Weekly Email 11/22-11/29/2021

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (11/22/2021-11/29/2021):

  • MONDAY, 11/22/2021 at 10:30AM – Stop LAPD Spying Press Conference to Fight Against LAPD Budget Increase at LAPD HQ, 100 W. 1st. – LAPD recently submitted their 2022-2023 budget proposal and are requesting a $213 million increase. This increase will be on top of the LAPD’s total budget of $3.1 billion. If approved, this will be LAPD’s largest budget ever and an increase of 52% in the past decade alone. Stop LAPD Spying, Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles, Los Angeles Community Action Network, White People 4 Black Lives and the People’s Budget LA coalition will host a press conference to denounce the budget increase and call for the Police Commission, the Mayor and City Council to reject LAPD’s budget proposal and #DefundThePolice!

  • TUESDAY, 11/23/2021 at 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting on Zoom at https://lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944 – At this week’s meeting, the Police Commission will consider the LAPD’s proposal to increase their budget by more than $213 million. This increase will be on top of the LAPD’s total budget of $3.1 billion. We need you to lift your voice against this egregious proposal by making public comment. Demand the Commission reject the LAPD’s increased budget proposal, that they #DefundThePolice, and that the Commission #FireChiefMoore for his failed leadership. Coalition talking points 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, 11/23/2021 at 12PM – City Council Special Meeting on Redistricting by phone 1 669 254 5252 – The 8th Council District is the only majority Black district in Los Angeles and its only “assets”: USC and Exposition Park, are being stripped by the Council’s redistricting proposal. It is critical to engage with this process and make public comment to demand USC and Expo Park return to the 8th district for the future of Black Los Angeles. To make public comment, call 1 669 254 5252 and use Meeting ID No. 160 535 8466 and then press #. Press # again when prompted for participant ID. Once admitted into the meeting, press *9 to request to speak.

  • WEDNESDAY, 11/23/2021 at 3PM***SPECIAL START TIME (and every Wednesday at 4PM) – Fund Services, Not Police! #EndPoliceAssociations at 1313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles – This Wednesday’s rally will uplift those families who have an #EmptySeatAtTheTable this holiday as a result of police violence. Wear masks and bring your bodies, spirits, energy, drums, signs, flags and dedication. If you’re not able to come out, share the flyer widely and engage in virtual protest by tuning in to the action on Instagram Live @blmlosangeles.

  • SATURDAY, 11/27/2021 8-10AM – This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA Talk 1580AM or facebook.com/BLMLA – This Saturday’s show will be a re-broadcast of our conversation on #BlackXmas and how white-supremacist-capitalism is complicit in the murder of Black people by police, with guests Sister Kenyatta Bakeer of Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles and Kevin Cohee of One United Bank. Hosted by our own Sister Melina Abdullah. Listen live on KBLA Talk 1580 AM, kbla1580.com, download the KBLA app, or watch the livestream with ASL interpretation by ProBonoASL on facebook.com/BLMLA.

ONGOING

  • FRIDAY, 11/26/2021 - 1/1/2022 – #BlackXmas – From Black Friday to January 1st: #BuildBlack, #BuyBlack, and #BankBlack! Reject white capitalism and engage in cooperative economics! Don’t support businesses that don’t support us! Black Lives Matter will be profiling Black businesses every day of the #BlackXmas campaign so be sure to share any Black-owned business you’d like to see profiled. Email us at info@blmla.org.

Megan Castillo