San Jose, CA – On a June 25, in front of the Dr. MLK Jr. Library, hundreds of union city workers gathered for a rally to continue their fight for a decent contract with the city of San Jose. The workers are organized with IFPTE Local 21 and AFSCME Local 101, also known as the Municipal Employee’s Federation (MEF).

San Jose, CA – On June 20, 200 members of the LGBTQ community and allies gathered at Saint James Park for the third annual San Jose’s People’s Pride. People’s Pride is a grassroots-organized event meant to celebrate community and fight back against the current attacks transgender people are facing from the Trump administration. Unlike some other Pride events in the Bay Area, Peoples Pride does not have any corporate sponsors, recognizing the rampant pinkwashing by corporations that are complicit in human rights abuses.

Gilroy, CA – On June 14. around 300 protestors hit the streets in Gilroy to protest against ICE’s plans to open a detention and processing center in the southern part of Santa Clara County near Gilroy, California. At around a million residents, San Jose is the largest city in Santa Clara County, one of the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area. Local activists say the detention center will impact all Bay Area residents.

San José, CA – On May 30, over 250 people gathered outside the Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San Jose to protest plans of an ICE processing and detention center in Gilroy and the reopening of FCI Dublin as an immigrant detention center.

San Jose, CA – On Thursday June 11, San Jose Against War called an emergency action in response to Trump’s escalated bombing of Iran. The group of over 20 gathered outside of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose with signs reading “No to war on Iran, Lebanon, & Palestine” and “Money for people’s needs, not for war and genocide!” Participants waved Palestinian and Iranian flags in solidarity with the people and counties targeted by U.S.-Israeli forces.

San José, CA – The Consumer Price Index rose to a three-year high, where prices of consumer goods and services were 4.2% higher than a year ago. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the inflation rate has risen for three months in a row, after the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. From a pre-war rate of 2.4%, consumer prices have risen ever higher, led by higher costs for gasoline.

San José, CA – On Friday, June 5, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 172,00 net new jobs were created in May. The job numbers for March and April were also revised up, making three months in a row with over 150,000 net new jobs. The official unemployment rate stayed the same as in April, at 4.3%.

San José, CA – On Thursday, May 28, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S. Commerce Department released two major reports on the economy. The first was a revised report on Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. While the first (or so-called “advanced”) estimate of GDP for the first three months of the year, January through March, released at the end of April said that the economy grew at a 2% annual rate, the second estimate said that growth was only at a 1.6% annual rate, slower than the 2.1% rate of growth in 2025.

San Jose, CA – On May 16, around 150 people gathered at the Santa Clara County Government Center to celebrate the county’s 25th annual Palestinian Cultural Day. The event, sponsored by the county supervisors and the Palestinian Heritage Committee, celebrates the 30,000 Palestinian-Americans living in Santa Clara County and their contributions to the South Bay community.

San Jose, CA – On May 15, over 50 people in downtown San Jose to commemorate the 78th year since Al Nakba, “The Catastrophe,” where 750,000 Palestinians were violently displaced by Zionist forces for the establishment of the apartheid state of Israel.

San José, CA – The day after the Consumer Price Index report rose to 3.8% as compared to a year ago, the Producer Price Index, or PPI, report on April prices paid by businesses came in even hotter. The monthly increase in producer prices in April as compared to March was 1.4%, almost three times what economists predicted. As compared to April a year ago, the PPI was 6% higher.

San José, CA – On Tuesday, May 12, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a part of the Department of Labor, reported that the inflation rate continued to increase in April. Consumer prices, on average, were 3.8% higher than April of 2025, up from a 3.3% annual increase in March.

The rising costs of energy drove the increase in prices, on the backs of higher fuel prices as a result of Trump’s war on Iran. Gasoline prices were up 28.4% over a year ago. Electricity rates were up 6.1% from a year ago.

San José, CA – On Friday, May 8, the Bureau of Labor Statistics or BLS, which is under the federal Department of Labor, released their monthly job market report for the month of April. The report was mixed, with strength shown by businesses while households showed weaknesses, reflecting the growing polarization in the economy.

San Jose, CA – On May 7, dozens of community members gathered at Hillview Branch Library for a panel discussion led by rank-and-file union members and organizers about the state of the labor movement in the South Bay.

San José, CA – While not as visible as the spike in gasoline prices since Trump began his war on Iran, economic distress is rising as more people lose their access to food benefits, lose their health insurance and lose their homes to foreclosure.

San Jose, CA – On May 1, 1500 people gathered in East San Jose for the annual San Jose May Day march. This year marked 20 years since May Day was revived in the United States with the 2006 immigrant rights megamarches in protest of the racist, anti-immigrant Sensenbrenner bill. This year, the May Day march began at the intersection of Story and King, an historic center of the Chicano community in San Jose and the same starting location as the 2006 march.

San José, CA – On April 29, the League of Filipino Students (LFS) in SJSU held a vigil in front of the Victory Statue to honor the lives of the Toboso 19. The Toboso 19 were murdered by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on April 23 in Barangays Salamanca, Toboso, and Negros Occidental. A total of 653 residents and 168 households were displaced from Barangays Salamanca and San Jose.

San José, CA – On Tuesday, April 28, the average price of gasoline rose to a four-year record high, up 41% since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that began February 28. According to the American Automobile Association, the average price of diesel fuel nationwide was $5.46 that day, up 47%, even more than gasoline.

San Jose, CA – On April 22, Earth Day, over a dozen SJSU students led by Students for a Democratic Society disrupted the campus’ newly opened “AI Center for Civic and Social Good.”

San Jose, CA – On Saturday, April 18, over 20 people gathered in front of the Microsoft office in Mountain View to protest the company’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine, ICE’s deportation operations as well as their development of AI data centers causing ecological destruction.