Articles Published in 2016

How does a family with no legal training impact a court system? The organizers of participatory defense say it is a 'cumulative intelligence', borne from families sharing their experiences, analysis, and ideas with one another.

January 30th, 2016 will be the "Day of Print" screenprint. Screenprinting is one of the oldest ways of transferring ink to surface. To this day T-shirts are still printed using this old practice. With squeegees of ink and screens in hand, five San José screen teams comprised of print houses, local retailers, educators and community organizations will be screenprinting their in-house San José designs on-site and folks can vote on who will become the San Jose screenprint champions.

Khalilah Ramirez, The Dancer of Peace brings us another week in peace. This week we take a look at how to honor the commitments we have to ourselves and what lies ahead for us this new and upcoming year.

The city of San Jose seems on track to join other cities in implementing a Crime Free Multi-Housing Program. Housing advocate, Anthony King writes that this plan is not informed by the residents most impacted and will lead to pushing the already vulnerable communities of San Jose out of their homes.

While the San Jose City Council ranked rent control and plans to strengthen tenant protections as its second highest priority this past year, they are currently conducting community outreach around a program that puts more authority in the hands of landlords to evict entire families at once. Perhaps because the incongruence starts here the process of presenting the Crime Free Multi-Housing Program to tenants has been anything, but smooth.

SV De-Bug is proud to announce the anticipated release of our book De-Bug: Voices from the Underside of Silicon Valley. The stories shared in these pages come from folks who didn’t even think they have a story to tell. The stories shared in these pages come from folks who didn’t even think they have a story to tel

Motivational speaker and spoken word poet, Nate Howard visited San Jose to give the commencement speech to the Black graduating class at San Jose State in May 2014. That same night he was beaten by San Jose Police and the ordeal has served him in an unimaginable way: a higher calling to help others.

This Week in Peace chronicles the exciting adventures of San Jose's own Dancer of Peace, Khalilah Ramirez. Written under divine inspiration, this column contains true stories of peace encounters in your neighborhood. This week we see that even nightclubs are not immune to that magic of peace and that something undeniable happens when you watch the dance of peace.

This weekend, activists across the Bay Area took part of #96hours reclaiming MLK Four day weekend. Folks from The Black Seed collective, a black, queer liberation collective shutdown the Bay Bridge successfully in protest for what is currently happening to people of color in the Bay Area and across the country. Amazing photographer and activist, Brooke Anderson was there to capture history in the making.

This Week in Peace chronicles the exciting adventures of San Jose's own Dancer of Peace, Khalilah Ramirez. Written under divine inspiration, this column contains true stories of peace encounters in your neighborhood. This week we get a glimpse of long time collaborators of the Dance of Peace and how that flow of peace works through each of us.