Weekly Email 7/26/21-8/2/21

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (7/26/2021-8/2/2021):

  • MONDAY, 7/26/21 at 4:00PM – The People, Cuba and Radical Solidarity Educational Webinar register at blm.link/CubaSeries1 – Black Lives Matter will co-host an educational webinar on the current political situation in Cuba and deepening mutual solidarity. The conversation will be moderated by Reverend Karlene Griffiths Sekou of Black Lives Matter Grassroots and James Early of the Institute for Policy Studies, and speakers include journalist and producer of Belly of the Beast Liz Oliva Fernandez, Poet and essayist Nancy Morejon, Activist and writer Roberto Zurbano Torres, Akinyele Umoja of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Actor and human rights advocate and actor Danny Glover.

  • MONDAY, 7/26/2021 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 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, 7/27/2021 at 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting on Zoom at https://lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944 – Let’s call for the commission to #FireChiefMoore for his role in the decision to explode a huge stockpile of illegal fireworks in a predominantly Black and Brown neighborhood and 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, 7/27/2021 at 7PM – Torrance City Council Meeting for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell at TorranceCA.gov and facebook.com/TorranceCA/ – We need all hands on deck to call in to the Torrance City Council meeting to demand they 1) Fire Torrance police officers Anthony Chavez and Matthew Concannon for the murder of #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell, and 2) Establish a civilian oversight commission of over Torrance PD. 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, 7/28/2021 at 3PM (and every Wednesday) – Fund Services, Not Police! #EndPoliceAssociations at 1313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles – This week’s protest will target Chief Michel Moore for his failed leadership, failure to hold his corrupt cops accountable, and the many other list of offenses like the recent LAPD fireworks explosion in South Los Angeles. Stand with the families of those killed by police against the body that protects their murderers and hinder accountability. Wear masks and bring your bodies, spirits, energy, drums, signs, flags and dedication. If you’re not able to come out, engage in virtual protest by tuning in to the action on Instagram Live @blmlosangeles.

  • SATURDAY, 7/31/2021 at 8AM – BAJI “Come By Here” Car Caravan for Black Immigrants – The Black Alliance for Just Immigration is hosting a caravan from Africa Town to San Diego to protest the Biden Administration’s anti-Black and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. The caravan will meet at Leimert Park Plaza at 8am, then travel to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center and end at the San Diego Otay Mesa Detention Center.

Megan Castillo