TheAltWorld BLM Activist: What You Don’t Know About the Racist LA Council
- Rania Khalek
- Saturday 15 Oct 22
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Labor leader Ron Herrera and City Council President Nury Martinez have resigned after protesters demanded justice and accountability for Martinez’s racist and inflammatory anti-Black and anti-Indigenous remarks in a leaked private meeting.
The meeting itself, between Herrera, Martinez, Councilman Kevin de León, and Councilman Gil Cedillo, was to redraw political districts to promote Latino political power—to the exclusion of Black political power, otherwise known as gerrymandering. De León and Cedillo have not yet resigned.
Dr. Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles, organizer with Black Lives Matter Grassroots & professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA, explains what’s going on in the Council, the city, and in our political system more broadly.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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