On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM Aram James
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Aram’s notes for oral communication for city council June 9, 2025
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> *Dare say tipping point in this country—fascism and racism—state-sponsored
violence have already arrived for many.*
*First, they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was
not a communist. *
*Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, I was NOT a
socialist. *
*Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I
was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the ( Palestinians ), and I
did not speak out because I was not a Palestinian. And then they came for
me AND THERE was NO one left to speak out for me.*
> *By Pastor Niemoller *
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> 6/9/25
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> Political Leaders, Leaders of the immigration rights movement in Los
> Angeles–see today’s broadcast of Democracy Now-Amy Goodman—interviewed-Ron
> Gochez-Commmunity organizer with Union del Barrio- who helped organize some
> of the anti-ice demonstrations in LA this weekend. ICE, LAPD, and LASD all
> came for brown skinned immigrants—indigenous people of the community –those
> who have been on the land for centuries. Organizer Gochez –connected the
> dots between the oppressors of the brown skinned people being terrorized in
> LA—*and the brown skinned Palestinians being exterminated in Gaza in
> Palestine –by Zionists the likes of Josh Becker, Mark Berman, and our own
> Ed Lauing.*
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> *Sickened me to hear Becker’s words, read Berman’s words in print,
> speaking out for the brown skin immigrants in our state and against the use
> of military and police force against these same immigrants —-while cheering
> on the IOF (Israel Occupying Forces) while the Zionists continue their
> Genocide in Palestine. I charge Becker, Berman, Lauing, and Reckdahl with
> complicity in Genocide. None of them should be allowed to hold public
> office, and each of them should be charged with war crimes*.
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> *PAPD all white command staff—our chief lives in MH known as a bastion of
> white supremacy—law enforcement a majority Trump supporters—naïve they will
> be here for us when the national guard sent in, the US Marines sent in.*
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> *PAPD all white command staff—with an alleged race-baiter in the command
> staff. *
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