Uniting Communities takes hold

Friday, December 17, 2010

by Aimee Santos Lyons, Western States Center In November, I was excited to be in New York City to train and facilitate a dialogue on Weste...

"My favorite SAFIRE session was this one."

Friday, December 17, 2010

By Amanda Wake Judy Wu on The Kapor Center's new mural SAFIRE 's Fall 2010 session came to a close this Monday. Ratema who has ...

DREAM Act inspires Oakland's undocumented youth

Thursday, December 16, 2010

By Joel Tena [Reprinted by permission from the wonderful local site, OaklandSeen .] “John” didn’t come to the US of his own choice. His p...

Five reasons to support ACRJ this holiday season

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

by Eveline Shen I want to pass along a message from two leaders in our SAFIRE youth program. Chrystal and Emily share their thoughts on h...

Eddy Zheng: our community rallies to let him stay

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

By Yvonne Tran Last Thursday morning, I attended Eddy Zheng’s court hearing at the U.S. Court of Appeals – 9th Circuit in downtown San Fran...

Taking climate justice home

Thursday, December 09, 2010

By Amanda Wake, Youth Organizer As our friends and allies prepared to head to CancĂșn this month for the United Nations Climate Change Con...

You decide the time

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

By Dana Ginn Paredes December 7th was an International Day of Action to support the families of farmers, indigenous peoples, and vulnerable...

Reflections from Occidental

Saturday, December 04, 2010

by Lovely-Joanne A. Diala If I were to use one word to describe SAFIRE's first-ever retreat held at Occidental Arts & Ecology Cent...

Building Strong Families will take all of us!!!

Thursday, December 02, 2010

a message from our Executive Director, Eveline Shen... As the end of the year approaches and the holiday season is upon us, like most peop...