We recently received a letter from one of our readers that we wanted to share with a wider audience. The email letter is posted below. Dear Blog Editor, I believe capital punishment is one of the critical social justice issues of our country, and is, in many ways, the sharp …
On Monday, February 17, 2014 (Presidents’ Day), uniformed security guards at Simon’s Santa Rosa Plaza impeded our first amendment rights to free and unfettered speech, as well as racially targeted and harassed Latino patrons. It all happened in the upstairs food court at the mall. Earlier in the afternoon, many …
When people organize to challenge the oppressive (and often racialized) dynamics in their community, they frequently neglect to consider how those dynamics find their ways into the organizing itself. We do not come together in a vacuum. What happens “out there” also happens, albeit in different and perhaps more subtle …
Timeline [Most information from the media committee of the Justice for Andy Lopez Coalition Many of these incidents are documented in video.] Protest leaders Ramon Cairo, Louie Godoy and other members of the activist group, Andy’s Youth, have been targets of bullying and intimidation by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department. …