“People were tortured inside the Adelanto ICE prison. GEO Group is fighting to keep the records secret so the public is kept in the dark about what’s really going on there,” said [me w/ @thesouthlander.com] “The taxpayers who fund that facility deserve transparency.”
Motion granted! Public Justice scored a win on behalf of FAC, @thesouthlander.bsky.social, @lapublicpress.bsky.social & Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice to unseal documents in a case against the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Learn more here ⬇️ firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/mo...
Watch The Southlander interview with Jenaro Ernesto Ayala, a labor outreach coordinator for the Van Nuys Day Labor Center. Ayala spoke about his experience getting detained by the federal agents, the brutality he faced, and how it impacts the community's mental health.
Full interview link in bio🔗
🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 23: 'Why were we not allowed to speak to this decision-making body?' thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...
In this issue, the mystery around a canceled "ICE out of LAPD" presentation, police union pulls endorsement of city attorney after data leak, and more.
you can now order lowrider stamps at USPS
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Two tacos de sesos. Headline reads “Sinaloan Tacos De Sesos Storm South Gate”
Elsewhere, Yama Sushi Marketplace has classes on sushi making, sake, and soy sauce, for only $15.
This weekend's guide: lataco.com/weekend-eats...
By Hadley Tomicki
Since April 2023, at least 217 Long Beach tenants have been displaced due to substantial remodel evictions. Tenant advocates allege that landlords exploit the "renoviction loophole" without proper legal or city notification.
✍️ by Kevin Flores
🔗Read our full story on thesouthlander.com
As an avid LAPL user, this is a really bad look.
Please send letters here.
The LA Public Library @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social canceled an event they organized where they invited Palestinian children’s book authors Jenan Matari & Nora Lester Murad
They are calling on people to tell library to stop censoring Palestinian stories
statement palestinelegal.org/news/lapl-le...
Los Angeles is home to the largest Iranian diaspora community in the world. But opinions are mixed when it comes to support for the war against Iran
I spoke to folks in the community to see how they feel about the US war on their homeland
My latest @aljazeera.com
www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
"After being held in isolation for about five days. Rodríguez was forced to strip naked in a shower while an officer "poured some kind of chemical liquid on her head, which seemed to be something used to clean floors and burned her eyes,” the filing read."
A screenshot of a retweet by Sheriff Chad Bianco from an account called SuperBasedInCali. The tweet says Great turnout yesterday at Hell's Kitchen in Lake Elsinore for Sheriff Chad Biano. Incredible energy and strong support from people who want law, order, and leadership back in california. The movement is growing. American flag emoji. fire emoji.
A screenshot of a tweet from Superbased in California that says These boys are about as solid as it gets #AmericaFirst American flag emoji. Below is a photo of seven men in tshirts too small for them. On the left is a man with a backwards hat and tattos on his arms wearing a shirt that as Fuck Antifa. A man behind him is making an OK sign and is wearing a cowboy hat and has a long beard. Next to him is a man with his face blurred out with yellow. He is also doing an OK sign. Next to him is a man in a white tshirt and jeans and hat. Next to him is a man in a black shirt and hat with glasses on. He has tattos on his arm and is doing an OK sign. Next to him is a bald man in a black shirt and dark jeans. Next to him in a man in big sunglasses. A flat bill hat. He's holding a Coke bottle and is also doing the OK sign with a big smile on his face.
An American flag drapped over a freeway overpass. Next to it is a painted sign that says Fuck your protest and your foreign flags. Another on next to it says Support Your Local Ice Raids.
Here's the leading Republican candidate for California Governor, Sheriff Chad Bianco, retweeting and posing with a Proud Boy who has participated in banner drops over the freeways in Riverside County. A recent one was written in Proud Boy colors and celebrated the ICE raids.
El Sarape is a lowkey mariscos spot. They don’t have Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook to advertise, making it a true hidden gem in L.A. — only those in-the-know recognize it.
The full story: lataco.com/hidden-nayar...
By @abemarquez.bsky.social
Last July, while working, Ernesto Ayala was tipped that immigration agents were headed towards his way to take a group of women. Ayala put his body on the line to protect them, & he was brutalized & taken
I interviewed Ernesto about that day: @thesouthlander.com
thesouthlander.com/jenaro-ernes...
Apparently, LA city's mailroom is out of cash and can't send out LA Housing Dept. notices anymore. A couple council members (including a mayoral candidate) have intro'd a motion to spot them $565K for mailing RSO/inspection notices, and info to protect people from being unjustly evicted.
Haitian asylum seeker, Daphy Michel, was found unresponsive days after being stranded at ICE-ISAP Office. Michel was part of ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program (ATD). @lataco.bsky.social
lataco.com/hatian-woman...
Iran has every right to defend itself
My latest piece out on @palabranahj.bsky.social details how residents in San Diego’s historic Barrio Logan are sounding the alarm over gentrification, the threat to the neighborhood’s landmark murals & the parallels to other gentrifying Latino neighborhoods.
www.palabranahj.org/archive/mura...
For sure. There is some imperial arrogance in the admin. But you are right, Iran is not Venezuela. Iran has much more advanced military and some regional countries that can help. Netanyahu is an extension of U.S. imperialism, I wouldn’t put the blame on just him.
Today, seeing how the Trump administration is moving military aircraft carriers towards the Middle East for a potential war with Iran is insane. The region is already littered with U.S. military bases. This would be a regional war.
Everyone needs to be against this war.
In January 2020, I remember thinking we were really close to going to war with Iran, or at least the closest in my lifetime, because Trump killed General Qasem Soleimani along with Iraqi officials. Iran retaliated with a measured strike. Then Covid-19 hit in March, and things kinda went quiet.
In 1973, Jesse Jackson & Angela Davis met with Crusade for Justice, a Chicano civil rights org fighting against police brutality. 6 years later, Jesse Jackson met with Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat in Beirut, Lebanon. Rest in Power, Jesse Jackson
"Hope is like when you fall into an emptiness, and you have hope that you're going to float, you're going to float. It's like how I always said, 'we're in a hole, but we need to dig. Find a way to move forward.'" - Narciso
Watch @thesouthlander.com's doc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6x2...
Yesterday, news broke that an immigration judge dismissed the deportation case against Narciso Barranco, an undocumented landscaper who was violently arrested on June 21
My colleagues @kevin-flores.bsky.social & @bencamach0.bsky.social sat down w/ Barranco shortly after for @thesouthlander.com 👇
BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Permits TPS Terminations for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua to Take Effect.
The decision is set to impact approximately 50,000 Hondurans, 7,000 Nepalis, and 3,000 Nicaraguans.
www.nationaltpsalliance.org/breaking-nin...
This is cool! Love all the easter eggs from Bad Bunny’s performance, and my favorite, not LA-related, was Lady Gaga.
On January 30, the Trump admin bypassed Congress to push billions in weapons to Israel
Last July, I wrote about LA politicians who have accepted money from pro-Israel lobby groups
Nearly 3 years of the Gaza genocide, & LA politicians ignore the calls for an arms embargo
lataco.com/politicians-...
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Daniel Lee, a U.S. Air Force veteran with VetsAboutFace, speaks about the importance of coming out and supporting the call from Minnesota.
