Boycott Home Depot
Boycott Home Depot, Cypress Park
02/22/26
On February 22nd, community members showed up at three Home Depots simultaneously across Los Angeles County: Cypress Park, Westlake, and Torrance. The coordinated action was organized by the Boycott Home Depot Coalition, the Community Self Defense Coalition, and the Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for Democracy. Signs, banners, musical instruments, and a car caravan moving through each parking lot with an audio recording documenting the names and numbers of those taken.
The Cypress Park Home Depot is my local Home Depot. I have been showing up there on Fridays as part of the broader the Community Self Defense Coalition’s rapid response patrol, helping to be a presence to ward off ICE who has been targeting our jornaleros (day laborer) neighbors.
Since June 2025, over 40 day laborers have been abducted by ICE from this parking lot alone. Home Depot has not only failed to protect them. They have actively worked against the IDEPSCA day laborer center that has operated on their property for over 25 years. They installed noise machines emitting painful high-pitched sounds to drive people away. They filed eviction notices against the center that has served this community since before most of us were paying attention.
But the Boycott Home Depot action is one piece of a much larger architecture. The coalition organizing this work is part of a broader network of over 80 organizations across Los Angeles building what organizers call popular power, the kind that doesn't dissolve when the march ends. There is a difference between mobilization and organization (see video by Kwame Ture below). Mobilization gets people in the street. Organization builds the relationships, structures, and sustained pressure that can actually win. What is happening at the Cypress Park Home Depot is both.
The rally ended in Confluence Park with speeches from IDEPSCA, Union del Barrio, Malaya, a Filipino diaspora movement, and coalition organizers. The message was clear: Home Depot is not a neutral party. They are a corporate actor colluding with the fascistic machinery of deportation, and the community will not let that go unanswered.
