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Episode 261
Monday, 14 July, 2025
Alissa, Mike, and Godfrey on the terrifying U.S. military invasion of MacArthur Park that sent LA Mayor Karen Bass racing to the scene. Why homicides in LA have hit a 60-year low (hint: it’s not because of cops). And when LA County voters approved the governmental-reform Measure G in 2024 they inadvertently invalidated the anti-incarceration Measure J, passed in 2020. Whoops!The Guardian: “The troops were deployed to a mostly empty MacArthur Park in the neighborhood of the same name for about an hour, some on horseback and others in armored military vehicles. Agents were also operating an armored vehicle with a mounted rifle”Capital and Main: “When ICE came up empty”Alissa’s story on how traumatizing kids at a rec center summer camp has made LA parents even more uneasyCouncilmember Eunisses Hernandez: “What you see happening in MacArthur Park is coming to you”Ken Klippenstein published alleged leaked documents detailing the goal of “Operation Excalibur”Vets About Face created an important video explaining why the U.S. military does these “shows of presence” in occupied regionsCalMatters, Bellingcat, and Evident Media analyzed 100 ICE raids in Southern California and highlighted some troubling (and unconstitutional) tacticsThe City of LA, LA County, Pasadena, Montebello, Monterey Park, Santa Monica, Culver City, Pico Rivera, and West Hollywood joined the ACLU’s lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security. After we recorded, a ruling siding with ACLU from Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong “temporarily blocked the Trump administration from using racial profiling to carry out indiscriminate immigration arrests.” Read the order hereDay labor advocates were arrested for allegedly planting tire spikes (they’ve been released); an astonishing 12-hour standoff with Ventura County farmworkers ended with over 200 people kidnapped and one farmworker, Jaime Alanis, dead. Here’s how to support the familiesWired: New DHS guidance “urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear — like masks, flashlights, and cameras — as potential precursors to violence” New Gallup polling shows Trump’s immigration policy is becoming very, very unpopularJulia Wick’s reporting on how Stephen Miller was radicalized in Santa Monica is a must-read in the TimesLA just recorded its lowest homicide numbers in 60 years; this chart is truly incredibleHomicides are down nationwide post 2020 largely due to an outpouring of funding for social services. Directing more spending towards parks, local nonprofits, community centers, and violence interrupters has been attributed to a historic drop in homicides in cities like Baltimore as well — but what happens in a city that slashes that funding?LA Times: “LA County’s charter reform accidentally repealed anti-incarceration ballot measure”LA Daily News: “Two members say the measure, approved by voters, contains a clause that ends a 2020 measure that requires county funds be spent on incarceration alternatives”Watch last week’s LA County’s Governance Reform Task Force meeting for the reveal of the error. Discussion begins 43 minutes inOn Monday, July 14 at 12:45 p.m., Isaac Bryan and Eunisses Hernandez are hosting a conversation on why J matters and what happens next. LA County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Janice Hahn are proposing a fix on TuesdayWhere are our elected leaders in the resistance to attacks on our communities? LA Forward is hosting its monthly meeting to answer these questions in partnership with Local Progress. Tuesday, July 15 at 7 p.m. on Zoom, RSVP hereProduced by Sophie Bridges
