For our first decade CDT flew under the radar, focusing on building the infrastructure California progressives needed to win policies and elections. Over the last year we’ve gone more public to spotlight our work with donors and to celebrate the …
CDT endorsed Assemblymembers Alex Lee, Lorena Gonzalez, and Luz Rivas, as well as Miguel Santiago, were joined by CFT President Jeff Freitas, Berkeley professor Emmanuel Saez, and entrepreneur, impact investor and CDT alum Joe Sanberg discussed a a plan that …
The Warehouse Worker Resource Center, a co-founder of CDT partner Inland Empire United, was one of the three organizations who won the Workers Lab Innovation Fund for innovations supporting workers “coming back” stronger. WWRC, in San Bernardino, wants to see …
EXCERPT: As 2020 falls behind us, it’s critical to reflect on the lessons we can take away for 2022. The unprecedented election is still offering important lessons, and we should avoid some common misperceptions which have emerged so far.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – A bill that would buy more time for California’s small businesses to stay afloat is gaining more momentum.
The Keep California Working Act, also known as Senate Bill 74, is a bipartisan small business …
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When George Gascón was growing up in Cudahy, a small city in Los Angeles County, he and his friends often felt targeted by the police. Gascón was born in Cuba and immigrated to California in 1967, when he was …
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For many Inland people of color, the path to change in 2020 started in the streets, continued to the ballot box and ended in elected office.
From city hall to Sacramento and Washington, D.C., Inland Black and Latino candidates …
With record turnout and community organizing led by Black and Latinx leaders to thank, American voters have turned the page on the cruelty and indecency of the Trump administration. Voters put an end to the nightmare of the past four …
The first Los Angeles City Council challenger to defeat an incumbent in nearly two decades, Raman won over a district with some of the most notoriously intractable NIMBY homeowners in the city. This despite promising to build new government-owned public …
As the primary English communicator of her Cambodian American family, Suely Saro became accustomed to speaking up at a young age.
First, it was the kindergarten lunch tickets she had to request for her and her brother. In elementary school …
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