Category: Opinions

  • Hunger Strikers at the Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield CA Demand Action from Gavin Newsom & Javier Becerra

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1402″][vcex_spacing size=”15px”][vcex_heading text=”” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ italic=”true” text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”none” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1587156830877{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”14″ inner_bottom_border_color=”#777777″][vcex_spacing size=”15px”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” font_family=”Crimson Text” css=”.vc_custom_1587157761729{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”d:16|tl:16|tp:16|pl:16|pp:16″] Below is a letter that nearly 100 organizations across the state have endorsed supporting the demands of hunger strikers at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility…

  • Don’t Deliberate, Decarcerate!

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][vc_column width=”2/3″][vcex_spacing size=”15px”][vcex_heading text=”by CIYJA STAFF” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ italic=”true” text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”none” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1539289509003{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”14″ inner_bottom_border_color=”#777777″][vcex_heading text=”SEPTEMBER 10, 2019″ tag=”h2″ text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”capitalize” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1539289521335{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”14″][vcex_spacing size=”15px”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” font_family=”Crimson Text” css=”.vc_custom_1540929993941{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”d:16|tl:16|tp:16|pl:16|pp:16″][dropcap]R[/dropcap]ob Bonta’s Assembly Bill 32 makes its way…

  • California lawmakers aren’t the resistance, we are

    [vcex_spacing size=”15px”][vcex_heading text=”by SANDY VALENCIANO” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ italic=”true” text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”none” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1539289509003{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”14″ inner_bottom_border_color=”#777777″][vcex_heading text=”AUGUST 16, 2019″ tag=”h2″ text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”capitalize” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1539289521335{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”14″][vcex_spacing size=”15px”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” font_family=”Crimson Text” css=”.vc_custom_1540929993941{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”d:16|tl:16|tp:16|pl:16|pp:16″][dropcap]T[/dropcap]his morning, California Governor Newsom and Attorney General Xavier…

  • Birds By Another Name

    Birds By Another Name

    [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1525199274516{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”1325″ css_animation=”fadeIn” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1525199482691{margin-top: 10px !important;border-top-width: 10px !important;}”][vcex_heading text=”by SANDRA DE ANDA” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ italic=”true” text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”none” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1560616864973{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”14″ inner_bottom_border_color=”#777777″][vcex_heading text=”MAY 16, 2018″ tag=”h2″ text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”capitalize” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1526446958306{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px…

  • Statement: Free All Detained at Adelanto Now That Shady Deal is Terminated

    Statement: Free All Detained at Adelanto Now That Shady Deal is Terminated

    Press Statement For Immediate Release: March 28, 2019 Contact: Dianey Murillo, dmurillo@06d.b80.myftpupload.com, 951-742-1848 Jose Servin, jservin@06d.b80.myftpupload.com, 714-728-2520 RIVERSIDE — The California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance today released the following statement in response to the announcement by the city council of Adelanto on the termination of the agreement between them and ICE to detain immigrants for…

  • Immigrant Youth Call on ICE and Orange County Sheriff to Release All Detainees Due to End of ICE Contract

    Immigrant Youth Call on ICE and Orange County Sheriff to Release All Detainees Due to End of ICE Contract

    Press Statement For Immediate Release: March 27, 2019 Contact: Jose Servin, jservin@06d.b80.myftpupload.com, 714-728-2520     Juan Prieto, jprieto@06d.b80.myftpupload.com, 510-414-0953 SANTA ANA — The California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance today released the following statement following the announcement by Orange County Sheriff Donald Barnes on the end of the agreement between Orange County Jail’s and ICE to…

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    [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1525199274516{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”1220″ css_animation=”fadeIn” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow” css=”.vc_custom_1540932696063{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row] [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1525199482691{margin-top: 10px !important;border-top-width: 10px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vcex_spacing size=”15px”][vcex_heading text=”by CIYJA STAFF” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ italic=”true” text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”none” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1539289509003{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”14″ inner_bottom_border_color=”#777777″][vcex_heading text=”MARCH 19, 2019″ tag=”h2″ text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text”…

  • Why We Must Support the Caravan

    Why We Must Support the Caravan

    [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1525199274516{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”1170″ css_animation=”fadeIn” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1525199482691{margin-top: 10px !important;border-top-width: 10px !important;}”][vcex_heading text=”by JOSE SERVIN” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ italic=”true” text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”none” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1542231873818{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”14″ inner_bottom_border_color=”#777777″][vcex_heading text=”NOVEMBER 14, 2018″ tag=”h2″ text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”capitalize” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1542231896883{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”…

  • Our Voices Will Not Be Drowned

    Our Voices Will Not Be Drowned

    [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1525199274516{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”1073″ css_animation=”fadeIn” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow” css=”.vc_custom_1539293090868{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1525199482691{margin-top: 10px !important;border-top-width: 10px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vcex_spacing size=”15px”][vcex_heading text=”by MARIELA MENDEZ” style=”bottom-border-w-color” tag=”h2″ italic=”true” text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal” text_transform=”none” color=”rgba(9,30,20,0.55)” css=”.vc_custom_1539289509003{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}” font_size=”14″ inner_bottom_border_color=”#777777″][vcex_heading text=”OCTOBER 11, 2018″ tag=”h2″ text_align=”right” font_family=”Crimson Text” font_weight=”normal”…

  • Primero Destruimos A ICE

    Primero Destruimos A ICE

    Sigue este enlace para leer nuestro manifiesto sobre la liberación de inmigrantes. Dado que el renacimiento del movimiento dedicado a la abolición (destrucción) de la migra (ICE) ha estallado de las redes sociales hacia la ocupación de edificios federales (e incluso transgredido dentro de plataformas políticas de algunos demócratas a lo largo del país) nosotros,…