2008 Budget Campaign Web PDF.pdf [1]

NO to the Police State

10% cut on LA Police Budget (current budget is 1.9 billion; cut $194 million to balance the budget)

Repeal the "Trash Tax" for more police

End LAPD Chief Bratton’s "Broken Window" Policing

Stop the Attacks on the Homeless - End the "Safer City Initiative" in Skid Row

1,000 Less Racist Poverty Laws:

Treatment not Incarceration - End the War on Drugs

Decriminalize Truancy - End Zero Tolerance

Open the Gang Database

End all local police collaboration with Immigrantion and Customs Enforcement

YES to the Social Welfare and Environmental Justice State

1,000 more buses - Stop MTA’s bus service cuts

Fund Bus-Only Lanes

24/7 youth centers

Fulltime employment for everyone on the gang database

1,000 More Buses, 1,000 Less Police!

Join us for a rally outside the Mayor’s State of the City Address:

Monday, April 14th @ 3:30pm
Parker Center - 150 N. Los Angeles, between 1st & Main

Meet at 2:00pm at 456 S. Main Street (LACAN office) to march from Skid Row to the Parker Center