The Action Hub is Tablero's own civic-action tool. Everything you need to act is on this page: your representatives at every level, the active calls to action with the words already written, a calendar of the meetings where decisions are made, and a toolkit for building your own campaign. You do not have to go anywhere else.
This page is built in layers. First the strategy, a simple path from a single vote to lasting community power. Then the five working tools that make up the hub. You do not need to read all of it. Find your layer and start, and if you only have five minutes, scroll to Find your representatives and make one call.
The Action Hub in five parts
Five tools, built into Tablero. Each one is on this site, in both languages, and free.
Building community power is not one big act, it is a sequence of small ones that point the same direction. You do not have to do all of it, and you do not have to hold the whole plan in your head. Find the step that matches where you are right now, and start there.
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Get clear on the ballot
Start here if the ballot still feels like a wall of names you do not know. Learn the races, the measures, and what each office actually controls.
The same hub works whether you are acting on your own, with a few neighbors, or as an organization. Here is how each one plugs in.
If you are one person
A neighbor
You vote your whole ballot, you build a plan, you make a call when it counts, and you bring a few people with you. Most of this hub is built for you, and none of it asks for more than a few minutes at a time.
If you are a group
A community group
Five neighbors or more can act together: hold a meeting, build a campaign with the toolkit, and begin the process of being recognized as a satellite hub of the Semillas de Poder network.
If you are an organization
A partner or ally
Partner organizations can submit calls to action for their own members, align campaigns with the network, and reach a shared base. To start a conversation, write to barriopower@gmail.com.
The tools, ready to use
Six tools on this site, each one a step in the path above made real.
The caller asks: who answers when this community calls? Enter your address or choose your city, and see every office that decides for you, with the calls to action ready to make.
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The address lookup uses the free U.S. Census geocoder, with no account or paid key. If it cannot place an address, the city list always works. Coverage starts with the Southeast LA cities, the City of Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Anaheim and Garden Grove, and grows from there.
Your record of action
Every call or email you log here is counted on this device, and if you are signed in it is saved to your member account so the network can see what the community is moving on. 0actions you have logged
Two. Act on what you care about
The other way in. Open an issue and you get the calls to action on it, the campaigns and movements behind it, and three clear ways to take part: take a ready action, take your own, or get connected with an organization doing the work.
Three and four. The calendar and the toolkit
Two more parts of the hub, each on its own page, each in both languages.
Component three
Community Voice Calendar
City council meetings, county supervisor meetings, town halls and public comment windows across LA, Orange and Ventura counties, with a focus on the Southeast LA cities, the City of LA, Santa Ana, Anaheim and Garden Grove. RSVP to attend in person or by Zoom, set a reminder, open the agenda, and read exactly where and how to give public comment.
A guided, module-by-module format for community members to build and submit their own advocacy campaign: name the problem, name who decides, write the ask, choose the tactics, and draft the script. Your campaign is saved to the network for review, and you can download your full plan to keep.
Honest about what it takes to keep this hub alive. This is the running list of everywhere the Action Hub needs partners or community help to stay current, accurate and automated. Rosa uses it to recruit. A fuller version lives in the project documents.
How to read this
The Action Hub works today as a strong baseline: the representative lookup, the calls to action, the issue areas, the calendar seeded with real meetings, and the campaign toolkit are all live. The items below are the layer that needs partners and crowdsourcing to sustain and automate over time. Each is tagged: partner needs an organization, crowdsourcing needs community submissions, paid service needs a budget line or a donated key.
Verified direct office phone lines and emails partner
The hub uses verified, stable contact paths now: the U.S. Capitol switchboard for Congress, official websites for every office, and verified meeting details. A volunteer or partner researcher could compile and maintain the direct district-office phone lines and confirmed staff emails, refreshed each quarter.
Officeholders still being confirmed crowdsourcing
A few entries are clearly labeled "verification in progress": the Assembly District 58 area officeholder for Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy and Commerce, the Orange County Assembly seats, and the current council rosters for several SELA cities. Community members and a research partner can confirm and fill these.
Address-to-representative precision paid service
The free Census geocoder places an address into a city and its districts. A paid district-matching service such as Cicero would resolve every split block exactly. It is logged here as optional: the city selector covers the baseline without it.
A standing review of active calls to action partner
Calls to action go stale as bills move and budgets pass. A partner organization or a rotating community committee should review the live calls to action every two weeks and retire or refresh them, the same Tuesday-to-Thursday cycle the rest of the project runs on.
Partner-submitted calls to action crowdsourcing
The Supabase backend already accepts community and partner submissions through the Campaign Toolkit, held for review before they go live. Growing the roster of trusted submitting organizations is partnership work.
Automated agenda pulling paid service
Each calendar entry links to the official agenda portal. Pulling agendas automatically, so each meeting shows its real items, needs a scraper or an agenda data service across many city and county portals. The baseline links out to each agenda by hand; automation is the partner layer.
Automated reminders paid service
The calendar generates add-to-calendar files now, which work for everyone. Push and email reminders before each meeting need a scheduled job and a mail or messaging service. Logged here for a partner or a small budget line.
Verified meetings for every jurisdiction crowdsourcing
The calendar is seeded with real meetings for the focus cities. Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Maywood, Commerce, the Orange County and Ventura County boards, and a Ventura focus city are placeholders to be filled by community submissions and confirmed schedules.
A roster of partner organizations by issue partner
The issue areas let a resident ask to be connected with an organization doing the work. Tablero routes those requests through the Semillas de Poder network. Building a real, current roster of trusted partner organizations for each of the eight issues is direct partnership work.
Town hall and public comment feeds crowdsourcing
Representative town halls and formal public comment windows are announced on short notice. A community tip line and partner feeds would keep these two calendar categories full.
Translation and accessibility review crowdsourcing
Every call to action and campaign should be reviewed by a native Spanish speaker before going live, in the usted register the project uses. A standing language committee keeps both languages at full parity as the hub grows.
Notify the Semillas team of new Hub applications paid service
The Member Hub now carries a gated "Start a Hub" application that saves to Supabase. A scheduled job or a database webhook should alert the Semillas team the moment a Hub application is submitted, so onboarding can begin without waiting on someone checking the table.
Capture the co-leader roster in the schema partner
The groups table has no column for the three co-leader names and contacts or the readiness answers, so for now they reach the team through a prefilled email. A one-time schema change, a details field on the groups table, would let the form store them directly.
A written Hub onboarding sequence partner
Every Hub team that applies needs the same dependable start: an intake conversation, the trainings, and a clear set of first steps. That sequence should be written down and owned by a person on the Semillas team.
Track Hub teams through their building phase partner
A Hub grows through a building phase and phases beyond it. The groups status field cannot express that progression; a phase field on the groups table would let the team see where each Hub stands. Until it exists, phase is tracked outside the database.
The fastest way in
If you only do one thing today, scroll up to Find your representatives, pick one call to action, and make it. It takes about five minutes, and it is the whole difference between a plan in your head and a voice on the record.
The Action Hub is part of Tablero Comunitario, a project of Radiant Futures and Semillas de Poder. The calls to action are starting points, and your own words always carry more weight. Representative names, contact paths and meeting details are verified where marked, and clearly labeled where verification is still in progress.
This site is built from crowd-sourced and publicly available information. We work to publish only accurate information, but human error is possible, and when we get something wrong we make the public corrections needed. See the corrections log.
