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...

Around 8:40 AM this morning, off 139th Street and Nestor Ave in the Compton neighborhood, ICE agents arrested two workers who were putting down concrete on a house they were working on. The video was sent to me by a friend of a homeowner.

Happening now: The people of Los Angeles have taken to the streets in response to the news that federal immigration agents have killed another legal observer in Minneapolis. This is the second person they've killed in Minneapolis this month.

Thanks to All Power Books for inviting me to talk about the Bolivarian revolution and Venezuela’s history of resisting the US empire.

DAILY MEMO: ICE and Border Patrol Continue Shooting and Assaulting Southern California Immigrants, Citizens, Women, and Minors

Friday at All Power

In recent days, US lawmakers met with Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, to discuss Venezuela’s future. The Democrats presented themselves as the “resistance” to Trump, yet their actions reflect loyalty to US imperialism. My latest: abemarquez.substack.com/p/republican...

Here is Senator Alex Padilla next to María Machado, who has called on the Trump admin to invade Venezuela Padilla & Machado support Israel’s genocide in Gaza & support the U.S. attempt to overthrow the government in Venezuela Padilla claims to be against Trump, but he’s on the same side

Saturday in downtown Los Angeles

Here is a clip of my reporting for Kawsachun Media of the Los Angeles protests, ICE terror & U.S. war on Venezuela 🇻🇪 📍 Dowtown Los Angeles, CA 📆 Saturday, January 10 Full 🎥: www.instagram.com/reel/DTgeptu...

“we have seen pictures on Wikipedia regarding to who is president of Venezuela. There is a government in Venezuela. There is an acting president. And there is a president in prison in the USA. And we are going forward in international relations” -Delcy Rodríguez

This is screening in Santa Ana on Sunday: www.eventbrite.com/e/earths-gre...

the Carter Center is funded by the same country that is trying to destabilize Venezuela which includes USAID—a notorious CIA cutout that used so-called “humanitarian flights” to send weapons to the far-right Contra death squads in Nicaragua in the 1980s. People’s racism is showing.

BBC Journalists are being instructed not to use the word "kidnapping" and instead to use "captured" or "seized" when referring to the US description of the military operation in which the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Maduro, was kidnapped www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

On October 16, ICE pulled up to a neighborhood in Oxnard in an attempt to kidnap more people. They faced resistance from organizers with VC Defensa. Here is a clip of my interview with Leo Martinez, who was T-boned by the ICE vehicle 👇

Trump’s military aggression towards Venezuela is a modern-day foreign policy first created in 1823— the Monroe Doctrine. The White House aims to overthrow the Venezuelan government to steal its oil. We must resist Trump’s war at home & abroad. My latest abemarquez.substack.com/p/we-must-re...

For The Southlander newsletter, I interviewed Leo Martinez from VC Defensa about the day an ICE agent T-boned his truck while he was patrolling an industrial area of Oxnard on October 16. Check it out! And subscribe to our newsletter!

On December 24, 1865, a group of former Confederate soldiers established what would become the first chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

For years, I’ve written to Xinachtli, a Chicano political prisoner, and his letters always given me hope. Today, his health has taken a big hit at the hands of the state. sign up for the ¡Tierra Y Libertad! Newsletter to stay up to date on his campaign to free X. open.substack.com/pub/freexina...

In the 2025 US National Security Strategy, they maintain their strategy of containing China. Part of that strategy is to prevent them from building w/ countries across Latin America: Monroe Doctrine 2.0 🇲🇽+LatAm are mentioned only twice—both times w/ the message of using LatAm to stop China's growth

BREAKING: Dublin Residents Win Unanimous Passage of City Council Resolution Opposing Potential ICE Detention Center at FCI Dublin Over 100 community members from Dublin and the surrounding areas attended a Dublin City Council meeting last night to stop the reopening of an ICE detention center

the Trump administration has sanctioned the Russian government more than any other admin. US imperialism doesn’t have any friends.

We need a large anti-war movement. Trump and the Pentagon are not going to stop with Venezuela. They want to strangle Cuba, overthrow Nicaragua, and go to war with China and Russia.

As predicted: Here comes the Epstein-Venezuela war.

Otto Markel is tradition-obsessed. He soaks the rice, and eventually plans to cook it over live fire, evoking the communal feel of Christmas midnight mass in the Philippines. The full story: lataco.com/bibingka-nan... By Lauren Bethke

Wendy Carrillo, a candidate for CA State Senate, announced this week: “I want to be clear: I do not accept contributions from individuals affiliated with AIPAC or its donor network” More politicians are abandoning AIPAC, something you didn’t see 6 years ago mailchi.mp/wendycarrill...

In last month’s Mañanera, UC Davis professor, Inés Hernández-Ávila said Chicanos in the U.S. were in support of Mexico's president.

The “Cartel de Soles” gang, which Trump says is associated with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, does not exist. In the 2025 US National Drug Threat Assessment report, no mention of “Cartel de Soles.” They are lying as they lied about Iraq. www.dea.gov/documents/20...

On this day in 1915, the Supreme Court ruled that American women with foreign husbands lost their citizenship, upholding the Expatriation Act of 1907. Meanwhile, American men who married foreign women were permitted to keep their citizenship. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

In October, I attended the @empirefiles.bsky.social LA film premiere for their new documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy. By far, one of the most crucial topics & reporting of our lifetime. A must-watch! For The Southlander newsletter, I wrote about the film ⬇️

For our most recent newsletter, journalist Morgan Keith spoke with Abby Martin about her documentary, "Earth's Greatest Enemy." The film chronicles how the escalation of climate catastrophes across the world are deeply entwined with the carbon footprint of the U.S. military-industrial complex.

From my L.A. signs series #film

idk how one can see the destruction of Gaza +West Bank & think that a two-state solution is viable. Plus, Israeli officials are on record as saying they don’t want a 🇵🇸 state. Sanders himself said he doesn't support a one state where everyone has equal rights. How do u say NO to equal rights for all?

our enemies are not in some barrio in Venezuela or Cuba or Iran— our enemies are the CEOs we can name who are making it hard for us to survive.

the home stretch for us