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how is this meaningfully different from Trump holding federal funding from sanctuary states?

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Logos of these organizations: 7th Street Collective ACAB Library Aetna Street Solidarity All People's Health Collective All Power Free Clinic Casa de Las Mariposas Chinatown Community for Equitable Development Color The Water Community Loving Community Solidarity Project Food For Comrades Free Medical Cannabis Collective Health Care For US - HC4US.org Hope Street Distro J-Town Action & Solidarity LA Food Not Bombs LA Street Care & Mutual Aid RVTV The Rent Brigade Save Our Seniors Network SFV Homeless Union SFV Mutual Aid South Bay Mutual Aid & Care Club Students For Justice In Palestine USC Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation LA Tenants Union Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Outreach Little Tokyo Against Gentrification Long Beach Assembly Mar Vista Voice Midnight Books Mutual Aid LA Network NOlympics Oat Boat Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid Pasadena For All People's Care Collective People's City Council People's Struggle San Fernando Valley Polo's Pantry POOR Magazine Reform LA Health System Tempest Trans Defense Fund Venice Justice Committee Water Drop LA We The Unhoused Westwood Mutual Aid White People 4 Black Lives Wolfpack Mutual

People who have been directly criminalized because of 41.18 in @cd13.lacity.gov and other parts of the city are members of our organizations and joined in delivering the letter to Hugo.

Graphic of Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez and an LAMC 41.18 sign with the caption Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez: Repeal Mitch O'Farrell's 41.18 Criminalization Zones!

Yesterday, organizers representing 50 community groups, including several Community Self Defense Coalition member groups, presented an urgent and simple demand to Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez:

Repeal Mitch O’Farrell’s 41.18 criminalization zones.

Everyone in the movement knows we must abolish 41.18, LA's law that criminalizes poor people for existing in public spaces. We don't have the votes to repeal the entire law right now, so we MUST push Hugo, Eunisses, and Ysabel to repeal the 41.18 zones their predecessors created in their districts.

Logos of these organizations: 7th Street Collective ACAB Library Aetna Street Solidarity All People's Health Collective All Power Free Clinic Casa de Las Mariposas Chinatown Community for Equitable Development Color The Water Community Loving Community Solidarity Project Food For Comrades Free Medical Cannabis Collective Health Care For US - HC4US.org Hope Street Distro J-Town Action & Solidarity LA Food Not Bombs LA Street Care & Mutual Aid RVTV The Rent Brigade Save Our Seniors Network SFV Homeless Union SFV Mutual Aid South Bay Mutual Aid & Care Club Students For Justice In Palestine USC Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation LA Tenants Union Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Outreach Little Tokyo Against Gentrification Long Beach Assembly Mar Vista Voice Midnight Books Mutual Aid LA Network NOlympics Oat Boat Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid Pasadena For All People's Care Collective People's City Council People's Struggle San Fernando Valley Polo's Pantry POOR Magazine Reform LA Health System Tempest Trans Defense Fund Venice Justice Committee Water Drop LA We The Unhoused Westwood Mutual Aid White People 4 Black Lives Wolfpack Mutual

People who have been directly criminalized because of 41.18 in @cd13.lacity.gov and other parts of the city are members of our organizations and joined in delivering the letter to Hugo.

To Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez: You have been outspoken about federal agents invading our city and kidnapping our neighbors. Forced to choose between going to work to afford rent or staying safe at home, a growing portion of LA's undocumented population has become housing insecure and unhoused. We are urgently calling on you to protect your most vulnerable constituents: repeal the 41.18 criminalization zones that were put in place by your disgraced predecessor, Mitch O'Farrell. Every day that you refuse to take this action, you are aiding ICE. During your inaugural campaign, you vocally criticized Los Angeles Municipal Code 41.18, a city ordinance that criminalizes people for sitting, lying, or possessing personal belongings in public. Enforcement of LAMC 41.18 exposes vulnerable immigrant populations to targeted policing and displacement, forcing them to live in increasingly precarious situations that put them at greater risk of deportation. LAPD regularly uses 41.18 to destroy people's shelter, phones, and paperwork, turning documented people into undocumented people. You have spoken out about ICE targeting people solely based on the color of their skin, and you know that ICE has kidnapped people from encampments in your district. You must take immediate action to protect them. At a recent sweep in your district, your Homelessness Deputy, Carlos Castro, defended 41.18 enforcement, arguing that children shouldn't be exposed to visible poverty—a sentiment routinely espoused by Mitch O'Farrell. It's also what disgraced former LA City Council President Nury Martinez was caught saying on the tape that publicly outed her as a racist. When we understand white supremacy as a system that can also benefit brown people who use it to exclude others, we can understand 41.18 as a tool that can be used to erase immigrant and houseless populations-including their children—from Los Angeles.

We envision a Los Angeles where no person is criminalized based on their immigration or housing status. A Los Angeles where the city doesn't destroy vulnerable people's documents, life-saving medicines, and survival supplies on a daily basis. A Los Angeles where seven unhoused people don't die every day. A Los Angeles where people can't be violently displaced on a whim. That Los Angeles requires you and the other councilmembers who campaigned against 41.18 to stop cowering and lead by example. You wield immense political power. Use it to protect your most vulnerable constituents against ICE and LAPD. Stand on the right side of history. Stand with the people. We demand your written commitment to repeal all of Mitch O'Farrell's 41.18 special enforcement zones in Council District 13 within three working days. If you do not respond, we will take further action.

