We are here in front of Santee High School, a location where an individual from our community was shot by ICE agents last year, and we know that what often happens when law enforcement has shot someone, they aren't allowing medical aid to be rendered to our community members.

And what we wanted to do along with voters of tomorrow, young people who are truly our next generation of leaders who said we need to do something about this, and so we brought together folks to pass AB2318 focused on providing timely medical aid, and if you don't allow that, once a scene has been secured, then you have to provide documentation showcasing why not.

As an EMT, I think that giving care to a patient preserving life is one of the utmost responsibilities that I have, and I think that ensuring that that is placed in the legislature and placed in laws is super important.

I love the fact that a lot of young people like myself were able to come out and speak on it today.

When we have grown up here in Los Angeles, we're seeing that our communities are being torn apart apart by federal law enforcement officers who are coming in, they're people being killed, they're people that are not getting their right to do process, which is so important in this country.

It's one of the promises that any people in the United States are given.

And so for us, we thought, you know what, we have this amazing platform of voters of tomorrow.

We can use voters of tomorrow to kind of build partnerships with other organizations who believe in the same vision that we do.

Democracy hinges on civic engagement, political participation.

If we bar ourselves completely from the entire process, we render ourselves silent.

We have to stand up and we have a voice, and now I'm in the legislative space.

I was able to write this bill with my colleague Ashi, and now we're kind of expanding more toward immigration policy.

I'm uh proud to stand uh here in the heart of South Los Angeles where we saw so many unfortunate ICE raids last year and ongoing, and I am happy to be in full support of this bill for something that should be common sense.

We shouldn't have to write a law that says if a person's injured, no matter what the situation, that aid is rendered right away.

I love this place.

I think it's really awesome.

One of our missions is to create space for people to come in and connect, not just with art, but with their community.

Hey, you want to make sure.

So I came across what McGordy Theatre is doing with their weekly summer free arts workshops.

And I saw this.

I think everyone's kind of exploring cyanography on Instagram, so I wanted to come and check out.

So today we're doing uh cinotography.

So it's probably the oldest version of photography that we have.

So it was invented in the early 1800s, and it uses two different chemicals to that you combine in equal parts to create a photograph.

You start by combining the two chemicals into a little bit of a science project first, and then you also get set up pieces that you would like to make on your um art.

So they turn it essentially creates a negative.

So then from there um you put it out in the sun for about anywhere from five to thirty minutes, depending on how bright you want it to end up looking.

And then after that, you wash the chemicals off in a bucket of water for a few minutes, and then when it comes out, it turns from yellow to blue, and you see the negative of whatever object you've placed down.

It came out really good.

Came out really good.

I see the essence of how going through how the sun light go through leaves and how it goes through feathers, and it is really nice and interesting to subject to play with.

Woo!

Look at that!

That's turning out.

It isn't fun.

It's already doing it.

And then eventually you dry the final products.

We have some over there.

And so, yeah, basically the light does all the work, which is really good for lazy artists like myself.

This fire wasn't an abstract thing.

It was personal.

And all of these resources not reaching anybody is not an effective recovery.

We were in City Council voting on charter reform when I first got a text that there was a fire in our neighborhood.

Hearing about there was an evacuation order, folks were being told to shelter in place and really rushing out of council in order to make it here in time to see what was happening in the neighborhood.

And honestly, there was no information given and I had to take initiative with just clothes.

And then you start feeling lightheaded.

And you know, as a business owner, the safety of my customers is number one, and also for my employees.

So I just had to shut down.

Bastante, bastante aroma of puddle, and ratones is the problem that you have.

We are now in the recovery process, not that the fire is out, and the community is reeling with the scent, the odor, uh remediation of this neighborhood as all of the food and the building is essentially being deconstructed.

All of these issues one after the other, we're trying to make sure that we can facilitate and fast track this cleanup effort and having more effective solutions because this is a situation that Boa Heights didn't cause and they shouldn't be having to pay for the consequences of a disaster.

But really, you would have been desahada, but no soy.

Those comerciantes, those stamps in the mis situation.

No tenemos clients.

There has been a lot of researchers like to get air purifiers and masks, but honestly, I feel like they should be more done.

My family could have, you know, to see what other resources is there out there for us because honestly, we I feel like we got impacted a lot.

I have to just continue to hope that you know their sales go up, people start showing up.

Tonight is National Night Out.

It's a national event across North America.

It's every first Tuesday of August, and it is a way for community to connect with law enforcement.