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Friday, July 4, 2025

Los Angeles July 4th Protest, March at LA City Hall by Mary Cummins

July 4, 2025 protest and march at Los Angeles City Hall. The event began at 9:30 a.m. with live music. Speakers started around 10:00 a.m. Around 12:00 p.m. we marched from LA City Hall 200 N Spring St to the Federal Building at 300 N Los Angeles St and then to the Federal Detention Center at 535 N Alameda. A large truck led the protest with speakers standing in the back. The truck would stop every block or so for speeches and chants.

There were a few thousand people today per local news stations covering the event. The groups Ice Out of LA, 50501, @50501_socal, @ice_out_ofla , End the Occupation, Free America were there besides others. There were two stages of speakers at once for an hour or so at LA City Hall and Grand Park. They were bot on large trucks. Assembly member Isaac Bryan of the 55th district gave a great speech. There was also great live music. Wish I knew the band and singers' names but I can never find an event schedule for these events. Found the band on the Grand Park side with 50501 Los Jornaleros del Norte. http://losjornalerosdelnorte.com/ https://www.instagram.com/losjornalerosdelnorte/ #marycummins #losangeles #california #protest #march #July4th #iceoutofla #lamuertamaria #mariaflores #catrina #mexico #mexican #immigrantrights #50501 #freeamerica

A news outlet asked who are the women dressed in the colorful dresses and what is their purpose. The women including myself are dressed as Catrinas. La Catrina is generally associated with the Mexican tradition of Dia de Muertos, Day of the Dead. La Catrina is a skeleton lady in fancy dress. While she was first conceived by Jose Posada, Diego Rivera turned La Catrina into a national symbol of Mexico.

We are dressed as Catrinas to represent our immigrant roots to support immigrant rights. Some of us carry or wear the Mexican, Guatemalan, El Salvadoran ... flag and/or colors to support immigrants. It's not because we want Mexico or Mexicans to over throw the government which is ridiculous. We're all US citizens. Many of us wore both Mexican and USA flags together to show we represent and support both nations, cultures and people.

Maria Flores aka @lamuertemaria https://www.instagram.com/lamuertemaria/ is a Los Angeles artist and designer who designed and made six of those dresses today. https://www.instagram.com/p/DLtRITwJrIl/ They were generally all standing together, see photos below. Maria is dressed as a Catrina generally with a skeleton face which represents death. Maria Flores' Catrina dresses are hand painted with political images and text, see photos below and in her linked Instagram account. Flores' dresses are her artistic political statement supporting immigrant rights and speaking out against Donald Trump, fascism and the destruction of the United States of America.

Some other women were dressed in native Mexican clothing such as Folklorico skirts, dresses, embroidered tops and were wearing Mexican sombreros, crowns or braids with colorful ribbons. I wore a Folklorico ribbon skirt with an embroidered huipil "shirt." I also wore a flower crown with red, white and green flowers to represent the colors of Mexico because my family is from Mexico. The purpose is to show our support for immigrant rights.

My speech on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8qc7xXqmGFA

Full video of the event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmATxB3czI

Isaac Bryan speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hCq0C2NlTE&feature=youtu.be

Great singer singing "Which Side are You on."
https://youtu.be/agOAe7id5yM

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Sunday, June 15, 2025

No Kings Protest Los Angeles City Hall, Pershing Square by Mary Cummins

No Kings Protest June 14, 2025 at Los Angeles City Hall. We later marched to Pershing Square and back. It was a peaceful protest with speakers, singing, dancing and love. I saw no illegal acts or scuffles. People were leaving flowers at the feet of National Guard. The protest ran from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. #nokings #protest #losangeles #marycummins #california #cityhall #pershingsquare #noice #march

Eight minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq0c-C8XQdM

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Monday, February 17, 2025

National Day of Protest March to Los Angeles City Hall from Olvera Street by Mary Cummins, Maria Rivera Cummins

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National Day of Protest march on February 17, 2025 from La Placita Olvera Street to Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles, California by Mary Cummins. The march and protest was a combination of many groups supporting immigrants' rights and speaking out against Donald Trump's recent deportation orders. Event began at 10:00/11:00 am with speeches at Olvera Street starting at 11:00 am. By 11:35 we were marching to City Hall. We arrived around 12:15, there were a couple more speeches and we stayed at City Hall until 1:30 pm. Then we marched back to Olvera Street. #nationaldayofprotest #olverastreet #march #protest #losangeles #california #marycummins #mariarivera #losangelescityhall #immigrantsrights #immigrants #deportations #iceraids #mexico #mexican

From the video. "I'm Mary Cummins, Maria Rivera Cummins. I was born in Los Angeles, California and am a US citizen. My family came from Mexico many years ago legally when the immigration system was very different. I'm here today to support immigrants' rights and speak out against the deportations by Donald Trump."

Rally, march, protest was organized by The Community Self-defense Coalition which is a collective of over 60 organizations. Below was posted on Union del Barrio Los Angeles Facebook page and Instagram @UniondelBarrio and @centrocso https://www.facebook.com/CentroCSO and Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. The main leader speaker was teacher Ron Gochez. Another speaker was @flowerinspanish Flor Itzel Martinez Zaragoza of Celebration Nation.

"Join us for a collectivized rally and march on February 17 at 10:00 AM PST, starting at Placita Olvera in downtown Los Angeles, CA (Yaanga)! The COMMUNITY SELF-DEFENSE COALITION has united over 60 organizations and is now calling on all to stand together against ICE and the ongoing threat of mass deportations. Let’s unite to protect our community from ICE kidnappings and repression!" https://www.facebook.com/udblosangeles and website https://uniondelbarrio.org/main/

#DefendOurCommunity #StopICE #CollectiveStrength#DefenderNuestraComunidad #StopICE #FuerzaColectiva

11 minute video of march and event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6dbMYERrHk

Below are some of the groups that make up The Community Self-defense Coalition.