One of our city's greatest living writers turned 86 yesterday. Ray Bradbury, who has called Los Angeles home for decades, capped his birthday with an interview on KPCC, where he said he'd like to talk to Mayor Villaraigoso about mass transit: "I want to talk to him about getting rid of our freeways, because they're no good. We have to have monorail systems." He added that he'd be happy to have a station named after him. Perhaps Tony and Ray can discuss it some day over tacos.
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While L.A. showed out for the General Strike, with what felt like 100,000 people marching for three hours from downtown L.A. to Boyle Heights and back, ICE and Border Patrol continued their new streak of following and arresting community watchers.
While Tomat teams up with a bagel business to raise money for CHIRLA.
Border Patrol raided the Panorama City area targeting and taking multiple street vendors.
We are shutting down and closing down our online shop for the day. We will only be posting our essential ICE coverage and Daily Memo, which has been proven to prevent abductions and has helped families identify loved ones who have been unfairly taken.
Activists, businesses, nonprofits, and political groups in southern California will take part in various actions on Friday, January 30 as part of a nationwide effort in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis and the nationwide efforts to rein ICE and the DHS.
Today, ICE and Border Patrol set a new daily record, surpassing their previous daily average of about 30 reports with nearly 50 incidents. There was a time when 25-40 was the total number of incidents I’d report for a whole week; they just did that in one day.
