May 19, 2026
‘It was Never About Money for Us’: Lack of Police Accountability Plagues National City
Four years after his brother’s murder, Roberto Umana warns police violence in National City is inevitable.Photo Credit: Clay Scheller. Photo Illustration: All Rise Staff.On a warm autumn afternoon, Roberto Umana walks the grassy lawns of El Camino Memorial. It’s a quiet cemetery, a solemn place ador
R Roberto Camacho
May 16, 2026
CA Law Addressing Racial Discrimination in Courts Still Providing Little Relief
Alameda County public defender discusses the challenges to implementing the Racial Justice Act.The Racial Justice Act grants people convicted of crimes the opportunity to present whether racial bias or discrimination played a part in their sentencing or conviction. It was signed into law in Californ
M Maya Srikrishnan
February 5, 2026
Months After Prison Organizer James Pittman’s Death, Family Still Waiting for Answers
Photo Illustration: All Rise Staff. Photo courtesy of Angela Soto.On February 27, James Pittman died from unknown circumstances while in the custody of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department after being transferred to an Escondido hospital from the Vista jail nearly two weeks prior.“I was always in cont
L Laila Aziz
February 2, 2026
Qualified Immunity: Where Police Accountability Goes to Die
This court doctrine has made it nearly impossible to prosecute police violence since the Civil Rights Era.Qualified Immunity shields police from liability in the courts, preventing people like Tasha Williamson and others targeted by police violence from using the legal system to check police power.
A Askari Abdul-Muntaqim
January 31, 2026
Resisting Borders: How Communities Mobilize Against Immigration Enforcement
San Diego communities face mass deportations with new lessons and multiple defense strategies.Photo Illustration: All Rise Staff.Community members and advocates grabbed every seat in the El Cajon City Council chambers, while protestors with signs filled the lobby and spilled outside. Tensions ran hi
A Asma Abdi
January 30, 2026
Settler Legacies Set CA Ablaze: Why Abolishing Prisons Means Land Back
Border 2 Fire filled prisons with smoke, yet posed ‘no danger' according to Sheriff’s.The January Border 2 Fire destroyed over 6,000 acres. Numerous evacuations were called yet prisons and detention facilities nearby sheltered in place. Since these lands were stolen from the Kumeyaay, settlers have
J Jackie Bryant
January 25, 2026
San Diego Sheriff’s Rule with an Iron Fist
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, which oversees San Diego’s jails and unincorporated areas of the County, faces little oversight from voters or the Board of Supervisors. The Sheriff’s continue to cooperate with immigration agencies and investigate their own abuses, despite the Board’s poli
M Michael Whyte
January 20, 2026
Keeping Us Safe or Keeping Us Separate?: Unpacking Surveillance Culture
Muslim immigrants explain the harsh consequences on communities subjected to surveillance culture.Some Muslim immigrants argue that San Diego’s culture of surveillance has a chilling effect on community building and trust. Photo Illustration: All Rise staff. Photo Credit: Partnership for the Advance
M Mariam
January 10, 2026
Big Corporations and Law Enforcement Duped Californians into Voting Against their Interests
Prop 36 is one of many ballot measures to pass based on ‘tough-on-crime’ misinformation.In November, California voters overwhelmingly passed “tough on crime measure” Proposition 36. But polling, campaign finance data and experts say that many people who voted for the ballot measure did so due to a m
S Shaheed Price
January 4, 2026
Racializing and Weaponizing ‘Man’s Best Friend’
Police dogs have been weaponized against Black people since the days of enslavement, Civil Rights Era, and all the way up to today. In October 2024, SDPD was caught on camera unleashing a violent police dog twice on Marcus Evans in Southeast. Photo Illustration: All Rise staff. Photo Credit: William
M Mitchelle Woodson
January 4, 2026
Your survival is an inconvenience to the state: Meet the people organizing accordingly
The pandemic isn’t over. Long COVID is real. And how we resist misinformation matters.Despite misinformation declaring the COVID pandemic over, communities refuse to abandon the people, especially as Long COVID remains a threat. Local mask bloc Fan Favorite SD distributes COVID libraries and free su
S Stacey Uy
January 4, 2026
Taking the Future in Their Hands: Youth Rally to Shape School Board Leadership
San Diego youth are fighting to build power at the school board level by passing new voter legislation. Students demand representatives who advocate for their needs. Photo Illustration: All Rise staff.In November 2024, 16 and 17 year olds in Oakland and Berkeley, California, made history by winning
L Lucky Aden
June 16, 2025
Why I Chose a Legal Apprenticeship Over Law School
That’s the way it used to be. Until educational institutions monopolized the business of credentials.What does a 54-year-old formerly incarcerated gang member have in common with Abraham Lincoln, John Jay, John Marshall and the “founding father” Patrick Henry? We all studied law, though not in law s
A Askari Abdul-Muntaqim
April 22, 2025
First-Gen and Refugee Students Stand Up for More Equitable Education
Youth proposal seeks to bridge educational gap for first-generation students with college admissions, preparedness, and access to more counselors.Student addresses San Diego Unified School District Board of Education. Photo Credit: Joe Orellana. Photo Illustration: All Rise StaffIn a testament to th
L Lucky Aden
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