Tenant Rights Activist victim of Arson Attack
Demand a Full Investigation

CALL COUNCILMAN GARCETTI’s OFFICE (323) 478-9002
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12th 9am-11am

Arson Attack:
At 4 am on Wednesday August 5th Arturo Velasquez' car was set on fire outside his home. Arturo is a leading member of the Campaign for Renters Rights. He has been organizing tenants in his building for two years. He is popular with tenants for helping force the landlord, Alfredo Alverado, to make major repairs and considerably bettering the quality of the lives of his own family and all the tenants at his apartment building in his low income neighborhood in East Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Background:
After helping lead the campaign, the landlord spent a lot of money taking Arturo to court to attempt to evict his family. The landlord lost this blatant retaliatory eviction attempt. Again, this year the landlord attempted to take Arturo's family to court on another made-up charge. Once again, the courts sided with Arturo and his family. Last week the landlord turned down Arturo's attempts to get them to enter into mediation. Two days later his car was set on fire.
Stop the Violence
Last year all of Arturo's car tires were slashed. The community, his fellow tenants, and the Campaign for Renters Rights raised a Defense Fund and paid for new tires. We let the landlord know that we would not back down.
We are attempting to get Councilman Garcetti's office to force the police to properly investigate the situation. The L.A. Fire Department have deemed that the car was burnt as the result of an incendiary attack and that the fire was arson.
We will not stand by and watch Arturo Velasquez and his family be intimidated by violence and allow that violence to escalate. This is a civil rights issue and needs to be addressed firmly.
What you Can Do:

1/ RALLY with Arturo and the Campaign for Renters Rights at Councilman Garcetti’s Office,5500 Hollywood Blvd (@ N.Western Ave.) WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12th at 10am

2/ CALL Councilman Garcetti’s Office at (323) 478-9002 on Wednesday August 12th
ask What are they doing about the Arson Attack on Arturo Velasquez?

3/ DONATE TO OUR DEFENSE FUND. Please send a check payable to the Campaign for Renters Rights to the following address: the Velasquez Family, 4225 1/4 Lockwoood Avenue, Los Angeles, 90029. You can also donate through PayPal at weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com . Finally, you can put some dollars in the collecting can when you see us out on the streets.

Campaign for Renters Rights (510) 595-5545 National Office
(310) 323-0620 in L.A.

Inside of the car chard. This is some Klan-type business. We need to defend our brother in the struggle.

The phone number to contact the Campaign for Renters Rights ( Los Angeles) is (323) 428-5711

This wasn't terrorism. This was property destruction. While it's obviously a scumbag landlord that did this, lets not use the language of the state to legitimize that kind of propaganda.

http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/iblog/C711197485/E2071307189/index.html

Support Art and join the march tomorrow at 10am!!

The word Terrorism originates with the rise of the nation state. First use of the word terrorism is from the government during the Reign of Terror in France (1793-July 1794), from Fr. terrorisme

"If the basis of a popular government in peacetime is virtue, its basis in a time of revolution is virtue and terror - virtue, without which terror would be barbaric; and terror, without which virtue would be impotent." - Robespierre, speech in Fr. National Convention, 1794