GYOPO attends Future Fest

Future Fest – Rally, March, and Community Festival

10am – 5pm (10am: Rally Point at Florence and Normandie)

March Route: Florence and Normandie to 81st and Vermont (1.5 miles)

http://southlaisthefuture.com/events/

On the 25th anniversary of the 1992 LA Uprising, South LA Building Healthy Communities Collective brought together the South LA community and over 35 community-led organizations for Future Fest – a rally, march, and community festival to build community commitment to a vision for South LA’s Future. Future Fest was a community festival that combined arts, advocacy, and community to celebrate South LA’s resilience, lift-up the community’s collective vision, and discuss community priorities for change to move forward.

The event was presented in partnership by South LA Building Healthy Communities Collective including: A New Way of Life, Advancement Project, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), Brotherhood Crusade, CADRE, CDTech, Community Coalition (CoCo), Community Health Councils (CHC), Dignity & Power Now (DPN), Esperanza Community Housing Corporation, Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network (GSA Network), LA Commons, Labor/Community Strategy Center (LCSC), Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA), Los Angeles Black Worker Center (LA BWC),Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN), Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches (LAM), Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust (LANLT), Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA), Southside Coalition of Community Health Centers, St. John’s Well Child & Family Center, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE), Strategic Concepts in Organizing & Policy Education (SCOPE), T.R.U.S.T. South LA, UMMA Community Clinic, and Youth Justice Coalition (YJC).

GYOPO joined in this all ages community event, committing to working towards a future that is innovative, inclusive and rooted in community-led transformation.