Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)
@acceaction.bsky.social
ACCE is a multi-racial, democratic, non-profit community organization that builds power to fight for economic, racial and social justice. #HousingIsAHumanRight
🎉 A major win for California’s low-income communities & utility justice. As California families face record-high electricity rates and over $3.5B in utility debt, we shouldn’t be punished with a power shutoff when dangerous heat puts lives at risk.
California rejected utilities' heat shutoff plan
Regulators said the state's biggest power companies didn't go far enough to protect customers during dangerous heat. Here's what changes now.
calmatters.org
Los Angeles: Join ACCE and the Keep LA Housed coalition 9:30 AM Tuesday 7/21 for a special press conference celebrating the first lawsuit filed by the City Attorney under the Tenant Anti-Harassment Office. 120 East 43rd Street
VICTORY! The Los Angeles City Attorney just announced the first of its kind lawsuit under the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance! Tenants at units on Woodlawn Ave. and 43rd St. in south LA have been dealing with illegal harassment from their landlord in an effort to get them
For decades, Los Angeles has been told that giving developers more incentives will eventually solve the housing crisis. Meanwhile, rents have climbed, homelessness has increased, and working families continue to be priced out.
URGENT! Tell the LA City Council to reject ballot amendments that would reduce funding for affordable housing, tenant protections, and homelessness prevention. 📍 LA City Hall, Council Chambers 🗓 Wednesday, July 1 | ⏰ 8:30 AM Voters approved ULA. Now it's time to defend it. #ProtectULA
Your landlord might be charging you too much. Use the free tool at tenant protections.org to find out. And go to acceaction.org/rente... for resources you can use to defend your rights and stay housed!
Is it you…Or is it Trump's economy?🧐 If life feels more expensive lately, you're not imagining it. 🧵 Here's why: 👇 👇
California's next governor will make decisions that affect housing costs, utility bills, healthcare, etc. 🧵 See where the leading candidates stand on key issues impacting working Californians and see where corporate 💰 is being spent in the race ⬇️
LOS ANGELES! Join us Friday 5/29 to defend Measure ULA! Billionaire real estate interests are advancing a statewide measure attacking ULA. Developers are proposing a local "fix" which is really just trickle-down housing. Tell the City Council to REJECT proposed ballot amendments!
ACCE Oakland Member Greg Slaughter: “We’re the people — we’re the ones who made them rich,” of the nation’s billionaire class. “They need to pay their fair share of taxes.” #MayDay #PeopleOverBillionaires
May Day protests begin across Bay Area amid calls for ‘no work, no school, no shopping’
“There’s power in numbers, and if we come together and organize, we can put people and workers over billionaires,” said one organizer who planned to join a protest Friday.
timesheraldonline.com
No one should have to struggle to pay their utility bills while corporate executives take home millions. While 1 in 5 Californians are behind on their bills, PG&E, Sempra and Edison’s CEOs are paid multi-million dollar salaries & are among the ten highest paid utility CEOs in the country 1/2
ACCE, Union del Barrio and Anakbayan San Diego have launched the National City Defense Coalition to organize, educate, and mobilize residents to work together to get ICE out of National City. Join us this May Day- May 1st- for an Abolish ICE/General Strike at noon at Chicano Park in San Diego.
No work! No school! No shopping! Sign the May Day Pledge! acceaction.org/mayday #PeopleOverBillionaires #MayDay
VICTORY! Students, parents, teachers, staff and community members celebrated the installation of a traffic light next to Carver Middle School in Los Angeles. The event honored Carver student Derick Serrano, who was tragically killed by a motorist at the busy intersection of
"Affordability is a hoax"? Only for Trump's billionaire buddies. Costs are spiking on everything from groceries, to gas, to rent. And wages simply aren't keeping up.
VICTORY! Our allies at UTLA just won a landmark tentative agreement. This agreement includes wins for salary scales, special education, student support, staffing and more! Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
Tax the rich to fund housing, street repairs, fresh food access, & afterschool programming in Los Angeles! If you're an LA registered voter, help us get the ✨Overpaid CEO Tax✨ on the ballot by signing! #TaxGreedToPayForWhatWeNeed #PeopleOverBillionaires
CONAM - Oakland senior women are coming for you! The tenants of #OaklandStation are demanding safety & habitability! & CM Ken Houston- your constituents are counting on you to pass proactive code enforcement so corporate landlords are held to account! #HousingIsAHumanRight
Hands off ULA! ACCE Los Angeles leaders with the United to House LA coalition stood strong on Friday at City Hall to refute flawed claims being used by Measure ULA's billionaire-backed opponents to justify changes to weaken ULA.
We're gearing up for #MayDay to fight for #PeopleOverBillionaires - to fight for a people's first agenda. Sign the May Day pledge and join us at www.acceaction.org/m...
Californians have seen power bills skyrocket – @energyandpolicy new tool shows that up to 25% of bills are going straight to utility executives & Wall Street pockets. We deserve a break from crushing utility bills. It’s time for utility profit reform energyandpolicy.org/...
Save StayHousedLA! ACCE Los Angeles joined tenants, community members and Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez to urge the City Council to extend SHLA's services contract providing crucial legal advice for tenants facing eviction. In a city where a majority of residents- 64%- are renters,
Reinvest in San Ysidro! ACCE San Ysidro members recently took a community walk to shine a light on neighborhood concerns. We're committed to working toward improving our streets, addressing public safety and vacant spaces- so we can build a San Ysidro to be proud of!
ICE OUT! ACCE members, faith, community and labor leaders protested Target locations in Los Angeles in solidarity with Minneapolis, escalating their call to demand the company fully recommit to DEI principles and publicly call for an end to all ICE operations across the country.
The increasing number of billionaires in every new release of the Epstein files are another reminder that billionaires shouldn't exist because they're immoral, exploitative hoarders and the world would be better if we abolished every one of them. Billionaires: the only minority destroying humanity.
Los Angeles! Join us this Friday, 2/6, to amplify the calls from the social movement in Italy for ICE OUT OF MILAN, and to repeat our call for ICE OUT OF LA! Join us outside of LA28's headquarters to say ICE OUT! as the Milan Winter Olympics hold their opening ceremony. LAANE.ORG/ICEOUT
Great work from ACCE Los Angeles leaders and United to House LA! We showed up in HUGE numbers to beat back a flawed attempt to weaken L.A.'s mansion tax. But this battle isn't over. The proposal goes to committee, and we will show up again to save the People's Billion!
L.A. council puts off yet another attempt to rewrite the city's 'mansion tax'
Councilmember Nithya Raman backed a plan to ask voters to rewrite Measure ULA, saying it's holding back housing production. The council asked for more review instead.
latimes.com