BLMLA Weekly Email 6/26-7/3/2023

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (6/26/23-7/3/23):

  • MONDAY, 6/26/2023 at 11AM – Hold the BOS Accountable at the LA County Budget Hearing at Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration 500 W Temple St. – In Los Angeles county, there have been 25 weeks this year and 24 deaths in custody. Show up at the LA County Budget Hearing to DEMAND the Los Angeles County Supervisors stop funding cages, not care, and address this crisis in our jails.

  • MONDAY, 6/26/2023 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 Pasadena 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.

  • TUESDAY, 6/27/2023 at 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting IN PERSON at LAPD HQ 100 W. 1st St. – On the agenda for this week, the police commission will discuss if the LAPD shooting of Jermaine Petit, the Black Air Force veteran shot while carrying a car part, will be ruled in or out of policy. Come out IN PERSON and demand that the so-called oversight body of the LAPD actually hold killer cops accountable! Make your voice heard during public comment and demand Chief Michel Moore’s resignation and #DefundThePolice. Coalition talking points here. 

  • TUESDAY, 6/27/23 at 6:30PM – Torrance City Council Meeting for #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell IN PERSON at Torrance City Hall 3031 Torrance Blvd. – Let’s continue demanding the council deliver justice in the name of #ChristopherDeAndreMitchell by establishing a civilian oversight commission of the Torrance police department. The DOJ is investigating them. They need an outside body, NOW.

  • WEDNESDAY, 6/28/2023 at 4PM – #EndPoliceAssociations Rally at 1313 W. 8th St. – Bring your voices, energy, and commitment to building a just and free world, where police associations no longer have control over public safety policy. Wear a mask! Snacks and water provided. This week, we will continue to uplift the theme of Black liberation and be led in drum call by Project Knucklehead. Streamed live on Instagram at @blmlosangeles. 

  • SATURDAY, 7/1/2023 8-10AM – This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA Talk 1580AM or facebook.com/BLMLA – We’ll be joined by Black Lives Matter Grassroots Attorney, Justin Sanders, Political Education Director, Audrena Redmond. #MoreThanAHashtag conversation to be announced. Hosted by Dr. Melina  Abdullah.

Upcoming and Ongoing:

  • Saturday, July 15, 2023 - Black Lives Matter Turns 10! People’s Justice Festival - Shutting it all the way down in AfricaTown (Leimert Park) as we celebrate 10 years of Black Lives Matter. Let’s mark this milestone! Save the date!

Recap:

  • Saturday was a day of healing at the Healing and Resource Fair in AfricaTown (Leimert Park) at the plaza. We enjoyed offering our community members impacted by police violence and formerly incarcerated people music, yoga, massages, narcan training, free health screenings, kids art tables, healthy recipe demonstrations and so much more!

  • During last Wednesday’s #EndPoliceAssociations rally, we focused on the true history of Juneteenth and that it was really we who saved ourselves! We continued to uplift the names of those stolen from us through state-sanctioned violence and heard from the families of #AnthonyVargas and #JohnathanHart/ #SkyYoung. We know it is not easy to share your stories and we thank you. Many thanks also goes out to @projectknucklehead for drumming the beat that our souls could rock to!

  • Last Saturday on This Is Not a Drill!, Sistah Audrena Redmond of BLM Grassroots and BLM-Long Beach hosted a conversation on Black people and pride with Liv Francis-Anspach of BLM-Grassroots and Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Mark Allen Davis. #MoreThanaHashtag conversation with the family of #CordaleHandy.

  • On Sunday, our Youth Vanguard led a #StopCopCity action at the BET Awards. They engaged attendees and the public about why Cop City must be stopped and, as dark fell, worked with allies to project “Stop Cop City” in lights at LA Live. They also used the opportunity to invite folks out to the #BLMTurns10 “People’s Justice Festival.”

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