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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 4h

Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 9h

RIP Tony Fitzpatrick. Taught me so much about what it means to love a place so much that you become one with it. A truly singular Chicago artist.

A vibrant collage by Tony Fitzpatrick features a peregrine falcon with architectural elements and bold text related to Chicago.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

More vehicles with masked Border Patrol agents inside departing. It's a busy, busy morning for the secret police.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, and @astra.bsky.social for a town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left, hosted w/ @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00 PM ET

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Solidarity Against Sadism
Naomi Klein
Chenjerai Kumanyika
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An Emergency Town Hall
Tuesday, October 14 at 6:00 pm ET
Sponsored by Haymarket Books and Hammer & Hope

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, and @astra.bsky.social for a town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left, hosted w/ @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00 PM ET

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

DC!

Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a discussion of his book RECONSIDERING REPARATIONS with Jenice L. View, hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social

Wednesday, October 22nd at
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Reconsidering Reparations: Author Talk with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - Teaching for Change

Join us on October 22 at 6:30pm at Busboys and Poets (14th & V) to hear from author Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, in conversation with Jenice L. View, on his book, Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice ...

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

What are you reading this weekend?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I also want to say that I am so honored that this book, which I co-wrote with @prisonculture.bsky.social, was shared in this space. We wrote this book for moments like this one, and for people like the folks who are showing up to learn and act together in Chicago right now.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I am currently out of copies to give away, but if you are new to organizing and activism, and you could use some insight and guidance, you can find Let This Radicalize You at a discount here:

Let This Radicalize You

Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in NYC and you would like to plug into public library organizing, you can join NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org. Information is here: nycplan.org

We're kicking off a City Council focused campaign this month so it's a good time to join in and do some work.

NYC Public Library Action Network

Join NYC PLAN at our upcoming Public Library People’s Assembly It will be held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on the Upper West Side on Saturday, October 4th from 12:45pm-4:30pm.

nycplan.org

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 3d

No War on Chicago
No War Anywhere

No War on Chicago; No War Anywhere!

“The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to ga...

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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 2d

"When feminist struggles enter phases of rapprochement with the state, they throw Indigenous, 'deviant,' Black, sexualized, sex-working women and other gender minorities under the bus." @reproutopia.bsky.social talks with Aya Gruber about truly abolitionist feminism.

Leaning In to State Violence - Sophie Lewis interviewed by Aya Gruber - Inquest

In ‘Enemy Feminisms,’ philosopher Sophie Lewis engages with the feminism of racists, colonizers, fascists, cops, and jailers to better understand what a truly liberatory politics needs to look like.

inquest.org

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 2d

What can we learn from the political organisers who came before us?

Read an extract from the forthcoming collection, WE ARE EACH OTHER'S LIBERATION: BLACK AND ASIAN FEMINIST SOLIDARITIES, edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso (@haymarketbooks.org).

www.wasafiri.org/content/excl...

Exclusive Extract — We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities

We're delighted to share an exclusive extract from the forthcoming collection, We Are Each Other's Liberation:

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 3d

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Reading the Black Jacobins

Join us for the fourth session of a hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social

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Reading The Black Jacobins with Geo Maher, Week 4 (Ch. 3, “Parliament and Property”)

A hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition &…

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