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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The city will utilize LA Municipal Code 41.18 to ethnically cleans our sidewalks of poor Black and Brown people (regardless of housing status), and disappear anyone else they deem undesirable in the lead-up to the Olympics, just like it did in 1984. We saw Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez sat on 1/

Screenshot of article text: Kris Rehl, an organizer with LA Street Care and the Abolish 41.18 Campaign, contends that no-encampment zones serve only to shuffle homeless people from one area to another.
"The only way to change the housing status of an unhoused person is to house them. Putting them in jail for a short amount of time, fining them with tickets up to $2,500 is not going to change the fact that people are unhoused," Rehl said.
Last year, Rehl's group and others demanded that Soto-Martínez follow through on his promise and repeal the zones within his district. When there was no action during his reelection campaign this year, they demonstrated outside his home, sent postcards to his campaign donors and pushed for the cancellation of one of his fundraisers.
"I think it's unfortunate that this amount of pressure is needed to get a candidate to do something they support," Rehl said.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’ve spent the past 16 months organizing more than 50 groups to pressure this “socialist” councilmember to do the thing he said he would do on the campaign trail: stop criminalizing people for sitting down in public. This is a huge victory but just a small step toward decriminalizing poverty in L.A.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Join our free, fun, awesome day this Sunday at Echo Park Lake! Enjoy some bomb ass vendor food, live music, Zumba, get your tarot read, get terrorized by a clown…there’s something for everyone!

REALLY. REALLY FREE MARKET
SUNDAY, JUNE 28 • ECHO PARK LIKE
11AM-2PM
(NORTH SIDE)
EVERYTHING IS FREE!
* hot food
• flea market!
*art
• haircuts
• metro cards
* books
• Clothes
• ticket clinic * zumba!
• medical clinic • face painting
tarot reading
* pet clinic
• live music!
• t-shirt stamping
COME BUILD & SHARE COMMUNITY WITH US!

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It’s that time again! Rejoice and resist with us at the Echo Park Really, Really Free Market: 📆Sunday, June 28th ⏰11am—2pm 📍Echo Park Lake (corner of Park Ave & Echo Park Lake Ave near the picnic tables)

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The struggles of unhoused and undocumented people are more interconnected than you know. An estimated 10% of unhoused Angelenos are undocumented. While ICE kidnaps people off our streets every day, city officials continue to sweep encampments and enforce anti-camping laws.

UNDOCUMENTED OR UNHOUSED
No one should be criminalized!
THE STATE IS TARGETING PEOPLE FOR THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS AND HOUSING STATUS.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Today is the 5 year anniversary of the eviction at Echo Park Lake. A lot less has changed that you probably realized. We should all still be horrified.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There is no moral argument for Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez to continue defending Mitch O'Farrell's 41.18 zones when Hugo compared 41.18 to racial profiling and stop-and-frisk. All of his supporters should be ashamed.

"America has a long history of using its power to punish people of color, workers, and the poor. In 1968, the Supreme Court decided it was legal for police to detain anyone they deem suspicious. In New York City there was Stop and Frisk. Today in Los Angeles we have 41.18 (thread)"
Hugo's tweet from July 2021

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

One of the most frustrating things about entertainment industry union leadership is their refusal to endorse CalCare. Single-payer health care would remove the AMPTP's greatest piece of leverage over workers in every negotiation.

2026 | WGA CONTRACT
DEAR MEMBERS,
The Writers Guild Health Fund and Pension Plan are fundamental elements of economic security for writers. In this negotiation, writers need significant additional contributions to the Health Fund and Pension Plan to protect their solvency and ensure sustainable benefits for writers going forward.
The WA's State of Our Health and Pension Plans bulletin explains the current pressures on our plans, and what we need to do to protect high-quality benefits for members when we go into bargaining with the AMPTP in March.
More information on WA contract negotiations, including the prior bulletin on the state of the industry, can be found on wgacontract.org.
IN SOLIDARITY,
WGA NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Everyone in the movement knows we must abolish 41.18, LA's law that criminalizes poor people for existing in public spaces. We don't have the votes to repeal the entire law right now, so we MUST push Hugo, Eunisses, and Ysabel to repeal the 41.18 zones their predecessors created in their districts.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Taps the sign a trillion times.

INTERIM SHELTER # HOUSING repeated in pink

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Called it in February 2024 (even if the run date was 4 years off).

