Weekly Email 3/22-3/29

Monday, 3/22/21 7PM – People’s Budget LA Townhall: What Are Your Spending Priorities? For more than a year now, BLMLA and allies have been engaging in People’s Budget work...We have the spending priorities that Angelenos have set and want to check in as the City budget cycle is in full swing. Police budgets are jockeying for more than half of the City’s general fund. What would you spend $11 billion on? Join in TONIGHT at 7pm! Click here to register for the zoom webinar or watch online at facebook.com/BLMLA.

  • Tuesday, 3/23/2021 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting on Zoom at https://lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944 – Let’s tell the Police Commission that “Moore must go!” Demand that they take action against Chief Moore. 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, 3/23/2021 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.

  • 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. Bring your bodies, spirits, energy, drums, signs, flags and dedication. 

  • Thursday, 3/25/2021 7PM – This Is Not a Drill! “The History of Black and Asian Solidarity” facebook.com/blmla – Let’s talk about the long history of Black and Asian relationships...marked by cooperation, and sometimes  complicated by tensions. How does this moment offer an opportunity to renew and deepen solidarity? Hosted by our own Melina Abdullah.

  • Saturday, 3/27/2021  – Check the Sheriff Family Forum at facebook.com/blmla – Stand with the families whose loved ones were killed by Los Angeles Sheriff Deputies during Saturday’s family forum with Supervisors Holly Mitchell and Hilda Solis. Families will demand action against sheriffs who, not only stole the lives of their loved ones, but harass families who dare to speak out. The forum will be livestreamed to facebook.com/BLMLA, and is co-presented by us and Centro CSO.

Megan Castillo