THE PROBLEM

The Justice System Is Broken

Here's what happens when you can't afford the justice system's price of admission:The State Bar of California's own 2024 Justice Gap Study found that Californians receive no or inadequate help for 85% of their civil legal problems — a gap the study itself attributes to two causes:
a lack of resources, and a lack of knowledge about how to get help at all.When you represent yourself in court (pro se), you face overwhelming odds—not necessarily because your case lacks merit, but because the system is designed to exhaust you:Even when you have documented proof of crimes.Even when the police validate your claims.Even when the law is clearly on your side.The system says: Give up. You'll never make it through.We say: Watch us prove the system wrong. Then build the tools so no one fights alone.

OUR CASE:

Martin & Borges v. Castillo:
Building Precedent While Barely Surviving

January 7, 2025: Illegally locked out. The police report lists three crimes: forcible entry, grand theft, and extortion (PC 418, 487, 518). Still no arrest.600+ days later: Federal civil rights case built, now on appeal. Pro se. While homeless.

The Reality:

✅ Federal civil rights case filed (E.D. California)✅ Pro se — every filing on the public docket✅ In Forma Pauperis approved (court validated we can't afford fees)✅ A growing number of people funding a fight the justice system should have made unnecessary

We're not okay. There are days we don't know how much more we can take.
We keep going anyway. Not because we're strong. Because stopping means they win.

A lockout isn't a "civil matter." California already makes it a crime.

The first three are listed on our police report. No one has been arrested.Arrest the landlords who do this, and watch how fast it stops. Domestic violence stopped being "a family matter" when police started treating it as a crime. Illegal lockouts should be next.

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THE VISION

What We're Building (Vision for the Future):

The Accountability Project isn't just about winning one case.
While fighting to survive, we've been documenting everything —
frameworks, tools, and methods so no one starts from zero.
These tools are being built in real time from our case.
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THE URGENCY

Every Day We Fight to Survive
While Building for Whoever Comes Next

Here's Our Reality:

Every day, we face survival costs from the crime committed against us:
- Everything we own has been illegally withheld since the lockout (January 7, 2025). Grand theft is on the police report.
- We're building a federal case while displaced from our home, our belongings, and our community, and without the medical care we need to recover from mold exposure and trauma.
- 600+ days of manufactured homelessness = 600+ days of daily survival costs
- Our case is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and we have to survive until it rules

The Cruel Irony:

We're building tools that can help thousands of people fight injustice, homelessness, and institutional obstruction—but we can barely afford to eat while doing it.

We're not just fighting for ourselves.
We're building something for everyone who comes after us.
We are fighting to prevent:

- Homelessness where it starts (illegal evictions, landlord crimes)
- Crime where it starts (police refusal to enforce, agency obstruction)
- Criminalization where it starts (system abandonment of marginalized communities)

But we can only build if we survive.

Why Now Matters:

⦿ The district court denied emergency relief in June 2026, then denied our motion to correct that ruling in September 2026 without answering our arguments. Our appeal (Ninth Circuit No. 26-4523) asks whether a court can make people in an emergency wait for the relief that exists for emergencies.⦿ Every day without resources is another day we're choosing survival over building

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Who We Serve:

Every system-impacted person told "give up."

Pro se plaintiffs, victims of institutional obstruction, people fighting manufactured homelessness, disabled and marginalized litigants, and everyone who comes after us.

Ways to Participate:

💰 [FUND THE CASE] - Direct financial support (survival + case + tools)📢 [ADVOCATE] - Political pressure (Share on social media, contact representatives)🔨 [BUILD WITH US] - Contribute skills (developers, legal researchers, writers, organizers)Contributions can be anonymous

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TRANSPARENCY

Where every contribution goes:

Survival (housing, food, healthcare) + case expenses + tools and
guides for every pro se litigant who comes after us.

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