This may explain some of Nithya's choices in her re-election campaign. She is fortunately still refusing corporate donations, but her campaign has made a noticeable shift from emphasizing grassroots movements to featuring establishment figures with moderate politics. And I understand that she has to make a case to win votes from her now more conservative constituency. But that doesn't excuse any harmful choices she's made, especially after Kenneth Mejia won over the majority of voters in each of LA's 15 Council Districts in 2022 with unwavering leftist values. And I don't think these shifts are just a reaction to redistricting or the laughably desperate failed recall attempts conservatives have led against her. In my view, her increasingly cautious political calculations combined with close alliances with centrists like Karen Bass point to ambitions for a 2030 mayoral bid when Bass terms out. That is purely speculative, but it would explain many of Nithya's motivations. Time will tell if this prediction is correct, but Gavin Newsom is an unfortunate example of what happens when politicians seek higher office.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Anyone supporting LA Councilmember @hugoforcd13.bsky.social’s re-election need to sit with his hypocrisy. Sweeps destroy shelter/IDs, making it easier for ICE to abduct undocumented folks at encampments (already happening) at a time when many people can’t pay rent bc it’s unsafe to go to work.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

LA City Council strikes again

DA files new corruption charges against Los Angeles councilmember Curren Price

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Reminded today of this timeless adage

Anthony Oliveira tweet from September 2020: every single day for four years I have thought about Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gloating that you can dismantle a democracy right in front of a liberal's face piece by piece and all they'll do is convene breakout sessions and commitee meetings til the boots are in the halls.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

If you don't know about LA's National Special Security Event designation, you have no idea what's really happening in our city. Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom handed the Department of Homeland Security unprecedented authority to coordinate with local "law enforcement" through 2028.

THE 2028 OLYMPICS ARE BRINGING ICE TO LA
LA has invited several global sports events to town: the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the 2027 Super Bowl, and the 2028 Olympics and
Paralympics.
The Department of Homeland Security classifies major events like the Olympics as "National Special Security Events" (NSSEs). This classification means local police and sheriffs will coordinate closely with the FBI, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Secret Service, and the U.S. Military.
The NSSE threatens any effort to make LA a "Sanctuary City," putting undocumented Angelenos at risk.
ICE
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WHAT HAPPENS IN AN NSSE:
HARASSMENT AND CRIMINALIZATION OF IMMIGRANTS: At past NSSE events, federal security forces have conducted raids and racially profiled immigrants. They have harassed and arrested or fined people who work in the informal economy, from street vendors to sex workers. If local and federal police are sharing information, undocumented Angelenos will be more vulnerable to deportation.
MILITARIZED OLYMPICS ZONES: At major sports events, the areas around stadiums are fenced off to create a "security perimeter," blocking or limiting access to people's homes and businesses. This can disrupt the livelihoods of small business owners, workers, and street vendors. These security perimeters will be patrolled by armed military troops and police.
A DANGEROUS SURVEILLANCE LEGACY: Local police get tons of new weapons and surveillance equipment when their city hosts a NSSE event. After LA's 1984 Olympics, LAPD turned its new military weapons on Black and Brown Angelenos in the so-called "war on drugs." With major events planned for 2026, 2027, and 2028, and LA elites' desire to keep hosting major events in the future, we face the risk that hyper-militarized event-policing becomes a permanent reality for LA.
FACIAL RECOGNITION: For the 2028 Olympics, we know LA is expanding its use of facial recognition technology.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

My friend was arrested for documenting “law enforcement” at a raid yesterday. Please call these offices and demand his immediate release: Mayor Bass office number - (213) 978-0600 Monica Rodriguez office number - (213) 473-7007 Imelda Padilla office number - (213) 473-7006

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We have the power to stop state violence when we show up and fight back together. Always remember that.

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L.A. Tenants Union @latenantsunion.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Demands from the L.A. Tenants Union Read our full statement on instagram @ latenants

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The issue w/ current discourse of resistance is the focus on who the “real criminals” are instead of the process of criminalization by which certain people, groups & actions will *always* be framed as threats/violent while enabling others to engage in extreme forms of violence w/ absolute impunity.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

For the added cost of LAPD brutally beating Angelenos for less than a week, we could’ve given every unhoused person in the city $200.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Anyone liking or sharing messaging about cops protecting people at Pride need to do some deep reflecting.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Sanctuary is a dangerous lie that liberals have sold you. They were more concerned with patting themselves on the back than educating vulnerable people about the fascistic conditions they co-signed. They will never take meaningful action to block ICE.

A potentially even greater threat to sanctuary protections is the National Special Security Event (NSSE) designation. What is an NSSE designation? When the federal government decides an event is so large and so significant that it poses a national security threat, the Department of Homeland Security mandates the Secret Service to oversee cooperation between local, state, and federal agencies, including ICE.

