Weekly Updates

Dear friends, check out some of the work we have been doing! On Saturday (4/2) the Coalition’s SARA Work Group met with Echo Park Lake community members to review our findings about the SARA program and to better develop an effective outreach plan to build power among those who felt the brunt of police violence… Read… Continue reading →

Dear friends, check out some of the work we have been doing! On Monday (3/21) the Coalition held its second Academic Complicity Work Group meeting, led by our coordinating team member Shakeer. The group has been mapping the spectrum of academic complicity that surround policing. They’ve also been discussing ways to create support and accountability… Read… Continue reading →

Dear friends, check out some of the work we have been doing! Tuesday’s (3/15) Webinar was a continuation of our deep dive into the report, Automating Banishment: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land, with Tuesday covering Part 4 of the report. Deshonay Dozier, Shakeer Rahman, alongside Paul Boden of WRAP and Pancake, General Dogon, and Natosha of… Read… Continue reading →

Dear friends, check out some of the work we have been doing! The first half of our week was largely focused on the fight against the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant at City Council. The grant had been agendized for a vote on Wednesday March 9th. We spent the week mobilizing our base and… Read… Continue reading →

Dear friends, check out some of the work we have been doing! On Tuesday (3/1), the Gender and Sexuality Webinar discussed some potential topics the group may want to explore in the coming months. They also provided updates on popular education materials that have been in the works about the LAPD’s practice of targeting sex… Read… Continue reading →

Dear friends, check out some of the work we have been doing! On Monday the War on Youth work group held a press conference at the south lawn of City Hall, demanding that the City Council reject the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention grant awarded to the LAPD. The grant is slated to be agendized… Read… Continue reading →

Dear friends, check out some of the work we have been doing! On Monday (2/14) the Coalition held our Data Driven Policing Work Group meeting. The group discussed updates on each of the fights including the work being done to develop pop-ed materials from Shadow Teams documents and what we’ve been discovering in the SARA… Read… Continue reading →

Dear friends, check out some of the work we have been doing! On Saturday (2/5), the Coalition presented our report, Automating Banishment: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land to the Empowerment Council West Area (ECWA) Neighborhood Council. The neighborhood council oversees the Crenshaw Corridor, an area of focus in the report. The Coalition is… Read… Continue reading →