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Last updated on March 21, 2026

We are people who care deeply about the attacks on our freedom and want to organize with others to turn shared values into collective power. Our rights and communities are under threat, and organizing and strengthening our collective power is more important than ever.

We dare to re-imagine what collective safety looks like and are doubling down to defend our rights, propel progress in California, and keep each other safe during a time of rising authoritarianism. Volunteer with us.

UPCOMING EVENTS AND ACTIONS

March 28 | No Kings Nationwide Rallies

Millions of people in the streets. Neighbors protecting neighbors. Communities organizing against the hatred and pain that this administration wants to inflict against us. The people, united, fighting against abuse from a president who believes himself to be above the law.

That's the vision of the No Kings movement – and it's why we're taking to the streets again in nationwide peaceful protest on March 28.

What: No Kings rallies
When: Saturday, March 28, 2026
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April 7 | Tell LAPD: Comply with Sanctuary Policies

Join us in urging the LA Police Commission (LAPC) to fulfill its responsibility and ensure that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) fully complies with the City of Los Angeles’s sanctuary policies and maximizes protections for immigrant Angelenos. The LAPC has the authority—and the obligation—to ensure that LAPD adopts and upholds these protections.

What: Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners meeting
When: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 8:30 a.m.
Where: 100 West 1st Street Los Angeles, CA 90012

 

WE KEEP US SAFE ACTIVIST HUDDLES (2025)

From ICE kidnapping members of our immigrant communities and the escalating number of lives lost while held in custody to the attacks on arts justice and our freedom to read, how can we keep our communities safe? In 2025, like-minded advocates, organizers, attorneys, volunteers and more joined our activist huddles to share their perspectives on how we fight for our collective safety.

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On December 9, at 6 p.m., we focused on how we define safety when so many of us are quickly incarcerated, detained, and taken from our communities and families. From our long-standing advocacy to close Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles and the Adelanto Detention Center to the escalating number of lives lost while held in custody throughout the southland—what could safety look like if it included all of us?

See our YouTube playlist to watch more of the 2025 We Keep Us Safe huddles.