Getting It Together

This is a good analysis of what went down at Art Walk on July 12.  It’s hiding on L.A. Indymedia.  The site description:

When people at the downtown Art Walk joined with Occupy Los Angeles to assert their right to speak, LAPD answered with guns.

occupyla:

A chalk walk event was planned for DTLA’s art walk on 07/12/12 for free expression in our communities to raise awareness of the criminalization of free speech. Occupiers from LA were dedicated to a peaceful action and handed out pieces of chalk with notes explaining the repression and arrests for…

(via oriacollective)

ola-asm:

On April 27th, 2012, CNN published a misleading, inaccurate and damaging article entitled ‘LA May day observances split immigration’. While the various immigration groups who have traditionally marched on May Day have naturally been in various stages of ideological and sometimes political…

Good writers in spite of gender (and race?) imbalance, potential for some seriously radical verbage.  Worth keeping an eye on.