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Spike Friedman
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Ryanne Mena
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Liam Fitzpatrick
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Nicole Levin
writer, organizer, human @nicolejlevin
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Maggie Clancy
activist, writer, musician, and all-around goof. zero chill. @maggieclancy
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Alex Fumero
I’m a writer and producer based in Los Angeles.
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Rebecca High
can’t afford quarters for laundry but my favorite food is avo toast
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Shelby Eggers
Editor | Knock.LA
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John Motter
Community organizer in Los Angeles.
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Nicholas Fox Robbins
Politics | History | Film | Poetry | Mythology | Millennials
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Meghan Choi
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Mike Metzger
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Sam Forman
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Caleb W. Crowder
Ground Game LA Organizer | KNOCK Contributor
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Matthew Taylor
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Kendall Mayhew
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John Perry
Writer with a background in urban planning. https://bastardurbanism.wordpress.com/
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Karen Hilfman
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Alfredo P. Natto
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Charlie Peppers
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Jacob Woocher
Grad student in Urban Planning and Law at UCLA, LA Tenants Union (LATU), @jacobwooch on twitter
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Casey Maddren
I’m a blogger writing about LA at The Horizon and the Skyline (www.horizonskyline.net).
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Danielle Wilson
Political/community organizing by day, lifting heavy objects by night
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Bushido Squirrel
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Josh Albrektson
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Kelsey Goldberg
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gold soundz
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KNOCK
The editors & staff of KNOCK, as a generalized whole
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Jason David
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Dahlia Ferlito
Dahlia is a white, queer, non-binary anti-racist organizer, co-founder of White People for Black Lives & on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice
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Ben Hauck
Ben is a Southern California Vice Chair of the CDP Progressive Caucus, a leftist organizer and rabble rouser.
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Jasmyne Cannick
Gen X award-winning journalist, on-air contributor. I write and talk about politics, race, and today's social issues.
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Julianne Tveten
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Aim_4_Freedom
Bilingual Irish accomplice to People of Color & LGBTQ+ people everywhere! Living on stolen/occupied Tongva land. Organizer with GroundGame LA.
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Dan Gordon
Campaign Manager-turned High School Government Teacher
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Bill Przylucki
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Kaleb Havens
Soup Slinging Writer/Activist/Barber of DTLA by way of Indiana
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Dick Platkin
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Jared Baxter
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Nik Tourani
Writer from Los Angeles, California, now living in London. Half Turkmen-Iranian, half French.
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Patty Crost Glueck
Finally using her J-school degree for good. #CountdownToShutDown2020 Aliso Canyon
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Paul Lanctot & Christina Sanchez Juarez
Members of the South Central Local of the LA Tenants Union. #StopTheExpositionEvictions https://www.facebook.com/SouthCentralLocal/
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adolf alzuphar
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Peter Segall
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Aaron Lopez
Chicano in/from East L.A.; studying, thinking about, and writing on housing justice, education, race, and power.
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Emma Lindsay
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/protectingthecrushed/ — Twitter: https://twitter.com/SassyDotLove
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Travis Korte
Methods, metaphors, futures. Data/prototyping for complex systems. Ex-@hackforla, @lacity, @datainnovation, @huffpost. Send me a weird diagram.
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Justice Ross
she/her. 22 year old college Child Development student and vehement believer in the rights of people to be cared for, to live, and to live well.
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Warren Sz
Local SoCal reporting with an investigative edge. See more at warrensz.me.
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VyBe Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union
Find us at LATenantsUnion.org or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/VybeLocal/
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Jessa Orluk
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Chris Roth
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orion maiden
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Elana Eden
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CCED Chinatown
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development builds grassroots power with low-income and immigrant communities through organizing, education and mutual help.
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Timo Saarelma
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Ryanne Mena
Journalist from Los Angeles. Ryannejmena@gmail.com
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Elkieschoof
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Lydia McLeod
Current UCLA Law student involved with LA Tenants Union- Westside Local, Street Watch LA, & National Lawyers Guild-UCLA.
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LA Tenants Union
https://join.latenantsunion.org
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T. E. Winningham
T.E. Winningham holds a PhD in Literature from USC and a BA from the University of Iowa. His work has appeared in various online and print outlets.
