This video represents our desperation and our last ditch effort to save this country and you must listen to it because is sending exactly what I and millions more feel so please listen and take her advice to heart.
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Christopher Martinez
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Former Student Trustee for Los Angeles Community College District | East Hollywood Neighborhood Council Vice President
Los Angeles, CAJoined March 2016
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in my past decade of covering police brutality, i've never seen 5 cops get fired and charged so swiftly
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UPDATE: Union Pacific, one of the railroads that successfully fought off workers' demands for paid sick days, announced a record $7 billion profit. The company said it spent $1.7 billion more on stock buybacks in 2022 than on pay and benefits for all of its employees.
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📣📣There's still time to sign up to volunteer for the Homeless Count this week.
CD13's counts will take place tomorrow, January 26.
Register to help out at theycountwillyou.org/volunteer
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We need an accurate Homeless Count next week.
That means we need enough volunteers, working technology, and other safeguards to ensure we have an accurate count.
Sign up to help out at theycountwillyou.org/volunteer
But first... Why is the Homeless Count so important?
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Senator Bernie Sanders in the rain, outside the White House, attacking the “greed of the pharmaceutical industry.”
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Think about how we could use that money to improve our Metro system.
We could have:
✅Fare-free Metro
✅More frequent service
✅Clean trains and busses
✅Unarmed professionals to help folks dealing with homelessness or mental health issues.
As a city, we need to do better.
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Yesterday's Public Safety Committee meeting was a sad example of how our city can fail the communities who need our help the most.
Along with the Robot Dog, the committee advanced a huge contract with LAPD that doubles down on our broken policing system.
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Today, LA's Public Safety Committee will decide whether we should allow the LAPD to use a "robot dog"
These mechs were already rejected in NYC because they were used to aggressively police working-class communities of color.
We can't allow this dystopian machine in LA. (thread)
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders plans to hold the first Senate hearing on Starbucks' aggressive anti-union campaign and says he may call Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to testify, per Bloomberg.
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📞 To give public comment: 📞
Call 669-254-5252 and use Meeting ID 161 586 7607 and then press #. Press # again when prompted for participant ID.
Once admitted into the meeting, press *9 to request to speak.
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Today, LA's Public Safety Committee will decide whether we should allow the LAPD to use a "robot dog"
These mechs were already rejected in NYC because they were used to aggressively police working-class communities of color.
We can't allow this dystopian machine in LA. (thread)
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A life-saving drug is not effective if a person who needs that drug cannot afford it. How many more Americans must die before Congress finally has the guts to stop the pharmaceutical industry from getting away with murder?
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At a time when half of older Americans have no retirement savings & 55% of seniors are trying to survive on less than $25,000 a year, our job is not to cut Social Security or raise taxes on workers. Our job is to expand it so all seniors can live with the dignity they deserve.
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I will be re-introducing my bill to extend Social Security's solvency for the next 75 years & expand benefits by $2,400 a year. How? By scrapping the cap. Today, a billionaire pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $160,000 a year. Let's end that absurdity.
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The last thing we need is another commission to propose cuts to Social Security & Medicare. The last time we had one, it proposed cutting Social Security benefits for middle class seniors by up to 35% & cutting tax rates for billionaires. We must instead expand Social Security.
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Victory!🎉 including tenants, organizers, movement lawyers, & community based organizations, in partnership w/ champions in City Hall, passed the largest expansion of tenant protections in decades for the City of LA. Check out this🧵for a recap👇
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people love to shit on the french but anytime they have a protest they prove their protesting abilities are on another level
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People in France went on a nationwide strike to protest the government's plans to raise the retirement age by 2 years to 64
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🚨LA City Council just took a 2nd vote on its tenant protection package, officially approving the new policy. 🚨
Still needs mayor’s sig, but should go into effect before the city’s longstanding COVID-19 anti-eviction rules expire at end of the month
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The count is conducted by ordinary people. If we don't have enough volunteers, we can't get a good picture of which areas need the most resources.
That's why it's so important to sign up to help at theycountwillyou.org/volunteer
But what other safeguards can we use to get better data?
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COVID tenant protections expire in just 12 days.
That’s why we want you to hear from the people whose lives will be affected most – the tenants.
