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11.27.20. Los Angeles

LASD spent the night before thanksgiving forcibly removing a family from a state-owned home. Police arrived with military gear to remove a family who had been squatting in the vacant home. Protesters at the eviction were unable to stop the police, but they have been begun protesting outside Mayor Garcetti’s home.

A reminder that in nearly every US city, the “housing crisis” is artificially produced through collaboration among real estate developers, landlords, and Democrat & Republican politicians, carried out by overfunded police. There is no scarcity, so capitalists create an illusion of it.

The Its Going Down podcast talked about this over the weekend and they did an interview with one of the organizers who have been trying to get the state of California to give these houses to houseless families for months with no luck. They got tired of dealing with the bureaucracy and waiting on the state to work with them because shit is getting more and more dire due to Covid so they organized a way to help families squat in these houses. They only got to stay in them for a couple days before this happened but luckily the community showed the fuck up to do what they could to stop the police from doing this. They almost won after running off the state troopers the first time, but they came back with LAPD in riot gear and then this happened. The community lost this battle but they aren’t done fighting. They aren’t gonna give up and these families will receive the mutual aid they need.

“Just vote Democrat no matter what.”

Meanwhile in LA