People dance for treats from a giant vending machine during a Target promotion at the Third Street Promenade, Sunday, June 27, 2021. The promotion is for Favorite Day, Targets latest food and beverage brand that’s designed to help you make time for delicious moments, whether taking a second for yourself or enjoying with those you love. The brand will feature more than 700 high-quality, carefully crafted items across bakery, snacks, candy, premium ice cream, cake decorating supplies, beverage mixers, mocktails and so much more, all at an only-at-Target value.

Lead artist Robin Murez hand carves animals in basswood for The Venice Flying Carousel, Thursday, June 24, 2021.

West Coast Care (WCC) helps Los Angeles County Sherrif Deputies from the department's Homeless Outreach Services Team to provide services to the homeless at Venice Beach on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. WCC provides homeless with the life-coaching, resources and information they need to breakthrough barriers and to get them off the streets by linking them to family, friends and services in their places of origin. Since 2006, WCC has touched the lives of more than 12,000 homeless. #lasd @lacosheriff #venicebeach #homeless #unhoused @westcoastcare_sm

The #Venice Electric Light Parade rolls along Ocean Front Walk in #SantaMonica, Sunday, June 20, 2021. The Venice Electric Bike Parade promotes bicycle safety at night. The rides are every Sunday at sun set and starts at Venice Beach at 1501 Ocean front walk. Wheel Lights aren't required to ride. The ride is free. @veniceelectriclightparade 📷 @fabianlewkowicz

Raw untreated storm water flooded Santa Monica Beach, Sunday, June 20, 2021. The water pump sensors at the Pico storm drain malfunctioned and resulted in the flooding. Water from dry weather runoff and stormwater is treated at the Santa Monica Urban Runoff Recycling Facility (SMURRF) to provide recycled water for toilet flushing and irrigation. This water supply reduces ocean pollution and is sustainable and drought resilient. The Santa Monica Water Treatment Plant treats water from three City groundwater well fields – Charnock, Olympic and Arcadia – to provide 8½ million gallons of drinking water each day to its 89,000 residents. The Santa Monica Water Treatment Plant implements a water treatment system to remove groundwater contamination from the Charnock groundwater sub-basin and restores this resource as a water supply for the City. The treatment system uses filtration with granular activated carbon to treat water from the three contaminated wells at the Charnock Well Field. The project also provides upgrades to the existing water treatment plant including construction of new systems for drinking water disinfection, softening and fluoridation. Local groundwater is pumped and treated at the City's Arcadia Water Treatment Plant.

Members of Veterans for Peace display a mural entitled, "Leave No One Behind," at Santa Monica Beach, Sunday, June 20, 2021.

The Leave No One Behind Mural Project is embarked by a coalition of veteran support groups, immigrant organizations, and academics. Through a multi-sited public art project entitled “Leave No One Behind,” the coalition urges the Biden-Harris administration and Congress to enact immigration policy to repatriate Deported Veterans, protect Childhood Arrivals, end family separation, and reunite families.

Through a multi-sited public art project, the project seeks to uplift the stories of Deported Veterans, Dreamers, childhood arrivals, and permanent residents.

The coalition urges elected officials, Congress, and the Biden-Harris administration to take a series of policy steps to protect immigrants by: Passing an Executive Action or a series of actions as outlined by Senator Tammy Duckworth to begin the process of repatriating deported veterans. Implementing the New Way Forward Act into law as reintroduced by Representative Jesus “Chuy” Garcia a taking concrete steps to end family separation and support family reunification.


Installation sites are prioritized to the cities in which community storytellers lived while in the U.S. For many, this is the place where they were raised, grew exclusive roots to the country and where their immediate family lives.

Veterans for Peace is an organization founded in 1985. Initially made up of US military veterans of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and other conflicts, as well as peacetime veterans and non-veterans, it has since spread overseas and has a active offshoot in the United Kingdom. whose collective efforts are to build a culture of peace by using our experiences and lifting our voices. Veterans for Peace informs the public of the true causes of war and the enormous costs of wars, with an obligation to heal the wounds of wars. Their network is comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide whose work includes: educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war, and most significantly, working to end all wars.

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Wade In the Water: A Tiny Film Fest to celebrate #Juneteenth at the Historic Belmar Park, June 19, 2021. The Film Fest featured the premiere of BELONGING, a Belmar History + Art site-specific film honoring early African Americans in Santa Monica. This outdoor screening of short films celebrates Black culture and the water. From spiritual rituals to migration and sports, water is an integral part of how we rejuvenate and restore joy. Pre-event activities included food trucks and music by DJ Moni Vargas. Participants were encouraged to explore the historic panels and public sculpture, “A Resurrection in Four Stanzas” along the park’s walking path. This event commemorated America’s second Independence Day, when the Union general in Galveston, Texas read the federal orders of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation proclaiming all previously enslaved people in Texas were free, two years after the adoption of the proclamation.