March 7, 2025
Public Defenders are Unappreciated and Underfunded
The right to a lawyer free of charge is fundamental in the US. Yet all the resources and support go to cops and prosecutors.Photo Credit: Revamped VenturesOver sixty years ago the US Supreme Court’s unanimous landmark ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright set the precedent for what’s become the most basic
M Mitchelle Woodson
February 16, 2025
Mariner’s Cove Residents Demand Affordable Housing Over Profits
A redevelopment proposal on public land in Point Loma would boost the proportion of market-rate housing at the expense of everyone else.Photo Illustration: All Rise staff.A group of tenants have come together to ensure housing equity and the protection of low-income families at one of the few remain
A Asma Abdi
November 5, 2024
Prop Claiming to Fight 'Retail Theft' and Fentanyl Will Only Flood Prisons with Bodies
A law enforcement-backed ballot measure will only make life worse for the poorest CaliforniansPhoto Illustration: All Rise staffProposition 47, the ballot initiative approved by a majority of Californians in 2014, was rightly hailed as a victory for the people. It turned a lot of low level, non-viol
M Michael Whyte
November 2, 2024
Legal Slavery Is Alive and Well In California
Incarcerated workers make pennies — sometimes nothing at all — while corporations reap profit.Photo Illustration: All Rise staffWho says Black people in Southeast San Diego aren’t civically engaged? On June 8, we saw dozens of community members come together at a local civic engagement event to lear
S Shaheed Price
November 2, 2024
2024 California Ballot Guide
From affordable housing to mass incarceration, your ballot is more than just electing a face to run the U.S. empire. There are plenty of propositions that will affect our everyday lives. Check out All Rise's California ballot guide to understand what the heck these ballot measures mean.Photo Illustr
A All Rise
September 7, 2024
How Prop 57 Helped Transform a Child of the Carceral System
The ballot measure helped me and others rebuild our lives. The powerful now want to take that away.Political hopefuls and media, once again hyping a wave of hysteria over “crime,” have set their sights on repealing Proposition 57. The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act, better known as Prop 57, wa
L Lon Chhay
August 3, 2024
Securing Stability for San Diego’s Tenants
Photo Credit: Joe OrellanaIn a significant step forward, San Diego has enacted a comprehensive set of tenant protections, championed by City Council President Sean Elo-Rivera, to address long standing housing issues. While progress has been made there’s more to be done to safeguard tenants' rights a
A Asma Abdi
August 3, 2024
Obscure Burglary Case Shows Difficulty of Regulating Facial Rec
Graphic: Stacey UyIn spring 2022, a crime analyst working in Los Angeles ran an image of a burglary suspect through facial recognition technology and passed along the results to a detective in San Diego, where the investigation was taking place. It was a potential match and fair game to use at the t
J Jesse Marx
August 3, 2024
San Diego Will Spare No Expense to Criminalize Poverty
Cartoon: Katja Zimmer“America’s Finest City” is San Diego’s famed tagline. We’ve got sunny weather year-round, beautiful beaches, and a blatant disregard for humanity. Widely ranked as the most expensive city in America, in the midst of a housing and homelessness crisis, San Diego continues to creat
M Mitchelle Woodson
August 3, 2024
Youth Finding Their Voice Thru Counter Surveillance Fellowship
Photo Credit: Gabriela Cardona and Sergio Valdez. Artist Assistants: Daniel Ruanova and Mely Bárragan. Participating Organizations: PANA Youth Congress and AjA ProjectSan Diego’s installation of streetlight cameras across the city has sparked a wave of controversy as community voices express grave c
L Lucky Aden
August 3, 2024
This Quiet Tourist Trap Is a Monument to Horror
Graphic: Stacey UyNestled in a grove of palm trees in Mission Valley, the white facade of the Mission San Diego de Alcalá presents an idyllic memory of peace and sanctuary. But this monument to delusion was built in the 1930s because what stood before was destroyed by Kumeyaay resistance to settler
S Stacey Uy
August 3, 2024
When It Rains, It Pours — On the Poor Most of All
Photo Credit: Askari Abdul-MuntaqimLate January started off like any other. A storm was approaching, but not just any storm, an atmospheric river storm. One that would bring down three inches of rain in only a few hours. Doesn’t sound like much, right? We just had a hurricane come up from Mexico tha
M Michael Whyte
August 3, 2024
Speedy Trials Are A Right In Name Only
Graphic: Stacey UyThere is a well-known and often repeated axiom in the lives of those criminally charged and awaiting trial. You will often hear this population extol the wonders of what would happen if everybody decided to stop taking plea deals. It is believed that such a practice would shut down
A Askari Abdul-Muntaqim
August 3, 2024
Why Prisoners Should Vote
Graphic: Stacey UyIt is ironic how most of the rights that genuinely matter in the United States were legally taken away from me before I even knew I had them. I made one wrong decision at the vulnerable and impressionable age of 19, and it got me banished from the political process. My right to vot
S Shaheed Price
August 3, 2024
Abolish the Gang Database
How the CalGang database became a life sentence without trialGraphic: Stacey UyImagine in this day and age you’re an eleven or twelve year old walking to the park with his friends, and you get stopped by San Diego police, questioned, and ultimately added to the CalGang database without your knowledg
M Michael Whyte
August 3, 2024
Dr. Cornel West: ‘Love Has Revolutionary Consequences’
Graphic: Stacey UyAaron Harvey, a Pillars of the Community member, sat down with Dr. Cornel West at the San Diego College of Continuing Education - Educational Cultural Complex in 2023. Harvey and his brother Brandon were falsely accused of conspiracy in a high-profile criminal gang case almost a de
A All Rise
June 6, 2024
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