Weekly Email 1/25-2/1/2021

·     Tuesday, 1/26/2021 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting on Zoom at https://lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944 – We must hold the LA Police Commission accountable! Rather than listening to the thousands of people who oppose facial recognition technology, they adopted repressive and racist technology. Email public comments. Toolkit and more info here. Please use the “raise hand” function to speak. To participate by phone, call (855) 880-1246, Meeting ID: 289 225 944. Press *9 to be put in the cue for public comment. 

·     Tuesday, 1/26/2021 – Defund LAUSD Police - Join us as we continue to demand that LAUSD #DefundLASPD and #FundBlackFutures! Let the Board know that the reinvestment proposal for the $25mil cut from LASPD MUST NOT allow schools to opt-in to having school police on campus. Toolkit here.

·     Tuesday, 1/26/2021 7PM – Torrance City Council Meeting for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell at TorranceCA.gov and facebook.com/TorranceCA/ - To make a public comment during the meeting, call 310-618-2404 or you can email your comment in by 3pm to CouncilMeetingPublicComment@TorranceCA.gov. Please make comments demanding justice for #ChristopherDeandreMitchell, who was killed on December 9, 2018 by Torrance police officers Anthony Chavez and Matthew Concannon. The officers still haven’t been fired or prosecuted and Torrance still has no civilian review board to hold police accountable. Police Chief Berg is “retiring.” 

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·     Thursday, 1/28/2021 7PM – This Is Not a Drill! “The BREATHE Act” facebook.com/blmla – We have an opportunity to transform the world in which we live. The BREATHE Act is a federal bill that divests from prisons and police and invests in the health, sustainability, safety, and well-being of our people and our planet. Join the conversation with some of the visionaries behind the bill, Black Lives Matter co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, Gina Clayton-Johnson of Essie Justice Group, and Compton Mayor Aja Brown. Sister Melina will host. You don’t have to have Facebook to watch! Just go to the link.

·     Friday, 1/29/2021 12-1PM – Justice for #OscarGrant Twitter Storm – Join the family of Oscar Grant, the Black Lives Matter Global Network, and folks from all around the world in demanding that Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley open the case against former BART police officer Anthony Pirone, the second cop responsible for Oscar’s murder in 2009. Check justiceforoscargrant.com for more.