Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen claims his filing of felony charges on 12 individuals for their protest against the genocide in Palestine were "not political." Author Zach Kirk, who attended the DA's press conference, explains how the prosecutions are explicitly political acts.

In the new presidential regime Author J.M. Valle calls out the lies that crime is rampant and urges the county of Santa Clara to investigate

Author Raj Jayadev explains why San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan will be remembered as San Jose's Mass Incarceration Mayor.

E ntering the brick corridors of San Quentin and the sweltering gates at Solano, it was not lost on me that almost no man I knew ever...

On behalf of the San Jose NAACP, Raymond Goins submitted the following letter to the Presiding Judge of the Palo Alto Court.

Despy Madrid is a 17 year old activist and writer from Tracy California.

Author Zach Kirk reflects and examines the California Supreme Court Justice Liu's dissent that calls to reflection the misreading of Califor

On behalf of the San Jose NAACP, Raymond Goins submitted the following letter to the Presiding Judge of the Palo Alto Court. The call, signed onto by numerous groups, is to remove a wall size mural lining the halls of the court house that lionizes colonialization. Another letter by the Muwekma Ohlone Tribal Council was also submitted.

The Pipeline to Deportation Starts at the Moment of Arrest T his conversation is from a webinar that we hosted on using Participatory...

The 2014 discovery of "Chicana" and what appears to be "Aztlán" on the Diego Gutierrez Map is largely unknown

Raj Jayadev writes in honor of the late Jeff Moore, San Jose Civil Rights Icon

Prop 36 takes effect this week. And though the election is over, the fight to protect our communities from it's aim of mass incarceration and mass deportation is just beginning. The danger of Prop 36, and how to prevent it's harm, is located in how DA's make charging decisions. How prosecutors wield their discretion at the charging level will make all the determination if someone will face a prison sentence, or a felony, or a deportable offense, or not.

Illo by AD Avila I was in Norristown, Pennsylvania a couple days after the election.  I went to celebrate the five year anniversary of...

San Jose’s own Dancer of Peace, Khalilah Ramirez. The column contains true stories of peace encounters in your neighborhood.

A daughter describes the moments she found out her father had been killed by San Jose Police Department

EDITOR'S NOTE: “Let’s DACAbout It” is a series of stories on how Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals has given individuals the...