Assemblymember Ash Kalra and SF Public Defender Mano Raju
Tecoy Porter speaks at the Vanguard Justice EventFrom right to left: David Greenwald, Mano Raju, Christina Sinha (Assistant Federal Defender), Brian Hofer (Secure Justice), Jerome Price (Chief Assistant Federal Defender), Hammad Alan (Staff Attorney, Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Mano RajuEllen Eggers – Lifetime Achievement Award WinnerJames King – Ella Baker CenterEmily Galvin-Almanza – Partners For JusticeJarrett Adams – Attorney and ExonereeMano Raju
Greenwald is the founder, editor, and executive director of the Davis Vanguard. He founded the Vanguard in 2006. David Greenwald moved to Davis in 1996 to attend Graduate School at UC Davis in Political Science. He lives in South Davis with his wife Cecilia Escamilla Greenwald and three children.
The Davis City Council is considering the Affordable Housing Plan for the Village Farms project, which has sparked debate about growth, affordability, and the viability of the city's voter-approval framework for peripheral development.
Kate Chatfield, executive director of the California Public Defenders Association, discusses the crisis in California's public defense system, the need for increased funding, and the failure of increased incarceration to provide public safety.
A federal class action civil rights lawsuit has been filed challenging the routine use of solitary confinement against youth held in New York State custody, alleging children are locked alone in small cells for up to 24 hours a day, sometimes for weeks or months at a time, and denied access to education, rehabilitative programming, recreation, and basic health and hygiene needs.
The San Francisco Gateway Project, a $650-900 million industrial redevelopment by Prologis, is a defining test of whether inclusion in San Francisco means more than labor and optics, as Black contractors are being included but Black developers are being excluded from ownership and profit-participation rights in the project.
Authoritarianism, not economic systems, is the true source of historical disasters, as it suppresses dissent, controls information, and concentrates power in the hands of a few.
