Dear Friends, this week the Coalition held three teach-ins on our new report – Automating Banishment: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land. We also organized an action against LA Sheriff Villanueva’s visit to skid row along with LA CAN. On Monday 11/15 the Coalition was invited to participate in an Instagram Live discussion with … Continue reading COALITION ACTIVITIES—November 21, 2021
Dear Friends, this week the Coalition finally released our report, AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Lands! The War on Youth working group held an educational webinar on how nonprofits serve to perpetuate and execute the DHS’s efforts to criminalize youth through CVE grant programs. On Monday (11/8) the Coalition held a press conference in … Continue reading COALITION ACTIVITIES—November 14th, 2021
Read Automating Banishment: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land, our new community-based report on the relationships between “data-driven policing” and real estate development, displacement, settler colonialism, and conquest. The report is available with interactive maps at automatingbanishment.org. You can also download a pdf of the report or download a short summary. This community-based report … Continue reading AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land
Dear Friends, this week, the Gender and Sexuality Working Group made space for the loved ones we’ve lost, and we were joined by an impacted family member, Mary Williams, to talk about the murder of her grandson, Keith Bursey. The coalition has also been gearing up to release our new report, AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: The Surveillance and … Continue reading COALITION ACTIVITIES—November 7th, 2021
Read our new article in Issue 35 of The Abolitionist, Critical Resistance‘s “publication dedicated to the strategy and practice of prison industrial complex abolition.” You can read the article below, download the pdf here, and subscribe to The Abolitionist here. Data-Driven Policing: Abolition Requires a Culture of Resistance By Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Policing is … Continue reading Data-Driven Policing: Abolition Requires a Culture of Resistance
Dear friends, this week the coalition released a brand new zine, continued the fight against Data Informed Community Focused Policing, and met with some powerful youth at Roosevelt High School. This past Tuesday’s Data Driven Policing Webinar focused on our upcoming report, some new findings about the LAPD’s SARA policing model, and a glance at … Continue reading COALITION ACTIVITIES—October 31, 2021
LAPD’s Budget Creep is a new zine we made over the past year in our Defund Surveillance campaign with Free Radicals. The zine dissects how LAPD’s multi-billion dollar budget has grown over the years. DOWNLOAD ONLINE PDF DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE PDF (to assemble, print this pdf double-sided flipping on short edge or print the online pdf … Continue reading ZINE: LAPD’s Budget Creep
Dear friends, this week the Coalition organized, amplified, and executed a powerful O22 action in front of LAPD headquarters. We also supported BLM’s End Police Association action and presented our Architecture of Surveillance and Algorithmic Ecology at the Oxy Arts Encoding Futures exhibition. Click the link to read more about the work we’ve been doing! On Monday … Continue reading COALITION ACTIVITIES—October 24, 2021
This Friday, October 22, at 4pm, the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and LA CAN in coalition with our partners at BLM-LA and other organizations will be hosting an action to honor National Anti-Police Brutality Day (historically called O22) in front of the LAPD headquarters. Please join us in a show of power and solidarity against … Continue reading This Friday, October 22: NATIONAL ANTI-POLICE BRUTALITY DAY
Download PDF version here. Dear friends, this week the Coalition supported BAJI’s in-person action, conducted chronic offender outreach, and began planning what is bound to be a powerful O22 action. Click the link to read more about the work we’ve been doing! On Tuesday 10/12, we supported the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) in … Continue reading COALITION ACTIVITIES—October 17, 2021
