#PeoplesBudgetLA

We're living in a country that has no interest in using our collective tax dollars to fund healthcare or education. We have normalized crowdfunding treatment for patients, PPE for healthcare

Godfrey Santos Plata, Candidate, CA AD-53

#LA: 10 things they won't show you on the news about the Pan Pacific Park/Fairfax rally:1)Families of multiple murdered black folks were present; leaders did a roll call2)That #BlackLivesMatter

“Imagine restorative justice programs that get to the root of the problem and harm that was done and focus on healing and centering humanity, instead of investing the bulk of

🔪Sarah Carbiener🌶

notanothersarah

Couple years ago, a show I was on sent the whole writers room on ride alongs. The majority of the calls were to deal with someone having a mental break,

i woke up with these thoughts racing in my brain so it’s time for a twitter rant. i’m all for Universal Basic Income and here’s what i’ve learned. the scarcity

Ok when we talk about taxing the rich in LA / California and using that to help poor people here, obviously that's correct.But really that money should ALSO be redistributed

maybe: #RentZero

ricci_sergienko

Let's review the LA Times piece on the budget crisis.#PeoplesBudgetLA @BLMLA @PplsCityCouncil @KtownforAll @GroundGameLA @WP4BL @CoCoSouthLA @LA_StudentsDsrv @StreetWatchLA @SunriseMvmtLA https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05

People's City Council - Los Angeles

PplsCityCouncil

Amazed at the amount of civic engagement we saw today with the Budget and Finance Committee public comment period. We have a busy week though!Tomorrow:Police Commission 9:30 AMCity Council 10

Nicole Donanian-Blandón

starting a thread of every LA elected that is tweeting about today’s verdict but continues to vote for more cop money let’s start with our piece of shit @MayorOfLA who

“A Roadmap for Re-imagining Public Safety in the United States” @hrw paper on policing, recommendations for structural reform: Divest from policing, invest in communities, strengthen accountabilityhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/12/roa

They arrested thousands of people to avoid arresting four.Let that sink in. Whew. This blew up. Promoting myself doesn’t feel right but I do want to post things related to

Anand Subramanian

COVID-19 is highlighting the failures of a cruel and bloated system — policing@agb4equity and I discuss in this piece and lift up resources and campaigns to invest in community, not

Let’s talk about the fact that the primacy of policing in our cities is a choice our leaders have made.Politicians have overseen a decades-long spending boom on police. And a

Hayes Davenport

Yesterday's City Council motion to remove LAPD from non-violent calls is a huge victory, totally unprecedented.But it also raises some new issues. LA City Hall is *built* to slow down

Hey #LosAngeles,It’s Infrastructure Weekend up in this feed.@MayorOfLA’s still bad at his job, so Twitter is here to save our local economy by checking receipts.You might have noticed how shit

What is the best way to keep our neighborhoods safe? For decades, conventional wisdom said to hire more police officers. That’s what LA did, even if it meant cutting everything