Through this website, the Immigrant Rights Consortium--made up of more than twenty-five faith, labor, legal and community organizations--seeks to educate the public about immigrants and to support immigrants in San Diego County in their path to become new Americans.

JOB is a grassroots non-profit organization whose mission is to invest in the development of community leaders so that they may address issues that affect them, their families, and their communities.

 

 

Helpful Wikis

SoCal Fire  - Open Garden

A page of very useful information about the SoCal fires.

 

Papers/Articles/Op-Eds

Mike Davis

Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast, link, document

San Diego Builds a Statue to an Arsonist  tomdispatch.doc

People Burn Here people burn here.doc

Diary LRB.pdf

 

 

Multimedia - Video/Audio:

Seeing Through the Smoke Katrina vs San Diego, Mike Davis's Talk at UCSD  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

 

NPR discussion about the SD fires and interview w/Professor Steven Erie from UCSD

 

Local Bloggers

          Raquel Jacob-Alemeida

San Diego (all of it) is on fire

 

Tricia Wang

How Race and Class are Covered by the Media - We have no "refugees" here in San Diego 

DON'T BELIEVE IT! There's nothing Natural or Wild about the Wildfires in San Diego right now!

San Diego Fires - How 1 fire compares to the island of Manhattan, NYC

Hello World- San Diego County is Burning Up - It's Worse than Los Angeles Fires

 

Problematic Media Representations

KFI-AM 640 Los Angeles Radio Talk Show's youtube video on "Illegal Aliens Burnt in San Diego Fires"