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Annie Lloyd
Annie Lloyd is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn by way of Los Angeles.
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Resist YIMBYism
We’re organizers from LA against YIMBYism. Ditch the YIMBYs — join the tenants movement, and fight for Public Housing In My BackYard (PHIMBY)!
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Colin Beckett
Los Angeles Tenants Union, Hollywood Local
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thatcarr
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Shao Zhao
Finding my way in Los Angeles.
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Joanna Swan
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Carl J. Petersen
Parent, special education advocate and former LAUSD School Board candidate. Still fighting for the children. www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com
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Ankur Patel
On the Dharmic path. Instead of the lesser of two evils, I'm aiming for the greater good.
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Casey Jayne
Interests: neuroscience, ethics, data security, activism, coping
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John Kerin
John is a member of Sunrise Movement LA and Ground Game LA
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Gabriel Henriquez
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Mason Maguire
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Nicole Levin
writer, organizer, human @nicolejlevin
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Wendy Barranco
Independent consultant, community organizer, and change-maker. Dedicated to good trouble, resiliency, and healing.
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Mike Quimichipilli Bravo
Indigenous Educator, Lettering Artist, Anti-Gentrification, Venice, CA Original
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Lauren Levitt
Lauren is a UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside.
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Tetsuo Ogawa
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Carter Moon
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Ashley Bennett
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Simon Campusano
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Sean Chandra
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Liam Fitzpatrick
Editor at KNOCK.LA | Ground Game Organizer | @ThisIsLiamRoss
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Albert Corado
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Jordan Lyric
Writer at KNOCK.LA | Ground Game Organizer | They/Them Pronouns
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Ricci Sergienko
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Rachel Reyes
A real Valley girl.
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Jack Ross
Journalist in California
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Cici Powers
(THEY/THEM) Cici is a resident of Van Nuys and an organizer with NoHo LATU, StreetWatch LA, and People’s City Council LA. On off time they DJ and produce.
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Naomi Williams
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Khristina Rhead
Writer, environmentalist, adventurer, and organizer with Sunrise LA.
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Nithya for the City
Nithya Raman is running for Los Angeles City Council, District 4. Vote November 3, 2020. Learn more at nithyaforthecity.com
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Vagabon
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Mark Lipman
Mark Lipman is a writer, poet, artist and activist. Currently, he serves as Vice-Chair of Culver City’s Committee on Homelessness. www.vagabondbooks.net
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Jackson Loop
Historic preservationist and urban planner working in Los Angeles; Gregarious Aquarius; Twitter: @awyeahyeehaw
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Ananya Roy
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Last Of Bliss
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Laura E. Gomez
I am a UCLA professor of law, sociology and Chicana/o studies and faculty director of UCLA Critical Race Studies Program, which I co-founded in 2000.
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Michael Bednar
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Dr. Jeremy Divinity
Exploring ways of being. Critical Scholar, Strategist, Writer. Located in Los Angeles @Dr.Yermzus on Instagram.
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Raffi Joe Wartanian
Citizen 🇺🇸 Storyteller 🇦🇲 Educator @ Columbia University 🇱🇧 Seeking social justice, creativity, & innovative institutions | www.raffijoewartanian.com
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Greg Nussen
Writer/Actor in Los Angeles. www.gregnussen.com
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Lily Lucas
Queer Historian, Californian. @mxlilylucas
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KNOCK.LA Editorial
Our editorial team consists of LA activists, journalists, and the reformed ghost of William Randolph Hearst. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/KNOCK_LA
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Jenna Dorn
Strong opinions and won’t shut up about them; UCLA alumni; abolitionist; aspiring optimist
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Eleanor Bray
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Fatima
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Maro Kakoussian
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ORALElb
ORALE : Organizing Rooted in Abolition, Liberation, and Empowerment
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Sonya Mendoza
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Paul Sherman
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Kendall Kaufmann
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Antonia Crane
Writer, SW Forever, Professor, Cat Lady, Screenwriter, Creative Nonfiction Grand Prize Winner for PRISM International Journal, 2018;http://www.antoniacrane.com/
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Jamie Loftus
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Lisa Kwon
luxury is for the people…heaven’s gate is a butterfly door • writer based in Los Angeles
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Kevin Varzandeh
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Dylan Seaton
Actor. Los Angeles.
