Weekly Email 3/1-3/8/2021

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (3/1-3/8/2021):

  • Tuesday, 3/2/2021 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, 3/2/2021 10AM – Los Angeles City Council Meeting by Phone – TELL CITY COUNCIL TO REINVEST IN BLACK COMMUNITY! Call 669-254-5252, Meeting ID: 160-535-8466. Press *9 to be put in the cue for public comment. The Los Angeles City Council will discuss their plans to reinvest the remaining money defunded from LAPD last summer. We must let City Councilmembers know that that money came out of BLMLA’s #DefundThePolice movement and should be invested to help Black Angelenos by funding Black organizations that serve the community! Toolkit with information and talking points here. 

  • Tuesday, 3/2/2021 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.” 

  • EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 3PM – Fund Services, Not Police! #EndPoliceAssociations at 1313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles – 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.

  • Thursday, 3/4/2021 7PM – This Is Not a Drill! “Telling Our Own Stories through Black Film” facebook.com/blmla – A conversation with Black women filmmakers, Oge Egbuonu (Invisible Portraits, a love letter to Black women, premiering March 2, 2021 on OWN) and Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar (Muslimah’s Guide to Marriage, winner of the 2019 PAFF Audience Choice Award) about their journey and work as filmmakers. Founder of the Pan-African Film Festival, Ayuko Babu has also been invited to join. Our own Sister Melina hosts.



Megan Castillo