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The Robinson S.P.A.C.E. serves as a home base and launching pad for abolitionist, anti-white supremacist organizations, movements, and Angelenos.

10/02/2024

We’re got a supreme slate of events lined up in October! On Friday, October 11th from 6-8PM, we’ll be hosting an Interest Meeting for the May Day Brigade to Cuba 2025. This is your chance to learn all about an incredible opportunity to experience Cuba during the May Day celebrations. Meet fellow travelers, ask questions, and get all the details you need to make this trip a reality. RSVP in bio 🇨🇺

Films for Gaza is back on Tuesday, October 15th at 7PM with a new series of films to showcase. This event screens films made in Gaza in order to fundraise for relief efforts and to fund filmmakers still living and making films in Gaza. So far with the help of Robinson SPACE, they’ve raised nearly $7,000 through these screenings. Follow and they’ll be posting the RSVP link soon!

Last, but certainly not least, People’s City Council will be putting on a Birddogging 101 teach-in on Sunday, October 20th from 12-2PM. This 101 will feature some of Los Angeles’ most infamous birddoggers breaking down birddogging strategy and tactics. Porkchops beware! RSVP in our bio 😈

10/01/2024

OCTOBER STICKER REVEAL: We put an abolitionist spin on an iconic LA landmark, paying homage to one of LA’s most famous clowns (shoutout to Tommy the Clown for holding that title)!

Though this sticker isn’t 32 feet tall, it’ll still let the world know you’re beating on that f**k 12 drum 😈Join the 1312 Sticker Club NOW (link in bio) and support a needed community space at the same time!

09/07/2024

SEPTEMBER STICKER REVEAL

The Young Lords were founded on September 23, 1968. To honor this revolutionary organization, we’ve recreated a button that adorned their purple berets, featuring one of their iconic slogans: “Tengo Puerto Rico En Mi Corazón” (translated as “I Have Puerto Rico in My Heart”). This sticker is exclusive to our 1312 Sticker Club so if you want one, sign up via our bio!

The Young Lords originated in Chicago as a response to state violence and in particular police brutality, medical neglect, and urban renewal. Inspired by the Black Panther Party, they joined Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition in Chicago and established their most well known chapter in New York In July 1969.

This revolutionary org was active on multiple fronts. Faced with the city’s neglect of sanitation services in needed communities, the Young Lords launched Garbage Offensives to tackle this injustice. They occupied churches, transforming them into “people’s churches” that offered free healthcare, breakfast programs, and other vital services to the city’s forgotten residents. Recognizing the importance of decolonizing the minds of the community, they established Puerto Rican cultural centers and published a bilingual newspaper called Pa’lante.

They organized demonstrations in front of real estate companies driving gentrification and even set up camp on vacant land to block the construction of a $1,000-a-year, members-only tennis club. One of their most notable actions was the takeover of Lincoln Hospital, infamously known as “the butcher shop,” on July 14, 1970 in the South Bronx. They occupied the hospital for 12 hours to expose its appalling conditions. Four months later, they returned to expropriate Lincoln Hospital and transformed it into Lincoln Detox, also known as the People’s Hospital, in collaboration with Mutulu Shakur, the Black Panther Party, the Republic of New Afrika, and other allies. For a compelling look at this pivotal point in history, check out the documentary Dope is Death.

We honor Young Lords revolutionaries like José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, Denise Oliver-Velez, Cleo Silvers, Miguel Ernesto “Mickey” Melendez, and more. Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre!

08/15/2024

We’ve are hosting some great events in the coming weeks at the SPACE and hope you can make it out to one! Here’s all the details:

1. On Thursday, August 22nd from 6- 8PM please join .la for a workshop on coordinating an effective mass defense strategy! Their experienced team will share the best practices for defending protestors facing repression, from before an action starts to representing activists in court. Attorneys and organizers interested in learning more
are welcome!

2. On Saturday, August 24th from 5-10PM, join us for a Soul Dance Vendor Fair & Fundraiser for Safaa Al-Madhoun put together by q***r SWANA community organizers at .

