As we commemorate Mijente’s 10 years, we are choosing to lean into our power: our love for community, our commitment to organizing, and our spirit of resistance.
Getting in Formation for Latinx Organizing
Mijente was born in and out of the struggle. Founding members united under the demands of #Not1More deportation under the Obama Administration. Our organization was born in the presence and power of the modern day Black Power movement. And the world we were inheriting, during the rise of Trumpism and his first Administration, positioned Mijente as a resistance force to meet demographic, cultural, and social change.
Sharing our Story and Origins
Over the past 10 years, Mijente has rolled deep in the fight for Latinx rights, justice, and change. Together with our members, volunteers, donors, partners, and allies, we’ve fought for and supported our gente with the goal of achieving el Buenvivir.
From our protests and actions against Trump to the 2020 GA Senate runoff to La Vida Local grants – We have taken space to grow our movement sin, contra, y desde el Estado because we must contend for power on all fronts. We understand that our problems are systemic and we can challenge them by working without, against, and within the state. We learned this framework from, and were inspired by, our compas in the Chilean social movement Movimiento de Pobladores en Lucha (MPL).
Honoring 10 Years of Lucha
Recognizing our efforts and telling our story is one way that we ensure that the lessons and learnings grow beyond us. This year, we want more of our members, supporters, and allies to know more about where we’ve come from, the obstacles we’ve faced and overcome, and the people who have made our efforts possible.
Follow along as we share more throughout the year about our campaigns across the years, our hopes for the future, why we chose the ant as our symbol, and so much more!
Did you tune in for Trump’s State of the Union? From the very beginning, it was clear what his message would add up to: mentiras, fear-mongering, and billionaire power plays. The last six weeks of the new administration–with widespread ICE raids, massive layoffs, and looming tariffs–have shown that Trump is not interested in the needs of the people.
But what about the State of the Movement? Our gente aren’t waiting for permission to get into the ring. We are organizing, resisting, and fighting back in every space possible.
Resistance Efforts Across the Issues
En las calles, thousands had been marching against deportations, against the gutting of public services, against the rollback of our rights. This looks like:
Teachers organizing and fighting back against attacks on public education and immigrant students’ safety.
Nurses and hospital workers alzando la voz against cuts to healthcare funding, and families demanding fair prices for medicine and treatments.
Workers and labor organizers are building power for dignity on the job and decent wages, taking on corporations that exploit both immigrants and citizens alike.
En todo el país, people are refusing to sit still, quedarse sin hacer nada. Students are walking out of classrooms, refusing to let their education be censored by right-wing extremists. Farmworkers are joining labor strikes, calling out the hypocrisy of politicians who rely on their labor while stripping them of their rights. In urban cities and rural towns, families are standing in resistance against housing policies that push them out, while billionaires collect more wealth. Scientists and researchers are rallying to call out harmful censorship policies, slashes to taxpayer-funded studies, and more. These struggles are not isolated—they are part of a larger movement rejecting Trump’s agenda and fighting for dignity and justice.
Organizing against Anti-Immigrant Policies
On immigration – we’ve seen this before and we know what’s coming: mass deportations, criminalization of our people, family separations, and the expansion of the border and caging machine, digitally and physically. But just like before, our gente will resist. Our people are already organizing against these policies, preparing community networks, mobilizing legal support, and hitting the streets. We are not just reacting; we are building real power—fighting for protections, for status, for a world where no one is illegal. Sin papeles y sin miedo, we refuse to let them decide our fate. This fight is ours. We, the people, somos más.
The Fight in Puerto Rico
En Puerto Rico, a new wave of lucha y resistencia is rising. The conservative and neo-liberal government of Jenniffer González has launched its administration with full-scale attacks—on public education, on LGBTQIA+ rights, on access to beaches and maritime lands, all for the benefit of the rich and well-connected. And now, Puerto Rico has become a new front in Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade, with an escalation of raids, arrests, and violence against migrants unlike anything seen before.
But if Puerto Rico has taught us anything, it’s that nuestra gente knows how to fight back. Students are organizing in the UPR to environmental struggles against Proyecto Esencia in Cabo Rojo. There are also cultural fronts against gentrification and imperialism to Caribbean solidarity in Barrio Obrero. Resistance is taking shape and staying active. With no elections until 2028, the battle for Puerto Rico will be fought through culture, in the streets, and in the everyday resistance de la gente, en el archipiélago y en la diáspora.
Building Power Here and Now
We must be clear: this fight is not about the next election nor the next punch. It is about power. Un poder que se construye in the everyday, in organizing workplaces, defending our communities, and shifting culture. Every conversation, every act of resistance, every moment of solidarity matters.
They want us divided, afraid, and thinking that what we dream of isn’t possible. But against their fascist, capitalist, bro-ligarch delusions, we answer with love, organization, and lucha, mucha lucha. There’s no perfect formula, no easy path—but we will find our way by walking it together, paso a paso, chisme a chisme, towards victory.
Esta lucha es nuestra, and we aren’t backing down.
