Los Angeles Community Action Network
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| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Introduction | The Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) was formed in 1999 with the mission to help people dealing with poverty create and discover opportunities, while serving as a vehicle to ensure they have voice, power and opinion in the decisions that are directly affecting them. Our overarching goals focused on social change are: (1) Organize and empower community residents to work collectively to change the relationships of power that affect our community. (2) Create an organization and organizing model that eradicate the race, class, gender barriers that are used to prevent communities from building true power. (3) Eliminate the multiple forms of violence used against and within our community to maintain status quo. Read more about current campaigns at www.cangress.org |