There will be a belly dance class, live music, and a wide variety of vendors to enjoy! This benefit is for Safaa Al-Madhoun, an Arabic teacher based in occupied Palestine. Safaa’s family has been raising funds to evacuate from Gaza as soon as possible as she is expecting a child in a couple of months. Event ticket sales and all Queerabs sales will be 100% donated to Safaa.

3. On Tuesday August 20th at 6PM, join for a free yoga class at the SPACE! It’ll be a slow flow for stress relief. They’ll have a limited supply of mats for you to use if you don’t have your own :) Herbal teas and some light snacks will be available during and after class ☕ Come to move, destress and connect🧘🏾‍♂️

08/02/2024

AUGUST STICKER REVEAL

We’re back with another heater! in honor of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment that stood for 50 days and the 9 hour occupation of the Student Services Building, we decided to put a revolutionary twist on CSULA’s logo. LONG LIVE THE STUDENT INTIFADA and ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE.

Join the 1312 Sticker Club NOW:
https://www.patreon.com/therobinsonspace

06/20/2024

The Arby’s on Sunset may have closed, but our store is wide open with a classic rebrand of their legendary cowboy hat sign 🤠

This heater can be all yours for $6.66 with all proceeds going to support our community space. Hit the link in bio to buy one (or six 😉).

If you want to support our community space further, please consider joining our 1312 Sticker Club! You’ll receive a righteous sticker every month, be entered into a monthly raffle, and get access to exclusive Patreon-only posts 😎

04/06/2024

Did you know Captain Planet didn’t f**k with pigs? Well now you do and this bad boy can be yours by Earth Day if you join our official 1312 Sticker Club TODAY!

By joining the club, you’ll receive a righteous sticker every month, be entered into a monthly raffle, and get access to exclusive Patreon-only posts!

Raffle items this quarter included Tip of the Spear by Orisanmi Burton and we just dropped a never before released interview with Jeff Cohen, who speaks on a 1978 landmark lawsuit against the LAPD that exposed the LAPD’s Public Disorder Intelligence Division spying on 144 groups and individuals.

We heavily rely on donations from supporters like YOU to make the SPACE free for so many organizations doing the work of abolitionist worldmaking, so please consider joining our 1312 Sticker Club on Patreon or at any giving level!

12/18/2023

Just got some film 🎞️ developed, here are some throwback to event that happened back in August.

11/28/2023

Our main room muralist, by using adhesive tape as her main art medium, Chiho Harazaki develops her practice in drawing, painting, objects, and installation.

Her unconventional art medium gives her work unique patterns, lines, and textures, evoking the feel of modern graphic design while also lending itself to works reminiscent of traditional Japanese arts like woodcut and papercutting. Perceiving life as a first-generation immigrant from Japan, Chiho's works express her own identity, synthesizing elements of Eastern and Western, traditional and modern culture.

Website: www.chihoharazaki.com

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11/10/2023

“The Game of their Lives” (천리마 축구단, Ch'ŏllima Ch'ukkudan, Chollima Football Team) is a 2002 documentary film about the near-mythical tale of the North Korean soccer team that stunned the entire world at the 1966 World Cup. They were the first Asian team in history to make it to the quarter-finals. After the World Cup, the players became shrouded in mystery and rumors upon returning to their homeland.
However, in 1997, filmmakers were able to travel to North Korea, interview players from this legendary team, and allow these players to speak for themselves. The film explores the players’ lives and also shows exclusive footage from the 1966 World Cup.

Come join for an intimate, casual screening of “The Game of their Lives” to witness soccer played in the spirit of Chollima (the winged horse of North Korean myth) and delve into this exhilarating history of sport and solidarity.
We will host a short discussion after the
film. Light refreshments will be provided.

For those who can’t make this in-person gathering, will be hosting a virtual screening tomorrow, November 10th, 7:30 ET / 4:30 PT.

10/03/2023

Respect the thin Baja Blast line… this months sticker is going out soon! Make sure to sign up to the 1312 sticker club to get one! Link in bio & here: https://www.patreon.com/therobinsonspace

09/18/2023

Our bathroom muralist, (they/them) is a painter and photographer based in Los Angeles whose work reflects themes of childhood, playfulness, and community building through a self reflective lens.

You can find more of their work here:

sadiespezzano.com

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