LAND 1.3 | Borders

  • Shut Down Adelanto

    The Shut Down Adelanto Coalition is a collective of over twenty organizations who have been working together since 2019 with the goal of achieving the just closure of the Adelanto ICE Jail. All organizations organize within the scope of immigrant justice but through different lenses, whether that is environmental, worker rights, or policy.

  • Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice

    ICIJ is composed of over 35 organizations that serve the immigrant community in the Inland Empire. The IC4IJ coalition engages in policy advocacy, community organizing, and education, and rapid response to ICE and border patrol operations. We are collectively changing the narrative of the one million immigrants who live, thrive, and are a foundational part of the fabric of the IE.

  • California Immigration Youth Justice Alliance

    CIYJA creates a space for intersectional, system-impacted undocumented and refugee immigrant youth across California with an emphasis on underserved QTBIPOC communities.

  • Warehouse Workers Research Center

    WWRC organizes groups of workers standing for living wages, safe workplaces, secure employment, and strong communities. In solidarity with unions, in partnership with the immigrant rights movement, aligned with efforts for criminal justice and the principles of environmental justice, we bring workers together to develop new and effective strategies for organizing in the strategic nodes of the supply chain.

  • “U.S. economic and political domination over Latin America has always been—and continues to be—the underlying reason for the massive Latino presence here. Quite simply, our vast Latino population is the unintended harvest of the U.S. empire.”

    Juan González

    Harvest of Empire

  • "A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.”

    Gloria Anzaldúa

    Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

LAND 1.2 | Sowing Seeds

  • Feeding the Empire

    Local photographer and writer Sadie Scott was interested in documenting the shift in the Inland Empire from a primarily agricultural industry, where food was abundant, to one where land is mostly coveted as a space to build logistics warehouses, and how that shift in land use has impacted peoples access to healthy food. She interviewed community activists who are trying to innovate new ways of connecting residents most in need to fresh food resources, and captured their images and stories as part of a photo exhibit and a series of community posters placed around the Inland Empire.

  • Tequesquite Community Garden

    Tequesquite Community Garden’s purpose is to promote locally grown food, better nutrition, sharing, recreation, fellowship, volunteerism, and community spirit.The garden is a gathering place for people of all ages to make friends, learn about gardening methods, nature, the environment, efficient use of water and other sustainable practices.

  • The Garcia Center

    The Garcia Center for the Arts is a project supported by the San Bernardino Valley Concert Association, a 501-c-3 non-profit organization. The Center sponsors art events and organizations in the community, hosts creative classes, a community garden and has multi-use spaces available for rent. El Centro García para las Artes es un proyecto apoyado por la Asociación de Conciertos del Valle de San Bernardino, una organización sin fines de lucro 501-c-3. El Centro patrocina eventos de arte y organizaciones en la comunidad, organiza clases creativas, un jardín comunitario y tiene espacios de usos múltiples disponibles para alquilar.

  • Chia Cafe Collective

    The Chia Cafe Collective is an indigenous group working in Southern California to revive Native food practices and raise awareness about the precarity of these important cultural resources.

  • "We used to be able to see the mountains."

    Mr. & Mrs. Clark

    Voices from Bloomington

  • "It used to be 10 minutes to cross that bridge on Cedar Ave, now its 30 minutes."

    Maria

    Voices from Bloomington

  • "It was a nice area to live in, but the corporations are basically destroying it."

    Susana

    Voices from Bloomington

  • "I’m losing my home. They say they’ll reimburse me... but how do you reimburse memories? You can’t.”

    Franklin

    Voices from Bloomington

LAND 1.1 | Little Boxes

  • The Frontline Observer

    The Frontline Observer is an independent news organization that prioritizes capturing the voices of ‘frontline’ environmental justice communities in the Inland Empire.

  • People’s Collective for Environmental Justice

    The People’s Collective for Environmental Justice is a coalition that is challenging the cultural and systemic roots of white supremacy by organizing in the Inland Empire to fight for clean air and water through community education and advocacy.

  • Concerned Neighbors of Bloomington

    Please join our fight against the county rezoning our equestrian neighborhood into industrial warehouses.The Bloomington Warehouse Specific Plan is a proposed development with a 2.7 million-square-foot warehouse and office space. Over 200 residents will be displaced and many more will be affected by the air pollution this project will cause.

  • The Tapestry Project

    The Tapestry Project is a community-based digital resource to document and archive the 15,000 + home Tapestry development project in Hesperia California, along with its social, economic, and biological effect on local residents, and its impact on the nearby Mojave River Basin and surrounding environment.