Weekly Email 9/2-9/9/2024

BLMLA Actions/Events (9/2/2024 – 9/9/2024):

  • TUESDAY, 9/3/2024 at 9:30AM - Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting at LAPD HQ 100 W. 1st St. -  Join the LAPC Fails Coalition, including Black Lives Matter-LA, Stop LAPD Spying, White People 4 Black Lives, LA CAN, and allies, as we show up and call out the LA Police Commission for refusing to hold killer cops accountable after they steal our loved ones and take much-needed resources away from our community. Join us in the struggle by making your voice heard during public comment. DEFUND THE POLICE!
     

  • Wednesday, 9/4/2024 8:30AM - Check the Sheriff & End Police Associations Press action at California Appeals Court, 300 S. Spring St., 3rd Floor - In response to community demands, LA County is being pressured to identify Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies involved in deputy gangs, such as the Banditos, Lynwood Vikings, Rattlesnakes, and Compton Executioners, that harm and kill our people. The Association of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs is suing to block the investigation. BLMLA, ACLU, Dignity and Power Now, and the California Immigrant Policy Center are supporting the County by filing an amicus brief to help expose and eradicate these gangs. Show up, pack the court, and let them know that sheriff gangs must go!
     

  • Wednesday, 9/4/2024 4PM - Labor Day Edition of #EndPoliceAssociations Rally at 1313 W. 8th Street - This week's #EndPoliceAssociations is a special Labor Day edition, celebrating real unions and Black labor. Join BLMLA and the families of those killed by police as we chant down the Los Angeles Police Protective League and make it clear that police associations aren't real unions!
     

  • Saturday, 9/7/2024 8-10AM - This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA 1580 AM - Tune in to This Is Not a Drill! every Saturday from 8-10AM on KBLA Talk 1580 AM or facebook.com/BLMLA. This week, we’re focusing on the back-to-school season and how to empower and protect Black youth. Hosting the discussion is Joseph Williams, with Lakell White as co-host. Special guests include Christian Flagg and Maki Draper.  More than a Hashtag with the family of #MaalikRoquemore. Join the conversation by calling in at 800-920-1580. 
     

  • Sunday, 9/8/2024 5PM - Conversation Corner in AfricaTown, 4395 Leimert Blvd., Los Angeles (meet at The Fist Statue on the Crenshaw side) - Inspired by Speaker’s Corner in London, join for our first-ever “Conversation Corner” where we’ll engage in a small pod conversations about whatever is on your mind: reparations, removing police from AfricaTown, back-to-school, #FreePalestine…whatever. Participants will be helped to free produce bags and invited to attend our BLMLA monthly organizing meeting inside the Center for Black Power immediately following the activity in the park.
     

  • Sunday, 9/8/2024 7PM - BLMLA Monthly Organizing Meeting focused on Reparations at the Center for Black Power, 3423 W. 43rd Place, Los Angeles in AfricaTown - Join for the BLMLA monthly organizing meeting as we discuss reparations strategy following the killing of the two REAL reparations bills in the California legislature. Bring your ideas and a friend! Hot dinner served. Fresh produce bags to take. Elders, youth, families, queer folks, formerly incarcerated people, all Black folks, and non-Black allies are all welcome. No cops, media, elected officials or haters allowed. 
     

Upcoming:

  • Tuesday, 9/10/2024 2:30PM - Rally to Protect the Black Student Achievement Plan at the LAUSD School Board, 333 S. Beaudry, Los Angeles - 4 years after students, parents, educators, and community won one of the most substantial victories for Black students in history - a $100 million annual investment, the LAUSD School Board has committed to completely undermine it. Stand together to demand targeted resources for Black students. Rally outside, with public comment inside. Bring your kids!
     

Recap:

  • Last Tuesday, the LAPC Fails Coalition, including Black Lives Matter-LA, rallied at the Los Angeles Police Commission meeting at LAPD HQ. The coalition, joined by Stop LAPD Spying, White People 4 Black Lives, LA CAN, and other allies, called out the LA Police Commission for refusing to hold killer cops accountable. The protest highlighted the ongoing theft of lives and resources from the community by the LAPD.
     

  • Last Wednesday, we closed out the Black August edition of #EndPoliceAssociations by writing letters to political prisoner Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown). BLMLA, along with the families of those killed by police, chanted down the Los Angeles Police Protective League, demanding liberation for our Black brothers and sisters, both in and out of prison.
     

  • Last Friday, we packed the court in support of the family of Christopher DeAndre Mitchell, who was murdered by Torrance Police in 2018. We overcame the motion to dismiss filed by killer cops Matthew Concannon and Anthony Chavez and moving towards trial to prosecute the police who stole Christopher’s life. Next hearing is scheduled for October 3rd.
     

  • Last Saturday, This Is Not a Drill! aired on KBLA 1580 AM, focusing on the state of Black labor and our role in the larger labor movement. Host Audrena Redmond of BLM Long Beach and co-host Baba Akili of BLMLA were joined by Dawn Modkins of the Southern California Black Worker Hub, Anthony Farmby of SEIU-USWW, and the family of Dijon Kizzee. Missed it? Watch here or listen to BLM’s This Is Not a Drill! wherever you get your podcasts.
     

  • Last Saturday, the Black August Los Angeles Closing Program was hosted at the Center for Black Power. Comrades gathered to reflect on the fight to free our political prisoners and achieve lasting freedom.
     

  • In a last minute action last Saturday, BLMLA sponsored and helped to organize a caravan to Sacramento to push for the bills that would advance REAL reparations for Black people. Instead of listening to the voices of the hundreds of Black folks who converged on the last legislative session of the cycle, lawmakers from the Legislative Black Caucus blocked the bills from being called for a vote. SB 1331 would have provided a funding source for cash reparations and SB 1403 would have chartered a California Freedman’s Bureau. Both were authored by Senator Steve Bradford. BLMLA and BLM Grassroots will continue to work with reparations partners with Coalition for a Just and Equitable California (CJEC), AfricaTown Coalition, and reparations leaders like “Friday” Jones. See Sister Jan for more on how you can plug in.

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