Weekly Email 3/8-3/15/2021

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (3/8-3/15/2021):

  • Tuesday, 3/9/2021 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. 

  • 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, 3/11/2021 7PM – This Is Not a Drill! “What It Can Look Like to #DefundThePolice” facebook.com/blmla – Join as BLMLA member and policy expert LaMikia Castillo hosts a one-on-one conversation with Svante Myrick, Mayor of Ithaca, New York, who as one of the youngest mayors in the nation, is leading work to defund police in Ithaca.

  • Sunday, 3/14/2021 7pm – BLM General Meeting at facebook.com/blmla – This month’s meeting will be virtual, but our work remains all the way REAL! Join as we discuss why we must #DefundThePolice, and how our #EndPoliceAssociations campaign and #PeoplesBudgetLA coalition is working to defund the police and reinvest in Black lives. All are welcome, except police, elected officials and their staff, media, and haters.

Announcements:

  • BLMLA x Museum of Social Justice Artist Call for Upcoming Exhibit “New Black City: A World Without Police” at blmla.org/artists-call – Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and the Museum of Social Justice are partnering to curate an outdoor art exhibition, “New Black City: A World Without Police” at El Pueblo Historical Monument. This call for entries invites Black artists to submit their artwork for display in the exhibition. We solicit works of art that document the Black Lives Matter movement, illustrate the themes of police abolition and police defunding, and reimagine what Los Angeles could be without policing and other carceral systems. Through this exhibition, we seek to amplify the movement’s policy demand: to reclaim the billions of dollars that systems of law enforcement drain from Black communities and invest those resources in community-driven, life-affirming systems of care and services that truly keep us safe and lead to Black flourishing. When Black people flourish, everyone can flourish. When Black people are free, everyone can be free. Submit your paintings, photography, drawings, sculptures, existing BLM artifacts (i.e. signs, posters, photos, shirts), digital works and entries using other mediums HERE. The exhibition is tentatively scheduled to run for most of May 2021. Entries must engage the theme, “New Black City: A World Without Police.” Submissions will be open through March. More information can be found here.

Megan Castillo