an autonomous community. With collective gardens, kitchens, showers, and medical tents, the park was supporting unhoused residence in a way the city had not.Ina statement Now Latinx advocates hope to elevate the conversation about their community’s voters as well, and with good reason: ThePew Research Center has projected — a 50% increase over the 2014 midterms. There are still challenges to boosting that number, though. “Our society, as a whole, is brainwashed towards what criminality is,” she says, advising that we all need to “think about shifting blame to the system and not individuals.”