Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2017

#DisruptJ20 anti-Trump inauguration protest marches set for Washington, D.C. and California on January 20th

The time and date are set for the first of many #J20 anti-Trump inauguration marches across the country
The first of at least four #DisruptJ20 organized protest events are set to take place in Los Angeles, California on inauguration day, January 20th, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 800 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90015 at the crossroads of South Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles in front of L.A. Live, under the hashtags of #UnitedAgainstHate and #CAforProgress to protest President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States.

This protest is organized by a group called CA for Progress and is calling for a "United Against Hate-Inauguration March" against President-elect Donald Trump.

At least three other protest marches from an alliance of pro-immigrant rights groups in Los Angeles are also planning to march in downtown Los Angeles all on the same day.

The California Latino Congreso is calling for in inauguration day rally at 1 p.m. at the corner of Broadway and Olympic Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles.

Monday, July 11, 2016

Civil rights groups organize protest against CHP after unarmed Latino teen is shot by undercover CHP officers who fail to follow proper police procedure

Protestors take to the street and picket the CHP office in Santa Ana after the Villanueva shooting in Fullerton
Demonstrators gathered Sunday outside the California Highway Patrol office in Santa Ana, organized by local Latino civil rights groups, to protest last week's fatal shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old teen shot by undercover CHP officers.

The protest was organized by local Latino civil rights activist
Naui Huitzilopotchtli who is a part of the Mexica Movement
The dead Latino teen in question, Pedro Villanueva of Chatsworth, had merely attended an illegal street car "sideshow" organized near a Santa Fe Springs swap meet and was chased and cornered by undercover CHP officers, who never identified themselves as police officers, into a dead-end street on a residential Fullerton cul-de-sac.

When officers, who still failed to identify themselves as police officers, drew their weapons on Villanueva, he thought he was being assaulted by robbers and tried to get to safety through the only avenue of escape he had at his disposal through the narrow dead-end street he had mistakenly entered.

He tried to make a desperate attempt to make a U-turn to try escape from his unidentified assailants by driving out of the narrow dead-end street, where the suspicious unmarked car and officers in plain clothes were.