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Wanted to offer you all a list of Los Angeles based defense and mutual coalitions you can join.

These regional and neighborhood groups are growing and need help in areas like outreach, mutual aid (like food and household item distro), rapid response, patrolling, know your rights training, field medicine, opsec, data analytics, and record keeping.

City Wide Groups:

Los Angeles City Wide https://www.instagram.com/communityselfdefensecoalition/

Car Wash Defense https://www.instagram.com/carwasherxs/

Frontline Medics https://www.instagram.com/frontlinemedics/

No Sleep For ICE https://www.instagram.com/no.sleep.for.ice/

Regional Groups:

Glendale Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/growtogetherglendale/

Pasadena’s Grupo Autodefensa https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQ791YFTIxuD_Nxar5EC3GtuIFtU_3CZuXcVm8OgkQ0DVtpw/viewform

Altadena CDC https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054BABA929A6FCC25-58304928-volunteer#/

East Pasadena Defense https://www.instagram.com/eastpasadenacdc/

San GabrielRegion Watch https://signal.group/#CjQKIEvZpDG2bThCXkEPXiUuVATTbDgqziC8OKkUDQBLKMwwEhDsTcePUPrelh706m-l5pnd

Highland Park Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/highland_park_cdc/

Boyle Heights CSO https://www.instagram.com/centrocso/

Cypress Park Defense https://bit.ly/NELAonboard

DTLA Community Patrols https://www.instagram.com/dtlaareacommunitypatrols/

KTown Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/ktownrrn_/ https://www.instagram.com/latu_ktown/

West Hollywood / Bev Hills Community Watch https://signal.group/#CjQKINGR5k8wt9SztdhCPRRS7gsE32g0pCJw12feANlBRCIkEhC-TCupqwKKCT93Nfh-VVSg

North Hollywood has a CDC but I don’t have that info. LATU will. https://www.instagram.com/noho.latenantsunion/

Van Nuys has a CDC at the Home Depot. I don’t know the hours. Try https://www.instagram.com/vannuys_workercenter/.

Mid City Community Watch https://signal.group/#CjQKIHZjRaupiwuPrDEoHe4ABgLHLTFSoOvDy2p60RwWJz9AEhBIdH4VtRo1-e7hRTl420It

West Adams/Mid City Defense Meet online (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88929729055?pwd=BSuNu1tm2WgXQUWbNGbmo5PG3TKvdo.1#success) at 6:30pm - Wed Sept 10 or in person at Solidarity Hall

South Central Community Watch https://signal.group/#CjQKIDjrch7vv73wYJd2SWElg48kg6bwRVGiRARj1iPHYdbMEhB-WP9KbJSFsxiaueeHFBNs

City of Industry CDC Home Depot on Gale Ave at 7:30am every Wednesday

El Sereno Community Care https://www.instagram.com/elserenocommunitycare/

Baldwin Park CDC Every Thursday and Friday from 8am and on at the Home Depot on Puenta Ave

Covina CDC Every Tuesday and Saturday starting at 8am at the Home Depot on Badillo St.

Baldwin Park / La Puenta / West Covina Defense https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Kf-7XMujCYfBtnv-KhooS7t1OviRACOsN6VZJDI63QA/

West Covina CDC Every Tuesday at 8am at Home Depot on Azusa Ave

Corona Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/we_protect_corona/

Fontana Neighborhood Watch https://www.instagram.com/fontana.decolonized/

San Bernardino Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/sanbernardino.we_defend_us/

Moreno Valley Ice Defense https://www.instagram.com/stayalert_morenovalley_perris/

Rancho Cucamonga Community Watch https://www.instagram.com/wekeep.us.safe.ranchocucamonga/

Pamona Watch https://www.instagram.com/weprotectpomona/ https://www.instagram.com/iceoutofpomona/

Hemet Watch https://www.instagram.com/i.c.e_breakers951/

Inland Empire Regional Watch https://www.instagram.com/semillas.inlandempire/

Peace Harbor Patrol via UdB (San Pedro area) https://www.instagram.com/harborareapeacepatrols/

Long Beach Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/longbeachrapidresponse/

Santa Ana Ice Defense https://www.instagram.com/defensasantaana/

Orange County Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/occommunityselfdefense/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48218157

The institution later said it never intended to get 'political'

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/la-holocaust-museum-deletes-post-saying-never-again-applies-all-people

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Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34291884

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34283368

Watts Riots (1965)

Wed Aug 11, 1965

Image: Armed National Guardsmen march toward smoke on the horizon during the street fires in Los Angeles, California, 1965. (Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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On this day in 1965, the Watts Riots began in Los Angeles after police beat Marquette Fry and his family after he was pulled over for drunk driving. The uprising was the largest in city history until the Rodney King riots of 1992, with 34 deaths and $40 million in property damage across a 46 square mile (119 square km) stretch of L.A.

