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Our costs are paid by a generous private grant, but these people can use your money, and lots of it, friends!
• Skid Row Neighborhood Council Formation Committee — This is presently quite urgent. Please give.
• Los Angeles Catholic Worker — Dorothy Day's truth goes marching on right here in the City of Angels.
• Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition — They seem to be in a more stable place lately but they will still put your money to good use.

Featured Posts

Who Do We Speak To When We Speak Truth To Power?

Tamales Nos Cuidan: Social Cleansing, Kerry Morrison, Donald Trump, And The Battle For Legal Street Vending In Los Angeles And Beyond

Final BID Patrol Arrest Rates For 2016 And 2017 Show Close To 90% Drop From 2014, Which Was Their Last Unscrutinized Year — This Precipitous, Unexplained Decrease Leads Hollywood BIDs To Consider Using Unarmed Security In 2018 Or 2019

Emails First Published Here Used As Source In LA Weekly Story On Skid Row Neighborhood Council, Just Published Today!

VICTORY!! All Los Angeles BID Security Patrols To Register With Police Commission Per City Attorney, BID Patrol Excessive Force Complaint Under Investigation By LAPD; Direct Result of MK.Org Reporting!

Business Improvement Districts As A Force For White Supremacy in Twenty-First Century Los Angeles

How is this Even Legal? BID Patrol Attacks a Sitting Man, Forcibly Handcuffs Him, and Then, With Full Cooperation of LAPD, Arrests Him for Kicking one of Them During Putative “Arrest”

How to Destroy a Business Improvement District in California: A Theory

In 2013 The Andrews International BID Patrol Arrested Homeless People at More than 57 Times the Rate that the LAPD Did and were Responsible for 1 in 14 Homeless Arrests in Entire City of Los Angeles

Know your enemy

Hollywood Entertainment District BID
Hollywood Media District BID
Sunset-Vine BID
Los Angeles BID consortium
LA City Clerk's BID information page
Interactive map of LA BIDs

Tracking Legislation

Herb Wesson's anti-gadfly ordinance
Law establishing Civil Rights Commission
Neighborhood Council Online Voting
Anti-Wayne-Spindler Law
Ban Adults from Playgrounds
Tour bus regulation
Hollywood and Highland Street Character Ban
Venice Beach BID
LA Homeless Property Ordinance
LA Street Vending Ordinance
Echo Park BID

Business Improvement Districts in Los Angeles — Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down!

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Our YouTube Channel

Click here. See videos of BID Patrol operations, public meetings of the BIDs and committees, etc.

MK.org on Archive.org

Click here to see our collection on archive.org. Here you will find PDFs of all our publications, as well as photographs and other public records related to our mission.

Los Angeles BID Wiki

The Los Angeles BID Wiki will eventually collect and organize all of our information and understanding of BIDs in Los Angeles. Sadly this project is on hold due to time constraints. If you're interested in collaborating on it, you can drop me a line.