Tagged: San Diego

• NEWSOM ENDORSES MAYORAL CANDIDATE WITH TIES TO VIOLENT SAN DIEGO COUNTY HATE GROUP

  August 10, 2022 | JOE ORELLANA

  On August 3rd, Ammar Campa-Najjar announced that he had received California Governor Gavin Newsom’s endorsement in Chula Vista’s mayoral race. This isn’t Campa-Najjar’s first campaign for public office. In 2020, he ran against congressman Darrell Issa to represent California’s 50th Congressional District. Running as a Democrat, Campa-Najjar flaunted his proximity to Donald Trump through comments… Continue reading NEWSOM ENDORSES MAYORAL CANDIDATE WITH TIES TO VIOLENT SAN DIEGO COUNTY HATE GROUP

• ROE FALLS, CITIES RISE–MANY, MANY BRUTALIZED

  June 27, 2022 | ABNER HÄUGE | JOE ORELLANA | ELI KNÉSÓL | ARIZONA RIGHT WING WATCH | CARTER HUESTIS

  The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, making abortion illegal in many states and emperiling access in the rest. Reactions were swift. People had been anticipating an announcement since a draft of the decision was leaked to Politico in early May. Thousands gathered in cities across the country, occasionally harassed and attacked by… Continue reading ROE FALLS, CITIES RISE–MANY, MANY BRUTALIZED

• SAN DIEGO SHERIFFS DEFLECT COMPLAINTS AFTER ALLEGED WHITE POWER GANG MEMBER STABS BLACK TEENAGER

  April 22, 2022 | JOE ORELLANA

  On April 16th, Lakeside experienced its first recorded hate crime of the year. Two white youths stabbed and beat a sixteen-year-old black girl while using racial and misogynistic slurs against the victim. A lieutenant with the San Diego Sheriff’s Department Lakeside Substation fielded the majority of questions and comments during a town hall on the… Continue reading SAN DIEGO SHERIFFS DEFLECT COMPLAINTS AFTER ALLEGED WHITE POWER GANG MEMBER STABS BLACK TEENAGER

• SDPD OFFICER TRIES TO FOLLOW PROTESTER HOME WITHOUT CAUSE

  October 4, 2021 | JOE ORELLANA

  On September 30th, an SDPD officer with a history of racist commentary on social media attempted to tail a protester back to their home. At an anti-police brutality protest in front of SDPD Central Division Substation that evening, officer Adam Devor got into and escalated verbal disputes with protestors, then proceeded to try to follow… Continue reading SDPD OFFICER TRIES TO FOLLOW PROTESTER HOME WITHOUT CAUSE

• DARK MONEY GROUP HARASSES SCHOOL BOARDS ACROSS CALIFORNIA

  September 5, 2021 | WATERSPIDER | DESERTBORDER

  San Diego-based organization Let Them Breathe gained attention rallying and disrupting school board meetings up and down California since June of this year. The organization’s founder, Sharon McKeeman, allows far-right extremists to speak at her events and collects dark money from a GoFundMe page tied to her organization. As of today, she has raised over… Continue reading DARK MONEY GROUP HARASSES SCHOOL BOARDS ACROSS CALIFORNIA

• HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BOMB-PLOTTING RACISTS AT “SHADOW MOSES”

  May 1, 2021 | JAMES STOUT

  In late July 2020, activists in San Diego were planning a BLM march in La Mesa. There hadn’t been a large action there since banks burned and the cops shot a grandmother’s eye out (within policy apparently) in late May. After those banks burned, a group of anti-BLM locals had sprung up under the name… Continue reading HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BOMB-PLOTTING RACISTS AT “SHADOW MOSES”

• PHOTOS: PACIFIC BEACH RALLY TO RECALL NEWSOM AND I GUESS SUPPORT TRUMP

  February 9, 2021 |

  JOE ORELLANA “Just because your team loses, it doesn’t mean you stop rooting for them.” I overheard this while checking the traffic on my phone last Saturday. I looked up across the boardwalk and saw a passerby in a tense discussion with a Recall Newsom demonstrator. They meandered from one topic to the next, eventually… Continue reading PHOTOS: PACIFIC BEACH RALLY TO RECALL NEWSOM AND I GUESS SUPPORT TRUMP

• HERE’S THE CALIFORNIANS WE IDENTIFIED AT THE CAPITOL STORMING

  January 19, 2021 |

  DESERTBORDER, WATERSPIDER, JAMES STOUT After four years of amping up his followers on racism and conspiracy theories, Donald Trump brought followers to the Washington, DC, Wednesday, January the 6th. They marched on the Capitol building as Congress was voting to ratify the results of the election Trump lost and pretended was stolen from him. Trump… Continue reading HERE’S THE CALIFORNIANS WE IDENTIFIED AT THE CAPITOL STORMING

• SAN DIEGO COPS HUG CAPITOL BUILDING STORMER, LET NAZI BRANDISH KNIFE IN PACIFIC BEACH

  January 14, 2021 | JAMES STOUT

  There are plenty of reasons to visit San Diego: surf, sand, and the set of groundbreaking teen film-noir classic Veronica Mars. But it turns out the systemic bias and corruption in policing outlined in the series is not as far from the truth as one would hope, and perhaps that is what pulled about 100… Continue reading SAN DIEGO COPS HUG CAPITOL BUILDING STORMER, LET NAZI BRANDISH KNIFE IN PACIFIC BEACH

• ANTI-FASCIST COUNTER PROTESTERS SHUT DOWN RACIST RALLY IN PACIFIC BEACH

  October 1, 2020 | ROSE HENNA

  San Diego has a history of far-right figureheads and political groups from Roger Ogden and his white nationalist website to the Justin Haskin’s Defend East County group. Recently a new white nationalist group in San Diego, American Coalition Party, gained a following and growing online presence. The group appears to promote an America First and… Continue reading ANTI-FASCIST COUNTER PROTESTERS SHUT DOWN RACIST RALLY IN PACIFIC BEACH

• SAN DIEGO: OFFICERS ASSAULT PROTESTER HAVING A SEIZURE

  August 29, 2020 | ROSE HENNA

  On Monday, August 24, 2020 at approximately 1:00 PM a flyer began circulating on popular social media sites calling for a protest at 1401 Broadway in San Diego, California (San Diego Police Department Headquarters at 5:00 PM to show solidarity with protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Outrage over the August 23, 2020 police shooting of Jacob… Continue reading SAN DIEGO: OFFICERS ASSAULT PROTESTER HAVING A SEIZURE

• LA MESA, CA: COPS LET RIGHT WING MOB ASSAULT CHILD, BRANDISH WEAPONS AT PROTESTERS

  August 5, 2020 | TOM MANN

  The intimidation planned for the August 1st “Justice for Womxn of Color” march in La Mesa wasn’t exactly covert. Then again, neither were the knives, bear spray cannisters, and clubs carried by the coalition of white supremacists, border militias, and assorted “patriots” who came together under the banner of Defend East County (DEC). The racists,… Continue reading LA MESA, CA: COPS LET RIGHT WING MOB ASSAULT CHILD, BRANDISH WEAPONS AT PROTESTERS