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Abolitionist mutual aid collective organizing in Echo Park, Historic Filipinotown, Rampart, East Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Los Feliz.

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Featured events for the week of October 23-29. See our stories throughout the week for reminders and additional short-notice announcements, follow the tagged orgs for the latest, spread the word to your folks, and let’s haunt the ghouling class LA!

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ECHO PARK this Saturday - Join or re-join community defense efforts!

Over the last few months, ICE activity has fluctuated. Their targets and tactics have changed in response to organized defense, which we adapt in turn.

As ICE activity surges and the midterm elections approach, we want to remind our neighbors that they are not alone, that community defense continues daily, and that safety planning and accompaniment can keep us safer!

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On the third Sunday of every month, we have our All-Chinatown Tenants Union (ACTU) meeting in 3 languages: English, Cantonese, and Spanish! This month, tenants came together across buildings in Chinatown to discuss:

❇️ Solidarity with the Madrid Tenants Union @inquilinato_madrid: Tenants educated each other about how what happened to Maricarmen in Madrid is exactly what’s happening to elderly and immigrant tenants in LA Chinatown—profit-hungry landlords and developers raising rents above fixed incomes and pushing seniors towards homelessness😡 We took a lot of inspiration from the way a huge street movement has been able to pressure politicians to consider transformative demands for just housing. Ni una Maricarmen más!

❇️ Opposing Ordinance 41.18: We discussed how criminalization of our unhoused neighbors has increased by almost 4x since so-called progressive Eunisses Hernandez @cd1losangeles took office, and how we as ACTU oppose this brutal policing.

❇️ Anti-Ballot Harvesting: There’s been a long history of politicians trying to take advantage of our community and sending people to fill out our elders’ ballots for them. We did a roleplay to educate tenants about their rights against ballot-harvesting.

❇️ Raise Income Not Rent: Although some tenants have been able to win significantly lower rent increases this year, tenants at other buildings are still receiving close to 9% rent increases. Stay tuned for our next steps in our campaign!

In the meanwhile, there are always 2 ways to support the work of ACTU:

1) Volunteer: Fill out our Volunteer Interest Form at ccedla.solidarity.tech/volunteer

2) Become a monthly sustainer: Sign up for monthly donations at tinyurl.com/ccedsustainers! ✊

#RaiseIncomeNotRent #NiUnaMariCarmenMas #huelgageneral #repeal4118 #chinatownla

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This Tuesday, October 6, the Public Safety Committee will consider Traci Park’s motion to vastly expand 41.18, making it easier to punish unhoused people across Los Angeles without individual Council votes on enforcement zones. Park invokes Trump’s Supreme Court and Gavin Newsom’s camping crackdown to justify revamping LA’s criminalization law 41.18. But permission to inflict more suffering is NOT an obligation to do so. LA must do better.

Criminalization means citations, arrest and jail for acts of survival because someone can’t afford housing in the midst of a housing crisis. It means forcing neighbors who are predominantly disabled, elderly and people of color to keep moving or face arrest, separating people from outreach workers and putting medications and belongings at risk.

This motion creates no housing and prevents no evictions. As the Olympics approach, sweeping people out of sight will only deepen the shame of a city that refuses to make housing affordable.

📣 Email City Council before Tuesday’s hearing and demand a NO vote on CF 20-1376-S5. Use the one-click email linked in our bio and below, then share this post.
bit.ly/stopblanket4118

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At Thursday’s sweep near Venice Blvd and Overland Ave, the rules seemed to change as a resident tried to leave with his belongings.

First, LAPD told him he could not take his cart because they said it did not belong to him. When he tried to move his belongings onto a rolling desk chair instead, officers said he could not take that either because it did not fit inside the city’s 60-gallon bag.

He ultimately left with only what he could fit inside.

A CD11 representative took his information but would not say what housing or services were available. LAHSA was not present.

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A sweep sign was spotted announcing a sweep happening tomorrow, Thursday Sept 24th, at the intersection of Venice Bld and Glendon Ave.

This intersection has been the target of near-weekly sweeps, and was the site of an Inside Safe operation last month on 8.27.

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Early Thursday morning, people staying beneath the 405 overpass on National Blvd and Sawtelle Blvd in the Sawtelle neighborhood were displaced ahead of a sweep as temperatures were already climbing into dangerous territory.

The previous day had reached around 100°F, and the sweep came just days after heavy rain. In conditions like these, shade, shelter, and the ability to stay put can be the difference between safety and death.

