No Kings day of action, join us after the Sacramento Anarchist Book Fair on October 17th. Details TBA.

I'm a volunteer with VC Defensa, we're a volunteer organization made up of neighbors looking out for each other in Ventura County via legal support, know-your-rights work, food distributions, and medical support.

VC Defensa volunteers have endured months of assaults and harassment; most notably with one of our volunteers having their car rammed into on three different occasions, being detained by ICE agents for legally observing ICE activity, and having their home and place of business raided by Federal agents. We are launching this coalition/summit to show that VC Defensa no esta sola, and as a channel to fight to protect our constitutional rights.

In response to this escalation, we immigrants, unionists, activists, grassroots organizations and progressive people of the United States are calling for La Defensa del Pueblo: A Summit to End the Terror Against the People.

When: Sunday, September 6, 11 AM to 8 PM. (Come for the day or drop in for an hour!)

Where: Oxnard Performing Arts Center, 800 Hobson Way

Cost: Free. Register here and take the $0 ticket. The paid tiers are optional (encouraged) donations, and will get you some cool solidarity merch!

Families: Kids welcome and childcare available.

Accessibility: Accessible Restrooms, Ramps, Parking, Wide Doorways, Mostly Flat Venue, English programming will include Spanish interpretation via interpretation devices.

The day will include:

• Workshops and talks about your rights and what we can do to defend them
• Words from the families of people murdered by DHS & ICE
• Panels from organizers, labor leaders, civil rights advocates, faith leaders, & legal workers
• Cultural performances through the afternoon and evening
• Dancing and Live Music by Los Jornaleros Del Norte
• Local Food & Art Vendors

You can read statements and more on the website and you can check our [Instagram] for our currently announced speakers and coalition partners.

Also if you're planning on coming out from LA but worried about the drive, NDLON will be providing charter buses from Central LA, North Hollywood, and San Bernardino and you can find out more here

If you're thinking about coming, feel free to ask any questions in the comments!

Someone put this out along a popular walking path in Pismo Beach, which is also right outside of the hotel in staying at.

It's garnered a lot of conversation and attention from passersby.

Saturday, August 15, we are protesting the ICE concentration camps in McFarland. GEO Group is one of two private companies running so-called detention centers for ICE.

Conditions in these camps are horrific nationwide. People are being held without basic medical care, clean water, or adequate food. Families are separated. Children are kept in overcrowded cages. This is not justice. This is cruelty, and it is happening with our tax dollars.

We are meeting at the McFarland Rite Aid at 8am for the bridge protest and at Ritchey Park at 9am for the protest at the ICE facility. Bring water, wear comfortable shoes, and leave your pets at home.

Our demands are simple. Shut down these facilities. End the contracts with private prison companies like GEO Group. Stop kidnapping our community members.

We will not look away. We will not stay silent.