Weekly Email 1/18-1/24/2021

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (1/10-1/17/2021):

·     Sunday, 1/17/2021 11AM – #RadicalKing Caravan – Along with Clergy for Black Lives, let’s lift up the #RadicalKing. We’ll start in Skid Row and caravan to Leimert Park for a day of spiritual power and reclamation of Dr. King’s vision of a radically reimagined world, where peace is grounded in the presence of justice, not merely the absence of tension.

·     Monday, 1/18/2021 12-1PM – #RadicalKing Twitter Storm – Engage with Black Lives Matter and Clergy 4 Black Lives in a global Twitter storm to lift up the legacy of the #RadicalKing. Go to our toolkit for sample tweets and graphics.

·     Tuesday, 1/19/2021 12-1PM – #ReimagineChildSafety Twitter Storm – When we say #DefundThePolice we mean that in all spaces. Police do not belong in our system of child safety. Let’s raise awareness and push the petition to decouple the Department of Children and Family Services from police. Use the toolkit.

·     Thursday, 1/21/2021 7PM – This Is Not a Drill! “The Inauguration and What it Means for Black Folks” facebook.com/blmla – This conversation will be FIRE with the one and only Angela Rye(attorney and political strategist) and the always brilliant Dr. Greg Carr (Chair of African American Studies at Howard University). Sister Melina will host. You don’t have to have Facebook to watch! Just go to the link.