BLMLA Actions/Events (7/29/2024-8/05/2024)

TUESDAY, 8/30/2024 at 9:30AM – Los Angeles Police Commission Meeting at LAPD HQ 100 W. 1st St. -  LAPD killed a Black man on Sunday, who was accused of participating in a home burglary and having a “face off” with police, possibly holding a knife (not a gun). This marks the 9th murder and 19th shooting by LAPD so far this year. Join the LAPC Fails Coalition, including Black Lives Matter-LA, Stop LAPD Spying, White People 4 Black Lives, LA-CAN, and allies, as we hold the LA Police Commission accountable for their inaction. LAPC Fails coalition talking points here.
 

  • Wednesday, 7/31/2024 4PM - #EndPoliceAssociations Rally at 1313 W. 8th Street - Support our young people from the BLM Youth Vanguard and Students Deserve, who will lead the rally as they prepare to return to school. Demand nurses, counselors, librarians, and educational workers, not school police. We advocate for full funding of the Black Student Achievement Plan! Let’s chant down the Los Angeles Police Protective League. Bring your young people!
     

  • Saturday, 8/3/2024 8-10AM - This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA 1580 AM or facebook.com/BLMLA - Tune in to This Is Not a Drill! every Saturday from 8-10 AM. This week we will focus on Black August - the month that we honor our political prisoners. Our own Joseph Williams and Amara Kioni Abdullah host this Youth Vanguard Takeover edition. Be sure to tune in and call in at 800-920-1580.
     

  • Saturday, 8/3/2024 7-11PM - Karaoke Night at 7826 S Western Los Angeles - Come out for a fantastic time and a fantastic cause! Join KRST Unity Center of Afrakan Spiritual Science and Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles for karaoke under the stars! At this first-ever joint fundraiser, celebrate, sing, and nourish both body and soul. Bring your favorite hits or a tune for the revolution. Your $20 ticket includes dinner and a drink. Additional drinks, desserts, and vendor items will be available for purchase. Tickets can be purchased here! 

Recap:

  • Last Tuesday, BLM Grassroots supported the Freedom Campus demands issued by Dr.Melina Abdullah after she was brutally assaulted by campus police in 2022. The university rejected every single point in the offer, including requiring permission or a warrant for campus police to enter faculty offices, making campus events accessible to the university community, and divesting from weapons manufacturers. Administrators leveraged another legal action, threatening Dr. Abdullah with personal financial liability to force her to drop her suit against them.
     

  • Last Wednesday, the #EndPoliceAssociations rally continued, this time in honor of #SonyaMassey, a Black mother who was killed in her home by sheriffs in Springfield, Illinois. Her killer is protected by a police association linked to the Los Angeles Police Protective League. Rally participants gathered to stand against police violence and demand the dissolution of police associations. The rally took place at 1313 W. 8th Street.
     

  • Last Saturday’s edition of This Is Not a Drill! focused on the countywide effort to reallocate funds from jails and sheriffs toward systems of care through Reimagine LA, led by Megan Castillo. The #MoreThanAHashtag conversation featured the family of #FrankTyson, who was murdered by police in Ohio while repeatedly gasping the words “I can’t breathe” as he was choked to death. Missed it? Watch here or listen to BLM’s This Is Not a Drill! wherever you get your podcasts.
     

  • Last Sunday, BLMLA participated in a rally for #YongYang at Liberty Park. Yong Yang, a 40-year-old K-Town resident, was shot and killed by LAPD in his family home during a mental health crisis. The rally called for justice, accountability, and systemic change in Yong Yang’s name.
     

  • On Sunday, BLMLA joined tens of thousands of people, including 10 BLM Grassroots chapters across the country, for a National Day of Mourning for #SonyaMassey. Hundreds gathered in AfricaTown (Leimert Park) to pray, speak, light candles, and demand justice in Sonya’s honor. We came together in community not only to seek justice for her but also to demand an end to state-sponsored violence.

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