California

Why Hasn’t California Enforced Its Post-Wildfire Rent Gouging Ban?

May 26, 2025 Roshan Abraham, Next City. Resist! California, Disaster Recovery, Housing, Los Angeles, Rent control, renter's rights, Wildfires

As wildfires raged through Los Angeles early this year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency. The Jan. 7 declaration also triggered a state law enacting price controls on consumer goods in Los Angeles County for 30 days, which have since been extended to July 1. The law, meant to protect displaced Angelenos against price gouging and disaster profiteering, also regulates rental housing costs. This means landlords can’t legally raise rents by more than 10% either for current tenants or for prospective tenants if the unit was advertised in the past year, and can charge no more than 160% of the fair market rent for units that had not been rented or offered for rent in the past year.

California Educators Sync Up Negotiations For More Leverage

May 16, 2025 Danielle Smith, Labor Notes. Strategize! California, Solidarity, Teachers, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Public school educators in 32 union locals across California are joining forces to maximize their power in a campaign called “We Can’t Wait.” It covers 77,000 educators—about a quarter of the California Teachers Association’s total membership—serving a million students. The campaign started with 11 locals that worked to align their contract expiration dates for the end of June: Anaheim, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Natomas, Oakland, Richmond, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Twin Rivers. And it quickly spread from there. Locals have organized educators to sign onto the campaign’s platform, rally before school and walk in all together, and join informational pickets. The goal is to have educators strike-ready in the fall.

Courts Force Release Of Detained Students; Campus Activism Reignites

May 15, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Resist! California, Columbia University, Hunger Strikes, Israel, Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestine, Rumeysa Ozturk, Trump Administration, Tufts University, Victory

Since the last installment of this newsletter, two students detained by the Trump administration have been released on bail. Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student who was kidnapped by agents during a citizenship interview, was released from a Vermont correctional facility on April 30. “The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime,” said U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford. Mahdawi addressed a crowd of supporters and reporters upon his release. “For anybody who is doubting justice, this is a light of hope and faith in the justice system in America,” Mahdawi told a crowd outside the courthouse after his release.

Immigrant Rights Advocates Fortify Against Threats To ‘Sanctuary State’

May 12, 2025 Mariana Martínez Barba, Scheer Post. Educate! California, Immigrant Rights, Immigration, Sanctuary Cities

San Diego-based attorney Ian Seruelo received three separate reports in March alone about local county Sheriff Kelly Martinez violating California’s immigration policy. The California Values Act, also known as Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), ensures that local law enforcement will not cooperate with immigration authorities to deport individuals. For Seruelo, the violations were an example of how the Trump administration continues to target California’s “sanctuary state” law. “There is already that atmosphere of fear in our community, very, very high. Never in my 10 years of practice have I experienced this level [of fear],” said Seruelo, who is also chair of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium, a coalition of more than 50 organizations.

California Students Go On Hunger Strike For Gaza

May 10, 2025 Abraham Marquez, Mondoweiss. Resist! California, Gaza, Hunger Strike, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism

On May 5th, seven students from California State University, Long Beach, launched a hunger strike as part of an organized protest across four CSU campuses: San Francisco, Sacramento, and San Jose State. In total, twenty-five students are striking for Gaza. They join a wave of nationwide protests demanding an immediate end to the United States’ arming and facilitating a genocide in Gaza by Israel. The seven strikers announced on the campus their commitment to refuse food until their institution divests from companies that supply weapons, military equipment, and surveillance technology, among other demands, to Israel’s military.

How Farmers Responded When Trump Administration Stopped Paying Them

May 6, 2025 George B. Sánchez-Tello, Capital and Main. Organize! California, Food and Agriculture, Food Insecurity, Trump Administration, USDA

Every year brings its own unique challenges for California farmers: water shortages, fires, finding laborers to do the work, bureaucrats in Sacramento adding new requirements and fees, and more. But the second term of President Donald Trump has made this year very different. As part of deep cuts across much of the government, the administration of President Donald Trump chopped $1 billion from the U.S. Department of Agriculture almost without warning. This led to widespread financial pain that affected already struggling farmers and left hungry patrons of food banks in many parts of the country desperate for other sources of healthy food. On Feb. 28, California officials warned farmers who had grown food for schools and food banks that there was funding only for work done up to Jan. 19, despite the fact that farmers had submitted invoices for work and harvests past that date.

The SEIU Strike Is An Opportunity To Build Collective Struggle

April 30, 2025 Julia Wallace, Left Voice. Strategize! California, SEIU, Strikes, Unions, Working Class

On Monday, April 28, more than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers, members of my union, Service Employees International (SEIU-721), began what is planned to be a two-day strike in response to unfair labor practices by the county. The SEIU represents workers who provide a huge range of vital services to the county, from sanitation and parks and recreation workers, to mental, public health, and homeless outreach workers. The union membership authorized the strike by 99%. The union leadership called the unfair labor practices (ULP) strike because the county has failed to fairly negotiate a new contract for months now

These Black Architects Are Helping Rebuild Altadena After The LA Wildfires

April 24, 2025 Corinne Ruff, Next City. Create! Architecture, Black America, California, Community, Disaster Recovery, Los Angeles, Wildfires

Carla Flagg remembers the joy of growing up in west Altadena. “We had these great pool parties where all the cousins and everybody would come to the Fair Oaks house,” she says, smiling, as tears welled up in her eyes. Her parents owned the house and passed it down to her sister and her sister’s kids. “ We had that home for 50-some odd years, and there are still people who know the original phone number.” Flagg’s family home was one of some 9,400 structures that were destroyed in the Eaton Fire in January. It was also one of many homes passed down within the Black community by family members. Discriminatory redlining of the 1960s steered her parents away from Pasadena, and realtors encouraged them to purchase on the west side of Altadena.

