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Feb 7 - Slavery by Another Name STOP THE WARS - PEACE, EQUALITY & JUSTICE FOR ALL! Feb 9 - Assange & Press Freedom Feb 10 - District Attorney Yes on R-Reform LA Jails on Mar. 3 Ballot Op Ed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA Candidate Forum, Pasadena There are several races beyond the presidential primary on the ballot in L.A. County and in the Feb 11 - The Cult of the Gun: city of L.A., that merit people’s engagement. First and foremost is Measure R, the Reform LA Jails Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz initiative placed on the ballot through a major volunteer signature gathering effort initiated by the Justice LA Coalition and including Black Lives Matter, White People for Black Lives, the Youth Justice Coalition, and others involved in mass and class organizing from an abolitionist perspective. Feb 21-22 - LA Abilities Expo How to solve LA’s housing crisis Reform L.A. Jails, founded by activist, Feb 27 - ‘Not Me, Us’: public speaker, and co-founder of Black by Pete White of LA CAN (Community Action Network) Lives Matter Global Network, Patrisse DSA Night School www.cangress.org Cullors, received a ballot designation and Feb 29 - Leap Day Open Mic Poetry Three years ago, we released a community-based assessment is now officially the “Yes on R” campaign. of HHH spending and the lack of progress in a report entitled Measure R is a response to the systemic Benefit for Turning The Tide ”All Show, No Substance.” There were several action items corruption and structural oppression that has shaped the lives of Black and Brown listed that would ultimately serve residents, poor and houseless people, and Why all Cops Are In Fact Bastards as our organizing agenda. We’ve those who struggle with mental illness or By Imani Beckett accomplished many things, but It’s no secret to anyone that’s somewhat left-of-center that police abuse is there is still much work to be done. a serious issue. Police have a long history of brutalizing Black and Brown It’s important to note that many of people at a significantly higher rate than whites and disproportionately the items we listed in the assessment arrest them for committing petty crimes. At the same time, they fail to investigate would become directions the city homicides and rapes in the Black community. Still, most liberals are seldom willing to would follow. criticize the institution of the police. Many claim that most police are “good people” who Here’s a list of 10 things the city needs are just “doing their job,” and these abuses are only the actions of “a few bad apples.” to do now. Please add, because this list in The fundamental flaw in liberal thinking about police brutality is that it assumes that no way covers everything. the police were created to protect the population and serve justice. I mean, their motto 1. Vacancy Control - over 103,000 vacant is to “protect and serve.” This line of thinking supposes that the police’s purpose is to units today in L.A. juxtaposed to the keep people safe and views police brutality as deviations from their otherwise noble and numbers of houseless people is criminal. important service of protecting the community from crime and keeping everyone safe. Many who hold to this view believe that if only we had more body cameras and more 2. Convert City-owned property, raw land, black cops, maybe if we did more to crack down on racism as a society, or if we had better and buildings to housing. disability, in LA County. training, the police would become a just and valuable, crime-fighting institution. LA County jail is the biggest in the world, The main problem with this way of thinking is that it completely ignores why the and has a history of over-incarcerating institution of the police was created and how it is meant to function under capitalism. people with mental illness and providing Despite what we’ve been told our entire lives, the police weren’t created to protect and substandard mental healthcare inside the serve everyone. They weren’t created to prevent violence. And they certainly weren’t jails. Thousands of people who struggle created to deliver justice. Instead, the police were designed to protect the interests of the with houselessness, mental illness, or drug upper class and the majority population from working people and minority groups. dependency are locked up in LA County The first police force in the US was created in 1844. The stated goal of the organization every day. There are over 5,500 Angelenos at the time was to protect the population; however, the only thing they protected was in jail because they suffer from mental the monetary interests of the upper class and the cultural sensibilities of the majority health illness; 70% suffer from substance population. Throughout the 19th century, the US saw a significant influx of immigrants use disorder, 25% are chronically homeless from Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Eastern Europe who brought with them cultural and 40% of those jailed simply can’t afford practices that were different from those of the already existing population. LA CAN protests sweeps bail (including a majority of all women in See: “ACAB,” p. 7 and criminalization jail locally). 