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March 13th, 2017

Meet Mijente’s New Community Defense Organizing Team

Across the country communities are in motion to protect and defend. We think that the best rapid response is sustained and strong organizing that engages community members in campaigns, educational and culture change work and direct action. We know that folks are going to need a lot of support in making this happen. Because of [...]

March 13th, 2017

February 23rd, 2017

People Are Dragging the Anaheim PD on Facebook After Cops Arrest Kids Shot at by Off-Duty Officer

Anaheim PD is being Blasted on FaceBook With 1 Star Reviews The Anaheim Police Department's Facebook page was bombarded with nearly 500 one star reviews last night following the department's reaction to an off-duty police officer shooting at a group of teenagers Tuesday afternoon. Video of the altercation between the off-duty cop and the teenagers shows a [...]

February 23rd, 2017

February 21st, 2017

Three Lessons from Fighting Obama Raids to Organize Under a Trump Regime

While enforcement under the new regime represents an expansion and escalation, it is built upon past practices that can provide us with key lessons now.

February 21st, 2017

February 16th, 2017

Expanding Sanctuary Policy Solutions – A Crowdsourced Guide

This is a living list of legislation that has been passed or proposed to address increasing protections and/or reducing criminalization.

February 16th, 2017

February 15th, 2017

Una Expansión del Santuario: Pasos en Desafío del Orden Ejecutivo de Trump

Si Trump busca despojarnos del santuario, entonces debemos desafiarlo. Y nuestro desafío no debe simplemente recrear lo que existió, sino ampliarlo, reimaginarlo y darle vida a sus posibilidades.

February 15th, 2017

February 10th, 2017

Community Defense Zone Guide

Your guide to organizing your friends and neighbors to defend your rights and each other

February 10th, 2017

February 4th, 2017

Be a Mijente Rapid Response Organizer

Build teams for turn up all across the country.

February 4th, 2017

February 1st, 2017

Budweiser’s new ad is a Superbowl subtweet to Trump

The company that rebranded as “America” has a reminder for white people during the Super Bowl this year.

February 1st, 2017

January 29th, 2017

Uber Works with Trump, LYFT Funds the ACLU – Any Questions?

Pretty sure it’s time to #DeleteUber In the past two days airports have been filled with protests of the Trump Regime’s Muslim Ban that is detaining refugees and even permanent residents stranded at international airports like JFK in New York, and O’Hare in Chicago. However, the resistance to Donald Trump’s xenophobic policies isn’t just happening [...]

January 29th, 2017

January 28th, 2017

Morning prayers to the universe, your ancestors, your guiding spirits

1. Morning prayers to the universe, your ancestors, your guiding spirits We are all spiritual beings having a material experience. We are so much more than the terrible things that happen to us and so much more than what the systems of oppression, the oppressors and society tell us and reinforce about us. Reminding ourselves [...]

January 28th, 2017

Chingona Guide to Self-Determination in Healing

For the social justice warriors to take care of themselves: Step-by-step instructions for simple rituals and healing practices that anyone can do.

January 28th, 2017

January 27th, 2017

Report: What Makes a City a Sanctuary Now

The new report on expanding sanctuary to decriminalize and protect everyone.

January 27th, 2017

Corona just launched an EPIC response to Trump’s Border Wall

The Modelo beer company in Mexico, which Corona is a part of, just launched an epic tv ad that stands up to Trump's earlier insults and now policy attacks. It's as if they were watching Calle 13's 'Latinoamerica' and thought, "we can do this but sell beer and tell Donald Trump f-u at the same [...]

January 27th, 2017

January 26th, 2017

Chicagoans Push Mayor & Council to Expand Sanctuary Further in Defiance of Trump

“Sanctuary in Chicago today means a commitment not just to symbolically defy Trump but to actually transform our city’s policies to stop targeting us for imprisonment, risk of removal, and state violence at the hands of police and aggressive immigration agents.”

January 26th, 2017

January 25th, 2017

Read Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration

Trump just launched his attack on immigrant rights. Read the order here.

January 25th, 2017

January 20th, 2017

The Shovel, The Picket Sign and The Muse

as Trump puts his hand on the bible, millions put their feet on the streets to pledge resistance. What is done today in resistance, we can only hope it is a rev up and not a final gasp in reaction to the 2016 election.

January 20th, 2017

January 2nd, 2017

Case Study: Stop Immigrant Detention Expansion in Santa Ana

When the Santa Ana City Council considered a proposal to expand the number of immigrants the city would detain for ICE at profit in its jail (specifically transgender immigrant women), community members, immigrant rights, and LGBTQ rights organizations highlighted the fact that all the council members are Latino Democrats operating a for profit immigrant detention business.

January 2nd, 2017

December 3rd, 2016

Boricua Voices: Jorge Díaz Ortiz

El Director Artístico de AgitArte nos habla de la resistencia Puertorriqueña, y porque piensa que no hablamos suficiente sobre la política de la vejez.

December 3rd, 2016

December 2nd, 2016

Hundreds of Latinxs Gather in San Juan for #Lánzate2016

On December 1st, hundreds of Latinx activists are gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico to build, learn, and strategize together. In the midst of a transition into a Trump administration and a time of protest on the island - from resisting PROMESA's Fiscal Control Board to blockading the dumping of coal ash in Peñuelas - the [...]

December 2nd, 2016

November 29th, 2016

3 Puerto Rico Protests You Should Pay Attention To

The last few months in Puerto Rico have been tumultuous, and the people of la isla resist at every turn.

November 29th, 2016

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