LA Municipal Code 41.18 criminalizes poor people for existing in countless public “zones.”

Graphic of Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez and an LAMC 41.18 sign with the caption Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez: Repeal Mitch O'Farrell's 41.18 Criminalization Zones!

Yesterday, organizers representing 50 community groups, including several Community Self Defense Coalition member groups, presented an urgent and simple demand to Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez:

Repeal Mitch O’Farrell’s 41.18 criminalization zones.

Mutual aid builds relationships, strengthens communities, and makes us safer. We take care of us!

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We had a blast at the Really, Really Free Market in Echo Park. Free Markets are a perfect example of how we can organize in our public spaces without inviting capitalism and all the other -ism horrors

If you don't oppose sweep you condone state violence.

LA has spent 5 years watching counterinsurgent liberals, masquerading as socialists, launder sweeps, criminalization of poverty, and police brutality.
This isn't socialism. It isn’t progress.
State violence is state violence.
No amount of "kindness" or "compassion" makes it stop being state violence

LA has spent 5 years watching counterinsurgent liberals, masquerading as socialists, launder sweeps, criminalization of poverty, and police brutality.
This isn't socialism. It isn’t progress.
State violence is state violence.
No amount of "kindness" or "compassion" makes it stop being state violence

come organize with us, Los Angeles!!!

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A year ago, Newsom sent about 100 leaders of California-based companies a prepaid cell phone "programmed with Newsom's digits and accompanied by notes from the governor himself," POLITICO reported. One note to the CEO of a big tech corporation said, "If you ever need anything, I'm a phone call away." While pandering to business elites, Newsom has slashed budgets to assist the poor and near-poor with healthcare, housing and food - in a state where seven million live under the official poverty line and child poverty rates are the highest in the nation.

The latest Newsom budget, released in January, continues his trajectory away from social compassion. "The governor's 2026-27 spending plan balances the budget by dodging the harsh realities of the Republican megabill, H.R. 1, and maintains state cuts to vital public supports, like Medi-Cal, enacted as part of the current-year budget," the California Budget & Policy Center pointed out. "Governor Newsom's reluctance to propose meaningful revenue solutions to help blunt the harm of federal cuts undermines his posture to counter the Trump administration. The statement said that the proposed budget "will leave many Californians without food assistance and healthcare coverage.

Gavin Newsom hates poor people.

“While pandering to business elites, Newsom has slashed budgets to assist the poor and near-poor with healthcare, housing and food - in a state where seven million live under the official poverty line and child poverty rates are the highest in the nation.“

February 16, 2026 NR26026kt Los Angeles Police Department Encourages School Attendance Amid Recent Downtown Activity Los Angeles: In light of recent activity in the downtown area, the Los Angeles Police Department would like to take this opportunity to remind parents and students of the importance of staying in school. School attendance is mandatory in the City of Los Angeles and there may be legal consequences for parents and students for: • Day time Curfew violations - It is unlawful for any minors under 18 to be in public places, streets, or amusement spots during school hours (typically 8:30 am to 1:30 pm. The only exception includes being with a parent, authorized school activities, or emergencies. • California Education Code violations: • Mandates that all children between the ages of six and eighteen, unless exempted, must attend a full-time public day school for the full designated school day. • Middle and high school students are legally permitted one excused absence per calendar year to participate in a "civic or political event," provided advance school notification (emphasis added). • Additionally, Los Angeles Unified School District policy states that three or more unexcused absences or tardies of 30 minutes or more, can trigger a School Attendance Review Board (SARB) intervention for disciplinary action. Parents and students are also reminded that presence at school promotes intellectual growth. It becomes more difficult to fill knowledge gaps with student absences. Attendance builds good habits and healthy routines; and provides structure and stability. Lastly, school attendance also increases student safety, which includes safety resources provided by the Los Angeles Unified School District. (Page 1 of 2) X Follow @LAPDHQ

Any adult that collects or picks up a child and transports them to participate in any illegal activities may be responsible for Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor and is subject to arrest and prosecution. This law applies to actions like providing drugs/alcohol to minors, promoting truancy, and for parents failing to exercise reasonable supervision. Community members, parents, and students may contact their local Community Police Station of the Los Angeles Police Department for additional guidance specific to their community.

The LAPD is citing truancy laws in an attempt to squash the ongoing school walkouts against ICE. The LAPD is also threatening to arrest any parents or adults who support the kids in their acts of civil disobedience.

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Nithya Raman has proven time and time again she is an enemy of the people

if you live and vote in LA, this thread is required reading!!!

History shows a clear pattern of politicians selling out movements for personal gain. Don't let them be Lucy with the football. Join a mutual aid group, tenant union, or community patrol. Get organized. Your future depends on it.

Do not let politicians co-opt this moment.

In 2021... Nithya understood the only way to house the unhoused is with HOUSING, not shelter! Most shelters have prison-like conditions. They're a revolving door back onto the street.

The result? We are all much worse off than we were 5 years ago.

In 2019... Nithya Raman denounced 41.18, a local law that criminalizes poor people. Raman said: "IT MUST GO."

In 2020, politicians captured the energy of a powerful movement.

Listen to her vision…in her own words.