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Lara Witt
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Editor-in-Chief of @prismreports.org | Co-founder of the Movement Media Alliance and Media Against Apartheid and Displacement | [email protected]
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · Jul 7
NEW: @prismreports.org revised our guidelines to allow writers & reporters to send pitches centering U.S. imperialism and Palestine, regardless of a direct U.S. angle, because the consequences of U.S. policy and imperialism are global.

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Why Prism covers the U.S.-backed Gaza genocide and imperialism
Prism is revising its guidelines to welcome pitches centering Palestine, regardless of a direct U.S. angle.
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I attended this webinar earlier, and wanted to share this infographic if folx need a visual to highlight how Zionism is embedded in how American newsrooms typically operate, for which I am truly grateful for the much-needed work that @prismreports.org does! 🍉 visualizingpalestine.org/visual/edite...
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Chicago fights back against Trump admin’s sweeping violence, @nberlat.bsky.social reports. ICE raids & attacks against protesters have brutalized Chicago-area communities. But local organizers are committed to coming together to protect their neighbors.
Chicago fights back against Trump administration’s violence
ICE raids and attacks against protesters have brutalized Chicago-area communities. But organizers are committed to protecting their neighbors
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Israel calls us “human animals,” never understanding that our bond with animals is the deepest proof of our humanity, writes Hend Salama Abo Helow in an op-ed. Like all of us Palestinians in Gaza, our animals have been displaced, starved, bombed, & terrorized, yet we refuse to abandon each other.
Israel calls us “human animals,” never understanding that our bond with animals is the deepest proof of our humanity
Like all of us Palestinians in Gaza, our animals have been displaced, starved, bombed, and terrorized, yet we refuse to abandon each other
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Miami’s Wynwood loses its queer heart to gentrification, Kat Grimmett reports. As developers reshape Miami’s art district, LGBTQIA+ venues are vanishing, leaving a community of 190,000 people with few places to gather.
Miami's Wynwood loses its queer heart to gentrification
As developers reshape Miami’s art district, LGBTQIA+ venues are vanishing, leaving a community of 190,000 people with few places to gather
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Prism @prismreports.org · 12h
The destruction of Gaza has taken place alongside the surge in AI, an industry that props up an empire of lies that constantly pushes mediocre, propagandistic content into a vast market that’s aching to receive its products. Avik Jain Chatlani’s new op-ed critiques the accelerated end of language.
The end of language
The destruction of Gaza has taken place alongside the surge in AI, an industry that props up an empire of lies that constantly pushes mediocre, propagandistic content into a vast market that’s aching to receive its products
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11h
A map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under the first phase of the ceasefire plan while remaining in control of nearly 60% of the besieged Strip aje.io/kekalb
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Prism @prismreports.org · 3d
“Every story is an opportunity to revive Rama’s dream of writing & keep her alive between the lines.”

During the genocide, writing has become an ultimate form of resistance, allowing Eman Ghassan Abu Zayed to tell the stories of Gaza, ensuring their histories live on forever.
For Rama, my partner in dreams. I write because she cannot.
During the genocide, writing has become an ultimate form of resistance, ensuring the histories of Gaza and our people live on forever
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Prism @prismreports.org · 3d
‘My body is as besieged as my city’: Israel’s blockade drives Palestinians into daily negotiations with their dignity, Mariam Mohammed Al-Khateeb reports. Women have become the front-line managers of scarcity in Gaza. Yet their suffering is often erased by Western policy & humanitarian discourse.
Israel drives Palestinian women into daily negotiations with dignity
Women have become the front-line managers of scarcity. Yet their suffering is often erased by Western policy and humanitarian discourse
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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d
Two years of Israel’s genocidal war against every form of life in Gaza have invaded the very core of children’s imagination. Funerals, death, & martyrdom have replaced cartoons, playgrounds, & birthday parties as the themes of their play. Ahmad Abushawish details how Israel stole childhood in Gaza.
How Israel stole childhood in Gaza
Some children don't even recognize simple luxuries like fruit, while others play pretend by reenacting funerals
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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d
Two years of genocide have left us ravaged, but our hope for Gaza will never be stifled, writes Shaimaa Eid. Israel’s war of extermination has spared nothing & no one, but still we cling to the hope that we will rebuild Gaza stone by stone & plant new life among its ruins.
Even after two years of genocide, hope for Gaza cannot be stifled
Israel’s war of extermination has spared nothing and no one, but still we cling to the hope that we will rebuild Gaza
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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d
‘Trump wants to turn Gaza into a colony’: Gazans respond with skepticism to U.S. peace proposal, Malak Hijazi reports. Gazans warn that President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan sidelines Palestinians & risks erasing Gaza’s rights & identity.
Gazans respond with skepticism to U.S. peace proposal
Gazans warn that President Donald Trump's 20-point plan sidelines Palestinians and risks erasing Gaza's rights and identity
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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d
“As the genocide rages on, I am still struggling with how the term 'journalist' is given both to those on the ground who have died reporting important stories & those who have been complicit in these atrocities,” writes Samaa Khullar.
Abandoned by Western peers, Palestinian journalists remain steadfast
Palestinian journalists around the world say the Israeli military's targeting of journalists in Gaza—and Western media’s silence—has led them to think differently about their colleagues and their roles within the industry
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d
I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.
Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship
“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.
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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 8d
Breaking: The Italian General Confederation of Labour, Italy's largest union with over 5 million members, is calling for a general strike in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Italian government vessels, along with Spanish ones, have abandoned the GSF

