New from @abemarquez.bsky.social on @thesouthlander.com thesouthlander.com/moca-workers...

If you care about art museums and workers, subscribe to thesouthlander.com @thesouthlander.com You'll want to read our latest written reporting tomorrow morning.

The LA MOCA staff are among the lowest paid museum workers in the city. A few years back, they chose to unionize and join AFSCME to advocate for improved wages Latest @thesouthlander.com thesouthlander.com/moca-workers...

AIPAC and J Street candidates are winning their race so far

My next four stories, I’m super excited about. All are completely different. Got my brain twisting in all kinds of directions.

🧵Tomorrow, people will be voting in the 2026 primary Monitor the presence of zionism on the ballot I reported on all Congressional candidates in the LA area who have accepted money from AIPAC & J Street Read it @lataco.bsky.social lataco.com/aipac-voter-...

Here is who the Democrats for Israel Los Angeles support and oppose in the June 2 election for the City of Los Angeles. As you can see, @controller.lacity.gov is opposed. While his opponent is not. Mayor Bass is also listed as a candidate they support.

ICE will be at the World Cup. Some LA soccer fans are boycotting. LA sports fans plan World Cup protests amid concerns of ICE at stadiums, travel restrictions, and the ongoing Iran war. lapublicpress.org/2026/05/ice-...

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Students in the U.S. are performing worse than their peers were 10 years ago, according to new, district-level test score data released Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nqZtGP

Today, The Southlander @thesouthlander.com turn one! 🥳 Though we wish to publish more, we are immensely proud of what we have accomplished. Subscribe today! no paywall! thesouthlander.com/we-turned-one/

In true Los Angeles fashion, we’ve got a presser happening outside LAPD HQ on Flock cameras on one side, and a simulated protest being filmed for a TV show being filmed on the other. Weird man.

“Through the Labyrinth” uncovers the stories of Angelenos who struggle to find their loved ones amid the immigration crackdown by the Trump administration. The trailer for the podcast miniseries is now available on all streaming platforms ➡️ Spotify Link shorturl.at/vDzyv

On Wednesday, I watched the West Coast premiere of @abbymartin.bsky.social newest film, “Cuba After Castro.” It’s the first time Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel has given an interview with a US journalist. Great for US audiences to learn about Cuba. My report 👇 www.calonews.com/news/enterta...

introducing a new section for my Substack: abemarquez.substack.com/p/introducin...

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The Southlander introduces its brand-new podcast, “Through the Labyrinth.” Listen to the trailer on all major podcasting platforms on April 27. ➡️ Stay tuned for more information. ➡️ Subscribe to our newsletter and become a paid subscriber in order to get early access to the trailer and episodes.

The Israel-founded group behind Miznon is expanding its L.A. footprint with a new location, despite protests accusing the restaurant of rebranding Palestinian cuisine, and highlighting its founders’ ties to massacres in Gaza. The full story: lataco.com/miznon-expan... By @abemarquez.bsky.social

“People were tortured inside the Adelanto ICE prison. GEO Group is fighting to keep the records secret so the public is kept in the dark about what’s really going on there,” said [me w/ @thesouthlander.com] “The taxpayers who fund that facility deserve transparency.”

Motion granted! Public Justice scored a win on behalf of FAC, @thesouthlander.bsky.social, @lapublicpress.bsky.social & Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice to unseal documents in a case against the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Learn more here ⬇️ firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/mo...

Watch The Southlander interview with Jenaro Ernesto Ayala, a labor outreach coordinator for the Van Nuys Day Labor Center. Ayala spoke about his experience getting detained by the federal agents, the brutality he faced, and how it impacts the community's mental health. Full interview link in bio🔗

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 23: 'Why were we not allowed to speak to this decision-making body?' thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep... In this issue, the mystery around a canceled "ICE out of LAPD" presentation, police union pulls endorsement of city attorney after data leak, and more.

you can now order lowrider stamps at USPS store.usps.com/store/produc...

Elsewhere, Yama Sushi Marketplace has classes on sushi making, sake, and soy sauce, for only $15. This weekend's guide: lataco.com/weekend-eats... By Hadley Tomicki

Since April 2023, at least 217 Long Beach tenants have been displaced due to substantial remodel evictions. Tenant advocates allege that landlords exploit the "renoviction loophole" without proper legal or city notification. ✍️ by Kevin Flores 🔗Read our full story on thesouthlander.com

As an avid LAPL user, this is a really bad look. Please send letters here.

