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1/ Prop 36 backroom deals: ”advocates” selling out for political access, a thread...
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Join our statement,
#8CantWait
is a toothless set of demands that doesn't target fundamental ways & racist underpinnings that govern policing. It serves as a valve to release pressure & distracts from the movement to
#Defundthepolice
& end the violence and killings of Black ppl
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The Imperialist project is so short sighted, displacing anti-war protests on college campuses only pushes it into the streets. If people werent watching they're watching now. Watching you punish students, beating elders and teachers, allowing violent extremists to run wild.
Cops pushed some of us out to the other side. They are currently destroying the barricades.
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Tents. From the tents in Palestine to the tents in Skid Row and on college campuses across the country, one thing is sure: tents have come to symbolize the worst atrocities known to humankind, and the State will do everything in its power to dismantle that reality.
LAPD IS NOW IN THE CAMP!
COP RIOT IN LOS ANGELES 🚨
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#DefundthePolice
is definitely at the top of the “things we must do to save LA” list.
#EchoParkRiseUp
is yet another example of just how many Angelenos are sick and tired of being sick and tired. You can fence a park, but you can’t fence the outrage.
#LetsGetFree
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The City Homeless Coordinator, Meg Barklay, just said, “I Dont get out much...” when asked by the judge has she spoken with homeless people. 😳
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Anyone using the term “the blacks” in 2022 has been racist for a loong time and ain't to be trusted w/ Black lives. Anybody in the room laughing, applauding, or silent is just as racist.
#StepdownorWeShutitDown
@CD6Nury
@kdeleon
@cmgilcedillo
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@kdeleon
is pandering and appropriating in the worse way. The way he’s attempting to highjack Black folks work would make Elvis proud. LACAN has been putting in work since 2017 to get bike lanes and infrastructure in Skid Row , and we secured them.
I am thrilled to announce that I have secured the LARGEST infrastructure grant ever for the Skid Row community! Skid Row will receive a grand total of $47.5 MILLION in bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure repairs. To learn more about this amazing grant visit the link in my bio.
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Elected Officials: If you want to help houseless people survive a potential coronavirus outbreak in LA, you would:
1. Immediately open vacant city, state, and county-owned buildings and provide items needed to slow/stop the spread.
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For Immediate Release:
December 29, 2020
As Covid-19 Cases Soar in Los Angeles Skid Row Leaders Organize Blockade Against Controversial Christian Worship Leader, Sean Feucht, As He Plans Events in Skid Row and Echo Park.
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Unfortunately, this is how it's always been. Pull back the curtain, and you'll find wealthy and usually White developers on police commissions, affordable housing committees, homeless housing committees, land use and planning committees, et Al. They occupy front-row seats...1/2
Let me get this straight: Billionaire Jeffrey Katzenberg has one-on-one meetings with LA City Councilmembers and demands they criminalize homelessness. Within days, they ram through a bill doing just that. Is the Council straight up admitting they take orders from billionaires?
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Apparently, 80% of protestors are not from the cities they're protesting in. That is the exact narrative and a similar percentage used by local officials to explain the roots of homelessness in their cities. Why? Because it's easier to unleash state violence on ”strangers.”
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We're deep in City Hall today saying HELL NO to 41.18. There's still time, pull up!
#LetsGetFree
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As the rain pours down and bone-shattering cold sets in, houseless people will die on the streets of Los Angeles. They will die under the watchful eye of a Mayor, focusing his gaze on greener pastures. They will die because the cast of coward politicians refuse to act.
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The eyes of the country are on Los Angeles. Every moment
@CD6Nury
@cmgilcedillo
@kdeleon
stay in power Angelenos bear the weight of their hate. Resignations, not resolutions, are the only way we move forward.
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This is how Los Angeles spends it's money and time, evicting houseless people from public land in the midst of a global pandemic.
#DefundthePolice
#EchoParkRiseUp
#Wegiveasmuchaswetake
#BringitOn
LAPD staging near Echo Park Lake. Under the direction of the city of Los Angeles and
@MitchOFarrell
, the cops are going to raid the Echo Park Lake encampment and evict hundreds of residents of the park.
We can see what the city is doing. ALL EYES ON ECHO PARK TONIGHT
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The Board of Supervisors just voted 4-1 to place a measure on the Nov 2020 ballot that allocates a minimum of 10% of the county budget ($1 bil) toward alternatives to incarceration. Let the electoral engagement begin!
