The next planning meeting for the LA Housing and Hunger Crisis Conference will take place Saturday Feb. 19 at 10 AM until noon at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, 6120 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles. The conference is bringing together people at a grassroots level experiencing the ills of gentrification, foreclosures, evictions, privatization of public housing, as well as those struggling for human rights and food and water sovereignty. Participants include GrassrootsKPFK, Union de Vecinos, Black Riders and Brown Riders Liberation Party, Venice Justice Committee, the Coffee Party, the MLK Coalition for Jobs, Justice and Peace, tenants rights organizers from Lincoln Heights, and many others. The conference is planned for early April at LA Trade Tech College and will feature opportunities for people to learn about each others' struggles, as well as concrete skills sharing and a cultural component. For more information call 310-495-0299 or check with [email protected] or [email protected]. There is a googlegroup set up at [email protected]
A planning meeting for a Peoples' Justice Conference in Los Angeles, focused on issues of police abuse/racial profiling, political prisoners/political repression, the prison industrial complex/mass incarceration, juvenile justice and opposition to the death penalty will take place on Saturday, February 19 from 12 noon-2:00 PM at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, 6120 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles. The conference, incorporating efforts initiated simultaneously by the GrassrootsKPFK coalition, the LA Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant, the Justice Working Group of the MLK Coalition for Jobs, Justice and Peace, and the LA chapter of the Jericho Amnesty Movement to free political prisoners, is designed to bring together people getting hit by and dealing with all the different aspects of the so-called "criminal justice" system -- the cops, the courts, the prisons, jails and juvenile halls, and various forms of political repression and counter-insurgency by the state, such as COINTELPRO, grand jury witch-hunts, immigration raids, checkpoints and detention, etc. It is designed a working conference building unity among grassroots forces facing and dealing with these issues, aimed at developing solidarity and effective fight back and organizing strategies. We want to look at issues like medical mistreatment inside the prisons, isolation as torture in jails and prisons, "ban the box" and other reintegration strategies for ex-convicts, and abolition of the death penalty and the prison-industrial complex. We want to build practical connections between people trying to end the schools-to-jail pipeline and the criminalization of youth with those resisting racial profiling and police killings and those struggling to free political prisoners. We invite the involvement of all dealing with these various aspects of the system. For more information, call 310-890-7104. A list serve has been set up at [email protected] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
