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Class War In Sugartown

August 7, 2026 Joe Allen, Counter Punch. , , ,
Crockett, California, is located on the Carquinez Strait, a forty-minute drive from Oakland, and popularly known as “Sugartown.” This small, unincorporated town of thirty-two hundred residents is the longtime home of the California and Hawaii Sugar (C&H) refinery, one of the last cane sugar processors in the western United States. For more than a month starting on June 15, ninety-three warehouse workers represented by Local 6 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) were on strike against a straight-up union-busting effort by the refinery’s owner, ASR Group, led by the billionaire Fanjul family. 

Immigrant Rights Activists Deliver Petition To Santa Ana Judges

July 19, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Santa Ana, CA – On Friday, July 17 several members of Community Service Organization Orange County (CSO OC) delivered a petition to the Santa Ana Immigration Court. In May of 2025, the court was one of the first places Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) started arresting people. CSO OC has been running a campaign since then to pressure the immigration judges to move all hearings online so that people attending their hearings would not have to face ICE at the court. They collected over 1000 signatures calling for this.

Victory Rally After Reinstatement Of SJSU Professor Dr. Sang Hea Kil

July 3, 2026 Tim Phan, Fight Back! News. , , , , ,
San Jose , CA – On June 30, San Jose State University Professor Dr. Sang Hea Kil of the Justice Studies Department held a victory rally after her arbitration allowing her to return go with full backpay. This came after a protracted campaign where she bravely resisted her firing due to her vocal disapproval of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine. She was the first tenured professor to be fired from a public university for speaking against the genocide in the wake of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. At the rally outside of the Martin Luther King Library, Dr. Kil triumphantly exclaimed, “This is an incredible victory for free speech, academic freedom, student protest, freedom of assembly and pro-Palestine speech on campus and beyond.”

One Year On, Los Angeles Is Still Living With Fallout Of The Raids

June 27, 2026 Elizabeth Aguilera and Ben Poston, Scheer Post. , , ,
When immigration agents arrived at the Los Angeles car wash where he worked, Giovanni didn’t see them until one was standing beside him. Giovanni’s thoughts turned to his family: How would they get by without him? Would he have to uproot his school-age children from the only home they had ever known? Giovanni had worked at the car wash in the San Fernando Valley for years, vacuuming interiors and scrubbing cars. Then, on that day in October, he was taken away by federal immigration agents along with three other workers.

Three-Day March For Immigrant Rights Ends At Planned ICE Detention Site

June 24, 2026 Lin An, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Dublin, CA – On June 8, at around 5 p.m., over 100 participants of the three-day “Caminata for Immigrant Rights” arrived at the corner of Arnold Road and Gleason Drive, next to FCI Dublin, a closed federal women’s prison that ICE plans to reopen as an immigrant detention center. “This action shows just how united the Bay Area is against ICE. Across all three days, covering dozens of miles, we received only honks of support and cheers from folks. No one wants Trump’s ICE thugs here. Those who joined us, including families with young children, grandmothers, immigrants and allies from Santa Rosa to Napa to San Francisco and beyond, demonstrate how far people are willing to go to oppose new detention centers in the Bay,” said Danny Celaya from CSO Oakland.

California Town Lets Private ICE Detention Centers Police Themselves

June 16, 2026 Robin Urevich, Scheer Post. , , , , ,
Two years ago, immigration attorney Mario Valenzuela visited a client at the Golden State Annex, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center operated by the private prison giant The GEO Group Inc. in the small agricultural town of McFarland in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Valenzuela’s client had a black eye and bruises on his body, he said. The client told Valenzuela that he’d been surrounded and beaten by seven or eight fellow detainees in the detention center’s recreation yard and was taken to a hospital emergency room. His client, who didn’t authorize his attorney to give his name, wanted to report the assault to the police, Valenzuela said.

They Didn’t Wait: California Teachers Strike And Win

June 10, 2026 Danielle Smith, Labor Notes. , , , , , ,
Tens of thousands of California educators joined forces statewide, wagering that they could win more by working together. The result was a wave of strikes this school year that defied narratives of austerity and won better funding. “Our districts are different, but our stories are the same,” said Gina Gray, a Los Angeles high school English teacher who served on her union’s extended bargaining committee. “It’s exciting to see how up and down the state, locals are really standing up. Educators everywhere are saying: Enough is enough. Invest in public education the way it deserves to be.”