#ReimagineLA
#LetsGetFree
#BodyArmorTime
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Message to Organizers and Activists: $150 million was never OUR demand it was political spitballing by the
@MayorOfLA
attempting to find a $$$ amount that would slow our movement. This not how demands or negotiations work, and we must FORCE them to the table.
#PeoplesBudgetLA
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A few things are clear: 1) grassroots power is on the rise in Los Angeles, and the criminalization button is no longer a guaranteed option; 2) organizing has broken the practice of stacked votes and has forced public debate; 3) council seats are not safe, and a new LA is possible
On Tues, we will not take a vote on item 24. Instead, we'll continue to discuss homelessness on our city streets and work towards solving our unhoused crisis. 1/2
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South Central LA polling places are bursting at the seams. 39th & Western (L) site had a line of cars waiting for parking in the lot. At Gage & Normandie (R) location, voters also wrapped the block with no parking for voters. As feared, this ”new” system has problems.
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@MayorOfLA
house right now. There is so much energy in the air despite the attempts of
#LAPD
to make it into something it's not. The people have shown great resilience in the face of rampant state violence and threats. It's possible to bring in the new with proper plans.
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Providing houseless folks with hotel rooms and assistance will cost the city nothing, because the Biden administration has offered to foot the bill.
So why aren't these women in Skid Row getting the help they deserve?
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Our statement on the racist recording of city leaders conspiring against Black communities.
@stoplapdspying
#ShutDownTilTheyStepDown
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It appears the City of LA has set its sights on the Mac Arthur Park informal settlement. They brought a 40-ft trailer in the dead of night to remove portable toilets and handwashing stations. Residents also report that shelter “offers” have been made.
#SoundslikeaSweeptoMe
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It looks like the people have responded at Echo Park Lake and I'm feeling a Woodstock vibe coursing through my veins. Stay tuned because there ain't nothing like a cultural, round the clock celebration, to bring people together and the police away!
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“Save Us Joe” makes him the Messiah of the Segregationists. He’s a willing servant of structural racism and has found a small tribe in Venice. His vision for bringing LA out of houselessness is by force, banishment, and ultimately death.
Joey Buckets is the poison we don't need
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X
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Op-Ed: Villanueva’s bogus Venice 'outreach' is just a cover for criminalizing homelessness Pete White, LA CAN, responds to
@LASDHQ
Venice Beach incursion as pressure mounts. R/T
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Why is it so difficult for elected officials to do the obvious: open hotels, use publicly owned property for housing, invest in health, not the police, focus on the social determinates of health, and not further harm? Answer: because they represent the few, not many.
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We said, ”enough is enough!” 3-years to build a single unit of housing while people are dying on our streets at a rate of
#3aDayLA
is unconscionable. So, in LACAN fashion, we're embarking on a project to show LA how it's done.
#6InTheMorning
#HousekeysNotHandcuffs
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LAPD officers call in absent for nearly 700 transit-policing shifts in one week I bet there were reduced stress levels and very few 4th Amendment violations last week. Also, miss us with the "this is not a protest" rhetoric, we are not fooled.
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Your resignation as council President is not nearly enough. You must leave the building! And please take your two accomplices with you.
#NotmyLA
#StepdownorgetShutdown
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We would like to say thank you to all of the organizers, organizations, and Angelenos who showed up to stop the super-spreader event, masked as a religious revival, in Skid Row. Our collective intervention will hopefully reduce the potential harm caused by this
@seanfeucht
stunt.
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They voted 'yes' to more surveillance, increased targeting and eviction of tenants that dare demand answers and services, and, ultimately, death to some residents. They voted 'no' to housing as a human right and services requested by residents.
Every sitting LA City Councilmember just voted yes on taking $9 million in funds that are supposed to be used for Public Housing and using those funds to put more police officers into Public Housing developments.
Our government is broken beyond repair.
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Where is the Liberal Left? They literally left...(A THREAD)
As the powers that be in Los Angeles prepare to roll out and enforce 41.18, a city ordinance that virtually makes being houseless “Illegal”, there are some voices that are notably missing from the debate. (1/9)
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The City Council meets Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10:00 am in the John Ferraro Council Chamber, Room 340, City Hall, 200 N. Spring St. (entrance on Main St.), Los Angeles, 90012. There should only be ONE AGENDA ITEM: 3 Resignations
@cmgilcedillo
@CD6Nury
@kdeleon
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Uprooting unhoused people and issuing them citations for quality of life offenses is a failed strategy. Providing housing is the ONLY way to solve the homeless crisis.
