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How to Keep Yourself Safe from COVID while Voting
This is a monumental election season for so many reasons, but there is an entirely new obstacle in place that we’ve literally never dealt with before: the highly infectious COVID-19. While the pandemic poses new challenges for voting, it does…
“He is not experiencing the same Covid as we are”
President Donald Trump put out a video after leaving Walter Reed Medical Center, in which he affirmed “don’t let COVID dominate you, don’t be afraid of it, you’re gonna beat it.” We spoke to three Latinx creatives at the intersections…
Dismantle DHS & Defeat Trump
Today Trump announced that he will call back federal officers from Portland. It was another failed political stunt, but it shows us how far he is willing to go to retain power. The federal agents who descended on the city, uninvited…
Moving Biden Toward Community Demands: Unity Task Force Releases Recs
Mijente director Marisa Franco issued the following statement on the Biden campaign’s newly announced immigration policy commitments. Franco was a member of the campaign’s unity task force on immigration as one of the representatives negotiated by the Bernie Sanders team.
Hacia Compañerismo y Conciencia: Pro-Blackness in Action
As a national multi-racial Latinx organization Mijente stands with all Black communities across the country who are calling out the injustice of the state sanctioned murder of Black people in the hands of the police. Latinx communities must show up…
Georgia Sheriff Candidate Questionnaires
Sheriffs in Georgia are powerful. At the top of their powers are whether and when to release our loved ones from jails, whether to require a cash bond to release them, or whether they are going to call immigration enforcement…
Recipes for Holistic Immunity Support for La Cura Podcast
I recently had the pleasure of being on Mijente’s La Cura Podcast as the first guest of their Community Care Series that feature how different community healers, health practitioners, community leaders are tending to themselves and their communities during the…
¿Sin El Qué?
We are excited to announce the launch of La Vida Local, a new initiative to incubate sin el estado (without the state) work within our Mijente membership! What is Sin El Estado (Without the State) Work? “Sin El Estado” takes…
Pasos Pa’lante: Mijente Democratic Primary Endorsement
The moment feels like it was yesterday. At a local Phoenix community center , we waited for the results of the 2016 election — waited to find out if our push to finally topple Maricopa County’s notorious sheriff Joe Arpaio…