Rev. Jim Conn

Rev. Jim Conn is the founding minister of the Church in Ocean Park and served on the Santa Monica City Council and as that city's mayor. He helped found Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, Los Angeles, and was a founder of Santa Monica's renter's rights campaign. Rev. Conn is a regular contributor to Capital & Main.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Rev. Jim Conn

Opinion

Coming up short on places to live
June 10, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
What about the people who have to work 92 hours a week at minimum-wage jobs to rent a one-bedroom apt. in California? Shouldn't they have a decent place to live?
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Labor

Janitors and farm workers: Two strikes remembered
April 18, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
"Before me almost a thousand janitors wearing deep purple Service Employee International Union T-shirts lined up to march..."
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Environment

A national object lesson: California’s air and coast, a buyer’s market
March 25, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
Most recently, the South Coast Air Quality Management District upended its mission to clean our air.
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Environment

Climate change: Learning from the past
March 10, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
We ignore the interwoven connection between population growth and climate change at our own peril.
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U.S.

Inequality by the numbers
February 11, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
We Americans like to think of ourselves as a middle-class country where the top is not out of reach and the bottom doesn't pose such a grim, cautionary specter.
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Opinion

Peace and Jobs: A Conversion Conversation
January 28, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
If we need to keep fossil fuel in the ground to reverse climate change, then people who dig and drill need something else to do to provide for their families.
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Environment

A cease-fire with nature?
October 29, 2015 By Rev. Jim Conn
Driving through rugged beauty made us aware of the power of nature and the relative powerlessness of human beings in that kind of environment.
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Environment

Crimes against nature: the power of polluters
October 28, 2015 By Rev. Jim Conn
We don't see these phenomena with our eyes, but studies verify an invisible reality that damages us.
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