The uprising took place in the context of a highly racialized city, with severely discriminatory housing, educational, and economic practices. The community of Watts was predominantly black and regularly suffered brutality at the hands of police.

After Marquette, along with his brother and mother, were beaten and arrested by police, an angry mob formed and riots broke out. For the next six days, rioters clashed with police and armed National Guardsmen, who had been sent by the thousands to suppress the uprising.

Los Angeles Chief of Police William Parker (incidentally, Parker also coined the phrase "thin blue line" around this time) compared the rioters to the Viet Cong, promising a "paramilitary" response to the disorder. One officer later stated "The streets of Watts resembled an all-out war zone in some far-off foreign country, it bore no resemblance to the United States of America."

Between 31,000 and 35,000 people participated in the riots, while 70,000 people were "sympathetic, but not active" according to John H. Barnhill. Over the six days of rioting, there were 34 deaths (23 of which were the result of police shootings), 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage.

Following the uprising's suppression, a wave of white flight occurred in surrounding areas, leading to significant demographic changes in areas such as Compton and Huntington Park.

A government committee known as the McCone Commission concluded that the cause of the riots was primarily socio-economic, and recommended reforms along these lines. Most of these recommendations were not adopted.

"The whole point of the outbreak in Watts was that it marked the first major rebellion of Negroes against their own masochism and was carried on with the express purpose of asserting that they would no longer quietly submit to the deprivation of slum life."

- Bayard Rustin

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• Date: 1965-08-11
• Learn More: www.blackpast.org, en.wikipedia.org.
• Tags: #Riots.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

The link is a PDF and the deadline is very soon. Please apply and share!

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CIVIC OPPORTUNITY COMMISSIONER, CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT COMMISSION

This announcement is a REBULLETIN to open the period for applicants to apply.

WHEN TO APPLY Tuesday, July 22, 2025 to Friday, August 8, 2025.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission is bringing together experts in civilian oversight, law enforcement professionals, and community partners on Thursday, August 7, 2025, to discuss local law enforcement operations associated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the county. The public will be able to provide comments and/or ask questions.

This forum is intended to provide the community with a greater awareness of local law enforcement policies as well as information about ways they can safely and lawfully protest against immigration enforcement practices with which they may disagree.

Register in advance to participate in the meeting. Thursday, August 7, 2025 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

WATCH THE LIVESTREAM

#HelpNeeded (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM6WZxqyV1B/)

Tomorrow, August 5th, 2025: Kern County is holding public hearings on the potential detention center being expanded in California. If built it's supposed to hold 2500 people and will be run by GEO Group. The community in Kern is largely a red/MAGA but there's enough residents who aren't for the project. That being said, folks in California are being encouraged to either meet up in California City to dissent or to at least join the zoom. Details are here: Tuesday Aug 5 at 5 pm at 21000 Hacienda Blvd, California City, or online at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8626875874

Thank you.

The Guardian’s review of records found:

Out of nine “assault” and “impeding” felony cases the justice department filed immediately after the start of the protests and promoted by the attorney general, Pam Bondi, prosecutors dismissed seven of them soon after filing the charges. In reports that led to the detention and prosecution of at least five demonstrators, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents made false statements about the sequence of events and misrepresented incidents captured on video. One DHS agent accused a protester of shoving an officer, when footage appeared to show the opposite: the officer forcefully pushed the protester. One indictment named the wrong defendant, a stunning error that has jeopardized one of the government’s most high-profile cases.

https://archive.ph/Y2rb6

Two staff members from an Ontario surgery center have been charged with allegedly interfering with U.S. immigration officers trying to detain landscapers who ran into the center to escape. Jose de Jesus Ortega, a 38-year-old Highland resident, was arrested Friday morning and is expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Riverside, according to a U.S. attorney’s office Central District of California news release. Officials are still looking for the other suspect, Danielle Nadine Davila, 33, of Corona. Both are charged with assaulting a federal officer and conspiracy to prevent by force and intimidation a federal officer from discharging his duties, authorities said. According to video obtained by KTLA-TV, staffers at the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center earlier this month told two agents to leave because they didn’t have a warrant to go onto the property. The agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement were trying to detain 30-year-old Denis Guillen-Solis and two other landscapers who had been working outside and ran into the surgical center when the agents showed up.

Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash. (The sources I spoke with for this story requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.)

Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits, one current and one former employee at the agency told me. The biscuits, which cram in the nutritional needs of a child under 5, are a stopgap measure, often used in scenarios where people have lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled a war faster than aid groups could set up a kitchen to receive them. They were stored in a Dubai warehouse and intended to go to the children this year.

https://archive.ph/O6mw8

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