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Madeline Gobbo
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Martin Perlmutter
Interactive video and immersive technology pioneer, activist and social justice warrior. Teacher, writer, producer and painter.
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Keith F. Eberl
Keith Eberl is an organizer for Rideshare Drivers United, an independent, driver created and driver led association of 19,000 California drivers.
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Alexandra Malek
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Sylvia
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Mike Dickerson
Mike Dickerson is a researcher, writer, and advocate focused on homelessness and LA government. Mike is also a co-founder of Ktown for All.
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Anthony Torossian
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Aaron Thompson
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Loraine Lundquist
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Loraine Lundquist
This account is being used for campaign purposes by Loraine Lundquist for City Council. I am an astrophysicist, a neighborhood advocate, and mom.
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Chelsea Kirk
Tenant advocate in Los Angeles. Student of public policy at NYU. Enthusiastic member of the L.A. Tenants Union.
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Joe Brizzolara
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Byron Barahona
Trying to understand myself and the world around me a few metaphors at a time.
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Josh Rosen
Local Reporter, Freelance buffoon
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Walker Foley
Los Angeles Organizer, focused on climate, in solidarity with many. Direct Action Gets the Goods!
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Phil Portnoy
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White People 4 Black Lives
Writer/contributor forWP4BL, the Los Angeles chapter of SURJ
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Katie Fedigan-Linton
Freelance writer for hire. Politics, current events, cybersecurity, fiction, TV, film, etc. https://linktr.ee/KatieFL Tip jar: https://bit.ly/ktrex1312
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Dulce Vasquez
Angelena Educada. Passionate about access and affordability of higher education, consumer protections, immigration policy, and Los Angeles.
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Cerise Castle
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stoplapdspying
Taking a stance against wholesale criminalization via police surveillance. Rescind LAPD Special Order 1(1)!
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Erin Wisti
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Hollywood LATU
The Hollywood Local of LA Tenants Union is organized by and for housed and unhoused tenants. @latuhollywood on Instagram
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Ina Morton
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Abby Austin
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Piper S French
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J.T. Moore
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Tom R
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Alexandra Nagy
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Lildannyg
Aspiring Jack of All Trades ♠️⚔️ They // Them // Elle 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Korean 🇰🇷🇰🇵 Kimchi 🌶🥬 Princess 👑 #CANCELRENT 🔥 #HOUSINGISAHUMANRIGHT ✊🏽
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Sophielstrauss
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Los Angeles Community Action Network
Fighting for Human Rights from the epicenter of Human Rights violations, Skid Row U.S.A. Human Rights Defenders and truth tellers. Black Lives Matter forever.
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Halcyon Selfmade
$HalcyonSelfmade cashapp @Halcyon_Selfmade venmo @HalcyonSelfmade paypal
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Jacob Ruiz
organize with Sunrise Movement LA and member of Project No New Slaves
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Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles
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Sam Lutzker
Sam is a Sociology PhD student at UCLA studying homelessness. He organizes mutual aid with unhoused folks as a part of Street Watch LA. He loves bagels.
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Jasmin Vargas
Climate Justice activist and organizer in Los Angeles building the movements for environmental and climate justice.
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Madison Parsley
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Alexander Ferrer
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith is a Los Angeles-based artist, dad and activist.
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Steven K. Hutchinson
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Jonny Coleman
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Nick Ballard
Unity is not unanimity - Audre Lorde | Power to the people | write wrongs to right wrongs
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NOlympics LA
Campaign to oppose LA's 2024 Olympic bid, launched by members of @DSA_LosAngeles. Like us on FB: https://www.facebook.com/pg/NOlympicsLA
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Miranda Cristofani
Artist, Art Director, Activist, Entrepreneur, Mother, Human.
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Alexandra Nagy
SoCal Organizer with @foodandwater, real food advocate & grower, working to end oil&gas & water privatization in CA. My opinions are my own.
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Cameron M
Leftist writer. B.A. in Classics and Politicial Science expected in 2022
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Steven Louis
Once saved Spira.
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Eric Sheehan
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Steve Ducey