Weekly Email 5/10/2021-5/17/2021:

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (5/10/2021-5/17/2021):

  • MONDAY, 5/17/2021 at 4PM - Justice in the Name of #AnthonyMcClain Pasadena City Hall - 100 Garfield Ave., Pasadena - The family of #AnthonyMcClain has requested BLMLA support as they struggle for justice in Anthony’s name. Join the rally with Anthony’s family, the family of #GeorgeFloyd, and Attorneys Benjamin Crump and Caree Harper. Bring your signs, noisemakers, voices and energy.

  • TUESDAY, 5/18/2021 at 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting on Zoom at https://lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944  – Because of our voices and organizing, Chief Michel Moore withdrew LAPD’s proposed $67million implementation plan! When we fight, we win and we are winning! Let’s keep raising our voices to #DefundThePolice and call for the commission to #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, 5/18/21 at 7PM – Torrance City Council Meeting for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell at TorranceCA.gov and facebook.com/TorranceCA/ – Let’s continue 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. 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, 5/19/21 at 3PM (and every Wednesday) – Fund Services, Not Police! #EndPoliceAssociations SPECIAL STUDENT EDITION at 1313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles – This Wednesday’s action will be led and hosted by students! All of the student speakers will highlight the issues students of color are currently facing, like Cal State LA students fighting to get #CopsOffCampus and BLMLA Youth Vanguard and Students Deserve’s work to #DefundLASPD. As always, we’ll center families whose loved ones were stolen by police violence. This is an ALL OUT with special focus on K-grad school students. Wear masks and bring students, bodies, spirits, energy, drums, signs, flags and dedication. 

  • THURSDAY, 5/20/2021 at 7PM – This Is Not a Drill! “New Black City” facebook.com/blmla – Let’s talk about “New Black City,” BLMLA’s exhibit at the Museum of Social Justice. Art has always been central to Black radical movements; let’s talk about how art feeds #BlackLivesMatter with Yazmin Monet Watkins and Phillip Jackson of BLMLA's Arts & Culture team. Hosted by our own Melina Abdullah.

Megan Castillo