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

Environment

Have we become OK with watching Earth melt?
November 23, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
If we think the ecosystem doesn’t need preserving, we won’t preserve it. If we think climate change just happens, then nothing can be done about it. But if we think humans cause it, then we can...
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U.S.

Training day: Police reform in troubled times
October 19, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
Despite decades of policies designed to bring police and the community into a deeper understanding of one another, too many officers do not know the neighborhoods they police.
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Opinion

Santa Monica’s no-growth measure will stunt affordable housing
October 11, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
LV tops every effort at public participation and complicates efforts to serve the poor and desperate, and hamstrings every effort to house low-wage families who work in Santa Monica.
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Opinion

Survival and generosity: Lessons from sunflowers
September 7, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
Gardening makes you generous, now we can even see that in the life of sunflowers.
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Opinion

Banking on the Post Office
August 25, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
What if you could cash your paycheck at the post office instead of a predatory check-cashing place?
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Opinion

Blue lines, Black lives: Policing at a crossroads
August 3, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
Safer communities or more occupation? That feels like a bad choice. Blue on Black violence or Black on blue violence? That doesn't feel like a choice at all.
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Environment

Human-caused climate change gets personal
July 20, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
What felt distant has become much closer. What could be safely put off can no longer be shoved aside.
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Labor

Speedups 2.0: Tailor-made for Taylorism
July 6, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn
Even if you are not a delivery driver or a warehouse worker or a janitor, you may not be immune to constant monitoring.
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