Jardínes Comunitarios

The community garden on the roof top of the Contra Viento y Marea refugee community center is blossoming and will be ready with food and seeds for our seed bank soon. Sometimes it feels pretty surreal to stand on the roof of Contra Viento y Marea crammed in between a liquor store and auto shop […]

Johana Medina & Roxana Hernandez

“I hope this fucks up your Pride™ or forces you to think about what the fuck, and for whom, we are fighting for. I hope protests and poetry spill out into the streets like gasoline and burn all of this to the ground, transforming it. My heart feels fucking heavy. I really wish the June gloom would […]

End of Semester Refugee Solidarity

CALLING ALL COLLEGE STUDENTS IN SO-CAL or even if you just live near a college and want to have some fun. The semester is ending and the dumpsters, dorms and curbs of the streets are about to be full of treasure. Seriously, we have found working computers in the dumpsters at the Claremont Colleges before. […]

Refugee Detention Solidarity

We work with LGBTQ+ and vulnerable populations within the refugee community throughout their entire transition, pre, during and post detention processes in hopes that individuals can escape deathly situations and build powerful new movements within refugee communities that will fight against the US-funded pillars of injustice that are creating unlivable situations for millions of people. […]

1300+ Refugees Escape Detention Center As Mexican Government Violence Towards Refugees Escalates

The US/MX border at Tijuana is practically closed for migrants and refugees. The local political climate has turned aggressively against migrants from the last Central American caravans. Trump’s influence on the Mexican federal government is strongly felt. President Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-refugee policies like the so-called ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy are keeping many migrants and refugees […]

Refugee Solidarity Call to Action: Seeking Translators, Editors and Keyboard Warriors

Casa de Luz: LGBTQ Autonomy in Tijuana

Pull through and support one of the only refugee run lgbtq+ spaces in Tijuana right now. We can’t even begin to express how important and healing this space has been. It is also the only lgbtq house on the ground right now that is autonomous and not being run by non-profits. It is the only […]

Reflections on the Remain in Mexico Policy and its potentially fatal consequences for Refugees

On January 24th, the Trump administration rolled out a new anti-refugee plan known as the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), or more popularly known as the ‘Remain In Mexico’ Policy. So far MPP has only been implemented in Tijuana but many believe TJ is just testing ground for these draconian policies before expanding them throughout the […]

Viva La Resistencia! Contra Viento Y Marea

When the first “Migrant Caravan” reached Tijuana in the thousands they were housed in the Benito Juarez Stadium. After several days of heavy rains caused the stadium to flood it became too unsanitary and was deemed unlivable. Many people were forcefully removed by the government to El Barretal – an enclosed concrete concert venue 11 […]

Autonomous Refugee Warehouse in Tijuana Threatened With Raid, updates to follow

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4th, 2018, 7 pm PST Contact: HecateSociety@protonmail.com At approximately 10:30 am PST, refugees at Benito Juarez, the only self-organized Carvana Migrante camp in Tijuana, were served an eviction notice at Contra Viento y Marea, where they have inhabited since the unannounced night raid at 3 am from their original encampment outside […]