Weekly Updates

Happy Lunar New Year! To start off the lunar new year, we had our general community meeting where we went over our statement of principles zine some more, as well as talked about policing operations and Flock Safety, an Automatic License Plate Reader vendor who enables LAPD to stalk us in real time. On 2/18,… Read… Continue reading →

On Tuesday February 10th, we went to the Board of Police Commissioner’s meeting where they had nearly 4 million dollars worth of drone equipment for LAPD. We understand this to be mission creep: they claimed the drones are for “first responding,” but we know they are also for mass surveillance and criminalizing protestors. Later that… Read… Continue reading →

On February 3rd, 2026, the Coalition went to the Board of Police Commissioners Meeting where we continued to expose LAPD for their constant collaboration and partnership with the IOF (Israeli occupation forces). We know that the LAPD and IOF exchange tactics of warfare and genocide from project lavender to the Deadly Exchange, the US wages… Read… Continue reading →

On Tuesday January 20th, despite the Board of Police Commissioners meeting being canceled, we joined Centro CSO as they delivered their petition to honor the life of Jeremy Flores and fight for justice after he was murdered by LAPD. That afternoon, we joined LA CAN’s DWAC meeting to talk more about the release of the… Read… Continue reading →

On January 8th, the Coalition joined Centro CSO, CSDC, and many other organizations in honoring the life of Renee Good. That Saturday, in addition to the CSDC (Community Self Defense Coalition Meeting), we also joined Black Lives Matter LA in their vigil for Keith Porter. On Tuesday 01/12, we continued to fight for justice for… Read… Continue reading →

This is a photo from our last youth day of the year where we made [fake] surveillance objects and did a scavenger hunt with them! On Tuesday December 9th, the Coalition attended the Board of Police Commissioners meeting where we talked about the new militarized vehicles being gifted to LAPD, not for rescue or medical… Read… Continue reading →

12/02:On Tuesday December 2nd, the Coalition went to CalArts to speak with students about the surveillance state, predictive policing, and our ongoing fights. We also held our monthly Gender and Sexuality meeting where we talked about TERFs (trans exclusionary radical feminists), SWERFs (Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminists), and our fight for decriminalization of sex work.… Read… Continue reading →

11/25:On Tuesday, the Coalition disrupted the Board of Police Commissioners meeting where we continued to expose them for their lies about real time crime centers, and their bloated budgets for Community “Safety” Partnerships. That evening, we held our monthly Data Driven Policing meeting where we read sections of our report “Automating Banishment” which talks about… Read… Continue reading →

11/18: This past Tuesday, the Coalition attended the Board of Police Commissioners meeting where we continued to disrupt and expose them as a rubber stamping body that green lights LAPD’s violence. While Teresa symbolically extended the public comment period, folks were kicked out of the room and denied the chance to make comment. Despite all… Read… Continue reading →