Let's get FREE!
LA Street Care & Mutual AidIt’s that time again! Rejoice and resist with us at the Echo Park Really, Really Free Market: 📆Sunday, June 28th ⏰11am—2pm 📍Echo Park Lake (corner of Park Ave & Echo Park Lake Ave near the picnic tables)
An abolitionist collective organizing with the unhoused via mutual aid in Historic Filipinotown, Echo Park, Rampart, East Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Los Feliz. Join us: tinyurl.com/joinlasc
Come see Crushing Wheelchairs on June 25 at Vidiots! Tickets are sliding scale. Purchase here: givebutter.com/crushing-whe...
fascism enacted first on the unhoused will also happen to you
National Homelessness Law CenterLast week, the Cicero Institute held a conference calling for more arrests of homeless people & subjecting them to forced labor & detention camps. Our recent report shows that its founder has deep financial ties to industries that profit from criminalizing homelessness. filtermag.org/protests-cic...
Yesterday, @hugoforcd13.bsky.social's sweeps squad targeted our friends, ordering the destruction of tents and personal belongings. Cop collaborators Carlos and Kylie went home for the weekend leaving a dozen people without shelter. Help us replace the tents they destroyed! tinyurl.com/lascdonate
Electoral politics is a dead end. When so-called "progressives" take office, they undermine movements and whitewash state violence instead of fighting it.
LA Public PressHave progressive LA politicians broken their promises on sweeps? Data show hundreds of CARE+ operations in the districts of Councilmembers who campaigned on ending sweeps.
*All Angelenos unless they’re unhoused. Then they’re fine to sweep and criminalize, right Hugo? You would think someone who is against wrongful arrests would stop protecting Mitch O’Farrell’s 41.18 criminalization zones.
Hugo Soto-MartinezI was arrested as a juvenile. That experience made me who I am today & it made me a better representative for all Angelenos. No one deserves to be judged on their worst moments. Thank you, Estuardo, for learning, growing, and sharing your story. www.latimes.com/california/s...