Culver City Stands United Against Hate
In conjunction with LA vs Hate and United Against Hate Week (October 19, 2025 - October 25, 2025) efforts, Culver City is committed to building further recognition and continuing education within our community on the importance of reporting hate crimes and the use of the 211 system as a safe and confidential means of reporting hate crimes.
United Against Hate Week Activities October 19, 2025 - October 25, 2025
October 21, 2025: Bystander Intervention: Support for the Immigrant Community
Presented by the City of Culver City's Equity and Human Relations Advisory Committee (EHRAC), join in this three-part event and learn what you do to can help support the immigrant community.
- Part I: Community Conversation
- Part II: Right to Be's Bystander Intervention Training to Support the Immigrant Community
- Part III: Resource Fair
Share your experiences and hear those of your fellow community members as hate, harassment, and violence against immigrants is on the rise. Every day we have the power to create safer, more inclusive communities; start today by participating in Right To Be’s Bystander Intervention to Support Immigrant Communities. This new training will equip you with the tools to safely and effectively intervene when you witness anti-immigrant hate, harassment, or discrimination. Using Right To Be’s 5Ds of Bystander Intervention methodology—Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and Direct—this interactive training empowers participants to take action while prioritizing safety. Whether it’s witnessing xenophobic comments, workplace discrimination, ICE encounters, or public harassment, this training provides practical, real-world strategies to support immigrants facing harm. Through real-life scenarios, interactive exercises, and group discussions, learn to:
- Recognize the spectrum of anti-immigrant hate and harassment and its impact on communities.
- Learn and practice the 5Ds of bystander intervention in different situations.
- Understand how to legally and safely respond to ICE encounters without putting themselves or others at risk.
- Gain confidence to stand up against discrimination in their workplaces, schools, and public spaces.
- Leave with tools, resources, and next steps to continue supporting immigrant rights.
This training is encouraged for allies, but everyone is welcome!
After the training visit our resource fair and learn what resources are available in our community.
Where: Culver City Senior Center: 4095 Overland Ave Culver City, CA 90232
Rooms: B45, B47 and the Dining Room
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM
October 22, 2025: Resilience: This Moment and Beyond
A one- and one-half hour experiential learning-based, and interactive training where you’ll learn how to author your own resilience using Right To Be’s resilience methodology: sit with what is, create your story, and be in choice. Start by talking about what resilience really is, and how it’s different (and harder) than self-care. Using guided practices, learn how to hold our pain and still find joy. Explore how we make sense of challenging moments, and how that shapes our experience of them. Learn practices to recover quickly when we’re knocked down by the world
- Where: Culver City Senior Center: 4095 Overland Ave Culver City, CA 90232
- Rooms: B45, B47 and the Dining Room at
- Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
October 23, 2025: Youth Upstander Training
Addressing bullying and harassment among young people is crucial to building a more empathetic and respectful world. This training is designed to equip our teens with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to safely intervene when they witness disrespect, harassment, or bullying.Learn how to safely intervene, stand up for others, and build a culture of respect in your school and community.
- Where: Culver City Teen Center: 4153 Overland Ave Culver City, CA 90230
- Rooms: Teen Center
- Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Signs of Solidarity
Show your solidarity with your Culver City Neighbors in Standing up Against Hate by picking up your own Culver City Neighbors United Against Hate Lawn Sign. Sign up now! Signs will be ready for pick up at all of the events listed above. Learn more about how to get your lawn sign here!
Learn about exciting and informative community events and activities across the United States for 2025's United Against Hate Week!
Reporting Hate
Reporting hate is the first step in stopping it. By filing a report as a victim, witness, or advocate for a victim of hate crimes and hate incidents, you are helping to identify areas in need of intervention and prevention resources. You also have the option to consent to receive free follow-up and additional support with resources in your community. By understanding how and where hate is occurring through the reports, our communities can respond with appropriate resources and support, which can include protecting your civil rights, healing from trauma, and taking action to prevent hate from happening to others.
Victims should not suffer in silence. It is critical to report a hate incident, which includes any act of verbal or physical aggression, refusal of service, bullying, or intimidation of any kind that is motivated by hostile prejudice. We cannot do anything to stop hate crimes and incidents unless we know about them.
Report Hate
If you are in immediate danger or a crime is being committed, please call 911.
Call 211 to report hate and seek support. 211 LA is a hub for community members and community organizations looking for health, human, and social services in Los Angeles County. Their programs provide outreach and education, service navigation, or care coordination to access and obtain services that best meet individual needs, through their free and confidential 24-hour 2-1-1 call line, or through their website. Support is provided in 140 languages.
