Tag: Resistance

Chico’s Debajito releases debut album

Entremundos: an antidote to stressful times
by ChicoSol staff | Posted July 21, 2025
Photo courtesy of Debajito.

“De La Patagonia hasta el Rio Grande/El amor de la vida es lo que siempre sobresale“

(“From Patagonia to the Rio Grande/The love for life is what always prevails”)

The Chico-based band Debajito that has fused rhythms from across the Americas and kept local dance floors crowded will release its debut album, “Entremundos” (“Between Worlds”) within weeks.

Entremundos, to be released on streaming services Aug 5, celebrates the message that “another world is possible,” according to a Debajto press release. The album’s songs will be publicly unveiled July 25 at the Sierra Nevada Big Room, when the local band opens for Ozomatli, the well-known Grammy award-winning rock group from Los Angeles. (The show is sold out.) read more

California to flex muscle in favor of immigrants

Bills to be introduced to Legislature that would place limitations on ICE
by Lindajoy Fenley | Posted June 29, 2025
Antonio Villaraigosa. photo by Angela George, courtesy of Wikimedia.

The state attorney general, a former Los Angeles mayor, and an immigration lawyer, at a June 27 panel, vowed to continue the challenge to the Trump Administration’s unlawful assault on California immigrants.  

“You can’t physically stop [the Administration]. That’s not possible. But we need to challenge them in every possible way,” Antonio Villaraigosa, a former Los Angeles mayor, told dozens of journalists attending an American Community Media panel. Villaraigosa said that “every way possible” means suing the federal government as well as engaging the public to push back through peaceful protest.

University of California Professor Henry Brady, who also spoke at the panel “California leads resistance to immigrant crackdown,” underscored the importance of immigrants to California’s economy. read more