On July 10, Contra Costa Sheriff David Livingston announced that his department is canceling its contract with ICE at the West County Jail in Richmond. Sherrif Livingston said that protests and public pressure played a role in the decision to cancel the contract....

Renters throughout the State of California are being forced out of their housing, and displaced from their communities by extreme rent increases, the eviction-for-profit system, and gentrification schemes. A ‘Yes” vote in November for Proposition 10 would help to stabilize communities, and bring back the reasonable rent control options needed to protect renters, families with children, and the working class being priced out of housing options!...

The city of Oakland's strategy for which homeless encampments it chooses to target and when is secretive. Encampment management meetings are held on Fridays and neither unsheltered folks nor homeless advocates are allowed to attend, despite repeated requests by the Homeless Advocacy Working Group over the past year. Differing excuses are offered for evictions from one to the next, and the rationales offered appear ad hoc and can conflict with one another. Sometimes people are evicted from on...

Veterans Park at Fremont Superior Court House, 39439 Paseo Padre Pkwy, Fremont, CA 94538...

The only ICE facility in the Bay Area is located within the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, CA and operated by the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. Approximately 200 adult immigrants are detained there and 25 children of detained immigrants are being held in a facility in Pleasant Hill, also in the San Francisco Bay Area's east bay. Photos here are from a protest of about 175 people today in front of the facility....

Shortly after the completion of the construction of the second city-sanctioned Tuff Shed compound under the I-980 freeway at Northgate Avenue and 27th Street in April, the city of Oakland began evicting residents from the largest encampments in the surrounding area. Over the course of four days in May and June, the residents of 50-plus tents and shanty structures were forced out....

A group of gentrification advocates and development lobbyists are attempting to co-opt an anti-fascist Concord protest movement for their own gain....

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the U.S. Navy is considering converting a former naval weapons base into a detention facility to hold up to 47,000 immigrants seized at the U.S. border with Mexico. The plan is to jail families at this location in Concord, where a banner read "Concord: Where Families Come First" at a recent protest against the Trump Zero-Tolerance immigration policy. [Photo by Mary Martin DeShaw, free for reuse by non-profit organizations, please credit the photographer]...

Immigrant and civil rights activists plus concerned residents of Concord, California rallied on June 14th to protest Trump administration immigration policies that separate children from their parents....

West County Detention Facility 5555 Giant Hwy, Richmond, California 94806...