Mission and State  is primarily a destination website that will deliver powerful, deeply reported, richly experienced narratives from Santa Barbara with local, regional and sometimes national impact. We will focus on showcase investigative and explanatory journalism that uses the best...

Sam Slovick shared #FortHernandez‘s status. 2 minutes ago Ulises Hernandez is being held at San Dimas Sheriff’s Department Ulises Hernandez is being held at San Dimas Sheriff’s Department on a warrant for driving without a license in van nuys. He was arrested at 5pm while...

On Skid Row is a 5-part doc series i wrote directed and produced for Good Magazinee...

Scenes From The new Revolution is a 5-part doc series that I wrote/directed and produced/forTakePart; the on-line aspect of  Participant Media. I spent 7 weeks in a tent at City Hall shooting as the ideological mercury congealed on the steps of just outside the Mayor’s office attracting...

Ulises Hernandez from #FortHernandez is taken into custody by LAPD after confronting the police commission. Fort Hernandez is a well-documented Home Defense / Fraudclosure protest that is protected by the 1st Amendment.  The family has called out Bank of America in a very public way and...

Cops in Van Nuys have surplus of unstructured time and budget to afford 40 cops selectively enforcing sanitation laws at private residences at 5am. WTF!? At 5:25 am 40 LAPD Officers showed up in riot gear with batons drawn at #FortHernandez, a foreclosure home defense in Van Nuys, California....

#FortHernandez resists kidnapping from DCFS & LAPD

#FortHernandez has been all over the news the past few weeks. It’s the cover story for the next LA Weekly and was on the front page of LA Opinion.  It’s the story of a family standing up to the Bank of America. This week  LAPD and DCFS arrived at the Hernandez home at midnight...