Everything left beneath the overpass was trashed. The only housing assistance available on site was a referral.

Sweeps do not create housing. In extreme weather, they can strip people of the few protections they have and force them to move through conditions that are already dangerous.

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Inside Safe is not a solution to homelessness. It is a displacement program designed by politicians invested in upholding our current capitalistic hellscape.

It greases the wheels of the homeless industrial complex, keeping non-profits employed and pockets lined, while actively dismantling and destroying the street communities who create networks of care and provide for themselves what city officials actively spend tens of thousands of dollars to strip away in sweeps every day.

Under the guise of “care”, city officials gleefully huddle up as if this were a sports match and descend upon a community they have no relationship with— calling people by the wrong names and forcing them to agree to have their belongings destroyed on camera in order to secure a temporary motel room at an undisclosed location. They say this is voluntary with LAPD officers onsite threatening arrest and LASAN garbage trucks and bulldozers poised to destroy everything in the designated “zone”.

The metric of success is not whether someone living on the street is permanently housed— it is measured by whether the public streets or abandoned lots where people carved out homes for themselves have been cleared of all signs of life.

It is a sidewalk clearing program not a housing program. The goal is to prevent “repopulation”.

After I commented on a recent post by @laistofficial reporting on the tragic death of Raz Chowdhury— a houseless Koreatown resident who died in isolation after being displaced into an inside safe motel— one Nicholas Chiodini (nchio) went on a brief harassment campaign that ended with him telling me to die before blocking me.

Idk this dude and I’m not phased by his hateful rhetoric but I share so that anyone else who may know him or cross paths is aware of how quick he is towards violence.

I was advocating for community self-determination and the autonomy of poor and houseless people to create our own solutions. Solutions like @poormagazine ‘s Homefulness. Solutions like the street communities that build networks of care for everyone that continues to suffer under the oppressions of an individualized, colonial society.

Politicians, liberals, and even well-mean

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Early on Thursday 9/3, a sweep caravan arrived at Venice Blvd and Globe Ave, where a disabled unhoused person had been living in a makeshift shelter.

The city confiscated and destroyed almost all of his belongings, including items he relied on for survival. Though he was connected with shelter services, there were no immediate placements available, and it is not currently known whether any shelter or assisted-living placement has been secured.

As a result, the city left a disabled person on the street after destroying nearly everything he had.

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Support & follow @poormagazine @aetnastreetsolidarity @ktownforall @lastreetcare @coalitiononhomelessness SF @rvtvshow @loveandjusticeinthestreets @stopthesweepsseattle @ppehrc @westernregionaladvocacyproject @sacramento.homeless.union @self_help_hunger_program @woodstreetcommons cuz #SweepsKill #Homelessnesskills #EvictionisElderandChildAbuse #HOMEfulnessHeals

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MacArthur Park street vendors want LA’s 41.18 anti-camping law gone.

That was the message delivered Wednesday by a group of about 20 street vendors working near the park, who held a press conference urging LA City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez to repeal the law in her district, including areas in and around the park.

The ordinance known as 41.18, bans “sleeping, sitting, and lying” in public spaces, and was established in 2021 to try to erase signs of visible homelessness throughout the city.

At MacArthur Park, Los Angeles Police Department officers have also used the law to ticket street vendors and displace them from the area.

“The direct threat is that 41.18 will be used to launch a social cleansing against poor and homeless workers, and to displace all those who are considered disposable, although we represent the backbone of this country’s economy,” said street vendor Ana Vasquez in Spanish.

To learn more, read the full story by Phoenix Tso (@phoenixtso) via the link in our bio or at LAPublicPress.org.

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Last Thursday, 8/27, the mayor’s office carried out an Inside Safe operation on Venice Blvd and Glendon Ave.

During the operation, 8 people were ultimately taken into interim housing. But in the process, everyone seeking housing (including those who had not yet been guaranteed placement) were told they had to give up their tents and canopies. Those tents were then destroyed.

When asked why this was necessary, an Inside Safe rep gave shifting explanations that did not match what witnesses observed on the ground.

For some, giving up their shelter did not lead to an Inside Safe placement at all. And even the people who were placed were taken to a motel scheduled to close in October, leaving them facing yet another move unless permanent housing becomes available.

Housing should not require people to surrender the tools they rely on to survive, especially when the city cannot guarantee what comes next.

By coercing people into giving up their tents in the hope of receiving housing that the mayor’s office did not ultimately provide, the Inside Safe operation functioned as another tool in the dehumanization, criminalization, and displacement of unhoused people.

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