By filing a report as a victim, witness, or advocate for a victim of hate crimes and hate incidents, you are helping to identify areas in need of intervention and prevention resources. You also have the option to consent to receive free follow-up and additional support with resources in your community.
211 is not affiliated with law enforcement.
If you would like to file a police report or pursue criminal charges, please contact your local police department or submit an anonymous report to.
After Reporting Hate
Callers will be connected with a professional trained in culturally competent communication and trauma-informed practices. Whether you report online or by phone, you will be contacted by a care coordinator who will follow up with you to ensure you are able to access resources and support, including legal, financial, mental health, and mediation services.
Are Reports of Hate Anonymous?
Yes. All reports are confidential and can be made anonymously. Regardless of whether you report anonymously, your identity will not be disclosed without your consent unless required by law.
211 is not run by the police. Reports will not be shared with law enforcement without consent. 211 can share information about how to report to police or local prosecutors if needed.
You do not need to disclose your immigration status when you report with 211.
Hotline services are provided for free, regardless of immigration status.
What is a Hate Crime
The term "hate" can be misleading. When used in a hate crime law, the word "hate" does not mean rage, anger, or general dislike. In the context of "Hate Crime" - “hate” means bias against people or groups with specific characteristics that are defined by the law. The "crime" in hate crime is often a violent crime, such as assault, murder, arson, vandalism, or threats to commit such crimes. It may also cover conspiring or asking another person to commit such crimes, even if the crime was never carried out.
What is the difference between a Hate Incident and a Hate Crime?
Hate Incidents
Hate Incidents are non-criminal acts that involve bias-motivated hostility in which a victim’s real or perceived race/ethnicity, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, or sexual orientation is a substantial motivating factor. Hate Incidents are acts of prejudice that are not crimes and do not involve violence, threats, or property damage. Hate incidents can include:
- Derogatory name calling
- Insults
- Bullying
- Hate mail
- Refusing service
- Displaying hate material on your own property
- Posting hate material that does not result in property damage
- Distribution of materials with hate messages in public places.
Hate Crimes
Hate Crimes are crimes against a person, group, or property motivated by the victim’s real or perceived protected social group. If a hate incident starts to threaten a person or property, it may become a hate crime. The law protects against many classes of hate crimes. This definition is codified in the California penal code sections 422.55 to 422.95 pertaining to hate crime. The U.S. Constitution allows hate speech as long as it does not interfere with the civil rights of others. Following are examples of bias-related crimes that are forbidden by the law:
- Threats (verbal or written)
- Physical assault or attempted assault
- Hate-related graffiti, including swastikas and other offensive symbols
- Cross-burning
- Bomb threats
- Arson
- Disturbance of religious meetings
- Vandalism or property damage
What is LA vs Hate and United Against Hate Week
Standing up to hate is not easy - but by supporting our communities in their efforts to resist and report hate, we are confident that L.A. County will become a more safe and inclusive space for the more than 10 million people who live here,” said Robin Toma, Executive Director of the LA County Commission on Human Relations.
LA vs Hate
LA vs Hate is a community-centered system designed to support all residents and communities targeted for hate acts of all kinds in Los Angeles County. Led by the LA County Commission on Human Relations, LA vs Hate partners with community partners from all five Board of Supervisors’ Districts, representing a diverse coalition of voices committed to prevent and respond to hate.
- Address the normalization of hate and inspire people to stand up to it.
- Build understanding about what constitutes a hate act and how to report it.
- Support individuals and communities as they heal from the trauma of hate
Learn more about how LA vs Hate Began.
United Against Hate Week
United Against Hate Week emerged from a United Against Hate poster campaign created by Bay Area Cities in response to white supremacist rallies in Berkeley and San Francisco in 2017. And has now spread to over 200+ communities including all of Los Angeles County, faith-based groups, LGBTQ and human rights organizations, and is beginning to takeoff throughout California and in communities across the U.S.
A call for seven days of local civic action by people in every community to stop the hate and implicit biases, “United Against Hate Week” seeks to empower community members to take action in their local communities. By empowering residents to understand what a Hate Crime is and providing the appropriate resources to local communities United Against Hate week endeavors to alter the course of hate and the growing intolerance by sending a clear message that hate of any kind be rejected. The belief is that building a safer and more equitable world starts by working together.
This year United Against Hate week will fall on October 19 - October 25, 2025. Visit our Diversity Equity and Inclusion Current Projects Page to see how you can join Culver City in standing United Against Hate.