OC Action was founded in 2017 to build an AAPI-Latinx-Labor-Environmental Justice Alliance and to develop progressive political power. This has been the result of decades of community organizing and integrated voter engagement in the region. Underrepresented communities across Orange County have undergone significant shifts in local empowerment in recent years.
OC Action is committed to a long-term progressive transformation of the electorate and will continue to move towards the change that our people deserve.
- Opinion: Prop.36, a failed prescription for more prison and less treatment (OC Register)We need to invest more in the substance and rehabilitation programs that work, but if Prop. 36 is passed, the funding for these programs will dry up. We will all be less safe as a result, and our most vulnerable communities will be hit the hardest.
- CHNSC mobilizes Vietnamese Americans to vote (Nguoi Viet)The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (CHNSC) is organizing phone calls and voter education campaigns to create a voice for the Vietnamese community in the November 5 election.
- No on Prop 36, a revival of failed and unjust policies (OC Register)For over a decade, the pendulum in California’s criminal justice policy has swung from a tough-on-crime approach prioritizing incarceration toward an approach emphasizing non-carceral strategies.
- Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes Secure Automatic RegistrationWe are deeply disappointed in Governor Newsom’s decision to veto the Secure Automatic Registration Bill. (SB 299)
- Vietnamese American community mobilizes in OC (Spectrum News)Kiều Anh Đỗ, a former nail salon worker, believes voting is a way to make a change in those issues. She hopes their efforts will make an impact in this election and those to come.
- Prop 36 will not help people struggling with addiction (OC Register)The reality is that Proposition 36 does nothing to address drug treatment in any kind of a “mass” way. In a last ditch effort to save their flailing proposition, proponents of proposition 36 are misleading the public and ignoring basic facts about the urgent gaps we have in our drug treatment system.
OC Action educates voters on key issues that impact the community to bring progressive change in Orange County. OC Action is tax exempt under IRC Section 501(c)(4).
