No Cooperation with ICE in Sacramento

 

Oppose ICE in Sacramento

The recent ICE killings in Texas and Maine are alarming and ICE arrests in June and July have surged.* States Win Sacramento is acting now to support SEMBRANDO SEMILLAS DAY LABORER WORKER CENTER to protect day laborers, migrants, and low-wage workers. See where you fit in with these important actions. States Win will continue to highlight this dark moment and uplift our endorsed candidates and alumni who are taking action to stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. The Coalition Against Project 2025 (CAP2025), of which States Win Sacramento is a founding member, has issued a Call to Action to protect local Home Depot Day Laborers Minneapolis-style. Coalition Partner Sembrando Semillas Day Laborer Worker Center is reporting ongoing harassment by Sheriffs, Home Depot Management, and parking lot security over the past week. (Scroll to the bottom for Good Trouble Lives On Mutual Aid partnership opportunities and to review the Coalition-Building Volunteer Interest Form.) What: We are organizing the surrounding neighborhoods of the regionwide Home Depots in order to support Day Laborers. They need our help now! When: We will have infosessions and organizing calls throughout the next week. Please let me know of your availability, so we can make sure to schedule a convenient time for you. Even if you are just spreading the word to your network, your participation is truly critical. Why: With the most recent ICE killings in Texas and Maine, and ongoing ICE raids in LA, we are shouting out a Call to Action now, to get prepared and organized Minneapolis-style. The chances of the Trump Administration expanding their tactics to Northern California are quite high. LA is just the beginning for the ICE’s next phase of Project 2025 and Stephen Miller’s lethal plans. How you can make a difference NOW: Attend an Adopt a Corner Infosession and spread the word to your network (or let CAP25 know your availability to join a call this week and then spread the word). Attend future organizing meetings based on each of the Home Depots to learn more about what Adopt-a-Corner will look like at the Home Depot closest to your home or work. Join a Corner team. Attend an onsite meeting with Day Laborers, where Sembrando Semillas Executive Directors Fatima and Christina will introduce you to the Day Laborers they have built relationships with over the past few years. Bring coffee, break bread. Get to know the Day Laborers, even if you don’t speak Spanish! (Our eyes and hearts communicate a lot and translators will be onsite.) Show up in solidarity with our brown people without papers whose very lives are at risk right now. Let them know their community cares about their current tribulations Join a Corner Signal group to:  Be alerted to ICE activity and other harassment happening for rapid mobilization. Schedule a time for you to be onsite, in solidarity with the day laborers, as a visible watcher, a rapid deployment communicator, a videographer, a mocker of ICE agents, and all activities which are non-violent. Support the Day Laborers by funding and delivering food, beverages, diapers for their kids, groceries for their kitchen. Help grow the Corner support team by spreading the word and vetting people before they join CAP25 communication channels. Administration (onsite calendar management, outreach and follow up through volunteer sign ups, mobilize set-up, data entry, etc). Operations (support infosession facilitators, communicating with local, regional, and national leaders and organizations). Logistics (coordinating supplies, carpools, and other behind-the-scenes activity). Be a co-leader of your Corner team. Other needs as they arise in the moment. As Corner teams are being formed, Brittany Johannson with CAP25 will be a co-lead at all sites in order to facilitate orientation calls, lead trainings, recruit and build out teams, processes, workflows, etc.  Current Corners with a team forming:  Home Depot Howe Ave Rancho Cordova Florin Rd Galt:  Flea Market & Street Vendors What neighborhood do you live or work in where you’d like to join a Corner? Educational Resources:  NDLON Adopt a Corner Toolkit  NDLON Adopt a Corner Training Webinar (Video 07/10/26) CONTACT INFO Brittany Johannson, 916.390.6136, brittany.politics@gmail.com Adopt-a-Corner Co-Lead Coalition Against Project 2025 cap25.org & opposeproject2025.org Steering Committee Chair, Partner Liaison, Volunteer Recruitment & Management About STATES WIN Sacramento Be a part of our team as we fight for democracy in 2026 in the states! For questions and information about this message from our chapter, please contact info@stateswinsacramento.org

  

ICE Out Rally. Feb.27. Sacramento

 

Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday

Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday: A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

Including Sacramento planning.

Sacramento Anti Ice Protest

 Hello all,  big thank you to Dan Bacher for his article in the SB&R featuring --Sacramento groups say ‘No’ to ICE’s reported profiling and alleged violence against immigrants

https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2025/09/30/sacramento-groups-say-no-to-ices-reported-profiling-and-alleged-violence-against-immigrants/

Armed Secret Police arrest immigrants in Sacramento

 https://www.kcra.com/article/border-patrol-raid-home-depot-florin-road-sacramento/65440117?

All Out for April 5 Demonstrations : Hands Off Protest

 Here are some ways you can take action.

