Rev. Z Hoover

Thank you SGV Tribune for covering our vigil in Avocado Heights.
Read the article: www.sgvtribune.com/2025/07/24/e...

7 months later and #EatonFire survivors are still rising up for a just recovery! Insurance companies need to be held accountable for rate hikes, especially when they haven’t provided payouts to survivors. RSVP at bit.ly/denariseup!

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Column | Have you received scam texts about an unpaid toll? You are not alone. In 2024, consumers reported losing $470 million to scams that started with text messages, according to the FTC — a fivefold jump since 2020.

Have you also been receiving those scam texts about an unpaid toll? What about the ones offering you a job that seems too good to be true? Text scams are the cockroaches of our digital lives. They just won't die. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

2.4 TRILLION dollars. 
 
That's how much Trump's ugly spending bill is going to cost us — all so the ultra-wealthy can collect their tax benefits while 10.9 MILLION children and families get kicked off health care. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

In your state can a buyer convert a single family home to a multi family building?

Call it radical, but 40 hours a week of work should provide enough pay to afford housing, healthcare and groceries.

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Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

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Pope Leo XIV’s message to the cardinals: Vatican II and Pope Francis are here to stay At this early stage of Leo XIV’s pontificate, the text is a “must read” for Catholics. Here are three notable takeaways.

Pope Leo XIV’s message to the cardinals: Vatican II and Pope Francis are here to stay
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Shout out to this group of leaders on the Westside who spent this last Saturday participating in a Doorhanger Drop for We Are California's No Hate, No Fear, Immigrants are Welcome Here campaign! Sharing Know-Your-Rights info with neighbors in our communities is one way we help keep each other safe!

In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive.

In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him.

Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.

The tethers to my self that I've found in shared racialized experience[s] inspire me to provide what I can for the younger generation, and underline the importance of ritual and tradition." (3/3)

"AAPI month reminds me that diaspora and displacement, migration and movement, require us to look beyond blood quantum, stereotypes, or imposed racial categories for [re]connection with our ancestors, histories, and possible paths toward liberation. (2/3)

Happy Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Our Housing Project Associate, Maura Chen, had this to say about the month: (1/2)

#aapiheritagemonth

There is an entire political movement that believes the statement “if you work full-time in America, you should be able to pay your bills and have a savings account with your paycheck” is radical.

We must come to an agreement that it’s not radical to demand that.

LA Voice grieves the loss of #PopeFrancis. For over a decade, he has led not only the Catholic Church with compassion and justice at the heart of his teaching, but been an example to the entire world as a spiritual leader who embodies putting faith into action.

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

‘Deeply troubling’: Lawmakers demand feds release Tufts student from ICE custody, restore her visa Federal agents surrounded Rumeysa Ozturk in the street near her off-campus apartment, arrested her, and rushed her away to Louisiana.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, is the latest student abducted by ICE for her political beliefs.

I joined @pressley.house.gov & @warren.senate.gov in demanding DHS release Rumeysa and provide answers on this disturbing trend.
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5 Ways AARP Is Fighting for Social Security We're mobilizing our members, calling for answers and opposing harmful customer-service cuts

if ever there was a time to throw your (much vaunted!) weight around, this is it...

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I agree with this. Except Porto’s.

Have you and your congregation been thinking about how to be a sanctuary space in solidarity with immigrants? Please join the first session of our upcoming Immigration Training Series with Public Counsel!

RSVP at bit.ly/lavoiceimmigrationtraining

The externalities of cars scale with weight, size and speed: space taken, gas burned, tire particulates, noise, pavement, cost to consumer and, above all, crash force, injuries and fatalities.

Shrinking cars would accomplish most of the goals of EVs with many ancillary benefits, like fewer deaths.

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Zoning is working exactly as intended, consolidating poor people next to highways and pollution

The cobbles of Paris-Roubaix.

Three weeks until Paris-Roubaix 🔥

Lovely

LA Voice Benevolence Fund LA Voice has created a Benevolence Fund in response to the wildfires currently ravaging LA County. With a gift of any size, you can help the LA Voice community sustain through these devastating…

Donate at bit.ly/LAFireSupport

The restoration of LA County after the wildfires must meet everyone's needs, where no person or family gets left behind or stands alone. I urge you to give to the LA Voice Benevolence Fund so I and other Altadena families can work together to preserve what makes Altadena unique."