Social Movement State of the City Address

Los Angeles City Hall, Spring Street Steps

Tuesday, April 17th 2007, 10 AM

We Want a Pro-Environment/Human Rights

Los Angeles, Not a Los Angeles Police State!

A Civil, Human and Environmental Rights Social Movement Platform!

We expect proposals from the Mayor’s office that call for the massive expansion of social service such as 1,000 More

Units! We need an aggressive L.A. City environmental agenda that supports low transit fares, the restriction of automobile

use, a moratorium on highway expansion and opposes MTA’s boondoggle rail expansion.

Mr. Mayor, We Want a Pro-Environment/Human Rights Los Angeles, Not a Los Angeles Police State!

• Stop Chief Bratton’s Safer-City Initiative. Stop Broken Window Policing – it criminalizes urban life, leads to higher

incarceration rates of Black and Latino youth and more police brutality. The LAPD’s Safer City Initiative on skid row

has arrested over 6,000 and given over 6,700 “quality of life” citations to mainly homeless residents for the “crime”

of being poor, Black and homeless.

• Open the Gang Database – Stop the Profiling and Expunge Black and Brown Youth on Gang Database! Everyday

LAPD, L.A. Sheriffs, L.A.U.S.D. police add scores of inner city youth on to the gang database – a police

enforcement mechanism that profiles based on race. Open the rolls and expunge the names of our youths!

• Stop City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo’s attempt to criminalize LAUSD tardy policies – we need solution to root

causes, not ticketing and criminal prosecution of youth and families.

• No human being is Illegal! Fully Support Special Order 40 and declare Los Angeles an Immigrant-Raid Free City. Join us for the MIWON - May 1st Mobilization to Support Full Human Rights for Immigrants, Legalization for All

Immigrant and Workers Rights!

• Stop L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley and ICE collaboration to

“fast track” deportations for all alleged gang members!

• Stop the War on Drugs and Gangs – Support the End to Addiction, Joblessness and Racism!

• We want justice for Devon Brown! End and prosecute acts of police brutality.

• Vote NO on MTA’s Racist Fare Increase. Mayor Villaraigosa, we call on you to use your FOUR votes on the MTA

Board (Councilperson Bernard Parks, Richard Katz and David Fleming) to withdraw MTA’s racist fare increase

proposal. The two-year fare increase proposal includes; raising the monthly bus pass to $120, K-12 Student Pass

to $72, Senior Pass to $60 and the Day Pass to $8! Additionally, the fare increase will reverse major gains in

increased ridership won through bus expansion improvements enforced with the civil rights Consent Decree –

transit experts expect that 25% to 40% of all transit ridership will be lost – exacerbating the impacts of global

warming and public heath injuries from car emissions in the region.

• Mr. Mayor, we will not pay an additional cent for MTA’s transit racism. We urge your to stop the proposed fare

increase and stop the ill-conceived $7 billion Wilshire Subway extension from Western Avenue to Santa Monica,

which will threaten to bankrupt the bus system and impose massive suffering for the transit dependent in the form of

bus service cuts and fare increases.

We want 1,000 more buses and a Countywide Bus Only Lane Network for Civil Rights and to Stop Global Warming.

We urge the Mayor to adopt the BRU’s comprehensive bus-centered transit plan that includes reducing fares to .50

cents and $20 bus passes, expanding the bus system by 1,000 buses, prioritizing buses on major street arteries

with bus-only lanes to increase ridership and reduce automobile use.