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If Minneapolis can do it, so can we Los Angeles. This is our fight - dismantle and replace. Get ready for some uncomfortable truths and losing some allies in the labor movement, but it is possible to
#DefundLAPD
. Oh yeah,
#REJECT8CantWait
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The Fuckery of Fences:
Every fence erected around a park represents LA’s continued failure to house houseless people. Every fence illegally placed on a sidewalk illustrates the “dirty divide,” primed, seemingly sanctioned and assisted by the government. 1/8
#BringdowntheFences
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.
@MayorOfLA
has a real problem speaking with Black people in Skid Row, and an even bigger problem speaking with Black women. This email, outlining his program's failures, was sent to his staff yesterday morning, before his evening speech, but he still hasn't responded.
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We want homes, not games. Homes are essential, stadiums are not. Yet LA has more stadiums than we can even use and hundreds of thousands of tenants either experiencing homelessness or on the brink of homelessness.
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It becomes increasingly difficult to act like you care
@LACityCouncil
while simultaneously making it impossible to exist (literally) if you're houseless, poor, or just an eyesore for segregationists, gentrifiers, or thirsty politicians. Angelenos are better than this.
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All eyes are on UCLA this morning as the administration and government roll out its banishment tool of choice, state violence aimed at silencing the voices of truth, humanity, and human rights.
Move things!! Keep the cops out! We holding the line!
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#StayAwaySuperSpreader
As you know, we don’t play. We see this as an attack on our community and will not sit idly by. Still waiting to hear from elected officials, but springing into action in their absence.
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#SeizetheHotels
@MayorOfLA
listen to Black women. No more excuses. Lyrics from the soul. “You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.” -Nina Simone
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It's cold and raining as hail assaults the pavement, and houseless people are forced to live outside. The
@MayorOfLA
has a blank check from FEMA to house folks but refuses to do so. He can
#SeizetheHotels
to humanely house folks today, but again, he does nothing.
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On Friday, September 3, 2021, the City of Los Angeles will be authorized to start the enforcement of the newly adopted 41.18 ordinance. This marks another step away from housing, the ultimate solution, and towards state violence and fattening police budgets.
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The Police Are Lying in LA and the Media Is Falling for It—Again ”Given the stakes, it’s not too much to ask the media to do its job. It’s not too much to ask journalists to act like journalists instead of stenographers.”
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This is what
@MayorOfLA
claims as a smashing success - 182 arrests, use-of-force, walling off public space, and red-lining areas controlled by the
#LAPD
. More importantly, establishing deep divides with the call for more of the same coming from the gentry.
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@MayorOfLA
@ProjAngelFood
@karshcenter
@LACity
@LetsVolunteerLA
So, you honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by not having a single Black family in your photographs? Yeah, okay.
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From L.A. to the Bay and Redlands, these toolsheds continue to ignite. Tool sheds are for tools and not people, and this push is not towards housing as a human right is nothing less than carceral and a nexus to criminalization.
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So,
@MayorOfLA
, why is the
#LAPD
ticketing houseless people for camping on Glendale Blvd against CDC and WHO pandemic guidance?
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Had we not exposed this fuckery the
@LAPDHQ
and
@MayorOfLA
would have paid the $16 million to teach the cops how to justify killing us. Imagine what we can accomplish when we get rid of the ”caretakers of white supremacy.
#DefundThePolice
UPDATE! LAPD BACKTRACKS.. saying there's no training with
@ForceScience
. It was "erroneously advertised" and LAPD "will NOT be hosting any future training" by them. ALL POWER TO ALL PEOPLE!
@LACANetwork
@BLMLA
@WP4BL
@StreetWatchLA
@KtownforAll
@NOlympicsLA
@DSA_LosAngeles
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Can someone please tell
@rogervincent
that 4th and Central is in Skid Row.
Also, please ask the
#LATIMES
why they concealed the fact that Larry Rauch is a named Plaintiff in the LA Alliance litigation? As usual, this is about money and banishment!
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Unhoused women will spend another day soaked by rain with no heat, electricity or protection from the pandemic which btw is STILL claiming lives. 53 days have passed since FEMA offered full reimbursement for hotel rooms
@MayorOfLA
peoples lives depend on you acting now.
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During the pandemic, the construction of SoFi Stadium has been deemed “essential” while elected officials won’t even utter the words “rent cancellation.”
