This Tuesday, the Santa Ana city council will consider an ordinance that furthers the criminalization of the civic center homeless population. It will deprive the least among us of tents to protect from the rain. It will limit their means to income through the banning of stored recyclables, unused bike
Here at Chispa we love listening to music. We understand that music plays an important role in all our lives. It can help us get through rough days, and celebrate happy ones. For movements music is also important, so we decided to launch a new monthly playlist of resistance to
On Monday night, I listened to Kendrick Lamar in preparation for my poetry and leadership workshop for high school students every week when I got a call asking if I heard about what happened in San Francisco. That morning, undocumented youth interrupted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during a
It felt surreal to be in a large Town Hall filled with my DACAmented brothers and sisters, their families, allies, and those left out of immigration relief entirely, discussing our options in a worst-case scenario turned reality. Jeff Sessions’ announcement of DACA’s repeal was infused with racist rhetoric that hinted
The city of anaheim will do everything in its power to silence you. It will overwhelm you with quiet and public inequities. It will gloss over you a suffocating sparkle in one street and display people without homes on the next. It will seduce you to stay calm with kindness.
Santa Ana City Council Members approved last night a resolution, directing staff to return within 90 days with specific opportunities to reduce barriers to, make available funding for, and increase outreach and growth of worker cooperatives. And the benefits that worker cooperatives will bring to Santa Ana, in turn, are
Worker cooperatives and entrepreneurs have gathered monthly over the last year to create a Community Market named El Mercadito Carrusel in Santa Ana. Its goal is to steward a growing base of worker cooperatives and local entrepreneurs, and create shared prosperity for Santa Ana residents in a way that is
