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2019 LELO’s Annual Event Honoring Silme Domingo, Gene Viernes and Milton Jefferson
Every year LELO’s remembers our history and co-founders who are no longer with us and recognizes current workers struggles and individuals who exemplify LELO’s values and principles. Our 2019 Domingo, Viernes, Jefferson Awardee was Rosalinda Guillen, long time...
No Separate Peace: Forging Unity and Solidarity for Justice
The 2019 LELO annual dinner honoring Silme Domingo, Gene Viernes and Milton Jefferson presented awards to Rosalinda Guillen (Domingo, Viernes Jefferson Award), Zachilla Orozco-McCormick (John Caughlan Youth Award), Latraia...
Honoring Workers In Action, Highlights from LELO’s 2018 Annual Fundraiser
2018 Annual Fundraiser
Firs Mobile Homes Owners Association
"At first we fought just to save our homes, now we fight so everyone can have a decent place to live." Said Cruz Medina a leader of Firs Mobil Homes Owners Association. Only two years ago on 8th of May 2016, the mainly Latino Firs Mobile Park residents come home to...
LELO Relicensing Program
LELO’s experience with re-licensing goes deep as it started 15 years ago as a community outrage to the increased arrests in low-income communities because of unpaid traffic infractions. Through LELO’s community organizing both City of Seattle Municipal...
Tyree Scott International Worker to Worker Project
The Tyree Scott International Worker-to-Worker Project was founded in 1997 to create opportunities for “ordinary” workers from different countries to communicate with each other - in their own languages - and share information about the global economy and...