WP4BL

@WP4BL

White People 4 Black Lives / a collective of white folks organizing for racial justice in solidarity with / LA chapter of / (formerly WP4RJ)

Los Angeles, CA
Joined October 2015

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  1. 19 hours ago
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    The LA Sheriff’s Department makes $45 MILLION/year off of commissary fees, phone calls, barbershop visits charged to people in jail. LASD is charging mainly low income people including the 1/3 held in custody before conviction b/c they can't afford bail.

    KNOCK LA Headline: "LASD-Run Inmate Welfare Fund: Another Black Hole of Taxpayer Dollars"

The most expensive Cheetos in the world are sold in LA County jails. The sheriff’s office eats the profit.
Nika Soon-Shiong | May 14, 2022
    LASD’s Inmate Welfare Fund Earned $29.7 Million Last Year from Commissary Sales
    LASD’s Inmate Welfare Fund Earns $15 Million a Year from Telephone Fees
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    19 hours ago

    Closing CA prisons will be a historic accomplishment, powerfully impacting the state’s ongoing incarceration crisis. CURB applauds for including the potential of 3 more prison closures in his . This is a positive step, but doesn't go far enough

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    19 hours ago

    Unfortunately, we were refused entrance to The Governor’s Offices. While we understand safety concerns, it’s distressing the people’s building is unwilling to receive word from constituents. Therefore, we’re sending the petition via special delivery. Hope he has a big mailbox📬

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    19 hours ago

    Petition Update! After our 5/11 Rally, we delivered our CURB x petition to Assemblymember Garcia’s () office. Signed by 5,795 Californians, the petition is calling on to close at least 8 more prisons by 2025.

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  6. May 19

    They're getting out there!

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    May 19
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    Garcetti's corrupt council has normalized these lockstop votes, but there is a long tradition of no votes on budgets by councilmembers who were ideologically opposed. This clipping is from 1994. And Bernardi was famous for it!

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  8. May 19

    Curious about ? WP4BL is a collective of anti-racist white folks organizing for racial justice in solidarity w/ and we are the LA chapter of . Join us on zoom this Sunday at 2pm for our New Member Orientation! Register here:

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  9. May 19
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    May 19

    CALL TODAY! in CA will establish a system of coerced treatment. Data shows coerced treatment is NOT effective and will trample human rights. Let the Senate Appropriations Committee know Californians want

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    May 19

    “To keep the undesirable person in a lifetime of flux, in a lifetime of transition, in a lifetime of insecurity, in a lifetime of disruption is absolutely the desired outcome.” - Hamid Khan

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    Only one city councilmember voted no against increasing LAPD’s budget by EIGHT PERCENT This comes a year after LAPD killings went up 160%. They blew up a south central neighborhoods. Targeted activists like & Elected officials don’t give a fuck

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    May 18

    Demands to reduce LAPD's budget are extremely popular. reported in 2020 that 62.3% of adults in LA want to redirect LAPD funding and 36.7% want to completely dismantle LAPD. But all these politicians remain deeply committed to policing and banishment of our people.

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    May 18

    It's a testament to LAPD's death grip on LA politics that maybe the first ever politician in city history to vote against increasing LAPD spending is someone who chose not to run for reelection.

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    May 18

    Join our sibling organization on Facebook Live TODAY at 5PM, link below⬇️💫

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    May 18

    The most expensive Cheetos in the world are sold in LA County jails. The sheriff’s office eats the profit. Help us tell the LA County Board of Supervisors to ❗️ 💥 Toolkit👉🏾

    “Take me somewhere expensive”, couple shown having a Cheetos date at LASD jail
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    Los Angeles city council reopened for in person meetings but they eliminated the option of calling in from home. It seems like their goal is always to make public comment as inaccessible as possible. Why do public officials hate hearing from people they represent?

    La times headline “Editorial: Return to pre-pandemic public meeting rules? Yes — and no”

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    For example, on May 4 the Los Angeles City Council welcomed the public back to City Hall for the second time since March 2020. That was good news, because a public body doing the public’s business should allow the public to see it, and speak with it, face to face.

But as it reopened its doors, the council hung up the phone on public comment.

Why not open to the public in person and take public calls? It’s like the quip about not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Doing both things really isn’t much of a challenge.
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    May 18

    We stand in solidarity with the UC Divest Coalition in demanding the divestment of billions of dollars in companies like BlackRock and Lockheed Martin and calling out 's refusal to defund the racist UCPD.

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  20. May 18

    Read our statement in regards to the mass shooting in Buffalo: Interrupting White Nationalism: A response to the white supremacist mass shooting in Buffalo by Rosie F

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