Weekly Email 5/9/2022-5/16/2022

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (5/9/2022-5/16/2022):

  • MONDAY, 5/9/2022 at 11AM - Black Mama Bailout at Lynwood Jail, 11705 S. Alameda Ave., Lynwood – Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles joins Essie Justice, Dignity and Power Now and Black women demanding that we invest dollars in systems of care, not jails and policing that bring harm to our folks. Stand with formerly incarcerated woman and those whose loved ones have been locked away. Let’s bail out some Black mamas and demand freedom for our people!

  • MONDAY, 5/9/2022 at 4:30PM – Demand Justice for #AnthonyMcClain at the Pasadena City Council Meeting on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/161482446 – Uplift #AnthonyMcClain’s name and demand justice for his death by using 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, 5/10/2022 at 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting on Zoom at https://lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944 – The City of Los Angeles, LAPD, and technology corporations continue to use our communities as testing and development grounds for policing technology and military surveillance tactics. As Angelenos continue to demand housing, services, youth programs, and investment in schools, the LAPD and LAPF (Los Angeles Police Foundation) continue to pump money into policing, and profit from the results. Make your voice heard during public comment using the 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, 5/10/2022 at 6:30PM – Police Free LAUSD Coalition to FULLY #DefundLASPD at LAUSD HQ 333 S. Beaudry Ave. – Join the Police Free LAUSD coalition at the LAUSD headquarters for a major action to defund LA school police. In February 2021, the Police Free LAUSD coalition won a historic victory to defund school police by $25 million and pushed the school district to create the Black student achievement plan. Bring your children, your protest signs, and your energy as students lead the action to FULLY defund school police and reinvest all of the dollars towards support for students.

  • TUESDAY, 5/10/2022 at 6:30PM – Torrance City Council Meeting for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell at TorranceCA.gov and facebook.com/TorranceCA/ – We continue to organize and demand that Torrance City Council make #BlackLivesMatter in Torrance, in the names of #MichelleShirley and #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell. These are our demands to uplift during public comment: 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, 5/11/2022 at 4PM (and every Wednesday) – Fund Services, Not Police! #EndPoliceAssociations at 1313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles – This week’s #EndPoliceAssociations will uplift the work of the #PeoplesBudgetLA coalition! Instead of spending more than half of the City’s unrestricted budget on the LAPD, our communities deserve resources for housing, food security, mental health services, youth and senior programs and so much more. Complete the People’s Budget LA survey to share what services you’d like your tax dollars to fund! Speakers from the coalition will discuss the work and why we say #DefundThePolice. Wear masks and bring your bodies, spirits, energy, drums, signs, flags and dedication. Streamed live on Instagram at @blmlosangeles.

  • SATURDAY, 5/14/2022 8-10AM – This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA Talk 1580AM or facebook.com/BLMLA – Baba Akili hosts a discussion on what went down on May Day at Cal State LA and why the political process must be open and accessible. 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.

  • SATURDAY, 5/14/2022 3PM – The People’s Mayoral Debate in Africa Town (Leimert Park Plaza), 4295 Leimert Blvd., Los Angeles (at Crenshaw & Vernon) – Moderated by KBLA’s Dominique DiPrima! Join the People’s Budget LA Coalition for a conversation with all 12 mayoral candidates invited! What’s needed for Black Los Angeles? What commitments must be made? How do we build a City that provides its people with much-needed resources? How do we center a People’s Budget? Music, snacks, and great conversation! 

  • SUNDAY, 5/15/2022 7PM – BLMLA Monthly Organizing Meeting at 3423 W. 43rd Place (in Africa Town/Leimert Park) – Let’s organize for a better world where #BlackLivesMatter and our communities are healthy and well-resourced. Welcome to new folks, returning folks, all Black people, youth, elders, families, and non-Black allies. Dinner provided. Food and 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.

Recap

  • Last Wednesday, Black Lives Matter-LA stood with our beloved Dr. Melina Abdullah for a press conference condemning Cal State LA President William Covino enabling  campus police to violently remove Sister Melina by from the mayoral debate hosted on the campus. The press conference was co-convened by the California Faculty Association, the NAACP, and BLMLA, and supported by allied faculty, student organizers, clergy, and community. They issued demands for Cal State LA President William Covino to step down remove police from campus, and make Cal State LA events accessible to the students, faculty and community.

  • Last Wednesday’s #EndPoliceAssociations rally honored the mothers who have to fight for justice while also grieving the loss of their loved ones stolen by police violence. We came together in beloved community and gave the mothers revolutionary love while protesting the police associations that block them from receiving any type of justice for losing their loved ones. The mamas and aunties of #WakieshaWilson, #JohnHorton, #AnthonyVargas, and #DavidSullivan were all in attendance. We got a chance to shower them with a little Mother’s Day love.

  • Last Saturday’s This Is Not A Drill on KBLA Talk 1580AM discussed Black Revolutionary Mothering, with Dr. Melina in conversation with her mama,  Linda “Zili” Blackston, Trudy Goodwin (Mama Tru) and Paula Minor (Mama Paula)! What a tremendous conversation about the power of Black mothering! Missed it? Watch it here.

  • Last Saturday, Black Lives Matter-LA hosted a Community Care clinic at Norman Houston Park for Black mamas, other mamas of color and mamas who lost a child or partner to mass incarceration or police brutality. Mamas came out and received healing justice, enjoyed community, a food truck with delicious vegan food, yoga, massage, acupuncture, reiki, mutual aid bags and so much more.

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