No more “Year of the Checkpoint”
At the New Year, many working people in California, particularly Latinos heaved a collective sigh of relief as a law, which will reduce unconstitutional vehicle checkpoint searches. The 4th Amendment of the US Constitution provides in part, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches [...]
Rosalinda Guillen: Farm Workers Justice and the Food Sovereignty Movement
Rosalinda Guillen is a widely recognized farm worker and rural justice leader in the state of Washington. The oldest of eight, she was born in Texas and spent her first decade in Coahuila, Mexico. Her family emigrated to LaConner, Washington in 1960, and she began working as a farm worker in the fields in Skagit [...]
Landlords Evicting Illegally
In Sonoma County and elsewhere in California, some are taking the law into their own hands. More and more, landlords in Sonoma County, Calif., are taking the law into their own hands in evicting Latino tenants — changing their locks, cutting off their utilities, removing their belongings, or shoving their way in and starting “renovations.” [...]