To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column asks us to insurgent smarter (“Trump needs L.A. to set itself on fireplace. Let’s insurgent smarter,” June 9). As we take to the streets, allow us to additionally act decisively to financially assist the organizations and households affected by the president’s reckless actions. Their subsequent steps are to safe authorized counsel, discover bodily security and demand accountability from their authorities.
Over the previous few years, I’ve been part of a neighborhood Latino giving circle in Los Angeles that has raised almost half 1,000,000 {dollars} for immigrant-serving organizations since 2017. We’re at present elevating extra money to assist our immigrant communities in want at this second.
Whereas a few of us could not have the ability to march in opposition to this authorities’s actions, or select to not for no matter purpose, all of us can provide, irrespective of the quantity. That too is an act of protest and a name to motion for the simply society that eludes us nonetheless.
Pamela Wright, Los Angeles
