---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adam Rice <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:34 PM Subject: LAAEC Battle Report Weeks 2-3 (confidential, for distribution attached) To: Becky Dennison <[email protected]>, Bilal Ali <[email protected]>, Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign <[email protected]>, Dedon Kamati < [email protected]>, Hamid Khan <[email protected]>, John A Imani < [email protected]>, Kwazi Nkrumah <[email protected]>, Michael Novick <[email protected]>, Pete White <[email protected]>, Thandi Chimurenga <[email protected]>
[image: Inline image 1] *LOS ANGELES ANTI-EVICTION CAMPAIGN* facebook.com/laantieviction [email protected] 424-653-4032 *This week, this report to the LAAEC advisors is CONFIDENTIAL because of pending legal matters. Following is an edited version that we hope you will distribute publicly.* *Battle Report from the L.A. Anti-Eviction Campaign*** *Weeks 2-3* *Current Action: Cathelene Hughes* Mrs. Hughes was deemed ineligible for participation in the class action suit against Bank of America because they had sold her property prior to the holidays. *Eviction Day, Wednesday, January 23, 2013* A neighbor we had worked with contacted LAAEC that the sheriffs had arrived to evict Mrs. Hughes. LAAEC members contacted Mrs. Hughes' son and were on site before she was able to return from errands she was running. Although we did not stop the eviction, we did stall and videotape the sheriffs deputies until her return, and she was able to retrieve her dog and some personal items from the house. Four sheriffs in two cars were initially at the scene; after we arrived, they were joined by two more, one a lieutenant. The notice for retrieving her property appeared under the signature of a new player in Mrs. Hughes' story, Signature Real Estate. We again reached out to County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas's office, who finally put a social worker in touch with Mrs. Hughes. The Department of Adult Services referred her to the women's shelter on Skid Row, but at the urging of LAAEC, she found temporary accommodations with her aunt rather than take a temporary bed for $200/month. In the days following, LAAEC intervened with Supervisor Ridley-Thomas's office, and Mrs. Hughes was offered more appropriate and permanent housing. We sent out a press release detailing her plight and posted it on Op-Ed News, Reader Supported News, and Los Angeles Indymedia, and we arranged an interview for her with Biographic Voices on AdrenatlineRadio.com. We asked several lawyers to assist Mrs. Hughes on a pro bono or contingency basis. We eventually talked with an attorney who is preparing an Unlawful Detainer action against Signature and Colfin that may put Mrs. Hughes back in her home. We discovered that her case file in the Unlawful Detainer records office has apparently been rewritten with her correct address, and the references to the 115 E. Wall St. address, the adjacent rental property, have been removed from the file. * * *Next Action* While we were canvassing, we identified an apartment complex on 97th St. and San Pedro that was recently purchased by Elias Realty, which has distributed an English-only leaflet to these predominantly Spanish-speaking tenants demanding that the renters leave with a month's notice. We are meeting with the residents and gathering information to file a complaint with the Housing Department to get them proper notice and compensation under Los Angeles's Rent Stabilization Ordinance with the advice and assistance of LA CAN. *Outreach* LAAEC members canvassed Mrs. Hughes' neighborhood on Saturday, January 19. So far, 23 people have agreed to aid in Mrs. Hughes's fight. LAAEC signed up for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service on January 21, which brought us a new volunteer, Rachel Owens, who joined our canvassing. We gave LAAEC T-shirts to the canvassers who participated in the Day of Service. We included in the canvassing Spanish and English flyers announcing a family party on the 9800 Wall St. block on February 9. *Funding* We met with a local promoter and began planning a concert to kickoff our fundraising efforts. *Research* LAAEC volunteers began investigating the real estate companiesColony, Colfin, Signature, Elias Realty, and Ben Soiferthat purchased the apartment complex, and the Hernandez and Hughes homes. * * *Infrastructure* An LAAEC volunteer translated our introductory flyer into Spanish. The transfer of the website to the domain name laantievictioncampaign.orgis in progress. We prepared and cleaned up mailing lists for media and newsletter. We have lined up two bloggers to write for the website. Since our last report, 30+ more people have liked our Facebook page<http://www.facebook.com/laantieviction> (and if you haven't, please do), which we linked to our Twitter account<https://twitter.com/laantieviction> so that Facebook posts are automatically tweeted. We solicited three people with significant Twitter followings to retweet LAAEC. --The Los Angeles Anti-Eviction team *The Mission of the Los Angeles Anti-Eviction Campaign is to empower the people to stand up and enforce their human rights. * [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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! 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