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

Still learning from Martin Luther King Jr.
January 18, 2018 By Rev. Jim Conn
We know of no more effective way to meet injustice than re-immersing ourselves in King’s life and teaching people resistance through nonviolence.
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Labor

Organizing a cure for flatlining wages
January 8, 2018 By Rev. Jim Conn
Unemployment is low, profits are high, but wages remain stubbornly flat. Could the decline of organized labor be to blame?
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Opinion

The holiday season: A long night’s journey into light
December 27, 2017 By Rev. Jim Conn
In our families and in our communities we guard ourselves against the long darkness. We hold out signs to one another that we can withstand these worst of days. That together, we humans can go on.
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Culture

The comedian as activist: Remembering Dick Gregory
August 31, 2017 By Rev. Jim Conn
Gregory’s humor never preached, never condescended, never compromised.
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Opinion

Survivalism, one-percent style
August 18, 2017 By Rev. Jim Conn
While you and I fret over these apocalyptic scenarios, the super-rich are planning their survival.
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Opinion

Fright Club: Trump’s troops invade blue L.A. County
August 15, 2017 By Rev. Jim Conn
As activists, we must be rooted in the practices of nonviolence that can effectively contrast to the behavior of disruption.
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U.S.

Dependence in America: Our national opioid crisis deepens
July 24, 2017 By Rev. Jim Conn
Small, exurban towns are experiencing a plague of addictions—so many that overdoses fill the morgues with bodies.
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Environment

Who’ll take San Onofre’s nuclear trash?
June 8, 2017 By Rev. Jim Conn
To paraphrase Carl Sagan, we know who speaks for the nuclear industry. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for the Earth?
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