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Protect Your People Public Safety & Justice Committee Community Report: A Sharing of Direct Experience, Analysis, and Critique of the Santa Clara County Criminal Legal System from January-August 2025
Editor's Note: The Protect Your People Public Safety & Justice Committee Community Report was assembled by De-Bug families and organizers...
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Brothers In Arms: How Trump and Mahan's Identical Attacks on the Poor Show They Have The Same Core Values
About a month and a half separated Donald Trump from issuing an executive order that mimicked the “responsibility to shelter” policy of San Jose’s Mayor, Matt Mahan.
The parallels between the policies have been written about locally and can be seen with an objective eye. What is missing from the dialogue is the core value that Matt Mahan and Donald Trump share: scapegoating the most vulnerable.
As San Jose and the country at large grow tired of real issues like cost of li
Andrew Bigelow
Oct 174 min read
Portrait of Strength: A Voice from the Guadalupe Trail
The third feature of "Y ou Are The Art.” This project is a photo journalistic series that features community members in their own words...
Khalilah Ramirez
Jul 233 min read
Responsibility to Shelter Will Lead to Police Violence, Arrests and Incarceration Beyond the Charge Named in the Policy, and Immigration Consequences
Editor's note: Below is a letter submitted to the San Jose City Council before the recent 2025-2026 budget vote that included the...
Raj Jayadev
Jun 174 min read
Testimony from the May 22nd, 2025 Sweep Along the Guadalupe River in San Jose, CA
May 22nd, 2025 -- San Jose Police conducted a sweep on houseless encampments along the Guadalupe River in San Jose, CA. They told residents of the encampments that the sweep would take place in June and then suddenly descended on the encampment. The sweeps are part of an ongoing campaign by Mayor Matt Mahan whose self-proclaimed “innovative” policies on houselessness include the recently proposed Responsibility to Shelter policy, which creates a new police unit to arrest hous
SV De-Bug staff
Jun 171 min read
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