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Los Angeles, CA. Freedom Now 2021: Support Social Justice NOW

Hello friends, supporters, donors and and all those invested in making “good trouble.” I just want to say, “thank you,” for your support in 2020-2021. I also want to invite you to our 2021 Freedom Now Celebration and Awards on…

Los Angeles, CA. Why are people being thrown out of Project Roomkey with no where to go?

Why are people being thrown out of Project Roomkey with no where to go? Why are people waiting for months on end (to over a year) without being connected to housing, or even to their caseworker? Why aren’t the promises…

Los Angeles, CA. Nov. 9, 2pm–Say NO to Arming L.A. City Park Rangers!

Hello EHN-LA members and supporters, As if the criminalization of unhoused people through “special enforcement zones” all over the city isn’t cruel enough, the city council is now considering arming park rangers. Today at 2pm, the L.A. City…

Los Angeles, CA. AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: Coming Tomorrow Monday 11/8

Dear Friends, Tomorrow – Monday, November 8th, the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is launching AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: THE SURVEILLANCE AND POLICING OF LOOTED LAND, our new report on data-driven policing’s relationship to real estate development and settler colonialism. This community-based report…

Los Angeles, CA. Fences

Every fence erected around a park represents LA’s continued failure to house houseless people. Every fence illegally placed on a sidewalk illustrates the “dirty divide,” primed, seemingly sanctioned and assisted by the government. Fences are the truest expression of banishment…

Los Angeles, CA. Freedom Now 2020 – Your Pete White INVITE

I have great news to share with you! This is your official “Pete White” invite to Freedom Now, LA CAN’s free virtual Fundraiser hosted by Kamau Bell (CNN host of United Shades of America), Melina Abdullah and Pete White with…

Los Angeles, CA. NO On Prop 25 @LACANetwork

Keep watching and sharing “Keepin It One Hundred”. A series that centers the voices of formerly incarcerated people and communities impacted by the carceral state. No one knows what’s going on better than the folks who have experienced it first…

Los Angeles, CA. Chinatown Business Improvement District is trying to reestablish itself despite the lack of community support. Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 29 at 10am, we need your support! Would you have the capacity to do two things?

As many of you might already know, the Chinatown Business Improvement District is trying to reestablish itself despite the lack of community support. Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 29 at 10am, we need your support! Would you have the capacity to do…

How the Olympics Kill the Poor | November 18, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 8 PM Los Angeles Community Action Network

This past summer, one year out from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, an unprecedented array of anti-Olympic activists came together in Tokyo to declare in one voice that wherever the Olympics go, they bring inequality and suffering to the most vulnerable.…

Community Wants Answers After Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Man in Venice | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2019 CONTACTS: Pete White, Los Angeles Community Action Network, 213-434-1594 | petew@cangress.org Dan Stormer, Civil Rights Attorney & Board Member, National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles, 213-361-7751 | dstormer@hadsellstormer.com Community Wants Answers After Police Shooting…