BLMLA Weekly Email 12/4-12/11/2023

This Week’s BLMLA Actions/Events (12/4/23-12/11/23):

  • MONDAY, 12/4/2023 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 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, 12/5/2023 9:30AM – Los Angeles City Council Meeting at City Hall, 200 N. Main St., 3rd Floor – Join the coalition of organizations, including BLMLA and People’s City Council, and Angelenos demanding that racist, violent, disgraced City Councilman Kevin de León NOT RUN FOR REELECTION and STEP DOWN IMMEDIATELY. Fill out a public comment card upon arrival and speak to “General Public Comment.”

  • WEDNESDAY, 12/6/2023 at 4PM – #EndPoliceAssociations Rally at Cal State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032 . – The California Faculty Association is leading the way into a #HotLaborWinter! We stand with the union that represents Cal State faculty as they demand improvements to faculty salary, workload, parental leave, and health and safety on campus. Snacks and water provided. Streamed live on Instagram at @blmlosangeles!

  • SATURDAY, 12/9/2023 8-10AM – This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA Talk 1580AM or facebook.com/BLMLA – Talking about justice in the name of #StevePerkins with Adrianna Tapscott of Standing in Power, Eric Hall of BLM Birmingham, and Marquell Bridges of BLM Mississippi. More Than A Hashtag with the wife of #StevePerkins. Our own Melina Abdullah hosts, with Baba Akili in the cohost chair. Download the app or listen on 1580AM in Los Angeles, kbla1580.com worldwide. Taking your calls at 800-920-1580.

  • SATURDAY, 12/9/2023 1PM – From the River to the (O)C, Park at Anaheim Gardenwalk, Walk to Disneyland Dropoff Lot – Shame on Disney for their Selective Humanity! We’re standing in solidarity with Latino & Muslim Unity this Saturday 12/9 @ 1PM at the Disneyland Dropoff Lot to #BoycottDisney for their $2 MILLION donation to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine. BE THERE! #FreePalestine

  • SUNDAY, 12/10/2023 7-9PM – BLMLA Monthly Organizing Meeting at the Center for Black Power, 3423 W. 43rd Place, Los Angeles – Black Xmas is in full swing! Divest from white capitalism and #BuildBlack, #BuyBlack & #BankBlack. Free soul food dinner and produce bags provided. ALL Black folks, youth, elders, non-Black people of color, and white allies all welcome. Closed to cops, media, elected officials, their staff, and haters.

Recap:

  • On Sunday, November 26th, BLMLA gathered with the Palestinian-American Women’s Association, US Palestinian Community Network and the coalition in solidarity as we honored and mourned together for the over 20,000 Palestinian lives that have been mercilessly stolen by U.S.-backed Israel Defense Forces at the Vigil for Gaza that took place in Twila Reid Park in Anaheim. Dr. Melina Abdullah reminded us that while we mourn we must fight using “every tool,” including voting, using our economic power and our movement power- “we must make ourselves ungovernable.”

  • Last Wednesday’s #EndPoliceAssociations rally, Week 146, we honored our righteous ancestors with the reminder that we must continue to do the work even as hardship comes our way so that our people can get free as we go into this #BlackXmas season where we #BuildBlack, #BuyBlack and #BankBlack. The family of #JamesMincey was present as we drummed up the revolution with Project Knucklehead.

  • Last Saturday’s “This Is Not A Drill '' revisited the lively conversation on “Black Xmas” with Erik Hardeman of Public Statement Apparel, BLMLA’s Jan Williams and Kevin Cohee of OneUnited Bank.  Our #MoreThanAHashtag conversation was with the father of #JohnCrawfordIII, who was murdered by Ohio police in 2014 while holding a pellet gun for sale inside a Walmart. Dr. Melina Abdullah hosted. Missed it? Watch here. 

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