The LA Public Library @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social canceled an event they organized where they invited Palestinian children’s book authors Jenan Matari & Nora Lester Murad They are calling on people to tell library to stop censoring Palestinian stories statement palestinelegal.org/news/lapl-le...

Los Angeles is home to the largest Iranian diaspora community in the world. But opinions are mixed when it comes to support for the war against Iran I spoke to folks in the community to see how they feel about the US war on their homeland My latest @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

"After being held in isolation for about five days. Rodríguez was forced to strip naked in a shower while an officer "poured some kind of chemical liquid on her head, which seemed to be something used to clean floors and burned her eyes,” the filing read."

Here's the leading Republican candidate for California Governor, Sheriff Chad Bianco, retweeting and posing with a Proud Boy who has participated in banner drops over the freeways in Riverside County. A recent one was written in Proud Boy colors and celebrated the ICE raids.

El Sarape is a lowkey mariscos spot. They don’t have Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook to advertise, making it a true hidden gem in L.A. — only those in-the-know recognize it. The full story: lataco.com/hidden-nayar... By @abemarquez.bsky.social

Last July, while working, Ernesto Ayala was tipped that immigration agents were headed towards his way to take a group of women. Ayala put his body on the line to protect them, & he was brutalized & taken I interviewed Ernesto about that day: @thesouthlander.com thesouthlander.com/jenaro-ernes...

Apparently, LA city's mailroom is out of cash and can't send out LA Housing Dept. notices anymore. A couple council members (including a mayoral candidate) have intro'd a motion to spot them $565K for mailing RSO/inspection notices, and info to protect people from being unjustly evicted.

Haitian asylum seeker, Daphy Michel, was found unresponsive days after being stranded at ICE-ISAP Office. Michel was part of ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program (ATD). @lataco.bsky.social lataco.com/hatian-woman...

new article on my Substack abemarquez.substack.com/p/grassroots...

Iran has every right to defend itself

My latest piece out on @palabranahj.bsky.social details how residents in San Diego’s historic Barrio Logan are sounding the alarm over gentrification, the threat to the neighborhood’s landmark murals & the parallels to other gentrifying Latino neighborhoods. www.palabranahj.org/archive/mura...

In January 2020, I remember thinking we were really close to going to war with Iran, or at least the closest in my lifetime, because Trump killed General Qasem Soleimani along with Iraqi officials. Iran retaliated with a measured strike. Then Covid-19 hit in March, and things kinda went quiet.

In 1973, Jesse Jackson & Angela Davis met with Crusade for Justice, a Chicano civil rights org fighting against police brutality. 6 years later, Jesse Jackson met with Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat in Beirut, Lebanon. Rest in Power, Jesse Jackson

"Hope is like when you fall into an emptiness, and you have hope that you're going to float, you're going to float. It's like how I always said, 'we're in a hole, but we need to dig. Find a way to move forward.'" - Narciso Watch @thesouthlander.com's doc www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6x2...

Yesterday, news broke that an immigration judge dismissed the deportation case against Narciso Barranco, an undocumented landscaper who was violently arrested on June 21 My colleagues @kevin-flores.bsky.social & @bencamach0.bsky.social sat down w/ Barranco shortly after for @thesouthlander.com 👇

BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Permits TPS Terminations for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua to Take Effect. The decision is set to impact approximately 50,000 Hondurans, 7,000 Nepalis, and 3,000 Nicaraguans. www.nationaltpsalliance.org/breaking-nin...

This is cool! Love all the easter eggs from Bad Bunny’s performance, and my favorite, not LA-related, was Lady Gaga.

On January 30, the Trump admin bypassed Congress to push billions in weapons to Israel Last July, I wrote about LA politicians who have accepted money from pro-Israel lobby groups Nearly 3 years of the Gaza genocide, & LA politicians ignore the calls for an arms embargo lataco.com/politicians-...

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🪡 Happening now: Hundreds of people are gathered in front of Los Angeles City Hall, part of a nationwide call for a General Strike to stop ICE terror. A lot more people are still arriving.

Here are a few of the emails from Casey Wasserman, current chair of LA28, to Ghislaine Maxwell in the latest Epstein files drop

A lot of businesses across L.A. are closing tomorrow in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis and the nationwide movement to get ICE and DHS out of our communities. Historic moment.

ICE kidnapped someone on this street corner. Now its empty. No flowers, no neighbors.

“officers found only one antique rifle and a pistol that belonged to the only white resident of the town. Nevertheless, they tied up 15 Mexican American men and boys from the village and shot them until they ran out of bullets” calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...