To mark International Friendship Day, the city of Los Angeles Wednesday celebrated its “Just Say Hello” campaign, the latest phase of its anti-hate LA For All initiative, promoting compassion and connection between Angelenos.
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Civil Rights Department led a news conference at City Hall to discuss the campaign alongside city officials and community leaders. The event featured multilingual visuals, cultural performances and music by DJ Puffs.
“In the face of rising hate and fear — especially in immigrant communities — `Just Say Hello’ is about choosing connection over division,” Capri Maddox, executive director of the LA Civil Rights Department, said in a statement. “We’re reminding Angelenos that a simple greeting can be a powerful first step to healing, safety, and understanding throughout our communities.”
The campaign was designed in the following 11 languages: Russian, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Croatian, Italian, Japanese, Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese and English.
City departments such as LA Sanitation and Environment, StreetsLA, Parks and Recreation, Public Library, the Port of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles World Airports joined the campaign to help amplify its message in their daily operations and outreach.
Award-winning designer Masaki Koike of Phyx Design helped the department develop the campaign. Visuals will appear on transit shelters, sanitation trucks, social media and city facilities through Los Angeles.
Campaign posters and other visuals are live on 80 digital bus shelters and throughout LAX terminals. LA sanitation vehicles rolled out with messages from the campaign from all six yards Wednesday.
In the near future, campaign visuals will be visible on lamp posts in a few neighborhoods, officials said.
Residents and visitors are encouraged to share selfies and stories using the #JustSayHelloLA tag to show how a simple hello can build bridges and break barriers between strangers, regardless of race, ethnicity, language, faith or country of origin.
City Councilman Tim McOsker and Hugo Soto-Martinez participated in the event, and thanked the department for creating the campaign. They agreed the initiative will serve to bolster connection between residents throughout the city, as well as with the immigrant community.
“In moments like these, when fear and national division threaten to pull us apart, we must double down on what makes our communities strong: connection, compassion, and unity,” McOsker said in a statement. “We need to continue lifting each other up, standing together and supporting our communities by looking out for one another.”
Soto-Martinez added, “When a federal government motivated by hate tries to terrorize our neighbors, we answer with solidarity and love for our community.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies have conducted operations to crack down on illegal immigration in the Los Angeles region since June 6. The federal government has emphasized that its enforcement activities are lawful.
In 2021, the city’s Civil Rights Department launched its award-winning LA For All initiative in response to an alarming rise in hate crimes. In September, the city will celebrate LA For All by lighting landmarks such as Dodger Stadium and the LAX pylons in the campaign’s colors.
Hell let’s wasted more of the county budget let’s start another program let’s watch a program how to get up your fucking ass!
This is where they shove a baseball bat up your ass until it falls out your chest cavity maybe everyone in the fucking County can deserve their abuse until they can be eaten by a lion but how this is the kind of charades that you fucking bring to this country right.
SINCE MY WHOLE FAMILY DIED AT THE HAND OF THE FBI OF ORLANDO IT GIVES ME
“GRANDFATHER CLAUSE” !!!!
THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE ! IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.
Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?
Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.
In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.
There’s $75 million in a offshore bank account
There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday
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