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The Impact of Intergenerational Organizing Histories: Resisting ICE Raids and Mass Deportations on the Central Coast of California
On July 10, 2025, ICE agents raided cannabis farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo, detaining over 300 farmworkers and killing one man who fell from a greenhouse roof trying to hide. The raids made national news. But what went unreported was the region's century-long history of resistance. Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval traces that history, from a 1903 interracial farmworkers' union in Oxnard to the UFW, Chicano student organizing, and the 2006 May Day marches that drew 20,000 people through Santa Barbara. On the Central Coast, the infrastructure to fight back was already there. It never really left.
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