All lives cannot matter until Black Lives Matter
Tribuno Del Pueblo | Issue: July 2020
The rage felt across the country has been building up as a result of hundreds of years of systemic racism, economic oppression, and exploitation.
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‘We learned violence from you!’ — Tamika Mallory
Excerpts from Tamika Mallory’s speech | Issue: July 2020
America has looted black people. America looted the Native Americans when they first came here. Looting is what you do. We learned it from you.
Rebellion spreads! New awakening!
Nacho González, El Jaranero | Issue: July 2020
We are beginning to realize that we can’t depend on our failing political system to fix our problems. We are going to have to do it ourselves.
Another life taken by the police: Justice for18 year-old Andres Guardado
Tribuno Del Pueblo | Issue: July 2020
Hundreds of protestors gathered in Gardena, California, to demand justice for Andres Guardado – an 18-year-old Latino shot and killed by police.
When we bless the homies
Misael Juárez | Issue: July 2020
Some homies dream of a better world to organize for peace. It only takes the blessing of opportunities to activate a homie’s psyches to do good work.
From Ms. Acosta to all her students: Stay safe until we meet again
Ms. Acosta | Issue: July 2020
In quarantine, I think of my students. Their faces, their stories and the love I have for each of them is with me.
Los Niños (Creating consciousness through art)
Olmo | Issue: July 2020
What is absent is the personalization of these children. The impact of the generational trauma that our government is creating.
Be wary of the Border Patrol’s presence at protests
Pedro Ríos | Issue: July 2020
Border Patrol to attempt to bill itself as a police force capable of handling the duties of a municipal police department, and we should be wary.
Holding on to collective solidarity after the coronavirus
Wendy Feliz and Suzette Brooks Masters, Immigration Impact | Issue: July 2020
Perhaps this pandemic will inoculate us against the plague of division, othering, and scapegoating that we have been suffering from for far too long.
Yakima Valley: The strike ended but the fight continues
Laura Garcia interviews Edgar Franks, Organizing Director of the Farmworkers Union Familias Unidas por la Justicia. | Issue: July 2020
All the striking workers agreed on their demands – protection from the coronavirus, payment for working in dangerous conditions, and no retaliation.
Stop the hypocrisy!
Gloria Meneses-Sandoval | Issue: July 2020
Only now are farmworkers needed when before the pandemic they had been expendable and deportable.