attend.
Refreshments will be provided. *Bring a blanket!*
Special thanks to Warner Bros.

CD10 Redistricting Community Public Hearing
2021-08-28 10:00 - 12:00
Join the Los Angeles City Council Redistricting Commission for an important meeting about “redistricting.” The purpose of redistricting is to redraw the maps that impact your community and to ensure you have the power to determine fair and inclusive representation in your council district.
And we need your help. Participating in the redistricting process can be just as important as voting. We need to hear from you to learn more about your community its schools, its churches, its parks, and its people. Come learn and take action so that your neighborhood gets treated fairly and gets the resources it needs and deserves.
Registration is not required to attend or participate virtually.
To listen only, call 1 669 254 5252 and enter 161 545 4787# when prompted.
Submit written comments

Special Meeting on the LA City Housing Element
2021-10-12 18:00 - 19:30
Join the Empowerment Congress Committee on Homelessness and the Empowerment Congress Equitable Economic, Environmental & Community Development Committee for a special meeting on the LA City Housing Element, which will include an update from a representative from the LA City Planning Department.
The Housing Element of the General Plan, also called “the Plan to House LA,” identifies Los Angeles housing needs and opportunities and establishes clear goals and objectives to inform future housing decisions. When the ongoing update to the Housing Element is completed, it will guide the creation and implementation of the City’s housing policy from 2021 to 2029. The City is obligated to create a plan that will accommodate the production of nearly 500,000 housing units, with more than 200,000 units reserved for lower-income residents.
Learn more about the Plan to House LA.
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Special Committee on COVID-19 Meeting
2021-11-22 18:00 - 19:30
Join the EC Special Committee on COVID-19 as they monitor the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, connect residents to critical resources, and share civic engagement and volunteer opportunities to take action.
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Snow Night in Leimert
2021-12-17 17:00 - 21:00 | Leimert Park Plaza, 4395 Leimert Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90008, United States
Join the City of Los Angeles Council District 10 for an evening of snow and fun in Leimert Park Plaza!
Friday, December 17, 2021
5pm – 9pm
Free Entry | Please RSVP
This event is sponsored by City of Los Angeles Council District 10, the Empowerment Congress, the Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Development Council, the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, Sole Folks Leimert Park, Avenues of Life, Community Build, 2nd Call and Hot & Cool Cafe.
Come and join us for activities including snow sledding, a holiday night market, arts & crafts, live music, hot chocolate, and fresh treats!

Community Empowerment Training Session
2022-01-14 09:00 - 12:00
The Community Empowerment Training Session is a transformative training through which participants can strengthen their capacity to lead through story telling. Facilitated by Sarah ElRaheb from Harvard University, this has proven to be an invaluable tool for public leaders, community organizers, students, and leaders across a range of organizations and communities.

WHY “STORIES”?
Stories enable us to communicate our values as lived experiences rather than abstract principles. They have the power to move people and inspire change by evoking shared values that motivate others to action. You may think that your personal story does not matter or that people are not interested. However, those engaged in public work or leading organizations have the responsibility to offer an account of who they are, why they do what they do, and where they hope to lead. If one does not author their own story, others likely will, and it may not be as one wishes.
During this introductory program, participants will gain skills that include:

How to craft one’s public narrative
How to connect one’s story to that of their community to motivate commitment to a shared purpose and call to action
How to analyze the role of narrative in moments of critical change and use tools to enable others’ agency
How to increase one’s capacity to lead others using the public narrative framework

Please complete the form below to register.
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Monumental Tour
2022-02-12 - 2022-05-31
The Empowerment Congress is pleased to join with Kindred Arts, City of Los Angeles Council District 10 and LA Department of Cultural Affairs bring a group showing of sculptures across South Los Angeles & Downtown Los Angeles. The works will be on display February 12 – May 2022 at four locations.
Monumental Tour is a touring exhibition empowering social change through the arts.
Curator, Marsha Reid works with municipalities, institutions and agencies to navigate access to ‘public spaces’ & to build out those sites in a way that exemplifies how American public art can inspire equitable commemorative landscapes.  In these sites, inclined citizens may participate, be affirmed, and become informed,
With this monumental exhibit, we offer the public an opportunity to engage with questions of symbolism, history, and the genealogy of artifacts. We aim to confront issues and advance conversation around systemic inequities, police brutality and the questionable historical legacies that are cemented into the public sphere.
Learn more about Monumental Tour and find out where to see the works.

