In police sweeps of homeless encampments and the militarized crackdown on immigrants, the rights of already-marginalized groups are being stripped bare.

Arts & Entertainment

Art as Resistance: Community, Culture, and Defiance at The Cheech

Roxsy Lin - Jun 18, 2025

The art inside The Cheech doesn’t just speak—it shouts, weeps, and dreams, reminding us that culture is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Immigration

Central Coast Growers, Farmworkers Unite Against Ramped Up ICE Arrests

Li Lovett - Jun 16, 2025

Farmworker advocates have joined with industry growers across California’s Central Coast to stand up for immigrants in the fields and on the streets.

Immigration

Senator Alex Padilla Is All of Us

Pilar Marrero - Jun 12, 2025

If a brown man, even a sitting senator, gets shoved and abused by federal authorities simply for doing his job, what’s left for the rest of us

Op-Ed

California’s Challenge — Resisting Authoritarianism Without Playing Trump’s Game

Manuel Ortiz - Jun 12, 2025

California is emerging as the spearhead of both civil and governmental resistance to Trump’s war on immigrants and ethnic communities.

Immigration

Thousands Protest Trump’s ICE Militarization in San Francisco

Peter Schurmann and Christopher Alam - Jun 10, 2025

A diverse crowd of some 2000 gathered June 9 in the heart of The City’s Latino community to denounce the Trump Administration’s militarized mass deportation efforts.

Immigration

‘I Am Not Just an Immigrant. I Am a Human Being’ — Dreamer...

Christopher Alam - Jun 9, 2025

19-year-old Ximena Arias-Cristobal is among the 2.5 million Dreamers in the US whose lives are being upended by the Trump Administration's mass deportation campaign.

Immigration

‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’ — Trump and the Insurrection Act

Peter Schurmann - Jun 9, 2025

Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell immigration protests in LA, giving him "unlimited discretion to use the military as a domestic police force."

Immigration