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Thank you to the legendary
@regulator
Warren G for helping us launch our
#HomesNotPrisons
campaign by cooking 500 delicious burgers for the Skid Row community today! 🔥
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We’ve received several calls from reporters regarding last Tuesday’s 41.18 vote and a
@CD6Nury
and
@PaulKoretzCD5
“whisper campaign” to liken our presence to the
#Jan6
coup attempt. This is our response to their toxic foolishness, and we’ll see you all at City Hall tomorrow.
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Stand off in Echo Park. Leave the bulldozers, badges, and bullets at home. Instead, bring some house keys.
#HousekeysNotHandcuffs
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@CD6Nury
@kdeleon
@cmgilcedillo
tell us how you really feel! Saying the quiet thing loud and displaying your toxic and violent divisiveness warrants an equal response.
#NotTobeTrusted
#stepdowm
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Headlines and rhetoric can be very misleading. Clearing Skid Row by the Fall was once promised by another White dude, Chief Bill Bratton. In 3-yrs: 27K arrests and 36K citations in a 25-block area of 13k-15k primarily Black people, all while promising housing and services.
Judge orders L.A. city and county to provide shelter for everyone on skid row by fall Megaphone Carter bellows like an auctioneer: 90-days, 120-days, Oct 18th...by Fall. Place the $1 billion dollar bag in escrow. Produce those properties. Okay, now what?
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Los Angeles police shoot a woman in Silver Lake - Los Angeles Times Here we go—” houseless woman waves what LAPD describes as a gun,” and they open fire. LAPD has zero credibility as their murder of Blk, Brn, and poor people continues unabated.
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The sad and unfortunate truth is that lying is what they do best. An even bigger problem is that the press generally reprints and amplifies those lies as truth leading to an even greater gap in public opinion. They'll then call it fair and balanced reporting and move on.
Update: “they lied to me”
Vietnam veteran Robert says
@LASDHQ
deputies dropped him off at the VA and left Wednesday. He slept outside that night in his wheelchair after deputies threw away his belongings and cheered he was going to get housed.
@SpecNews1SoCal
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🗣️ ALL HANDS ON DECK! 🗣️
Join us tomorrow morning on the steps of city hall as we push back against
@MRTempower
's 41.18 motion and the criminalization of our houseless neighbors!
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Hey
@kdeleon
, glad you're finally paying attention. Step up and
#ProtectSkidRow
! We want to see you enforce public health orders and charge these superspreaders. Stop turning a blind eye to the violations of a maskless mass gathering.
@mayorofLA
@CityAttorneyLA
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Words are powerful. Today, council member after council member parroted similar lines about making Los Angeles accessible for all, and the only way to accomplish that was with a criminalization ordinance. That immediately creates a dangerous division and will fuel hate.
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Judge Carter has grown tired of
@MayorOfLA
excuses about solving the houseless crisis. In his most recent order, he wants the City of LA to prove that their indifference isn't deliberate. The community also wants to see that evidence because it feels intentional.
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Column: A tiny home village comes to Eagle Rock. It’s better than tents, despite the critics
@LATstevelopez
$68k per tool shed can be better spent on permanent options. Each TOOL SHED is another step towards NOT addressing the actual crisis, housing. 1/5
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Uh oh,
@PaulKoretzCD5
is complaining that people are calling him a White supremacist and is now rolling out his legislative "my best friend is Black" resume. You can't make this crap up.
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L.A. Skid Row choir receives unprecedented approval from Red Hot Chili Peppers to cover 'Under the Bridge' on 'AGT' We want to thank the
@ChiliPeppers
@flea333
for trusting us with their art.
@FreedomSingers_
@ArtHasNoAddress
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Early morning w/
@democracynow
lifting the work and intentions of a movement towards the Human Right to Housing and all it entails.
"Houselessness is a byproduct of a failed housing system," says Pete White of Los Angeles Community Action Network.
"Instead of the criminalization of the houseless community, we are calling for housing preservation."
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Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority head quits over employee-pay conflict 1/3 Marston (LAHSA CEO) attempted to bring some measure of pay equity to PUBLIC workers at the bottom of the pay scale. That attempt was rebuffed by Board Members, some of whom
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National Police Foundation to Review LAPD’s Response Tactics to BLM Protests – NBC Los Angeles In a federal lawsuit filed in June by the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, BLM-LA and Los Angeles Community Action Network
@BLMLA
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Last week, several Project RoomKey residents we work with received this notice, informing them that they will be evicted from their rooms by the end of the month.
