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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1h

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The Activists Fighting for Dignity for Incarcerated Pregnant Women

Prison doulas and legislative interventions can be a lifeline for incarcerated pregnant women. But the most important solution is to abolish prison births altogether.

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 3h

But....millionaires and billionaires cannot be made off these reduced prices. Every single agency is for sale in this administration.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 5h

Just excessive force waiting to happen. Who approved this, Director Latoya Hughes?!

a close up of a woman wearing hoop earrings and a braid

Alt: a close up of a woman wearing hoop earrings and a braid

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 7h

One month into Trump’s immigration blitz, Chicago escalates its fight back.
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 1d

Be aware…This is a difficult watch…Share this evidence …Expose this overreach…Hopefully these videos will one day soon…Help to identify and bring to justice those responsible…

ICE Sparks Outrage With Chicago DACA Arrest

YouTube video by NowThis Impact

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Occupy Wall Street @occupywallstnyc.bsky.social · 1d

José Felan was kidnapped and captured during the 2020 George Floyd uprising in Minnesota. After many long years of struggle behind bars, José is being released into a halfway house in December, but he needs support to get back on his feet.

Support 2020 Uprising Prisoner Jose Felan!

José Felan is a political prisoner who was kidnapped and captured during the 2020 George Floyd uprising in Minnesota. After many long years of sacrifice and ...

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 1d

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

It’s hard to overstate the role of the NYTimes in normalizing both genocide and fascism beneath an obscene veneer of civil discourse.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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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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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2d

The charge of “felony murder” allows defendants to be charged with the death of an accomplice, even when the killing was committed by someone else. Between 2009 and 2017, 83 percent of people charged with felony murder in Alabama were Black.

A Friend’s Death to Mourn, and to Serve Time for

An Alabama teen was shot alongside his friend, then prosecuted for his killing. His case highlights a particularly harsh doctrine in American criminal punishment: felony murder.

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 3d

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 3d

It seems most Americans still think that what’s happened before and elsewhere couldn’t possibly happen here now. But it can, and it is. Fascism is here. State terrorism against us is going to get more and more violent. And it is not likely to be stopped by waiting for a chance to vote against it.

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 3d

Cops gonna be cops and this stuff with ICE is only going to make them worse. #DismantleChangeBuild

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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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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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 3d

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 3d

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 3d

Always!!! Yet, we have a system that operates as if a person is guilty until proven innocent.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 4d

The same kind of people who once hunted escaped slaves now wear ICE badges. History didn’t vanish, it rebranded.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 5d

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