Weekly Email 4/25/22-5/2/2

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (4/25/22-5/2/22):

  • MONDAY, 4/25/2022 at 4:30PM – Demand Justice for #AnthonyMcClain at the Pasadena City Council Meeting on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/161482446 – Let’s keep demanding justice for #AnthonyMcClain! Find more information at the Black Lives Matter-LA Pasadena team toolkit. 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. 

  • TUESDAY, 4/26/2022 at 6:30PM – Torrance City Council Meeting for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell at TorranceCA.gov and facebook.com/TorranceCA/ – Uplift the following demands to make #BlackLivesMatter in Torrance: 1) Establish an independent civilian oversight commission of the Torrance police department 2) Fire all of the officers involved in the messaging scandal 3) Resume in person meetings so the public can be heard 4) Reject the $30 million police budget increase 5) Reject the vote to give raises to theTorrance police department. To make a public comment during the meeting, call 310-618-2404 or you can email your comment in by Tuesday at 3pm to CouncilMeetingPublicComment@TorranceCA.gov.

  • WEDNESDAY, 4/27/2022 at 4PM (and every Wednesday) – Fund Services, Not Police! #EndPoliceAssociations at 1313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles – This week’s #EndPoliceAssociations will honor the angelversary of #KennethRossJr., the young Black man who was killed by Gardena police sergeant Michael Robbins, who had already shot at least 3 other people in separate incidents. We passed the Kenneth Ross, Jr. Police Decertification Act last year in Kenneth’s honor. Come out this Wednesday in beloved community and surround Kenneth’s mother and siblings with revolutionary love and solidarity. Wear masks and bring your bodies, spirits, energy, drums, signs, flags and dedication. Streamed live on Instagram at @blmlosangeles.

  • THURSDAY 4/28/2022 6PM - Care First Community Investment Listening Session-McCarty Memorial Christian Church - 4101 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018. On Thursday 4/28 @6:00PM to let L.A. County know what your community priorities are for Care First Community Investment! This is an opportunity for the community to share ideas, thoughts, and experiences that will help shape and inform the CFCI Advisory Committee’s framework for putting care first, not jails. Your voice is needed in helping to redefine our justice system. RSVP Here

  • THURSDAY, 4/28/2022 7PM – No Community Safety in Policing at LAPD HQ 100 W. 1st, Los Angeles – Join Stop LAPD Spying and the Los Angeles Community Action Network in front of LAPD HQ for a collective discussion on community policing and counter-insurgency! Our communities need resources to build and sustain networks of care and health that do not center policing and coercive control by the state. We fight for a community free of police surveillance, police violence, and harm. Learn more at NoCSP.org.

  • SATURDAY, 4/30/2022 8-10AM – This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA Talk 1580AM or facebook.com/BLMLA – A check in with the entire BLM Grassroots leadership team! Hosted by our own Sister Melina Abdullah. #MoreThanAHashtag with the family of #ZelalemEwnetu. 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 Police Commission meeting this week

*Monthly Organizing Meeting pushed to Sunday, May 15th. (May 8th is Mother's Day.)


Megan Castillo