• Sat, Apr 19 @ 1pm
  April 19 Protest Rally and March 1-3pm ›
• Sun, Apr 13 @ 2pm · INDIVISIBLE Sacramento
  A Pint of Politics and Doing Something Second Sundays ›
• Tue, Apr 15 @ 7pm · INDIVISIBLE Sacramento
  INDIVISIBLE Sacramento Monthly Meeting: APRIL 2025 ›
• Sat, Apr 5 @ 9am · INDIVISIBLE Sacramento
  Hands Off: Protest & Picnic at the Capitol ›
• Fri, Apr 4 @ 4pm · INDIVISIBLE Sacramento
  Freeway Overpass BANNER TEAMS! ›
• Sat, Apr 5 @ 11am · El Dorado Progressives - Indivisible El Dorado
  Sacramento 50501 / INDIVISIBLE Hands Off April 5 Capitol Picnic Protest ›

All times Pacific

Excellent guide. 

How to protest safely in Trump’s America

A friend sent me this. She's  worried about taking her daughter on Sat.

https://open.substack.com/pub/loricorbetmann/p/how-to-protest-safely-in-trumps-america?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

ICE and Schools : Trump Turns Schools Into Immigration Battleground

IN CHICAGO, PARENTS WHO JUST SAW ICE raids hit their neighborhoods have begun worrying about picking up their kids from school.

In New York City schools, the official policy is for security to alert the principal if ICE agents arrive at the school doors, but some school officials are considering having the principals stall to alert teachers of any students in danger, a Queens teacher told The Bulwark.

In Austin, Texas, white parents are thinking about how to tell their children about what could happen to some of their classmates without scaring them.

Note: Sacramento USD is a Safe Haven District,

http://choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com/2025/01/scusd-is-safe-haven-district-to-protect.html

In Denver, news that a parent was detained by ICE near a school sent a chill through a meeting organized by the Colorado governor’s office, state agency officials, and community immigration and legal groups, according to a source at the meeting.

And in Virginia and Maryland, administrators have stopped touting “Know Your Rights” training sessions being held by lawyers and advocates, for fear of retribution from Trump.

A climate of fear and desperation—relayed in interviews with teachers, principals, parents, teacher’s unions and lawyers—has rapidly emerged as the Trump administration has ramped up immigration enforcement efforts. What’s shaken communities is how quickly schools themselves have become one of the main battlegrounds.

“This is just so heartless,” Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) told The Bulwark. “By targeting schools for immigration enforcement, this administration is destroying that sense of safety. This is not just policy—it’s cruelty, plain and simple. They say they’re targeting dangerous criminals, but let’s be honest: Who in a classroom is a criminal? Who among the parents dropping their kids off in school is a murderer or a rapist? There is no evidence to back up this claim.”

The idea that schools could be thrust into the forefront of the debate over immigration enforcement was something that immigrant rights groups warned about prior to the election. Under the Biden administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had been prohibited from going into sensitive areas, including schools, churches, and hospitals. But Trump was expected to rescind that memo. And within days of taking office, he did.

The impacts of that decision have, nevertheless, been profound.

In my conversations with educators, parents, teacher’s unions, and legal experts from New York to Baltimore, Chicago, Austin, Virginia, and Denver, I could sense a palpable psychic toll.

Those individuals still had an appetite to fight Trump’s policies. But they also seemed to recognize that they must do so quietly to avoid drawing undue scrutiny from the most retributive administration in American history.

“In 2017, I felt a certain amount of protection by staying in the light,” a Baltimore teacher toldThe Bulwark. “In a way, it protected you. But I don’t feel that way this time, because Trump is being extraordinarily vindictive.”

Few teachers or administrators were willing to use their names for fear of drawing hostile attention to their school and the students they’re working to protect.

In Chicago, a principal said fear over ICE in schools has led attendance to drop nearly 25 percent.

“Attendance has bombed. We serve a high rate of newcomers. Then there are birthright kids, whose parents don’t have legal immigration status,” the principal told The Bulwark. “So the parents are not sending kids to school because they don’t feel safe bringing them to and from school everyday, and if they do [bring them], the fear of separation is very real. Other parents who feel their child needs structure and access to education ask, ‘What is your plan?’ Or they say, ‘Here is my contact information sheet. Here are all the people to contact if something happens to me.’”

The principal likened this state of growing, ambient fear to the anxious vigilance they have developed over the years around school shootings. Both destroy the sense of safety that is meant to be inherent in schools and is critical for learning.

“It’s 100 percent a violation,” the principal said. “We’re sitting inside a bubble that’s going to pop.”

During the school’s weekly meeting last week, “everyone was crying,” the principal said, so the meeting turned into a conversation about giving teachers resources and clarity in this moment. Among the questions educators are now asking administrators is whether they have looked outside for ICE agents before dismissing classes each day.

