On Monday, In a 5-4 decision, the San Diego City Council betrayed voters by moving the mayor’s hotel tax initiative to expand the convention center from November 2020 to an earlier election in March 2020, when fewer people vote, despite the fact that two-thirds of voters who approved Measure L in 2016 expressly asked council to limit initiatives to November elections, when the most people vote.

Itzel Guillen Maganda, Alliance San Diego immigration integration manager, spoke at She Was Warned, a storytelling event that featured eight San Diego women sharing their stories about having to navigate legal issues that affect their daily lives.

Alliance San Diego, as a member of Engage San Diego, held a press conference to commemorate Census Day, on April 1st, 2020, and to raise awareness on the critical work being done to make sure everyone is counted in our region, including those in the hard-to-reach areas.

The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC) and the Interfaith Justice Coalition (IJC) co-hosted a panel on border issues and the ways that interfaith collaboration is important to those issues.

On April 10, a group of community leaders, legislators, parents, educators and labor leaders from across California gathered at the State Capitol in Sacramento to announce a bill calling for a 5-year moratorium on new charter schools in California.