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With more than 50,000 people testing positive for COVID-19 in the Bay Area, 2,649 of these cases have occurred in Marin County and over half of them in the densely populated Canal neighborhood. The Canal’s 20% positivity rate is triple that of the rest of Marin.

Canal Alliance is grateful to the San Rafael Teachers Association (SRTA), who, inspired by other school districts in the area, are encouraging the San Rafael City Schools community to donate a portion of their stimulus checks to local immigrant families. The SRTA chose to launch this campaign because they recognize

We are seeing first-hand at Canal Alliance that the coronavirus pandemic and shelter in place order has drastically decreased immigrant families’ earnings. Many residents of the Canal are not only in danger of going hungry, but are also experiencing deep anxiety about how they will feed themselves and their families.

The Latino community is on the front lines in this crisis. We continue to show up to work in our nation’s hospitals, supermarkets, farms, and businesses large and small. At the same time, we are disproportionately being impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic.

USA Today News Article by: Deborah Barfield Berry As the coronavirus outbreak continues to take its toll on black and Latino communities, black and Latino churches, advocacy groups and civil rights […]

Marin IJ News Article by: Stephanie Haffner Civil legal services are an unseen but essential part of the safety net fabric in this time of COVID-19. For 62 years, Legal […]

Marin IJ News Article by: Adrian Rodriguez Marin residents who have not yet participated in the 2020 census will soon be receiving a final mail reminder from the U.S. Census […]