Weekly Email 2/21-2/28/2021

·     Daily 2/1-2/28/2021 – Black Lives Matter/Scholars for Black Lives Black History Month Offering – More than social media posts, each day during Black History Month some of the leading Black radical intellectuals will offer a piece of political education on the movements, struggles, people, and history that are foundational as we build Black futures. This is a partnership with Scholars for Black Lives. View and repost every day from Black Lives Matter’s Instagram @blklivesmatter.

·     Sunday, 2/21/2021 7PM – BLMLA General Meeting on facebook.com/blmla – #BlackHistoryMonth meeting honoring the legacy of Minister Malcolm X, contemplating and exploring the present struggle for Black freedom, and radically imagining Black futures with our Youth Vanguard and Students Deserve. As always, new folks, returning folks, families, elders, youth, ALL Black people and non-Black allies are encouraged to participate. Closed to law enforcement, media, elected officials and their staff, and haters.

·     Tuesday, 2/23/2021 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting on Zoom at https://lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944 – We must hold the LA Police Commission accountable! 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, 2/23/2021 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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·     Wednesday, 2/24/2021 3PM – Fund Services, Not Police! #EndPoliceAssociations at 1313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles – Wednesday weekly protests are back on! This time we’re taking down the police associations that function as organized crime, enabling killer cops, bullying and bribing elected officials, and criminalizing our people. Gather in front of the ACLU building…directly across the street from the headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Protective League. (Paid parking available in the lot at Loyola Law School – 919 Albany St.)

·     Thursday, 2/25/2021 7PM – This Is Not a Drill! “Black People and Labor Unions” facebook.com/blmla – There is a long and complicated history of Black people and labor unions. We’ll engage in conversation with BLM-LBC’s Sista Audrena Redmond and Lola Smallwood-Cuevas of the Black Worker Hub for Regional Organizing. Sister Melina will host.