Unity and cooperation. The driving forces behind the joint immigrant rights workshop held last month at St. Patrick’s Church.

A few days after Jerome Reyes launched his public art project Abeyance (Draves y Robles y Vargas) on April 22nd, with a celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, he sat down to talk to SOMCAN supporter Leslie Rabine.

Growing up along San Francisco’s Sixth Street, an area notorious for poverty and blight, it was common for Philip Maverick Ruiz, 19, and Alexa Drapiza, 20, to see adults drinking in the middle of the day or shooting up on the sidewalks.

Growing out of SOMCAN’s participation in the successful Formula Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights campaign of 2014 and in response to a number of employment issues being brought forth by blue-collar working families in the SoMa…