Teacher Laura Palacios reflects on the strike during Friday’s Grand Park rally.

Laura Palacios and other teachers take a break from the rain to have lunch, then return to the picket line.

The rain and the strike drag on for teacher Laura Palacios, who balances family duties with picket line vigils.

Los Angeles teacher Laura Palacios confronts the second day of a citywide strike with coffee, doughnuts and a sore throat.

Laura Palacios is a Los Angeles public school teacher married to another teacher. Today the mother of two joined 33,000 other union members in the first L.A. teachers walkout since 1989. This week Capital & Main will follow Palacios during the strike.

According to the Washington Post ‘s “Fatal Force” report, 995 people were shot dead by police officers in 2018.

This month U.S. Border Patrol agents met 200 peaceful, interfaith demonstrators with military-style M4 rifles and tear gas launchers.

U.S. soldiers are not the only ones heading to the border in advance of the migrant caravan. Armed civilian militias have joined a call to deploy their members.

California continues to lead the nation with the largest concentration of hate groups. A recent Anti-Defamation League report claims the state experienced 268 anti-Semitic incidents in 2017.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 15 million American households experienced food insecurity at some point in 2017.