Needless to say, we have a few questions for public officials.
@MayorOfLA
@LACountyBOS
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There are 83 COVID-19 outbreaks at homeless shelters across Los Angeles, and yet city council members continue to push for criminalization, and for unhoused folks to enter high risk housing options.
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Please read and share. Our vision of public safety does not include failed strategies that have devastated our communities. We are not those organizations that in 1994 applauded the destruction of their families in exchange for access and peanuts. Safety = Refunding the Community
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What the Sheriff is doing in Venice isn't "outreach"—it's a way for him to divert attention from his dismal record while he panders to wealthy homeowners who resent houseless residents, writes LA CAN Executive Director Pete White in today's
@latimes
:
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This is why we say
#Reject8CantWait
today. Real talk:
#8CantWait
reads like something written or approved by the police. At least 5 of the 8 are currently operational in Los Angeles, and the
#LAPD
body count and use-of-force incidents continue to rise.
#GTFOH
#DONTTrussEM
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The message is loud and clear.
#41
.18 is nothing more than a tool of segregation. Segragation has always been enforced by a pen, baton, and bullets.
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L.A. needs to stop the COVID outbreak among homeless people - Things LA Can Do: 1) Stop the Sweeps and follow CDC and WHO guidelines; 2) House ppl in City and County-owned prop; 3) Take empty hotel rooms, starting at LA Live; and, 4) Defund the Police.
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.
@MitchOFarrell
dared to say
@LAPDHQ
deployed a significant portion of their military apparatus because protestors had mother f$
@king
flashlights at a nighttime protest in a dark ass park! Nobody brings a flashlight to a gunfight, idiot.
#EchoParkRiseUp
#Thisaintover
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🚨CALL TO ACTION🚨
Several
@LACityCouncil
members are ONCE AGAIN trying to revive 41.18, an ordinance that criminalizes houseless people for simply existing. This would start the mass displacement of tens of thousands of people who already have trouble accessing services.
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Echo Park Community Day “was all of that and a bag of chips.” Showing back up on Tongva land, programming a day that was rooted in education, power building, recruitment, and organizing, and having fun in the sun is just what we needed. A gentrifier even called the
#LAPD
! Lol
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There comes a time to push, prod, nudge, cajole, negotiate, and retreat; this is not that time. Now is the time to level up, power up, replace, agitate, disrupt, and build a world that works for the masses and not the few. The power we wield is evident; let's make more.
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There is an abundance of leadership in Los Angeles, mostly outside of the halls and walls of power. How I wish the integrity, vision, character, and fearlessness in these streets were mirrored by politicians inside these bastions of cowardice and corruption.
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Welcome to Los Angeles: if you're Black or Brown, you can lose your life for “allegedly” taping a 1st Amendment protected sign/PIECE OF PAPER on a fence. Do you think this would've happened to gentrifiers directing folks to their picnic spot?
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.
@seanfeucht
In Skid Row, the gospel taught by abolitionist preachers Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, and Nat Turner resonates with the freedom dreams of Black people. It is called “Liberation Theology” and supports the Black Radical Tradition.
#StayAwayfromSkidRow
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“Reform” and what you're looking at does not fit in the same sentence, story, volume. You're witnessing a culture of violence and chaos on full display. They are accountable to no one, and the only corrective action is to disrupt and dismantle.
#WeArentSafe
#NotforUs
#LetsGetFree
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Kei Utsumi, a longtime member of LA CAN, has joined the ancestors. Kei's influence was known by many and felt by the masses. Kei will be sadly missed.
#letsgetfree
#lacanetwork_official
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We've taken over City Hall and are now rolling out the “People’s Public Comment.” F&
@k
their bogus rules; this is what democracy looks like.
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ELECTED OFFICIALS: If you're silent while houseless Angelenos die in the rain AND during a state violence murder marathon as
#LAPDkills
, your conscience should haunt you.
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Judge Carter's recent order would compromise the safety of unhoused women by forcing them into a shelter system that is rife with management problems and unsanitary conditions.
We spoke with Skid Row residents about some of their experiences in local shelters (THREAD):
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You remove toilets and hand washing stations in the midst of a pandemic. You create an ordinance that makes it impossible to occupy public space if you’re houseless, a street vendor, or simply someone that does not fit your detached vision of Los Angeles.
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