Jason Del Aguila is an organizer for VOCAL-NY, a co-founder of El Grito De Sunset Park, and a coordinator of participatory defense in New York.

The #Google8 were arrested and detained on Dec 4th in protest of the public land sale to Google for a new downtown San Jose campus. Two months later they marched into their court date with community support and the message that opposition to this campus is not a crime and the land should be donated back to the community.

Today we honor Mr. Kenneth Humphrey - the man at the center of challenging pretrial detention and the bail system that has forced thousands of Californians to be priced out of their liberty. We also highlight the communities present in courts across the state to ensure the promise of the Humphrey decision.

Ok, what now? This is the question that keeps returning after each unwanted change to the city. Where do we go from here? The problem calls upon us to reassess after every seeming defeat. The most current being the insidious backdoor dealings and eventual selling of San Jose land to the everpresent neoliberal godsend, Google. The passionate refusal and organizing around these dealings proved that there are many of us bubbling beneath, prepared or preparing to spill over. Many

Last Dec. 4th, eight San José residents were arrested in protest of public lands being sold to Google. One of the Google 8, shares his experience that night of exposing "the exclusionary nature of the proposed Google project."

In this reflection of her organizing efforts against corporate take over by Google in San José, Vero connects the poetry of a San Jose favorite to the indigenous land we stand on and what has been growing beneath: loose seeds of resistance taking root. What led to the action at the Dec. 4th vote to sell public land to Google, is born of a knowing that people power is real and the people decide how this story will end.

In late August one of the longest standing murals in San José was removed. The Mural de la Raza was personal to many people and J.M. Valle responded like many in our neighborhood - like a caretaker of that mural and all it represents. In community, he immediately worked to find the artists and bring folks together around the work of restoring the mural.

We're looking back at a snapshot of A Day in California Court in three Participatory Defense hubs in California. What they are seeing in light of changes around bail law in the state and how that will inform the work we continue in 2019 to keep more loved ones free of incarceration.

Silicon Valley De-Bug conducted a survey of more than 500 residents to ask the basic question that has been deliberately left out of the conversation. SV De-Bug - SV De-Bug - December 4, 2018 December 3, 2018 To the Mayor and City Council Members of San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo Vice Mayor Magdalena Carrasco, District 5 City Council Member Charles Jones, District 1 City Council Member Sergio Jimenez, District 2 City Council Member Raul Peralez, District 3 City Council Member L

Editor's Note: After seeing the film Life After Life that follows three men as they return home from San Quentin, Yerba Buena High School student Marissa was inspired to write about her own life growing up with an incarcerated loved one.

A therapeutic behavioral coach responds to the tragedy in Thousand Oaks and says beyond flagging mental health issues the conversation must turn to enacting gun control.

Recent implementation of non-designated yards in CDCR - meaning that yards for the general population and that of the special needs population have been combined - has led to violence and has put the emotional and physical wellbeing of loved ones inside in danger. We call on the CDCR to end non-designated yards.

Crystal Cisneros is currently a student at UC Santa Cruz, the violence, political climate and desensitization of the last couple of weeks moved her to write poetry.

Introducing Day in a California Court – a new online platform designed by De-Bug and populated by stories by local grassroots organizations across the state, data, and ongoing news coverage about county specific criminal justice systems. As California goes through major change in bail, Day in CA Court offers a window into what is happening in courts across the state everyday.

Proud to share this video profile on our amazing partners at Mothers in Charge as they launched the first participatory defense hub in Philadelphia! They have already won incredible victories securing the freedom of loved ones and we are honored they are part of the National Participatory Defense Network!

Santa Clara County has a plan to convert the old San Jose city hall site into a new Civic Center Campus. Activists are calling on the County to build temporary housing. Formerly unhoused organizer writes that voter approved Measure A funds should be used to build permanent supportive housing so desperately needed.

SB 1421 has been carried by the spirit of loved ones lost at the hands of police. Families from the South Bay speak about their lives since their loss and shine a light on the urgent need for the right to police records on serious and deadly force incidents.

De-Bug was an original cosponsor of SB10 -- a bill initially aimed at bail reform. Through the legislative negotiation process, the bill has been gutted, and is now essentially a whole new bill. While it eliminates money bail, it replaces it with a pretrial detention system that will continue to incarcerate communities of color. Please remember our shirts read "End Money Bail" AND "Free Our People." In this letter sent to the author of the bill, Senator Hertzberg, De-Bug with

In 2010, Joanne started the Felony Murder Elimination Project, which aims to eliminate Felony Murder in California and bring sentencing relief to those who have been harshly sentenced under this law.

As people across the country rise up against the separation of families at our borders, this writer relives his own separation and got a renewed sense of hope from attending a recent action calling for an end to ICE.