Weekly Email 7/10-7/17/2022

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (7/11/2022-7/18/2022):

  • SUNDAY, 7/10/2022 at 7PM – BLMLA CELEBRATES 9 YEARS & Monthly Organizing Meeting at 3423 W. 43rd Pl. Los Angeles, CA 90008 – Join as we celebrate 9 years of organizing with good food, music, conversation, strategizing and more. Welcome to new folks, returning folks, all Black people, youth, elders, families, and non-Black allies. Dinner provided. Produce boxes to take home with you (because we believe in feeding our folks!). Donations welcome, but not required.

*No cops, media, politicians or haters allowed.

  • MONDAY, 7/11/2022 at 4:30PM – Demand Justice for #AnthonyMcClain at the Pasadena City Council Meeting on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/161482446 – Call in to the City Council meeting and demand justice for #KendrecMcDade and demand the City Council fire the police officers who murdered #AnthonyMcClain. Please submit speaker cards prior to the public comment period at the link here. To participate by phone, call 1-669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 161 482 446. Talking points here.

  • TUESDAY, 7/12/2022 at 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting on Zoom at https://lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944 – The LAPD killed 3 people in 6 days last week…shooting this year. They are on track to have one of the deadliest years in LAPD history. We must stand up! Make public comment during the LAPC meeting and demand the commissioners take meaningful action to make #BlackLivesMatter! 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, 7/12/2022 at 6:30PM – Torrance City Council Meeting for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell at TorranceCA.gov and facebook.com/TorranceCA/ – Justice for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell! Join us by making public comment to: 1) Fire Torrance police officers Matthew Concannon, Anthony Chavez, and Brian Kawamoto killing Christopher 2) Establish a civilian oversight commission. 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, 7/13/2022 at 4PM IT’S OUR BLM ANNIVERSARY at our weekly #EndPoliceAssociations rally, 1313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles – Come out for a very special rally and celebration! We’ll kick things off with a press conference at 4PM, then “celebrate our victories” with powerful presentations, performances, a free vegan food truck…serving dinner and literal dancing in the streets. Come and bring everyone you know!  Wear masks. 

  • SATURDAY, 7/16/2022 8-10AM – This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA Talk 1580AM or facebook.com/BLMLA – Topic and guests to come. Hosted by our own Sister Melina. ASL interpretation by ProBonoASL on facebook.com/BLMLA. Taking your calls at 800-920-1580.

Recap

  • Last Wednesday at the weekly #EndPoliceAssociations rally, we focused on the righteousness and victory of our struggle. We will win an end to police associations!

  • Thank you to everyone who called in to get our justice families and aligned activists out of jail in Akron. As Bianca Austin (aunt of #BreonnaTaylor), Jacob Blake, Sr. (father of Jacob Blake), Cortez Rice (father of #JahmariRice) and activist Michael “Pressure” Harris were protesting in the name of #JaylandWalker, Akron police viciously beat Michael and Jacob, pepper-sprayed all of them, and threw them in jail…Jacob was hospitalized for two days as a result. Your calls helped to get them released. Thank you.

  • Last Saturday’s This Is Not a Drill! marked 1-year of revolutionary radio programming with the KBLA Talk 1580AM family. It was an important discussion on reproductive justice, hosted by Sister Melina Abdullah, with Kim Holmes co-hosting, and Thandiwe Abdullah, Rosa Clemente, and Cazembe Jackson as guests. For our #MoreThanAHashtag segment, we spoke with the family of #SkyYoung. Missed it? Watch here.

Megan Castillo