Weekly Email 12/6-12/13/2021

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (12/6/21-12/13/2021):

  • MONDAY, 12/6/2021 at 4:30PM – Demand Justice for #AnthonyMcClain at the Pasadena City Council Meeting on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/161482446 – A $7.5M settlement implies wrongdoing, harm and guilt. We want accountability by way of Edwin Dumaguindin, Ronald Soreno and others being fired from their positions and no longer patrolling our streets. Help us push back against this idea that a community experiencing violence needs more police. WE DON’T WANT MORE OF PPD BUT LESS. Make public comment at the Pasadena City Council meeting to: 1) Call for the immediate firing and prosecution of Officer Edwin Dumaguindin 2) Accept the resignation of Police Chief Perez EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. Please submit a speaker card prior to the public comment period at the link here. To participate by phone, call 1-669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 161 482 446. Learn more and find talking points here.

  • TUESDAY, 12/7/2021 at 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting on Zoom at https://lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944 – The number of scandals Make public comment demanding 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, 12/7/2021 at 6:30PM – Torrance City Council Meeting for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell at TorranceCA.gov and facebook.com/TorranceCA/ – December 9th is #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell’s third angelversary. Let’s make sure Torrance City Council knows that three years later, we still stand with his family and will never be silenced, even while they hide from us as they go back to virtual meetings. It is so important to his mama that we get in lots of emails and phone calls to the meeting to continue to uplift the demands 1) Fire Torrance police officers Anthony Chavez, Brian Kawamoto and Matthew Concannon for the murder of #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell, and 2) Establish a civilian oversight commission over Torrance PD. 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.

  • WEDNESDAY, 12/8/2021 at 4PM (and every Wednesday at 4PM) – Fund Services, Not Police! #EndPoliceAssociations at 1313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles – Join us in beloved community to #EndPoliceAssociations! 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. This week’s protest will focus on how police are corrupt and police associations only exist to shield their corruption from accountability. Thursday, December 9th is also the angelversary of #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell and we will have candles in commemoration of his life stolen by Torrance Police in December 2018.

  • THURSDAY, 12/9/2021 at 4PM – Torrance Police Are Corrupt! Press Conference and Rally at the Billboard for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell, 22804 S. Western Ave., Torrance – On December 8th, a Los Angeles Times article was published demonstrating the detailing the depth of the racism and corruption in the Torrance Police Department. BLMLA has been consistently protesting Torrance PD for three years…since the murder of #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell at their hands. Join a press conference and rally on the 3-year angelversary of Chris’ murder as we demand accountability and action in light of this new information.

  • SATURDAY, 12/11/2021 8-10AM – This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA Talk 1580AM or facebook.com/BLMLA –  We’ll be talking about how to “Decolonize Climate Justice,” with BLM Youth Vanguard co-founder Thandiwe Abdullah, BLM Phoenix organizer Sarra Tekola, and California State Assemblyman Isaac Bryan. #MoreThanAHashtag segment with the mother of #ChristopherDeandreMitchell. 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.

  • SUNDAY, 12/12/2021 at 7PM – BLMLA Monthly Meeting at 3423 W. 43rd Place (in Africa Town/Leimert Park) – Join for the last monthly meeting of the year as we do a 2021 “Year In Review,” celebrating our victories and planning for the road ahead. Light dinner available. ASL translation. Donations welcome, but not required. Welcome to new folks, returning folks, all Black people, youth, elders, families, and non-Black allies. Closed to law enforcement, media, elected officials and their staff, and haters. 


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