White People 4 Black Lives / a collective of white folks organizing for racial justice in solidarity with @BLMLA / LA chapter of @ShowUp4RJ / (formerly WP4RJ)
read more about this week's Board of Police Commissioners' Agenda and their Report on their Immigration Enforcement Task Force.
read more here:
https://t.co/hdmKa6xNV8
(cont’d) don’t let this discourage you.
If there ever was a time for you to get active that time is NOW. Pull up in numbers, act up, resist!
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Join us for our second iteration of Demystifying City Hall, we’ll take you through the process of checking in and signing up for public comment. You’ll see the frustrations we experience coming to city hall only to have council members not paying attention during public comment
DOGE is pushing massive federal layoffs under the claim of ‘efficiency’ and more privatization. These layoffs are impacting essential services and workers. Swipe to learn more. 🧐
Read DATA FIX-ATION, a new zine from our Academic Complicity Work Group.
We hope it's a helpful resource for resisting data-related police reforms, especially reforms that are promoted as benign "study" "transparency" or "bias reduction."
https://t.co/DRb6gByhGF
This past Tuesday, LAPD held a presentation “honoring” Black History Month during the Board of Police Commissioners’ meeting.
The following is an incomplete list of Black people killed by LAPD since 2007.
The City Council is set to vote on the Olympics Exemption Friday, February 28 at Van Nuys City Hall.
You can share written comment around this disastrous exemption via the link below, or IRL Friday morning at 10am in Van Nuys.
Here's what happened last week (Pt. 1) at council:
The EEOC’s decision to drop trans discrimination cases is yet another reminder that the systems in place were never built to protect us. Our survival is an act of resistance, and we’ll continue to fight for a world where trans and gender non-conforming people are free 🩵🩷🤍
#AB1178 is a police secrecy grab that will endanger our communities.
Call the Democrats who introduced this dangerous and repressive bill to demand they end their support:
@AsmPacheco 916-319-2064
@AsmBlancaRubio 916-319-2148
@AsmMRodriguez 916-319-2053
@AsmNguyen 916-319-2010
Police have been trotting out that website as evidence of “verified death threats” for over 27 years. Here’s a news article about them doing it in 1998: https://t.co/5b5X7FLsO1.
That website is obviously satire, but @CityAttorneyLA cited it as a "verified" threat in 2023:
These four Democrats led by @AsmPacheco just introduced a bill to create a vast SECRET POLICE within California law enforcement agencies.
#AB1178 will shroud thousands of local police officers in full secrecy, erasing their names from all public records: https://t.co/vZ5AvHDtV3