If we don’t win permanent protections on Friday, far too many renters will end up on the streets.
We can’t let that happen.
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Traffic violence is the #1 killer of children in LA, and it's only getting worse.
We desperately need:
✅Better + more crosswalks
✅Slower car speeds in residential neighborhoods
✅Safety improvements near schools
✅Bike lanes + better transit to give folks options to get around
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Last year in Los Angeles, more people were killed by someone driving a car than by someone wielding a gun. The second-largest U.S. city has become the traffic violence capital of the nation.
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LIVE from the U.S. Capitol: Now is the time for Congress to show the American working class that our government can work for them – not just the 1%.
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Great thread from Adam here. We’re fighting to pass these protections because if we don’t, thousands more of our neighbors will end up on the streets.
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LOS ANGELES: There’s a crucial way to fight homelessness and the housing crisis that isn’t talked about enough, but that we could take action on TODAY. In addition to building more housing, we need to HELP PEOPLE STAY IN THEIR HOMES. And we can do it, with your help!
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For government to be accountable to the community, it needs to be accessible to the people.
Right now, LA's system is so complicated that it almost seems like it's designed to confuse the residents it's supposed to serve.
Here's how we're bringing transparency to City Hall.🧵
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This morning, I joined the family of Keenan Anderson and to renew our calls for justice, accountability, and new policies that ensure tragedies like this stop happening.
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Yesterday, the Los Angeles Police Department released body cam footage of officers killing three people experiencing mental health crises who deserved life-affirming care but were met with deadly force, all within the first three days of the New Year.
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As workers at a plant in Cedar Rapids enter their 24th week on strike, I sent a letter to Ingredion CEO James P. Zallie demanding the company comply with its duty to bargain in good faith and offer workers a fair contract.
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When we talk about the movement towards global oligarchy, we're talking about two-thirds of all new wealth in the world flowing into the hands of the top 1% since 2020, while 81 billionaires now own more wealth than the bottom half of humanity. Yes. We need a global wealth tax.
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“This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Bending the arc of the moral universe towards justice means fighting for a world in which Keenan Anderson is not tased to death by the very officers sworn to protect his life.
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Next week, the LA City Council will be hearing motions on important tenant protections including:
1. Universal just cause
2. Relocation assistance for large rent increase evictions
3. Protection against eviction for falling behind on rent
We need to make sure it passes!
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So much happens at City Council every week, so each Friday we’re going to do a little recap of the most important things happening at City Hall! Here’s what happened this week:
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Yup! We need permanent tenant protections to #KeepLAHoused! Wanna be part of the solution?
🔔 Email and urge them to pass Universal Just Cause, Relocation Assistance, and Limits on Evictions for falling behind on rent ASAP: bit.ly/klahcityaction
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Renters make up the majority of residents in LA, but far too often tenants are left feeling powerless, battling against the entire system to stay in their homes.
If we want to solve our homelessness crisis, we need to implement common sense renter protections.
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new paper: the 2021 Child Tax Credit — which from July to Dec 2021 gave qualifying families up to $3,600 per child in auto monthly payments — not only appeared to “reduced child poverty by half” it also notably “improved the mental health of adults in the lowest-income families.”
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NEW: the death of Keenan Anderson is renewing urgent calls for unarmed crisis response in Los Angeles.
His family will hold a vigil at 6 p.m. Saturday at Venice & Lincoln, where he was repeatedly tased by LAPD. They plan to honor the life of the 31yo father who loved teaching.
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Keenan Anderson, cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder, dies from cardiac arrest after being tased by Los Angeles police
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The LAPD murdered Keenan Anderson. A beloved high school English teacher and father who FLAGGED THEM DOWN FOR HELP after a car accident. He was a threat to no one. He needed help and it cost him his life. The LAPD must be held accountable for this at all costs. #KeenanAnderson
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Renters make up the majority of residents in LA, but far too often tenants are left feeling powerless, battling against the entire system to stay in their homes.
If we want to solve our homelessness crisis, we need to implement common sense renter protections.
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The body camera footage released yesterday is appalling and deeply disturbing. I am devastated for the families and loved ones of Takar Smith, Keenan Anderson and Oscar Sanchez, and I am outraged for our city.
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