3. Land trusts and long term leases of “Instead of locking people up, we should Australia: The Fire This Time publicly owned property. show care and compassion by ensuring © by Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1/26/20 4. Strengthening tenant protections for all them access to mental health care. That’s Australia, the fire this time. tenants in Los Angeles why it is so pertinent to vote Yes on R and we call on the community to do the same,” Tongues of fire licked the trees of New 5. Rent Control and Ellis Act reforms says Cullors. South Wales, a state in SouthEast Australia. YES ON “R” 6. Stop all forms of criminalization that If Yes on R is successful, the Like a beggar at a feast, red flowers of flame lead to eviction, theft of private property, measure requires LA County to invest jumped across the nation, eating all in its path. and death. A living expression of what Aussies call, ‘Fire in rehabilitation and mental health 7. Invest in new housing technologies that treatment, grant subpoena power to the Season’. Honestly. ‘Fire Season’. reduce cost and time to build, convert, and Civilian Oversight Commission (COC) This, the time of Australian summer is the hottest preserve. to effectively investigate misconduct. The summer since records were kept. And fire season Free Mumia COC will also be mandated to develop a gives a whole new meaning to the passive term 8. Fix the ”soft costs” situation that plan to reduce jail populations and LA ‘Global Warming’. Abu-Jamal represents 40% of the cost of building a County would be mandated to redirect all Fire Season, the unit of housing in Los Angeles. cost savings from reduced incarceration to Season of Fire. Why not 9. Don’t pit housing and jobs against one public priorities, such as drug treatment, call it what it really is - another. Summon the political leadership housing, and mental health care. Death Season, the Season needed to ensure providing work and Yes on R will end the cycle of corruption of Death. When so-called housing go hand and hand and target those and misconduct that has plagued LA ‘civilized society causes who need it most. County for over a decade, invest in rehabilitation and mental health and save an animal holocaust 10. Don’t keep giving money and power taxpayers tens of millions of dollars a year against life itself. to the same commissions, developers, by ensuring people no longer sit in jail just Australia is burning. departments, or elected officials, and because they can’t afford bail. expect different results. LA County now has the opportunity How about ‘Global Burning’? In this fire season From imprisoned nation, Three damn years is a long damn time to fight for a justice system that works for alone, over a billion animals - that’s billion - with this is Mumia Abu-Jamal to open a unit - its impacts are negligible all. For more information on the ballot and a ‘B’, again - a billion animals have lost their lives. when viewed against the annual increase how you can vote, visit: This alone, seems almost incomprehensible - a audio by Noelle Hanrahan in houselessness. Opening doors are www.voteyesonr.org. billion life forms -gone- in a temporal blink of time. www.prisonradio.org essential, but the time it takes to do so can’t Is this not a sign? A symbol of things to come? transcription by Fatirah be overlooked. See: “March 3 Ballot,” p. 7 Black Lives Matter–LA Excluded from Women’s March 2019, Vol. 25 Number Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles was excluded from the 4th Annual Women’s March in Los Angeles. WMLA did not invite Black Lives Matter to participate, failed to respond to an email request IN MEMORY OF for inclusion, and further refused speaking time during a subsequent telephone conversation. This marks the first time that BLMLA will not participate and is the culmination of ongoing disagreement and tension where Black Lives Matter and some of our members, including children, have experienced significant harm at the hands of WMLA. Beyond the specific harms, BLMLA has been compelled to challenge the liberal White-supremacy practiced by WMLA: the same kind of anti-Black feminism employed by White and privileged women during the suffrage and liberal feminist eras. While some powerful Black women political leaders have which included a spokesperson, youth, and the families of been invited and their voices are important, as currently those who were killed by police took the stage to invite scheduled, the stage will be devoid of any Black women attendees to move beyond an anti-Trump moment and to grassroots leaders. This reflects a fundamental difference vision and build a truly free and just world. in approach. In past years, BLMLA has utilized the WMLA In 2018, BLMLA was, again, invited, but also learned space to inspire on-the-ground action. It has always been that the WMLA included Zionists and individuals who our desire for the masses of women, girls, femmes, and supported the state of Israel at a time when Palestinian allies assembled under the banner of the Women’s March to women and girls were being killed. Many of our allies engage in actual work that transforms the world, rather than boycotted the March. Rather than cancelling, BLMLA gather for a feel-good parade. decided to use the space to bring awareness by having Co-founder & Editor John Johnson, At a time when Los Angeles police continue to target Black Black Lives Matter-Youth Vanguard co-founder and Black people at five times our population share, when officers are Muslim 14-year-old organizer, Thandiwe Abdullah, read b. July 4, 1944 - d. April 13, 2014 falsifying evidence to place us in gang databases, when the the Movement 4 Black Lives plank on Palestine. County serves as the largest jailer in the nation, and is in the Following the march Thandiwe was falsely accused Editorial Staff: Terrie Brady, Donna Buell, Bella De Soto, midst of an all-out homeless crisis where the vast majority are by WMLA leadership of making specific, violent, anti- Uncle Don B. Fanning, Greg Foisie, Jeff Hirsch, Ray Jones, Black, WMLA’s exclusion of Black Lives Matter means that Semitic threats during her speech. Such allegations are not Michael Novick, Dean Ruby, David Troy & others. they are blatantly engaging in anti-Blackness. 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