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Next General Coalition Meeting: Join Us! Tuesday August 19th at 6:30pm for our monthly general Coalition Meeting. We’ll be meeting at the Downtown UCLA Labor Center at 675 Park View Ave, Los Angeles, adjacent to MacArthur Park.
Campaign Launch: Join us! Thursday, August 21st as communities from across Los Angeles will launch the Drone-Free LAPD/No Drones, LA! Campaign on Thursday August 21, 2014 at 9:30 AM at the Los Angeles City Hall followed by a Press Conference at 10 AM.
Join us at City Hall!
Communities across Los Angeles will launch the Drone-Free LAPD/No Drones, LA! Campaign on Thursday August 21, 2014 at 9:30 AM at the Los Angeles City Hall followed by a Press Conference at 10 AM. As residents of Los Angeles, we reject the recent acquisition of drones by LAPD. We believe the acquisition of drones signify a giant step forward in the militarization of local law enforcement that is normalizing continued surveillance and violations of human rights of our communities.
Join the fight against Drones. Demand a Drone-Free LAPD! Check out the event on Facebook!
When: Thursday August 21, 2014 at 9:30 am
Where: Los Angeles City Hall – South Steps facing First Street (across LAPD headquarter)
Who: Drone-Free LAPD/No Drones, LA! Campaign is comprised of a cross section of concerned individuals, including human and civil rights, and privacy rights organizations, faith based and community based organizations.
For further information please email: stoplapdspying@gmail.com or call (424) 209-7450
Stop the Militarization of Police!
The expansion of militarized police forces has serious consequences. Recently, policing has revealed its unchained barbarity once again. From the death of a defenseless Mike Brown in Missouri, or the strangled Eric Garner in New York City, or here in LA, where an unarmed black youth was executed lying face down on the concrete. Across the US, communities are waking up to this indefensible status-quo. And as our communities rise up in the face of these injustices, police forces don’t hesitate to respond with unrelenting brutality.
These stories are the culmination of police forces continuously bathed in military rhetoric and dressed increasingly in military equipment. The LAPD’s recent acquisition of drones is a reminder that police forces nationally are hungry to expand the war at home with technologies which sow terror abroad.
In the Media:
Man arrested for using drone to watch LAPD Read More….
Cops kill a black person twice a week in the USA Read More…