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Helping ppl scared of guns shoot #HolesInHoles since 2020
Inclusive Classes to Demystify & Empower
Refugee owned @enclave.la
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BRING THE TRAINING TO YOUR RANGE 🇺🇸
The 2027 calendar is officially open for hosts.
Every year I travel the country teaching 20+ public classes, plus private law enforcement training. Most of those classes happen because someone raised their hand and said, “Come teach here.”
If you’ve got a range, a group of shooters who want to get better, or a department that needs quality training, let’s build a class together.
🔹 Pistol Dominance
🔹 Red dot pistol
🔹 Rifle
🔹 AIWB Pistol
🔹 Law enforcement courses
You bring the range and the local connections. I’ll bring the curriculum, the instruction and the promotion.
Dates fill fast, so reach out now to lock in yours.
📩 training@myowndefender.com
💬 Or DM me “HOST 2027”
Know a range owner or training group that should see this? Tag them below 👇

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L..A. honors Ben Caldwell, Father of Leimert Park!💜

On Ben's 81st birthday, the Leimert Park community celebrated the naming of the corner where his @kaosnetworkz community arts space has done so much for the youth & artists, as BEN CALDWELL SQUARE.🎉

Ben was one of the visionary filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion movement for Black cinema. In the 80s, he created a space to teach Black youth film making, artistic expression & hosting @project.blowed @bananasnetwork open mics, founding Leimert Park Artwalk, co-founding Festival of Masks with @lacommons

I had been coming to Ben's community events at Leimert Park, the cultural heart of Black L.A., for over 15yrs and it wasn't until a conversation with him during the pandemic that he told me he was drafted to the Vietnam War when he was 20.

Up til then, neither of us realized our common connection in history there.

L.A.'s Black community and Boyle Heights Chicano comunidad taught me, a Viet war refigee, that Black & Brown men were disproportionately drafted & sent to the front to kill & die.

Ben told me he felt being drafted as a Black man was like being imprisoned -- he resisted a system trying to program him to dehumanize Vietnamese.

Whenever they ordered him to chant Kill and Hate, he changed the words mentally to Love.

He constantly reminded himself throughout the war he was an Artist, not a Soldier. Malcolm X's autobiography reminded him Black soldiers were disproportionately undereducated, unemployed or working class men being exploited in a war pitting poor colonized, expendable people against each other.

Towards the end of his tour, he and fellow Black soldiers, like Muhammad Ali expressed, had no fight with the Viet Cong, when their own families were fighting against white supremacy & segregation back home.

What saved his life and sanity was getting a camera to shoot instead of his rifle...and taking pictures of his surroundings, especially the children and villagers of the indigenous Montagnards he befriended.

A few years ago, Ben made a healing journey back to Vietnam for the 1st time since the war, connecting with hip hop & artist communities there.

#leimertpark #southla #vietnamwar #blackla

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Last year while filming AMERICANA BANG BANG, Director So Yun took a 8-hour firearms class with @la.progressive.shooters.

Although she has always been fearful of firearms, she wanted to learn the basics of firearm 101 and firearm safety—how to assemble/dissemble, how to hold it, and how to properly shoot. She was able to learn all that and so much more. Thank you to Tom and the LA Progressive Shooters team for their attentiveness, care and creating an inclusive and safe space for all.

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AIPAC A$$HOLE OF THE DAY #14: Luz Rivas (@repluzrivas & @luzmrivas) of CA-29 read the Epstein Files... but left out one thing 🇮🇱

I Endorse Angelica Dueñas (@angelica4us)🇺🇸

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Gracias Fernando @somoscuche for a great meal with great music and wine.💜

They make delicious Italian, Greek and Vietnamese inspired sandwiches, and I couldn't help ask Francisco about the amazing African soundtrack playing.

Turns out we are both music nerds who love Mulatu Astatke and all kinds of world music.

Come support his restaurant he just opened recently, just steps from the metro bus station.

#cdmx #mexicocity #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness

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💭 USDAC’s Carol Zou @coralzoa and Tom Nguyen of @la.progressive.shooters discuss the overwhelming demand for Tom’s gun safety courses and an egoless approach to firearm use.

🌻 In the Crosshairs is the fourth installment in USDAC’s Vital Conversations series. Come along with us as we reimagine the Left’s relationship with firearms by revisiting the rich history of the Black Panthers and their approach to community self-defense.

🎥 Full episode linked in bio. 🔗 usdac.us/vital

#USDAC #laprogressiveshooters #gunsafety #communityselfdefense #shortdocumentary

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We gotta take the power back! 🔊

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💭 Artist-organizer Carol Zou @coralzoa reflects on their evolving understanding of U.S. gun culture.

🌻 In the Crosshairs is the fourth installment in USDAC’s Vital Conversations series. Come along with us and @la.progressive.shooters as we reimagine the Left’s relationship with firearms by revisiting the rich history of the Black Panthers and their approach to community self-defense.

🎥 Full episode linked in bio. 🔗 usdac.us/vital

#USDAC #communityorganizing #communityselfdefense #gunsafety #shortdocumentary

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Across the country and around the world, we’re witnessing rising authoritarianism, political violence, and the normalization of harm against marginalized communities. In moments like this, people begin asking not just “how do we resist?” but also “how do we protect each other?”

That’s why we’re resharing one of our most talked-about installments of Vital Conversations: In the Crosshairs, a short film on how activists can think about community self-defense, and whether firearms play a role in it. And to celebrate, our resident comic book nerd Jordan Seaberry @jordanseaberry has made a retro style comic cover for it, showcasing our own Carol Zou @coralzoa and Tom Nguyen of @la.progressive.shooters.

Our work at the USDAC is rooted in the belief that art and strategy are inseparable. When ICE and other agencies look more like slave patrols than law enforcement, conversations like this one are more necessary than ever.

Check out the full conversation on our website. usdac.us/vital

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We posted this 4 years ago and felt it was more relevant than ever now. We updated some of the video, but the message remains the same. Gun rights are human rights.

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@idkbloodboy unarmed besties, this is your sign #socialism #2A #leftist #solidarity

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Kettlebell sprint.
Handgun, Shotgun.
Rifle.

Run it. Breathe. Focus. Execute.

Not gonna lie, this one was a perfect storm. Everything connected. You can hear it in the video.

Trained with Triggerology — Mr. Mayso kept me honest the whole time.

Filmed at Mike Raahauge Shooting Enterprises.

Trinidad camo pants doing their job too 😏

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