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3 OTTOBRE 2025 CGIL SCIOPERO GENERALE IN DIFESA DI FLOTILLA PER GAZA
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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 8d
Sophia reporting from the Conscience

Both Italy and Spain have withdrawn their ships, abandoning the Global Sumud Flotilla to be intercepted by the Israelis
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Prism @prismreports.org · 10d
As the Trump admin devises new ways to make the U.S. inhospitable for noncitizens, Washingtonians rally around refugees & find new forms of solidarity, Otto Frey reports. In Washington, D.C., local orgs are coordinating respite centers, free stores, housing, & community gatherings for migrants.
Washingtonians rally around refugees as Trump tears migrant communities apart
Homes Not Borders and Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid help immigrants settle in the area, as federal agents flood the region to carry out raids
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 10d
More via @truthout.org on Tony Blair's Boston Consulting Group
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Top US Firm Modeled Economic Scenario for Relocating Palestinians From Gaza
One scenario envisioned giving Palestinians $9,000 relocation packages and removing 500,000 people from Gaza.
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 10d
This is the language employed by Israeli government officials, lest you still be confused about the intent for the genocide: truthout.org/articles/isr...
Israeli Minister Smotrich Calls Gaza “Real Estate Bonanza” Amid Talks With US
“We paid a lot of money for the war, so we need to decide how to divide the percentages of the land,” said Smotrich.
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 10d
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This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 10d
This isn't a proposal for a ceasefire; it's a roadmap for a colony controlled by war criminals.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10d
Trump administration releases the full 21-point Gaza plan which redraws the Strip and sidelines Palestinians.

➤ Gaza would shrink with a permanent Israeli “security buffer zone,” swallowing the Philadelphi corridor on the Egypt border.

➤ A new Board of Peace chaired by Trump himself — with Tony…
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Prism @prismreports.org · 10d
We’re listening to “A People’s Climate” by
our friends @counterstream.bsky.social which just launched last weekend👏

The show exposes the omissions in climate coverage while amplifying the voices of the people most harmed by ecological violence when we talk about climate change.

Listen ⤵️
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Healthcare Workers for Palestine @hcw4palestine.bsky.social · 11d
"In 24 months of genocide, not a single US hospital has condemned the Israeli military’s bombing of 36 hospitals in Gaza or the unlawful abduction, torture, and targeted assassinations of nearly 2,000 Palestinian healthcare workers and first responders."
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A tan background with black and red text reads, "US hospitals that continue to prohibit any teaching on Palestinian lived experiences during this genocide are enacting the erasure that fuels the very genocide they refuse to acknowledge."
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 12d
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d
‘I don’t care’: Colombia president Petro hits back after US revokes his visa
‘I don’t care’: Colombia president Petro hits back after US revokes his visa
State department said it would revoke Petro’s visa after he joined a pro-Palestinian rally in New York, where he called for US soldiers to ‘disobey’ Trump The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, has dismissed the US decision to revoke his visa and accused Washington of violating international law over his criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza. “I no longer have a visa to travel to the United States. I don’t care. I don’t need a visa … because I’m not only a Colombian citizen but a European citizen, and I truly consider myself a free person in the world,” Petro said on social media on Saturday. Continue reading...
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 15d
In the U.S., there is a direct and unbroken line from the economic conditions developed to protect chattel slavery to the legal structures that allow for the abuse and exploitation of migrant farmworkers today.

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‘There is slavery in the fields of North Carolina’
There is an unbroken line from the economic conditions developed to protect chattel slavery to the legal structures that allow for the abuse and exploitation of migrant farmworkers today
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 15d
If you are unfamiliar with the H-2A visa program, I highly recommend reading Tina's investigation from 2023:

via @prismreports.org

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Guest worker visa program enables catastrophic violations
An 18-month investigation found that the H-2A visa program—derived from the infamous Bracero Program—is rife with wage theft and exploitation
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