A Santa Ana Community Land Trust Energizes Innovation

April 22, 2025 Ilana Preuss, Next City. Create! California, community land trusts, Manufacturing, small-scale manufacturing

It was a cool Saturday morning in Santa Ana, California, earlier this year. At the corner of Walnut and Daisy, an urban farm displayed rows of beautiful carrots and greens. Shipping containers – turned into coffee-shop business space – were painted in blues, oranges, and greens. Community artists speaking English and Spanish gathered at the center of the area to add the finishing touches to an artisan production shed. Ana Urzua, executive director of Cooperacion Santa Ana, looked out at the nearly completed construction. Ten years ago, this had only been a dream. In 2015, when the city announced plans to widen two large streets of Santa Ana and began purchasing neighboring homes and storefronts to demolish, Urzua was part of a community coalition that knew they would need to organize against it innovatively.

San Jose State University Students Protest Revocation Of Student Visas

April 15, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Campus Movement, Immigrant Rights, Immigration, Student Activism

San Jose, CA – On April 9, around 60 San Jose State students and community members gathered by the campus’s Cesar Chavez arch to protest the recent revocation of student visas by the federal government. According to San Jose State University president Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson, 12 San Jose State University International students had their F-1 visas revoked. The revocations came as part of a wave of visa revocations by the federal government, most of which are student visas. As soon as the news broke, the San Jose chapter of Students for a Democratic Society called an emergency action to put forward several demands.

Santa Clara Valley Transit Workers Begin Strike

March 12, 2025 Philip Nguyen, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Labor, Strikes, Transit, Transit Workers, Transportation, Unions

San Jose, CA – On Monday, March 10, around 1500 bus and light rail operators and mechanics for Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), walked off the job. The workers are represented by Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 265. This is the first strike at the VTA since its founding in 1973. Around 9 a.m. upwards of 70 ATU rank-and-file members could be seen picketing in front of the VTA headquarters as the strike began. Pickets were held at four other light rail and bus yards beginning at 4 a.m. VTA and ATU have been in contract negotiations since August.

California Teachers Fight Palestine Censorship

March 5, 2025 Marcy Winograd, Counter Punch. Resist! California, Censorship, Donald Trump, Education, Palestine, Trump Administration

As the Trump administration engages in a frontal assault on the teaching of race and ethnicity at the K-12 level, a quieter but no less important battle is shaping up in deep blue California. Communities of color are mobilizing statewide to defeat AB 1468, the latest bill to emerge from the CA Legislative Jewish Caucus (LJC) in its campaign to censor Palestinian voices in ethnic studies classes, and police all ethnic studies content along with it. Although the words “Gaza,” “Palestine” and “Israel” are nowhere to be found in the proposed legislation, the language of AB 1468 restricts the discipline to the “domestic experience” of “marginalized people” to discourage teachers from developing lessons on the impact of Israeli settler colonialism on Palestinian American and Muslim communities.

Lawsuit Against Congress Members Over Gaza Genocide Goes International

March 3, 2025 Lois Pearlman, Mondoweiss. Resist! California, Class Action Lawsuit, Congress members, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, United Nations

What began as one northern California activist’s idea to up the ante on pressure against local congressmen who support Israel’s assault on Gaza has turned into a plan to air the issue in the international arena. Retired high school history teacher Seth Donnelly, a resident of Boyes Hot Springs in Sonoma County, California, said he was fed up with his Congress member Mike Thompson, who refused to respond to phone calls, emails, and protests demanding that he stop funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “I even invited him to speak before a student human rights group at Rancho Cotate High School,” Donnelly said, referring to the school where he taught until recently.

Two Unions Strike The University Of California

February 28, 2025 Staff, Labor Notes. Resist! California, Strikes, Unions, University of California, Worker Rights

Picket lines formed across California Wednesday as 20,000 health care, research, and technical workers in UPTE (Communications Workers Local 9119) and 37,000 patient care workers in AFSCME Local 3299 walked out on short strikes across the University of California system. AFSCME will stay out for two days, UPTE for three. Both unions are charging that the university system is engaged in unfair labor practices. They have been working under an expired contract since October. The workers struck in November, too. Then, Labor Notes’ Barbara Madeloni wrote how the UPTE workers have been remaking their union to prepare for this contract fight

New Report Details Police Repression Of Palestine Activism At UCLA

February 27, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Educate! California, Los Angeles, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, police repression, Report, University of California

Last October, the ACLU launched a lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), challenging the school’s administrators’ suppression of student and faculty speech. That suppression ultimately resulted in the police’s violent destruction of the school’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment amid clashes with Zionist provocateurs. “I can still hear the relentless sound of the stun grenades,” described one student protester at the time. “Trepidation still courses through my body when I think about police in riot gear shooting rubber bullets at and beating students and friends.

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