Northgate Market to Transform Downtown Santa Ana Store Into Fancy Apartments (2018)
Chicanos Unidos Celebrates 10 Years of Organizing OC's Raza! (2016)
"No other activist group rallies OC 's raza like Chicanos Unidos. For the past ten years, they've dared to tackle gentrification, killer cops, barrio violence and gang injunctions where few would. The grassroots group feuds with the Orange County District Attorney's (OCDA) office regularly, and organizes with victims' families against deadly police shootings, a decade-long legacy worth celebrating."
Huntington Beach Kicks Off OC’s Second Wave of Anti-Sanctuary State Fervor This Week (APRIL 3, 2018)
"But for as decidedly conservative as the south county city is, it’s also a college town thanks to Soka University. Various student groups–from the Pan African Student Union to Queeriosity–are planning to protest and speak out at tomorrow evening’s council meeting. “We are mobilizing to send a consistent message that we do not tolerate any injustice or bigotry against a group of people based solely on what negative stereotypes are attributed to them,” says Angel Escobedo, a trans woman who’s a member Queeriosity and also Chicanos Unidos. “Aliso Viejo is accustomed to going unchallenged.”
Playground tactics (2016)
"Carolyn Torres, a history teacher who also works with Chicanos Unidos, goes further. If protests hurt the Democratic Party, she says: “That is not our issue.” Ms Torres charges Mrs Clinton with supporting the deportation of Central American children fleeing violence and working with her husband, Bill Clinton, to pass crime bills that built a “prison-industrial complex”. As for Barack Obama, notes Ms Torres, deportations have reached record levels under his presidency. Asked if her cause might not gain from wooing moderate voters, she calls that “respectability politics”. Real change, she says, is not won by “nicely asking”.
Black Civil Rights Group Asked for Santa Ana Police Oversight 53 Years Ago (2017)
“Police oversight is as critical now as it was then because clearly not much has changed,” says Gaby Hernandez, a Chicano Unidos organizer. “Even when they’ve diversified their staff, the Santa Ana Police Department continues the same culture—abuse of power.”
Judge Delays Ruling on Santa Ana Gang Injunction
"Gabriela Hernandez, a member of Chicanos Unidos, a grass-roots social justice organization in Orange County that has worked directly with Townsend Street residents to raise awareness about the proposed gang injunction, said that she is particularly concerned that minors have been targeted in the Townsend gang injunction."
Chicanos Unidos Celebrates 10 Years of Organizing OC's Raza! (2016)
"No other activist group rallies OC 's raza like Chicanos Unidos. For the past ten years, they've dared to tackle gentrification, killer cops, barrio violence and gang injunctions where few would. The grassroots group feuds with the Orange County District Attorney's (OCDA) office regularly, and organizes with victims' families against deadly police shootings, a decade-long legacy worth celebrating."
Huntington Beach Kicks Off OC’s Second Wave of Anti-Sanctuary State Fervor This Week (APRIL 3, 2018)
"But for as decidedly conservative as the south county city is, it’s also a college town thanks to Soka University. Various student groups–from the Pan African Student Union to Queeriosity–are planning to protest and speak out at tomorrow evening’s council meeting. “We are mobilizing to send a consistent message that we do not tolerate any injustice or bigotry against a group of people based solely on what negative stereotypes are attributed to them,” says Angel Escobedo, a trans woman who’s a member Queeriosity and also Chicanos Unidos. “Aliso Viejo is accustomed to going unchallenged.”
Playground tactics (2016)
"Carolyn Torres, a history teacher who also works with Chicanos Unidos, goes further. If protests hurt the Democratic Party, she says: “That is not our issue.” Ms Torres charges Mrs Clinton with supporting the deportation of Central American children fleeing violence and working with her husband, Bill Clinton, to pass crime bills that built a “prison-industrial complex”. As for Barack Obama, notes Ms Torres, deportations have reached record levels under his presidency. Asked if her cause might not gain from wooing moderate voters, she calls that “respectability politics”. Real change, she says, is not won by “nicely asking”.
Black Civil Rights Group Asked for Santa Ana Police Oversight 53 Years Ago (2017)
“Police oversight is as critical now as it was then because clearly not much has changed,” says Gaby Hernandez, a Chicano Unidos organizer. “Even when they’ve diversified their staff, the Santa Ana Police Department continues the same culture—abuse of power.”
Judge Delays Ruling on Santa Ana Gang Injunction
"Gabriela Hernandez, a member of Chicanos Unidos, a grass-roots social justice organization in Orange County that has worked directly with Townsend Street residents to raise awareness about the proposed gang injunction, said that she is particularly concerned that minors have been targeted in the Townsend gang injunction."