Public Safety & Justice Committee Meeting
2022-02-28 19:00 - 20:30
Join the EC Public Safety & Justice Committee to educate constituents about events and issues that impact the safety and well-being of the community and its residents. The committee is committed to addressing critical public safety and justice issues, providing leadership around mobilizing and educating the community.
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Empowered to Represent: A Forum Among Los Angeles City Attorney Candidates
2022-05-12 18:30 - 20:00
The Los Angeles City Attorney plays a significant role in leading our region’s efforts to enhance equity, improve public safety, meaningfully address homelessness, and moreover, to enforce and interpret the laws under which our government functions. Please join us for a forum to learn more about the candidates and their position on the issues that matter to you and your community.

Here Comes the Judge: Candidate Forum
2022-10-16 14:00 - 16:00 | McCarty Memorial Christian Church, 4101 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90018, United States
Join the Out of Many, One Coalition for a judicial candidate forum. Now, more than ever, who sits on the bench is crucial to justice aand equity for ALL of US, not just some of us.
Angela Reddock-Wright, Esq. will moderate a forum with judicial candidates on the November ballot, including:

Anna Slotky Reitano, Office #60
Fernanda Maria Barreto, Office #67
Elizabeth Lashley-Haynes, Office #67
Holly Hancock, Office #70
Melissa Lyons, Office #90
Carolyn “Jiyoung” Park, Office #118
Melissa Hammond, Office #118
Patrick Hare, Office #151

Come learn about these candidates for the bench! Light lunch will be served.

Community Dialogue on Racism, Gun Violence, and Policing
2022-10-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
Let your voice be heard. Join Our Weekly and the Institute for Nonviolence Los Angeles, A Partnership with the California Wellness Foundation, on October 18th via Zoom for a day of dialogue discussing racism, gun violence and policing. Sign up for more information and to attend.
This event is part of a series of Our Weekly’s #StopTheHate campaign and is supported in whole or part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library. #NoPlaceForHateCA, #StopAAPIHate, #CaliforniaForAll

Agenda for California: An African American Perspective
2022-11-03 19:00 - 21:00 | KBLA Talk 1580
KBLA Talk 1580 continues their series of important conversations with dynamic panelists on Thursday, November 3 from 7 – 9pm PDT. Moderator Nii-Quartelai Quartey leads Agenda for California: An African American Perspective, featuring panelists:

Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State
Holly Mitchell, Chair, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Isaac Bryan, 54th District, California State Assembly
Laphonza Butler, President, EMILY’s List
Tony Thurmond, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Paul Henderson, Director, San Francisco Department of Police Accountability

Head to KBLA on their various platforms to tune in to the conversation, which will be broadcase live, both on KBLA 1580 and on YouTube .

2023 Juneteenth Livestream: State of the Freed
2023-06-10 09:30 - 11:00
The Empowerment Congress, in partnership with The Gathering Spot LA, KBLA TALK 1580, the Institute for Nonviolence in Los Angeles and Days of Dialogue, presents a Juneteenth Dialogue & Celebration, featuring award-winning broadcaster and author Tavis Smiley.
Join us as we air an engaging conversation between civil rights attorney Areva Martin, Esq. and Senator Steven Bradford, moderated by producer/host/activist Dominique Di Prima, about local and statewide efforts and recommendations to address systemic inequity through reparations, .

Charter Reform Advocacy Conversation
2023-08-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
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Civic Engagement Working Group Meeting
2023-08-22 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom

EC Bridge Street Engagement Homeless Outreach Model Facilitator Dialogue
2023-09-08 17:00 - 20:00 | Provided upon RSVP

Financial Empowerment Working Group
2023-11-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom

SPA 6 Homeless Coalition Virtual Vigil: National Memorial Day Remembering Unhoused Neighbors
2023-12-21 15:00 | Zoom
Join the SPA 6 Homeless Coalition for a virtual vigil to recognize National Memorial Day Remembering Unhoused Neighbors. Let’s honor our fallen brothers & sisters in dialogue on solutions to this crisis.
Please register for access information.

Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count
2024-01-25 20:00 - 2024-01-26 01:00 | Fire Station 54, 5730 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles, 90008, United States
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) is a joint powers authority of the city and county of Los Angeles, created in 1993 to address the problems of homelessness in Los Angeles. LAHSA is the lead agency in the HUD-funded Los Angeles Continuum of Care, and coordinates and manages programs providing shelter, housing, and services to people experiencing homelessness. Since 2005, LAHSA has coordinated the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count to help the thousands of men, women, and families that are sleeping without a permanent home across Los Angeles County every night.
The data collected is an essential component in understanding the scope and nature of homelessness in Los Angeles County and helps LAHSA and its partners deliver services where they are needed most.
Homelessness is a humanitarian crisis that takes the support of our entire community to end.
Join us as we participate in the 2024 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count on Thursday, January 25, at 8pm, convening at Fire Station 54.
Not able to join us? Register for a different date and/or site on the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count website.

Charter Reform Working Group
2024-02-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
The Empowerment Congress Charter Reform Working Group was established to articulate and channel the perspective of the EC on issues associated with City of Los Angeles Charter reform efforts. Among these is promoting broad public participation in the deliberations pertaining to reform, particularly on those matters that relate to Council District 10’s experience with representation, community empowerment, voting rights and public participation in the decision-making process.
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LA County District Attorney Candidate Forum
2024-02-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Los Angeles City College, 855 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90029, United States
Los Angeles City College (LACC), the District Attorney Accountability Coalition (DAAC), the Leagues of Women Voters of LA County and Greater Los Angeles, ACLU-SoCal, NAMI Greater Los Angeles and NAMI Urban LA will host a Los Angeles County District Attorney Candidate Forum.

Get tickets for the in-person event
Register to attend virtually
Submit questions for candidates

Joy-Ann Reid: “Medgar & Myrlie” Book Tour
2024-02-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Bridges Auditorium at Pomona College, 450 N. College Way, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Join Pomona College for an evening with Joy-Ann Reid as she discusses her forthcoming book, Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America, with film and media scholar Kevin Wynter, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College.
Reid is the host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut. Her books include Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide and the New York Times bestseller The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story. Reid previously hosted the weekend MSNBC show AM Joy. The former managing editor of The Grio, Reid has had columns appearing in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, New York, and The Daily Beast. She lives in Maryland and Brooklyn.
In Medgar & Myrlie, Reid traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers, situating Medgar Evers’s assassination as a catalyzing moment in American history.
Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family.
Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent resistance to black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar’s secretary and confidant, working hand in hand with him as they struggled against public accommodations and school segregation, lynching, violence, and sheer despair within their state’s “black belt.” They fought to desegregate the intractable University of Mississippi, organized picket lines and boycotts, despite repeated terroristic threats, including the 1962 firebombing of their home, where they lived with their three young children.
On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers became the highest profile victim of Klan-related assassination of a black civil rights leader at that time; gunned down in the couple’s driveway in Jackson. In the wake of his tragic death, Myrlie carried on their civil rights legacy; writing a book about Medgar’s fight, trying to win a congressional seat, and becoming a leader of the NAACP in her own right.
In this groundbreaking and thrilling account of two heroes of the civil rights movement, Joy-Ann Reid uses Medgar and Myrlie’s relationship as a lens through which to explore the on-the-ground work that went into winning basic rights for Black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.

Pursuing Justice through Participatory Democracy by Casting an Informed Ballot
2024-02-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom

Proposition 1 Town Hall - Presented by NAMI Greater Los Angeles County
2024-02-22 17:30 - 18:30 | Zoom
California Proposition 1, the Behavioral Health Services Program and Bond Measure, is on the ballot in California on March 5, 2024. It includes funding for treatment facilities, housing support, and changes to the Mental Health Services Act. We invite you to our Town Hall to learn more about Proposition 1 and ask questions about how it will affect you. Hear from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn, and LA County Sheriff Robert Luna.
Please register for Zoom access information.
Please note that this is not an Empowerment Congress event and this town hall is in support of Proposition 1. It is being shared as an opportunity for voters to learn about the proposition. Voters are encouraged to perform independent research on the measure to develop a stance.

Pursuing Justice through Participatory Democracy: Analyzing the Primary
2024-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom

2024 Juneteenth Dialogue & Celebration | Facing the Rising Sun: Pursuing Climate Justice through Community Participation
2024-06-22 09:00 - 13:00 | Holman United Methodist Church, 3320 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90018, United States