“Criminal or not, immigrant or not, a kid deserves to get picked up by their parent everyday,” the principal said. “I think to myself, ‘How am I prepping myself to talk to that child if something happens? Am I hiding kids tomorrow if ICE comes?’ Then I get home and feel guilt over my own kids who are so happy, with not a care in the world.”

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In Virginia, a school board member said that all school systems in the area were communicating, exchanging best practices, and working with the nonprofit sector on “Know Your Rights” training. If ICE agents arrive, schools have been instructed to contact the school system’s lawyer. The source said establishing widely understood processes was important because of the rapid spread of viral TikTok videos of teachers pledging to stand in the way of ICE agents, which has been contributing to misinformation about teachers’ responsibilities in such a situation.

“There are videos of teachers saying ‘I will stand up for my students, I will defend my students.’ That’s also not good because it’s leading teachers to believe this is an additional responsibility, and that’s not the case. If law enforcement comes, it’s not your job to face an ICE agent,” the source said.

In nearby Maryland, Montgomery County Public Schools issued guidance assuring parents that there are strict protocols in place for how to handle immigration enforcement agents coming “to a school to inquire about students.” The guidance, shared with The Bulwark by a parent, also said families would be contacted should this occur. “Our schools are and will always remain safe places where every child—regardless of immigration status—is welcomed, valued, affirmed, validated, respected, and loved.”

In Baltimore, some high school students have taken it upon themselves to organize “Know Your Rights” trainings from experts as well.

That training may seem like it’s not enough in the face of a daunting and punitive federal enforcement policy. But it was apparently enough to annoy Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, who told CNN Monday night that Chicago raids had been made more difficult because of the pervasiveness of “Know Your Rights” training.

“For instance Chicago, very well educated, they’ve been educated how to defy ICE, how to hide from ICE. I’ve seen many pamphlets . . . here’s how you escape ICE from arresting you, here’s what you need to do. They call it, ‘Know Your Rights.’ I call it, ‘How to escape arrest.’”

In some cities, fears over immigration enforcement near schools is not new. In May 2017, just months into Trump’s first term, Jesus Pedraza, a father of three, was followed home by ICE agents after picking up his son at Hampstead Hill Academy in Baltimore. He was charged over a 12-year-old deportation order for fleeing Honduras after witnessing a murder at the age of 17 and having his own life threatened, WYPR reported.

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With this palpable fear as a backdrop, a Baltimore teacher assigned her students to write notes on how they’re feeling. The teacher shared those notes (written in both English and Spanish) with The Bulwark.

“I think ‘La Migra’ is like a gun being shot in the wrong direction,” one male student wrote. “People who genuinely want to work are being deported. I know it’s for America’s safety, but a force for good is being aimed wrong.”

“I think it’s unjust because many parents of students came for the American Dream, and since 2020 it feels like these dreams have died,” another male student wrote in Spanish. “The government isn’t the same as before, they don’t treat us equally.”

“I don’t understand what the point is of using violence to take away our right to study and our right to live,” a female student wrote in Spanish. “Just because we don’t have a piece of paper. No human is illegal on stolen land.”

One of the students was undocumented. Instead of giving her thoughts, she drew an angry cat holding a sign with ICE crossed out.

Baltimore students share their feelings about the prospect of ICE in schools

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LAST WEEK IN NEWARK, ONE OF THE FIRST ICE RAIDS swept up a U.S. citizen—a Puerto Rican warehouse manager and military veteran. Afterwards, the city’s black mayor, Ras Baraka, held a press conference on the benefit of immigrants to our nation’s economy. The moment was fleeting. But it showed, to many advocates, the power in non-Latinos or non-immigrants stepping up to call out abuses of the law and the reckless implementation of radical policy.

In Austin, Texas, Ken Zafarias, the president of a local teachers’ union called Education Austin, said he, too, was trying to rally the community around protecting its undocumented members, many of whom were his students when he served as a teacher for a dozen years. He has moved to “rebuild and renew alliances” between schools and the community to prepare for what’s coming.

“My rage and frustration reaches beyond my ability to change things,” he said, reflecting on what he could do as a white man with a child in fifth grade. “I live in the community where ICE is very likely to show up. While I have great privilege as a white guy in this nation, no one is coming at me directly, but everything I’ve built my life and my family around is connected to this community.”

Zafarias has concluded that everything comes down to the door to the school, where on one side ICE is waiting, and on the other side there are administrators, a principal, teachers, custodians, food service workers, and students.

“What happens at that moment is what we’re trying to impact right now—what procedures are in place so, to the greatest extent possible, our children are protected,” he said.

He called the prospect of ICE descending on a father picking up their kid from school “chilling,” noting that his own Greek immigrant grandfather, who emigrated in 1918 to escape poverty and lack of access to opportunities, never had to deal with this.

