Thin Blue Lie is a series telling the stories of families who experienced the systemic police practice of coercively interrogating families moments after killing their loved ones, in an attempt to gain evidence to justify the killing. The series is made in support of new legislation AB 572 that would end this practice. In this episode of the Thin Blue Lie Series, we hear the story of Sam, DeAnna and Josh from Orange County, CA.

Stop Santa Clara Jails From Becoming ICE Traps Stop the Santa Clara County Sheriff from Communicating with ICE to Detain Community Members at the Jails

Thin Blue Lie is a series telling the stories of families who experienced the systemic police practice of coercively interrogating families moments after killing their loved ones, in an attempt to gain evidence to justify the killing. The series is made in support of new legislation AB 572 that would end this practice. In this episode of the Thin Blue Lie Series, we hear the story of Sharon Watkins from San Jose, CA.

"Y ou Are The Art.” This project is a photo journalistic series that features community members in their own words and environments. As...

Editor's note: Below is a letter submitted to the San Jose City Council before the recent 2025-2026 budget vote that included the...

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

Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen claims his filing of felony charges on 12 individuals for their protest against the genocide in Palestine were "not political." Author Zach Kirk, who attended the DA's press conference, explains how the prosecutions are explicitly political acts.

In the new presidential regime Author J.M. Valle calls out the lies that crime is rampant and urges the county of Santa Clara to investigate

Author Raj Jayadev explains why San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan will be remembered as San Jose's Mass Incarceration Mayor.

Zach Kirk - SV De-Bug - December 13, 2024 - 43 minute read E ntering the brick corridors of San Quentin and the sweltering gates at Solano, it was not lost on me that almost no man I knew ever entered those gates willingly. For attorneys and visitors, like me, leaving the facility is a matter of waves and smiles; for many of the brothers inside, the only way they make it through those same gates is in a body bag - that is, under this system’s laws as they stand. We reject th

On behalf of the San Jose NAACP, Raymond Goins submitted the following letter to the Presiding Judge of the Palo Alto Court.

Despy Madrid is a 17 year old activist and writer from Tracy California.

Author Zach Kirk reflects and examines the California Supreme Court Justice Liu's dissent that calls to reflection the misreading of Califor

The Pipeline to Deportation Starts at the Moment of Arrest T his conversation is from a webinar that we hosted on using Participatory Defense to fight deportation. It is an amazing and important conversation led by people who have been directly impacted by the intersection of the criminal and immigration systems. With the current administration we need to make sure we are prepared and ready to fight for our immigrant families, & as you will see, the speakers in this webinar a

The 2014 discovery of "Chicana" and what appears to be "Aztlán" on the Diego Gutierrez Map is largely unknown

Local San Jose photographer felt a fire ignite in her at last year's Women's March and now she invites you to feel the same as she prepares for Saturday's march where women across the country and world stand up together!

Raj Jayadev writes in honor of the late Jeff Moore, San Jose Civil Rights Icon

Prop 36 takes effect this week. And though the election is over, the fight to protect our communities from it's aim of mass incarceration and mass deportation is just beginning. The danger of Prop 36, and how to prevent it's harm, is located in how DA's make charging decisions. How prosecutors wield their discretion at the charging level will make all the determination if someone will face a prison sentence, or a felony, or a deportable offense, or not.

Raj Jayadev - SV De-Bug - November 29, 2024 - 8 minute read I was in Norristown, Pennsylvania a couple days after the election.  I went to celebrate the five year anniversary of the Reuniting Family Bail Fund and participatory defense hub there. It was an awkward time to be at any sort of celebration with the election results so fresh - and to be in Pennsylvania especially since the state was so prominently featured as a swing state that went Trump. Norristown itself is a so

Due to the Racial Justice Act, people can now point to racial bias to challenge a charge, conviction or sentence. Who better than communities of color themselves to be the authoritative voice to explain the racism of the system? Author Xavier España explains how the Racial Justice Act can be a vehicle for community voice.