Weekly Email 5/24/21-5/31/21

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (5/24/2021-5/31/2021):

  • MONDAY, 5/24/2021 at 4:30PM – Pasadena City Council Meeting on zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/161482446 – The family of #AnthonyMcClain has requested BLMLA support as they struggle for justice in Anthony’s name. Make public comment for the Pasadena City Council meeting every Monday at 4:30pm and demand that Council: 1) Call for the immediate firing and prosecution of Officer Edwin Dumaguindin 2) Accept the resignation of Police Chief Perez EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, and 3) Remove City Manager Steve Mermell. Please submit a speaker card prior to the public comment period at the link here. To participate by phone, call 1-669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 161 482 446. 

  • TUESDAY, 5/25/2021 at 9:00AM – Stay In These Streets In Honor of #GeorgeFloyd at Los Angeles City Hall – Meet on the South Lawn - 1st Street between Spring & Main - for a rally and march through downtown demanding an end to police violence and a better world for our people. The march will end at the New Black City exhibit at the Museum of Social Justice on Olvera Street with special performances by Aloe Blacc, Roger Guenveur Smith and more!

  • TUESDAY, 5/25/2021 at 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting on Zoom at https://lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944  – 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, 5/25/21 at 12PM – Students Deserve Twitter Storm – Join students all across LAUSD for a twitter storm demanding a #PoliceFree LAUSD. Check out the toolkit at bit.ly/May25VirtualAction.

  • TUESDAY, 5/25/21 at 7PM – Torrance City Council Meeting for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell at TorranceCA.gov and facebook.com/TorranceCA/ – Demand 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, 5/26/21 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 honor #GeorgeFloyd on the one-year anniversary of his murder by demanding an end to the police associations that protect killer cops and fund their defense...like they did for Derek Chauvin! As always, we’ll center families whose loved ones were stolen by police violence. Wear masks and bring your bodies, spirits, energy, drums, signs, flags and dedication. 

  • THURSDAY, 5/27/2021 at 7PM – This Is Not a Drill! “Exclusive with Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors” facebook.com/blmla – Tune in for an intimate one-on-one conversation with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who will share her vision for Black Lives Matter, Black  freedom, and the road ahead. Hosted by our own Melina Abdullah.

Ongoing

  • EVERYDAY - Call City Councilman Paul Krekorian at 818-755-7676 – Tell him to “calendar the Mike Bonin motion” to reallocate City funds away from hiring 250 more LAPD officers in order to fund needed community resources.

  • EVERYDAY, 10AM-5PM – BLMLA x Museum of Social Justice Exhibit “New Black City: A World Without Police” 115 Paseo De La Plaza (across from Union Station) – Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles and the Museum of Social Justice are proud to take you on a journey through the history of BLMLA (the first of Black Lives Matter chapters). The exhibit radically imagines a world without police and encourages us to dream of a better world where we invest in the people and not into a system that destroys Black communities. Come out and view all Black art, paintings, photographs, artifacts, and add to the community altar honoring those whose lives were stolen by the police. Live performances every weekend.  If you’d like to volunteer to be a docent please sign up at this link. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4baea929a4f8c61-newblack. 



Megan Castillo