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.
- Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes Secure Automatic RegistrationWe are deeply disappointed in Governor Newsom’s decision to veto SB 299 (Limón), a crucial solution that would have established Secure Automatic Voter Registration (SAVR), enfranchised millions of eligible residents, and position California as a clear leader in expanding democracy while other states are overtly suppressing voters. The Governor has missed a tremendous opportunity to… Read more: Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes Secure Automatic Registration
- 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.
- “War on Drugs 2.0”: Gavin Newsom’s play against a crimefighting initiative (Politico)The California campaign to defeat Proposition 36 is hoping voters see the ballot initiative as a return to a hard line on drug enforcement.
- Prop. 47-funded programs are working to break cycles of crimeTen years ago, California voters soured on the state’s decades’-long experiment with mass incarceration. After years in which badly thought out, financially devastating and morally corrosive laws such as Three Strikes and You’re Out made California less safe, in 2014 a majority of the electorate opted for a new approach. In passing Proposition 47, Californians… Read more: Prop. 47-funded programs are working to break cycles of crime
- Prop 47 Has Saved California Millions. These Are the Programs It’s Funded (NPR)Proposition 47 passed in 2014 as the state grappled with overcrowded prisons. Nonviolent drug users and people accused of minor property crimes would be offered treatment instead of jail time. Over the past decade, savings have topped $800 million.
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