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All Power Books

All Power Books (@allpowerbooks) is a space for the people! It's a Volunteer-run Bookshop + Co-Working + Event Space for the comrades, located at 4874 W Adams Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

They're currently open 2PM-7PM WED-FRI & SUN and 12PM-7PM SAT. They're closed MON & TUES.

They have a great list of resources that covers California Tenant Resources, Workers' Rights Resources, Free Texts, Local Organizations, and On Campus Organizations (mostly focused on the California and specifically LA area).

They also run programs where you can buy a comrade a book or request a free book. To help support them, you can donate on ko-fi or sign up for a monthly subscription.

LASD Gangs

The comrade who introduced me to All Power Books also introduced me to the following reading resource.

A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is a 15-part investigative series by Cerise Castle.

It links the LASD Gang Affiliate Database, the first-ever public, searchable database of gang-affiliated LASD employees.

The series starts with The Protected Class: An examination of the first documented gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Tankiepilled

@TANKIEPILLED is a comrade working at All Power Books who introduced me to their efforts. They led me to the LASD story when their twitter display name was "READ LASD GANGS" so s/o for that.

Here's a link to their @whatsantifa linktree. It links to their twitter (TANKIEPILLED)/insta (coffeenpedagogy)/tiktok (whatsantifa), as well as resources such as a Marxism-Leninism 101 Guide, a Viet Nam War Guide, Hồ Chí Minh on Black Liberation, Hồ Chí Minh Primary Sources on marxists.org, and the youtube link for "Gaza Fights for Freedom".

Kudos on the good work comrade; keep it up :4)

Tweets

Here are some of their tweets

Dec 28, 2021 (src)

if u vacation in hawai'i after seeing natives beg tourists not to come, we are no longer friends and i am so serious about that. stand by your ethics.

this is one thing that i can't wrap my mind around. many people who say they "support decolonization" or liberation at large but can't be bothered to just... not go there... and they still go?? your vacation is not that important in stark comparison to the negative impacts it has

(quotetweeting @Keoni_DiFranco, here) 22% of O'ahu (85,000 acres) is occupied by the US military. The median price for a single-family home is $1M, 50% of all homeless in Hawai'i are Native Hawaiian.

The Navy has now poisoned the water supply. Honolulu is being asked to ration water.

Something must to change.

Jan 9, 2022 (src)

abandon nihilism, uphold revolutionary optimism!

Jun 8, 2022 (src)

im so glad i organize irl so my entire worldview of the left is actually based in material reality and not twitter discourse

Jun 12, 2022 (src)

ppl who dont organize always have the loudest critiques lol

life is better when you arent mad at everything all the time for no reason lol

Jun 24, 2022 (src)

unironically things are objectively worse under biden than they were under trump lmfao

Aug 10, 2022 (src)

what is actually the point of being a "communist" that only reads theory and doesn't organize? lol

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