LA Is Building For The 2028 Olympics; Organizers Want To Stop It

June 9, 2026 Eliana Perozo, Next City. , , , , ,
Cerianne Robertson spent years watching a city change as it prepared to host the Olympics. While living in Rio de Janeiro and working as a journalist, Robertson says she and her team saw the displacement happen. From 2014 to 2018, she reported on evictions that helped make way for the Olympic park and related transit infrastructure. About 77,000 people were displaced from their homes — mostly in favelas — by the city government between 2009 and 2016, the year Rio hosted the Olympics. Robertson says while not all of the displacement was directly related to stadium builds or Olympic transit, there had been very few government-led evictions before 2009.

No Tech For Fascism, War, Plunder

June 3, 2026 International League of People's Struggles, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Bay Area, CA — 700 anti-war, labor, and community organizers from across the country gathered from May 30th to June 1st for an Anti-Imperialist Political Conference, Peace Forum, and mass protest in response to the Trump administration's attacks on working people around the world, aided by increasingly powerful tech and weapons companies, many of them based in the Bay Area. The protest targeted OpenAI and ScaleAI headquarters in downtown San Francisco and included testimonies from communities directly impacted by US high-tech warfare, environmental destruction by data centers, and AI-powered ICE surveillance.

Arms Embargo Now! GKN Out Of Garden Grove!

May 31, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. , , , , ,
On Thursday, May 21, a 34,000-gallon storage tank carrying a highly toxic and flammable chemical, methyl methacrylate, overheated at the GKN Aerospace facility in the middle of a predominantly working-class Garden Grove neighborhood. The overheating tank released toxic chemicals into the air, creating a serious risk of explosion and forcing over 50,000 residents to evacuate. GKN Aerospace’s chemical crisis has resulted in evacuations in Garden Grove, Stanton, Westminster, Cypress, and Buena Park, forced dozens of school closures, and disrupted hundreds of businesses.

Immigrants Held At ‘Inhumane’ ICE Facility Start Hunger Strike

May 21, 2026 Clara-Sophia Daly, Mission Local. , , , ,
Conditions at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the high desert of Southern California are so bad that at least 20 people detained there have declared a hunger strike.  “There are many people suffering here. This is the only way we have to raise our voice, this is a call to stop the suffering and respect our dignity as human beings,” read a statement written by the strikers that was read during an press conference held online Wednesday morning. It was put on by a coalition of advocacy groups.  The immigrants at the Adelanto ICE detention complex have not eaten since Tuesday, organizers said.

UC Is Finalizing Its Land-Use Rules Without Involving Impacted Tribes

May 19, 2026 Petala Ironcloud, Truthout. , , , ,
The University of California (UC) is circulating its first-ever systemwide framework governing tribal access, co-stewardship, and land-use agreements across 80,000 acres of UC-managed land. The framework was developed by UC Tribal Lands Workgroup, composed entirely of UC staff with no Tribal government representatives, and Tribal advisory bodies were only invited to review the document after it was drafted. Faculty senate divisions and systemwide committees have until May 19 to submit feedback, with the Academic Council taking up the report in its May 27 meeting.

Paradise, California Hosts A Gathering On Community Resilience

May 13, 2026 Bob Stilger, Resilience. , , , ,
Wildfires have already burned nearly two million acres in the U.S. this year — far exceeding the ten-year May average — and conditions are only expected to get hotter and drier. Of course, wildfires are only one of many challenges we now face. Last year, I heard the term “confluence of catastrophes,” which I’ve come to appreciate much more than “polycrisis.” Polycrisis suggests to me problems running in parallel, while confluence evokes forces flowing together — into us, through us, from us. How do we live, now, in our confluence of catastrophes?

April Job Market Report Mixed

May 11, 2026 Masao Suzuki, Fight Back! News. , , ,
San José, CA – On Friday, May 8, the Bureau of Labor Statistics or BLS, which is under the federal Department of Labor, released their monthly job market report for the month of April. The report was mixed, with strength shown by businesses while households showed weaknesses, reflecting the growing polarization in the economy. The employment report, based on a survey of businesses, was strong relative to the weak hiring in 2025, with 115,000 new jobs created. There were still pockets of weakness, with government jobs declining by 8000, making April the seventh month in a row of job losses by government workers.

An Epidemic Is Erupting Among California Stoneworkers

April 21, 2026 Kayla Yup, In these Times. , , , , ,
Luis Hernandez, then 35, woke to a gray, hazy sky on Feb. 17, 2024. He opted for a warm sweater and cargo pants with pockets just big enough to hold his spare canister of oxygen, but he hoped he wouldn’t need it. It would be a big day out for him and his friends — the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, Calif., was hosting a special Pokemon Go event where some of the rarest Pokemon could be found. When the group arrived, they headed straight to the belly of the bowl, blanketed with bright green turf. Hernandez settled into a rhythm: Walk 50 feet. Pause for 30 minutes. Catch some Pokemon. Walk another 50 feet. Pause another 30 minutes. Catch some Pokemon.
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