A Legacy Of Equality Leadership And Organizing

The Western Sahara Project organized four educational sessions about the realities faced by the population in Western Sahara. Each session focused on explaining, from different perspectives, how Morocco's occupation of Sahrawi territory has affected their human, civil, cultural, and environmental rights. The speakers at these discussions included diplomats, university professors, organizers, and members of our community. Also, the Project produced a digital publication with the latest information on the situation in Western Sahara. Additionally, by social media sent updates on the ongoing struggle of the Sahrawi people.

APALA: Collaboration with The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO; APALA is the first and only national organization of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (APPI), most of who are union members. APALA works with LELO as a partner to advance workers, immigrant and civil rights. APALA and LELO have played a unique role addressing the work place issues of their 660,000 union members and serving as a bridge between organized labor and the APPI community. The collaboration between APALA and LELO is dedicated to promoting political education, empowerment and leadership of AAPIs within labor movement and APA community. LELO assisted APALA in organizing six educational sessions by Zoom and a National Conference in Seattle.

General Programs, City Food Equity, City Pre-filing, History Project, Mexico Solidarity, Bantayog, and other programs: LELO's Food Equity Program (FEP) has been successfully planned, funded, and implemented a grassroots effort to provide our multi-racial community with organic vegetables and fruits, methods to prepare healthy foods, knowledge of how to take care of our health and education on why food sovereignty is as an alternative to the food system that we currently have. The Food Equity Program distributed 75 boxes of organic produce and fruit every week from June to September, 2024. Also, every other week we have educational sessions to talk about important issues related to our food and the importance of taking care of our environment. We worked to organize our communities to ensure that our people have access to healthy food. Pre-filing Diversion Program. This program provides a service-based alternative to criminal charges for people who have been ticketed by Seattle Police Department for Driving with a License Suspended 3 (DWLS 3). In 2024 the Pre-filing Diversion Program enrolled 32 clients and 4 regained their driver's license.