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Welcome
to LELO!
LELO is a 33 year old racial and
economic justice workers' rights 501c3 nonprofit organization.
As an organization led by ordinary workers, we develop the leadership
of those most marginalized in our society: people of color,
working class women, recent immigrants and LGBTQ (lesbian/ gay/
bisexual/ transgender/ queer) workers. Our primary social
change strategy is local organizing, with a heavy emphasis on
political education and networks of solidarity with workers across
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Annual
Domingo, Viernes and Jefferson Awards Dinner
June
7, 2008 - Saturday 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church
3001
24th Ave. S
Seattle, WA
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On-line ticket reservation deadline is Thursday, May, 29th - 5pm
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Ticket Prices: $40.00 per guest. |
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Full Table $320.00 |
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Scholarship tickets are available. Please call 206 860-1400 for more information. |
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Guest Speaker
Nicole C. Lee
Executive Director, TransAfrica Forum
Domingo, Viernes and Jefferson Awards
Honoring: CARA – Communities Against Rape and Abuse
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Contact:
Moon@LELO.org
206
722-2175
Debt
and Poverty Project Meeting
Wednesday's
3-8pm.
Place:
LELO Office
3700
South Hudson St, Unit C
Seattle,
WA 98118
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Debt and Poverty Project was founded in 2005, by Staff Organizer, Lynn Domingo; Michael Woo former LELO Executive Director and eight committee members including: Sylvia Sabon; Wesley Hawkins and Wanda Saunders.
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The Debt and Poverty Project is a community based; grassroots led committee inspired to stop the cycle of debt and keeps workers; families and low-income communities in poverty. Through community organizing and participatory activities LELO assists with developing leadership; skill building; advocacy and education. |
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Martin Luther King County, Department of Community Corrections; The Marguerite Casey Foundation and small donations from private donations largely fund the project. LELO has been the fiscal sponsorship and home for the project since its inception.
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Since 1999 Martin Luther King County MJOMP and AJOMP was enacted as a county ordinance to save jail money and as a socially positive diversion to jail. Community programs like LELO's Relicensing program offered six years of community organizing and other services to address the root causes of their minor arrests such as Driving While License Suspended in the Third Degree (DWLS 3).
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LELO’s Relicensing Program served as a community partner to Martin Luther King County’s alternative programs but the program ended in 2005 post Washington’s Supreme Court Decision – Redmond V. Moore and the revision in Washington State’s Administrative Code. As a result of the revisions – hardship hearings, community service hours and 250,000 DWLS 3 drivers recovered their drivers’ privilege. ( see Relicensing Program) At the heals of the revision of the law, private collection agencies emerged and demanded to be written into the Washington’s Laws allowing private collection agencies to collect the public debt of unpaid traffic ticket. |
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Today, the Debt and Poverty project has a broader focus to organizing workers and families so that there is a better quality of life for disenfranchised; marginalized; and poor. We focus on root causes that negatively impact workers and families. The project uses political education to educate and learn about issues that are intergenerational; cross-cultural; and intersect with debt; poverty; hunger; housing; gender justice; residency; education; transportation and employment. This year’s campaign is to repeal the role of private collection agencies in jurisdictions like King County; City of Seattle and Washington State.
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The Debt and Poverty Project. Every Wednesday meeting is open to the public offering assistance with Legal Financial Obligation (LFO); Driver’s license suspension; traffic and parking tickets; payday and sub prime loans; healthcare; education; childcare and violence. |
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The Debt and Poverty project is proud to host Nicole Lee – Executive Director, TransAfrica Forum. Dialogue on the “Brown and Black Divide.” She will be speaking at the DVJ Annual Awards Dinner June 7, 2008 at a new dinner location, Blaine United Methodist Church.
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Monthly activities include: Childcare, transportation and meals if pre-arranged. Call 206 860-3990 or emaillynn@lelo.orgfor reservations. |
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Update
your 2008 LELO membership!
New
hats available with membership dues.
Contact:
Nemesio@LELO.org
LELO's Women's Leadership Committee need participants to complete
a survey regarding experiences with the criminal in-justice system.
Contact
- Wanda Saunders - 206 860-7371 or Wanda@lelo.org
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