Community Learning Partnership

01/08/2021

The following statement from Olivia Golden, executive director at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) — on the white supremacist assault on our democracy — is worth a read.

CLASP condemns yesterday’s mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. It was a white supremacist assault on U.S. democracy and in our own city of Washington, endangering our greater community.

12/17/2020

A new book, by CLP founder Andy Mott, explores ways to creating pathways to community change careers. Follow the link for ways to access:
http://communitylearningpartnership.org/preparing-to-win/

04/06/2020

CLP board member, Rosa Garcia, co-wrote this piece, examining the devastating impact of COVID-19 on low-wage workers.

The impact of the coronavirus is having rippling effects on the economy and on the workforce. Measures must be put in place to insulate workers from the current and future economic or health crises.

08/21/2019

Thanks to Bringing Theory To Practice for shouting out CLP as a "program you should know about!"

Dear friends, You may have seen our AAC&U-sponsored email blast, sharing a special offer on BTtoP’s publications. For a limited time, we are making our six books, designed for use by educators, administrators, and higher education professionals, available for free through our partners at AAC&U –...

08/18/2019

A new study suggests higher earnings for employees has helped NOT hurt the hospitality industry ...

"It's hard to look at the comprehensive data we did and not understand that many, many restaurants have effectively adapted to the rising minimum wage. Not everyone, but the vast majority."

05/31/2019

“I’d never been a part of a class where the professor was like, what do you want to get out of this?” said Staci Lowry of her time in the CLP-affiliated Community Leadership Program at Henry Ford College

Staci Lowry, a 35-year-old mother of three based in Detroit, Michigan, experienced an incredible scare in 2014, when her youngest child suffered a stroke. Her daughter is fortunately fine today. “She’s the most rambunctious of my three children, so she’s resilient,” Staci said. But this mome...

03/05/2019

West Chester CLP student Nahje Royster tells us how she's found her voice in a whitewashed world.

Nahje Royster, a student at West Chester University, was born and raised in a diverse neighborhood in northern Philadelphia. “There were a lot of different communities within in my neighborhood,” she says, including lots of people from Latinx, Hispanic, and Black backgrounds. “I grew up with a...

12/07/2018

Contact Michigan Governor Snyder at [email protected] or (517) 335-7858 and ask him to veto SB 1171, preserving the minimum wage law.

The Michigan Legislature is betraying the people by passing a bill that will gut !

The new bill? $12/hour by 2030 instead of 2022.

The subminimum tipped wage would only rise from $3.52 to $4.58/hour by 2030. That’s $1.06 over 11 yrs.

Call or email Governor Rick Snyder & urge him to veto SB 1171!

Phone: 517-335-7858
Email: [email protected]

04/07/2018

How online organizers are helping to disrupt alt right rallies

Antifascists tactics have led not only to failed events and dwindling cadres but to infighting and blame games in an increasingly fractious far-right movement

04/06/2018

Christine Marinoni, the wife of "S*x & the City" Star and candidate for NY Gov Cynthia Nixon is a long time LGBTQ advocate and policy analyst: Via Bustle

Considering that television star and activist Cynthia Nixon announced on Monday that she would be running for governor's seat in New York, you might be wondering who Christine Marinoni is. Nixon's wife works in the LGBTQ community as an activist and …

04/05/2018

A "powerful" group of students came together at De Anza as part of the Student Voices United for Change conference held last month VIDA

Student activists gathered for a conference on social justice and student empowerment in the Riverside room of the Student Center on Friday, March 16. The Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Ac…

04/03/2018

Student have long been leading the way...

The survivors of the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting have surprised many with their public activism. But they are hardly the first students to push the adult world for political change.