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If you want to see what grassroots organizing can do, just take a look at Los Angeles, where in the past 4 weeks, progressive activists have scored major victories in multiple areas.

Housing. Environmental Justice. Transit. Policing.

Read on to find out more 🧵:
Due to grassroots organizing, in the past month:

*Voters approved big funding for affordable housing and renter protections.

*Council voted to end oil drilling in LA.

*LA Metro rejected a proposed fare hike, and instead reduced fares.

*Voters chose to #CheckTheSheriff.
HOUSING:

In November, the @UnitedToHouseLA ballot measure won with 58% of the vote. It dramatically and permanently expands what can be done to address LA's homelessness and affordable housing crises.

latimes.com/california/sto…
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Today @cerisecastle released, "A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department." The amount of pain & trauma she had to ingest has been expansive and at times, all-consuming. And she is only the reporter. knc.la/tradition
Every act of state violence causes a ripple effect of pain and trauma. Starting with the person (who is forced by the state into victimhood) and moving to their friends, families, and communities.
If you are privileged enough to have never been on the receiving end of state harassment and/or violence or if you have never forsaken your privilege to put yourself in a position to receive it, you reading this series is that ripple finding its way to you.
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