De-Bug developed a voter guide on the propositions we believe will lead to decarcerate our jails & prisons, increase higher education and employment opportunities for people of color and women, expand voting rights, hold corporations accountable to worker's rights & keep people housed. Download the images to share with your networks.

Khalilah Ramirez is an author, educator and performance artist known as The Peace Dancer. Her performance art, the Dance of Peace, is designed to radiate light, joy and peace to all who see it. This mission is based on the awareness that every person is important, innately holding light inside them that assists in the illumination of our world.

This system, with Breonna’s blood on its hands, cannot give justice to her. But we can. We can when we resist, reimagine and reset.

A harrowing personal account of how the California prison system exacerbated the spreading and contamination of a lethal pandemic.

This is a transcript of a speech given outside Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City by freedom fighter Nora Melendez. In 2018, her partner Sergio was held at this jail and transferred to ICE detention in Bakersfield, 250 miles away from his home in San Mateo County. Sergio was separated from Nora and their 3 young children for 8 months.

A poem inspired by the hunger strike in Santa Clara County Jails.

In the 17 years since its founding, the CJA been an advocate for humane policing practices including the banning of the use of Tasers by law enforcement.

Matt has been on a courageous hunger strike with so many others in the Santa Clara County Jails. He submitted this letter to the Board of Supervisors calling for change and support of our #ProtectYourPeopleBudget

A couple weeks ago, Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen held a “Bend the Arc” press conference where he announced policy reforms in response to the societal uprising after the killing of George Floyd.

Loved ones incarcerated in Santa Clara County Jails are on a hunger stirke to protest conditions inside and show solidarity for the movement outside to end systemic racism. Meanwhile the county must decide its budget priorities. If Santa Clara County takes this moment to decarcerate - that direction can follow the call of the hunger strikers and the Black Lives Matter proclamation, while also saving valuable resources during a fiscal crisis.

Santa Clara families harmed by the criminal punishment system turned pain into solutions and authored the following public safety proposal calling on the Board of Supervisors to divest from the harms and invest resources into Black and Brown community led models of safety, restoration, and healing.

While deadly manifestations of racism are poppin' off across the country and close to home, a San Jose school's response to a hate crime is an outline in what not to do. August Boeger middle school teacher Hillary McHenry is calling on our entire community to help create a safe school after she was targeted in spring without resolution.

Since 2015 parents from SOMOS Mayfair have been leading the movement to Defund School Resource Officers - this past July they successfully defunded the police in the Alum Rock Union School District. Here are the lessons learned and how they make space for new leaders in this moment of uprising.

COVID testing in the most impacted areas of San Jose is done at the last place most folks would want to go - a police facility. The author calls into question the funds the permanent testing site receives, and who is being served by pop up testing sites.

A life threatening pandemic is spreading through the Santa Clara County Jails. Public Defender Lara Wallman wrote a piece on the entire system's failure to respond, and the lack of human decency exposed in the face of multiple outbreaks.

Public defender and native son of San Jose share his vision of what public safety truly means, and what oppressive systems need to be removed for it to exist.

In response to unprecedented numbers of public comments calling to defund SJPD, and a proposal from families who lost loved ones to police, San Jose City officials chose, instead of listening to the demands of their constituents, to hastily create the Office of Racial Equity. In doing so, the city ignored the research on the limits of the office, as well as the overwhelming movement on the streets calling for real transformative change.

From the archives: Adrian Avila reflects on a student that was full of life and laughter. Anthony was killed by SJPD officers responding to a plea of help.

"Black Lives Matter - you mad that we said it? We mad cause we had to..." Artist, educator, and freedom fighter LaToya Fernandez with the truth fire.

In this watershed moment not only for the world, but San Jose the author connects housing and policing from the discriminatory practices of redlining to San Jose's elected officials holding up systemic racism.