Weekly Email 3/28-4/4/2022

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (3/28/2022-4/4/2022):

  • WEDNESDAY, 3/30/2022 at 8:30AM – Close Men’s Central Jail Press Conference and Direct Action at Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration 500 W. Temple St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 – Join the JusticeLA coalition at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors office to demand they take the actions necessary to reduce the jail population, invest in our communities and CLOSE MEN'S CENTRAL JAIL once and for all by March 2023.

  • WEDNESDAY, 3/30/2022 at 4PM (and every Wednesday) – Fund Services, Not Police! #EndPoliceAssociations at 1313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles – Come out in beloved community as we take over the street in front of the Los Angeles Police Protective League office for a protest to #EndPoliceAssociations! We will be honoring #WakieshaWilson, #MeaganHockaday and #JohnHorton, whose angelversaries were all in the last week. Wear masks and bring your bodies, spirits, energy, drums, signs, flags and dedication. Streamed live on Instagram at @blmlosangeles. 

  • THURSDAY, 3/31/2022 ALL DAY LONG – #EndQualifiedImmunity Day of Action – OUR End Qualified Immunity Act, authored by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is going before the House Judiciary Committee! In order to pass, we need ALL HANDS ON DECK! Call your Member of Congress and ask them to sign on to the End Qualified Immunity Act as a cosponsor. Click here to find your Congressmember and their phone number.

  • SATURDAY, 4/2/2022 8-10AM – This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA Talk 1580AM or facebook.com/BLMLA – We’ll be talking about the meaning, sacred practice, and justice charge of Ramadan with Sister Kenyatta Bakeer of BLMLA, Thandiwe Abdullah of the Black Lives Matter-Youth Vanguard, and Imam Jihad of Islah-LA. Hosted by our own Sister Melina Abdullah. Listen live on KBLA Talk 1580 AM, kbla1580.com, download the KBLA app, or watch the livestream with ASL interpretation by ProBonoASL on facebook.com/BLMLA. Taking your calls at 800-920-1580.


*No Pasadena City Council Meeting This Week

*No Police Commission Meeting This Week

*No Torrance City Council Meeting This Week

Megan Castillo