Usually, an event is issued an NSSE designation months in advance. In January of this year, the Secretary of Homeland Security designated the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles as an NSSE four years in advance—the earliest this has ever happened. That means federal agencies already have authority to coordinate with local agencies, and we don’t know what kind of security measures local agencies have in place to protect the personal information of undocumented immigrants or any other LA resident. (Fortunately for all of us, LA City Council recently approved “LAPD Live,” a massive new surveillance program that gives cops real-time access to public and private security cameras across the City!) Under the NSSE designation, ICE could also potentially issue a legal challenge, claiming its authority supersedes local sanctuary protections.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Then why aren’t you doing more help them, Karen?

An appropriate day to remind everyone that for the 2nd yr. in a row Mayor Bass proposed zero new funding to RepresentLA, the City/County program which provides attorneys to LA residents facing deportation.
Like last time, council restored funding in this y's proposed budget.

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Jamie Biver @jamiebiver.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Happening in CD 2 as well. One of the communities I serve has been swept every couple of weeks for the last 2 months. This week it was Cal Trans and LA County. Not a single service provider was present until the sweep was nearly complete.

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Historic Filipinotown residents delivered a letter to LA City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez demanding regular trash pick-ups and more help to find local housing after at least two recent city sweeps at their encampment led to valuable belongings getting taken or trashed.

lapublicpress.org

Unhoused residents demand LA Councilmember Hernandez provide trash cans instead of sweeps

People living in a Historic Filipinotown encampment said they've undergone at least two recent sweeps where people lost belongings like tents, tools, and pet food.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez pledged to end sweeps in his district. Instead, his sweeps bring cops to encampments, bulldoze people's only form of shelter without providing housing, and trash their belongings.

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Writers Guild Staff Union (WGSU) @wgsunion.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

🧵 Last week, we received an email from management to all staff acknowledging that union busting occurred. We appreciate their expressed commitment to respect our rights moving forward and taking the violations seriously.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Staying silent about Writers Guild management’s union busting is the opposite of solidarity fyi

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If you were considering donating to or volunteering for @hugoforcd13.bsky.social's re-election campaign, I urge to invest your time and resources in helping the people he's harmed instead. Please show up tomorrow morning for sweep support.

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

🚨URGENT SWEEP SUPPORT NEEDED!🚨 Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez and @cd13.lacity.gov are targeting this Rampart encampment with yet another sweep tomorrow morning. Show up and help the folks living there--their Councilmember certainly won't!

SWEEP SUPPORT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Wednesday, May 28 at 7am
312 N Juanita Ave (at Beverly)
in Rampart
Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez signed off on another big sweep!
Show up to support the unhoused folks he continues to target.
Email lastreetcare@gmail.com
if you can show up!

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” - Eugene Debs

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. Debs

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Ricci @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

An actual false flag to set up anti-zionist protesters: Completely normal city!

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Gavin Newsom’s brutal sweeps have repeatedly targeted our friend Ryann. She lost housing while escaping domestic abuse and has since been arrested, ticketed, and had state officials intentionally smear her belongings in dog shit simply because she lives in a tent near a freeway.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Please take a minute to listen to my friend Ryann's experience and learn how Governor Gavin Newsom's policies are targeting her along with thousands of other survivors of intimate partner violence.

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Writers Guild Staff Union (WGSU) @wgsunion.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

An injury to one is an injury to all. #ItsTime to reinstate Fátima. ✊

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Revoking access to health care for California's nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants will be a death sentence for thousands of people. Meanwhile, California is home to 197 billionaires.

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Writers Guild Staff Union (WGSU) @wgsunion.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This is a timeline of the union busting practices that have occurred in the recent weeks. Managers are still using problematic, union busting rhetoric in staff and 1:1 meetings. We await response from management on our 2nd and 3rd demands: stop union busting and reinstate Fátima Murrieta. #ItsTime

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today would be a great day for @ellenstutzman.bsky.social and @wgawest.bsky.social management to make amends for their union busting by reinstating incredible labor organizer Fátima Murrieta! #MayDay www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

👋Reminder that cops have no place in the labor movement.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers. When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤

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Writers Guild Staff Union (WGSU) @wgsunion.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🧵 In the letter we delivered to Guild staff leadership when our union went public on Tuesday, we made 3 reasonable demands. 1. Wall to wall recognition 2. Stop union busting 3. Reinstate Fátima Murrieta, WGSU Organizing Committee Member

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Wild to see that @wgawest.bsky.social hasn’t voluntarily recognized their own staff union yet. What’s the holdup?

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