Long Beach Forward

It's time for Swing Set Open Mic! Swing Set an affirming, inclusive space to share your poetry, music, storytelling, or any art you want to bring to the mic.

🗓️ Friday, August 8
📍 2217 E 6th St. LBC 90814
⏰ 7:00pm
✏️ swingset.eventbrite.com

It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.

“Our duty to care endures even & especially when the law threatens our ability to provide it. In this moment health workers face a choice We can go along or we can join those before us who took risks to protect those in need”
must read by BDNH doc @eric-reinhart.com
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Things to do in Long Beach: Free farmers market, Palestine fundraiser, beach sports tournament and more! - Signal Tribune As you reflect on another month and prepare for new beginnings, consider aligning yourself with like-minded individuals and…

Summer Resource Fair: Care Culture Collaborative is hosting this free resource fair with a seed library, fix-it clinic, a free store, clothing and book swap and the launch of their second zine at Good Time Coffee

We're throwing a community celebration! Join us to review the draft findings from the community survey of the Long Beach LGBTQIA2S+ community health needs assessment and include your voice in the final report 🏳️‍🌈

📅 Monday, August 11th
🕘 6:00PM-7:30PM
📍 Long Beach Forward

TOMORROW! Join us to boycott Stater Bros., tomorrow, Friday, August 1 from 11AM-1PM in Long Beach. We need to show Stater Bros. that our community and our customers stand with us and they're willing to boycott this company until they start to respect their employees.

Winning Coalitions Have the Right Kinds of Differences What do successful coalitions have in common? Diverse, complementary capacities and a strong architecture.

What do successful coalitions have in common? Diverse, complementary capacities and a strong architecture.

SB 555 kicks off a study to figure out how California can create social housing at scale — homes that put people before profit, protect tenants, and make sure everyone has a stable place to live. Help shape the future of housing by August 8th: berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A New Dolores Huerta Opera Brings a Labor Struggle to the Stage At Oakland's West Edge Opera, ‘Dolores’ dives into a strike, an assassination and clashes among activists.

A landmark labor struggle might seem like difficult terrain to explore in an opera, but Long Beach-based composer Nicolás Lell Benavides knew that he had a riveting tale to tell in ‘Dolores,’ premiering in Oakland on Aug. 2, 16 and 22.

The latest issue @interruptcrim.bsky.social This Month in Criminalization newsletter is out & chock full of actions you can take in the face of the firehose of horrible flooding your timeline. Just pick 1 thing you can do on Palestine & 1 on another issue you care about

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it’s always bittersweet when it’s time that the fellows leave the team 🥲

Op-Ed: Our Communities are Under Attack: Why the City Budget is Key to Restoring Stability Over 100 people at the community-led “Our Budget, Our Future” Town Hall called for the city budget to invest in housing and immigration protections.

"Our elected officials must move beyond statements of solidarity to actions that match the scale of this emergency. Our community’s safety and dignity depend on immediate action."

New Trump rule immediately bans undocumented immigrants from Head Start child care The Trump administration bars undocumented immigrants from accessing Head Start, putting child care for many families in jeopardy.

“This decision undermines the fundamental commitment that the country has made to children and disregards decades of evidence that Head Start is essential to our collective future.”

We're partnering with Measure of America to collect stories that will illustrate the narrative of LA County. Join us to share your experience:

🗓️ Tues, July 15
⏰ 5-7pm
📍 The Nonprofit Partnership
🗒️ Dinner, interpretation, childcare, & transportation provided
✏️ RSVP: forms.gle/9M3Ag66tt5Pi...

New Social Housing Programs Seek To Make Homes Permanently Affordable for a Range of Incomes Seattle astounded housing advocates around the country in February 2025, when roughly two-thirds of voters approved a ballot initiative proposing a new 5% payroll tax on salaries in excess of US$1 mil...

"The country’s traditional, “either-or” housing model – of unregulated, market-rate housing versus tightly regulated, income-restricted affordable housing – has reached its limits.

Social housing promises a different path forward."

Excited to partner with @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social on the upcoming film series "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." Join us for opening night on July 13th with #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social, Lupita Limon Corrales & filmmaker Diego Robles>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...

Block & Build 2.0 at the Housing Justice Front “We can and should continue to block and build at the same time.” For Right to the City Alliance, this looks like carrying out nationally coordinated rent control fights in cities and states across…

Now is the time for strong demands that confront the housing crisis in a way that unites working people across the country and constricts the sphere of influence that MAGA—and their billionaire backers—have over our communities.

Congrats to all the winners of the 3rd annual Youth Participatory Budgeting process!

Long Beach Memorial nurses announce 1-day strike; hospital responds with 4-day lockout. The hospital assured residents that patient care will not be impacted.

After months of negotiations, unionized nurses at Long Beach Memorial and Miller Children’s and Women’s hospitals announced a one-day strike, but hospital leadership fired back with a four-day lockout.

Read more from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/long-beach-m...

Social housing is the future! Today we joined SAJE and @actlosangeles.bsky.social at the LA County Affordable Housing Solutions Authority to advocate for Measure A dollars go towards community-owned and controlled housing. Housing is a human right!

Student housing coming to Long Beach City College Long Beach City College is moving ahead with plans for an on-campus student housing complex, per a new environmental notice.

More 👏 community 👏 colleges 👏 providing 👏 housing 👏 for 👏 students!

Long Beach Youth Poet Laureate Finals May 17 - Precinct Reporter Group News %

The Long Beach Public Library in partnership with the Arts Council for Long Beach and LBF will present the 2025 Long Beach Youth Poet Laureate Finals Ceremony, taking place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 17 at Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library. See you there!

🔥Badass is right! UCLA Activist-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales of @latenantsunion.bsky.social made a presentation to a group of tenants, and what became the Mohawk Street Tenants Association grew from there. Read more about this badass group of individuals who are changing policy citywide 👇

Happening this Sunday!

Calling all performers! 🎶✨
CCEJ is looking for singers, dancers, poets, and artists to celebrate love in all its forms at our Love Day event this June! 🌸💖
If you’re passionate about LGBTQ+ pride, joy, and community, we want you on our stage. 🏳️‍🌈
Submit your interest today - cacej.org/loveday

Youth Organizer Kyshia just presented to the #LongBeach City Council about the #participatorybudgeting process for the LB Invest in Youth Coalition! Youth power in action ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

Join us for the launch of Heart of Youth Justice Reimagine in Long Beach! This is a youth only space for young people ages 14-24 to exchange ideas, learn about local resources, and inform the development of a youth development network in Los Angeles County. Register today!

Strong communities start with housing security. @buffywicks.bsky.social, vote YES on #AB1157! Lowering allowable rent hikes to 5% will be a lifeline for millions of people and keep California renters housed.

APLA Health expands their Long Beach facility amid concerns about potential government cuts The new, expanded clinic is offering more services to the LGBTQ+ community than ever before. But, like many other Federally Qualified Health Centers, they're apprehensive about how the government's he...

Our Long Beach Health Center just expanded!

We remain committed to providing compassionate care for LGBTQ+ folks, people with HIV, and underserved communities.
Big thanks to Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson, community leaders, and all who joined in our celebration!

we have to stand in solidarity against the threats to our CSU campuses. students shouldn’t have to pay more for budget cuts and ICE agents have no place on college campuses!

Building Child Care for a Better Future Every parent should have the freedom to go to work knowing their children are being cared for in safe environments by nurturing caregivers and early

Every parent should have the freedom to go to work knowing their children are being cared for in safe environments by nurturing caregivers and early educators that will support their children’s development and well-being.