Category Archives: BRLP

What Is To Be Undone?

Posted on September 30, 2014 by olaasm

Submitted by a comrade from Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Timed to occur just before the UN opened a Global Climate Summit, the Peoples’ Climate March in New York drew about 400,000 people into the streets, and … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, BRLP, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged Flood Wall Street, liberalism, NYC, OLAASM, PCM, People's Climate March, radical, radicalism, revolution, struggle | Leave a comment

The People v. Charlie Beck: An Indictment of Five Years of LAPD Abuse

Posted on May 20, 2014 by olaasm

Shortly after LAPD Chief Charlie Beck submitted formal notification of his intent to serve another, 5-year term atop the United States’ third largest police force, the sycophantic, Los Angeles media – long-storied and ever-faithful propagandists to the city’s powerful … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, BRLP, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Patriarchy, Prisons, Queer, Sex Work, Skid Row, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged activism, Alesia Thomas, BRLP, broken windows, Bruce Beaird, Charlie Beck, Chief Beck, corruption, Drone, Joel Rubin, la, LACAN, lapd, los angeles, OLAASM, organizing, police brutality, Reggie Doucet Jr, Safer Cities Initiative, Shaunn Hillmann, SO1, Steven Eugene Washington, Stingray, Stop LAPD Spying, surveillance, war on the poor, white supremacy, William Bratton | 8 Comments

The Missed Insurrection

Posted on January 6, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. Originally published November 10, 2013 – here!) “Find Each Other” (just don’t tell Glenn Beck)… We found each other with a conspiratorial wink – our alliance affirmed. We spilled our secrets deep into morning, sparking at the resin … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, BRLP, California, Chris Hedges, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Patriarchy, poetry, Prisons, Queer, Sex Work, Skid Row, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged anarchism, anarchist, anarchy, andrew breitbart, communism, encampment, find each other, full communism, glenn beck, insurrection, nostalgia, occupation, occupy, occupy los angeles, occupy oakland, occupy wall street, occupyla, ola, oo, ows, poem, poetry, reflection, resistance, revolt, revolution, tarnac9, the coming insurrection | 1 Comment

InterCommunal Solidarity with Crenshaw [and Trayvon]

Posted on January 6, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. parts of this were originally published September, 2013 – here!) Solidarity – what is it? It’s a question many in Los Angeles (Michael Prysner of ANSWER-LA/PSL, Najee Ali of Sharpton’s NAN, OccupyLA and Bambu – I’m talking to you) might … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, BRLP, California, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Prisons, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged acab, BRLP, ftp, george zimmerman, lapd, liberals, revolution, smash white supremacy fun run, trayvon martin, westwood | Leave a comment

Solidarity Action with CA Hungerstrikers (A30)

Posted on January 4, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. Originally published on August 26, 2013 – here!) OLAASM endorses this and any escalation by those in solidarity with prison hunger strikers – now in their 50th Day – who are facing torturous force-feeding in addition to long-term solitary … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, BRLP, California, Los Angeles, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged adseg, BPP, BRLP, CA, California, CDCR, force-feeding, intercommunal solidarity committee, intercommunalism, ISC, isolation, jerry brown, prison, Prison Hunger Strike, revolution, SHU, solidarity, the new jim crow, torture | Leave a comment

The Lonely Dissonance of the Long Distance Liberal

Posted on January 3, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. Originally published July 23, 2013 – here!) Those ‘Outside Agitators’: Red Baiting, “Black” Baiting, State Collaboration and Liberalism After #Crenshaw’s #J4TM Anti-Racism Uprising Liberalism Collaboration: here and here Red-baiting Anarchist-baiting: here and here and by this PSL-affiliated “rapper” here:

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, BRLP, culture industry, Liberalism, Media, Patriarchy, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged acab, bambu, BRLP, collaborator, crenshaw, ftp, george zimmerman, lapd, leimert park, liberal, Lies, los angeles, media, news, pigs, PSL, reform, statists, trayvon martin, uprising | 2 Comments

On Bill “Fucking” Bratton

Posted on January 2, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. Originally published January 23, 2013 – here!) I watched the marathon, 9+ hour Oakland City Council meeting last night – attended by hundreds of well-informed, passionate Oaklanders who stridently covered every single potential concern (and statistical reality) about Bill … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, BRLP, Liberalism, occupy, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged "cops count", acab, Antonio Villaraigosa, Bill "Fucking" Bratton, Bill Bratton, Black Riders Liberation Party, BRLP, broken windows, carceral state, Charles Murray, CIA, city council, consultancy, fallacy, ftp, George Kelling, Heritage Foundation, James Wilson, jean quan, Kroll, lapd, Loic Wacquant, Manhattan Institute, meeting, neoliberalism, NYPD, Oak Mtg, oakland, occupy, opd, post hoc ergo propter hoc, public, racism, Ray Kelly, Robert Wasserman, stop and frisk, theory, think tanks, white supremacy, William Bratton | 3 Comments

A Message of Solidarity from the Black Riders

Posted on January 1, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. This was originally published April 27, 2012 – here!) Power To The People! Revolutionary Greetings! The Black Riders considers itself to be the new generation Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. We are a Black Revolutionary organization based in … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, BRLP, occupy | Tagged 2012, Black Riders Liberation Party, BRLP, General Strike, los angeles, M1GS, May Day, occupy, occupy los angeles, occupyla, ola, solidarity | Leave a comment

#M1GS 101

Posted on December 31, 2013 by olaasm

(ed. Originally published April 16, 2012 – here!) WTF is M1GS? What are the caravans? 4 winds? There’s too much happening – how do I get involved? I don’t have a car. What’s the point? Yeah, I’m hearing this all … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, BRLP, occupy, Patriarchy, Prisons, Queer, Skid Row, War on the Poor | Tagged Black Riders Liberation Party, convergence, four winds, General Strike, M1GS, march, May Day, occupy, occupy los angeles, occupy wall street, occupyla, ola, SEIU, strike | Leave a comment

Black Power General Assembly

Posted on December 31, 2013 by olaasm

(ed. Originally posted March 2, 2012 – here!) Two weeks ago Occupy LA held its first Black Power GA, organized by antiracism campaigner and OLA comrade, Brother Michael Novick, staunch Occupier Nigerian-American Brother Dele, Brother Bilal Ali of LA-CAN, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival, BRLP, occupy | Tagged assembly, Bilal Ali, black power, Black Riders Liberation Party, BPP, BRLP, Dedon Kamathi, Freedom Now, general assembly, KPFK, Kwazi Nkrumah, Michael Novick, occupy, occupy la, ola, ows, themed GA, Turning The Tide | Leave a comment