“It’s the most appalling, gut-wrenching thing as an educator that I can imagine,” he said, his voice slow and full of emotion. “I have a hard time conceiving it—how can anyone think this is valuable?”

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Flo Cofer : Candidate for Mayor of Sacramento

 

Mayoral Hopeful Flo Cofer Envisions a Democratic Sacramento

Flo Cofer

With an activist background and a left-wing perspective, Sacramento mayoral candidate Flo Cofer bears the markers of an outsider candidate. But backed by big unions, sitting councilmembers, and the city paper, she’s giving the Sac elite a run for their money.

 

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/flo-cofer-sacramento-mayor-homelessness-policing

 

Join the Poor People's March

 

See post below. 

Poor People's March : Sacramento -Saturday

 

Save The American River Parkway

Don't let this happen here along the American River. 

We have started our own webpage: 

https://www.americanrivertrees.org/project-3b

 We have had 2 TV interviews/coverage:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/trees-along-american-river-are-on-the-chopping-block-for-flood-control/

 

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/tree-clearing-flood-infrastructure/103-404c252c-6366-43ca-ad10-2d0068bf337d

And we have a Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/353294447441210/?multi_permalinks=364367569667231¬if_id=1705461082626019¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif

This is such a great learning experience.  A lot of this is putting yourself out there.

Faculty Prepare for Strike at Sac State: the CSU

 

Members of the California Faculty Association rallied during a strike in December at San Francisco State University. Godofredo A. Vásquez/Associated Press

Faculty members at the California State University system, the nation’s largest four-year public university system, are planning to cancel classes and strike next week as they demand higher pay and better benefits.

The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches, says it will begin a five-day strike on Monday, the first day of the spring semester for most students. Walkouts are planned at all 23 campuses, from Humboldt to San Diego, which together serve nearly 460,000 students.

The strike was set after university officials ended contract negotiations last week, having offered 5 percent raises; the union is seeking 12 percent pay increases. University leaders said they were grappling with a huge budget deficit and could not afford to meet the union’s demands without resorting to layoffs and other cuts.

“We have been in the bargaining process for eight months and the C.F.A. has shown no movement, leaving us no other option” but to break off the talks, Leora Freedman, the university system’s vice chancellor for human resources, said in a statement. She added that the system had recently agreed on 5 percent pay increases with five other labor unions.

The union’s president, Charles Toombs, said he hoped that the university would return to the bargaining table so the strike could be averted.

In addition to raises, the union also wants to increase the salary floor for full-time employees to $64,360 from $54,360, and is asking for other provisions, including caps on class sizes and expansion of paid parental leave.

“That is where we stand,” Toombs told me. “We know that a systemwide strike in the C.S.U. is going to be historic.”

The union’s members mounted one-day work stoppages in early December at four of the system’s largest campuses: Cal Poly Pomona, San Francisco State, Cal State Los Angeles and Sacramento State.

Hazel Kelly, a spokesperson for the system, told me that all campuses would remain open during the strike and that university leaders would try to limit disruptions to students. She said it was possible that not all classes would be canceled, because some faculty members may not participate in the strike.

The job action comes after an especially busy year for labor actions, particularly in California. Hollywood actors and writers went on strike; so did hotel and health care workers. Los Angeles schools employees staged a huge walkout in March, and Oakland educators were off the job for nearly two weeks in May.

Rename SCUSD Schools

 

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Realizing the Promise of LCFF

 

Public Advocates was instrumental in shaping the Local Control Funding Formula, California’s landmark school funding policy. Signed into law in 2013, LCFF is one of the boldest public education experiments any state has ever taken to improve student outcomes through greater equity, transparency, local accountability, and meaningful community engagement. However, while it changed the way public schools were funded, a decade into this legislation, there is more work needed to address systemic inequities that create barriers to student success.  We are proud to share our findings from the research and recommendations for leadership in our latest report, Realizing the Promise of LCFF: Recommendations from the First Ten Years. Using 72 districts as case studies, this report, written with our partners at the ACLU Southern California, reviews LCFF implementation to offer guidance on improving equitable outcomes and community engagement. While the report highlights some bright spots, it underscores the need for significant innovation in order to strengthen accountability measures that can ensure a comprehensive strategic planning process and better engagement. Top level recommendations include:  More oversight, support and authority for County Offices of Education to hold districts accountable Investing in an innovative, usable, web-based strategic planning platform that can make funding transparent and easier to understand Strengthening community engagement with families, students, and community based organizations to meaningfully address disparities in student outcomes and improve opportunities for all students, including Black students Establishing the LCFF was a critical first step, but 10 years later, as California enters the next phase of this bold work, it must continue to improve this system to ensure high-needs students in our state receive the resources they need to thrive in school and beyond.

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