https://quemalotodo.bandcamp.com/album/qu-malo-todo

In March of 2025, the Trump administration canceled and sought the return of grant funds allocated to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), followed swiftly by an even more aggressive accusation in June, when the administration alleged that CHIRLA’s nearly 40 years of service to the Los Angeles community was carried out illegally.

We know that CHIRLA’s work is critical in their “[promotion of] freedom of movement, full human rights…and vigorous civic action that strengthens this democracy.” Today it ought to be clear to all reading this that this agency of movement – which CHIRLA has fought so tirelessly to protect for its constituents – is vitally important, life or death, and wholly nonnegotiable.

In this spirit, the cover image for this compilation is comprised of images from the 2016 photo project Fatal Migrations by Josh Begley and Daniel Alarcón. The cover of Quémalo Todo depicts the exact site where one individual, Coralia Yaneth Ardiano Castro, was victimized by a hostile landscape of racist and xenophobic rhetoric turned administrative annihilation. This compilation seeks to honor and defend the personhood of Coralia and others like her.

As members of the Los Angeles community and beyond, the producers that make up this compilation were all similarly alarmed and catalyzed by these acts of administrative, physical, and psychic violence towards our neighbors, our friends, and the network of repressed individuals and communities that make this city what it is.

In defense of freedom of movement – of people and their voices, each of which is immeasurably precious – 100% of the proceeds of this compilation will be donated to CHIRLA in support of their work.

Introductory note by Simogne Hudson
Mastering by Nick Jersey
Artwork by 3000000000am 
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released July 4, 2025

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