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If prisons don't create true accountability, then what does? Restorative justice. It challenges us to ask: What would it look like to make things as right as possible and open up a path towards repairing the relationship where someone was harmed? Read more about restorative justice circles here 🔗
Diverting Serious Violence | Common Justice
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This video has a Know Your Rights segment that begins around minute 47 & several Chicago orgs that are helping immigrant groups are mentioned, including @icirr.bsky.social which has been a crucial resource for Chicago communities. I learned a lot & recommend!
IL Congressman Mike Quigley just shared a link to an emergency community meeting on ICE and there will be an ICE rapid response training as part of this presentation -- happening now & I'm watching www.youtube.com/live/-2Qotyf...
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley is live!
YouTube video by U.S. Representative Mike Quigley
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George Santos—a shameless fraudster who lies about everything and steals from everyone—walked free Friday night when President Trump commuted his 7-year sentence after serving just 84 days. Sound familiar?

Under a new law, New York State can correct Trump's perversion of justice. trib.al/UlIZdIz
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White people pretend they can't pronounce MAM-DA-NI but have no problem pronouncing Krzyzewski. Suspect AF.
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"Even if you never develop long COVID, you will feel its impact when hospitals lose nurses, classrooms lose teachers."

"[C]are and justice have never come from the market or from political leaders' goodwill — they've always been won through collective struggle."
#USA #Healthcare
I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.
RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.
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"The protest slogan 'globalize the Intifada' represents a genuine need for popular revolt from below to challenge the dominance of Israel and all the regimes that support it."

"It must be defended unequivocally."
#NewYork #USA #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
Activists Can't Give In to Bad-Faith Smears on Pro-Palestine Speech and Slogans
When movements let their messages be watered down, they risk the erosion of their ideas in popular consciousness.
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Rubio "pledged to Bukele that the U.S. would release nine MS-13 leaders to El Salvador."

"Some of these leaders were acting as informants to the U.S."

"In return, Bukele's government granted the U.S. access to CECOT."
#USA #ElSalvador #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Rubio Reportedly Gave Up MS-13 Informants in Deal With Bukele to Jail Deportees
The informants reportedly provided information on alleged ties between the gang and Bukele’s government.
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“A lot of the stuff that I normally buy has just increased in price,” said Robert Cerniglia, a Korean American who’s lived in N.C. all his life. “The pandemic was really the highest price increase that we’ve seen, but it’s not really getting better.”

via @ncnewsline.com
Tariffs threaten Korean culture, import boom in North Carolina as prices increase
Robert Cerniglia, a Korean American who’s lived in North Carolina for all his life, recalls the late 2016 opening of H Mart in Cary as monumental for members of his community.It’s where he shops for…
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"On February 19, the Observer reported that James 'Jim' Joseph Rodden—an ICE assistant chief counsel [..] in Dallas—operates a white supremacist X account named GlomarResponder."

ICE will not "confirm Rodden's status with the agency."
#Texas #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
ICE Still Won't Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account
Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro called out Donald Trump’s extrajudicial strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea, comparing him to Adolf Hitler and accusing the U.S. president of murder.

On Sunday, Trump announced he will slash all financial assistance for Colombia. trib.al/6uhZjUQ
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"A jury on Monday convicted a former state correction officer of second-degree murder — and acquitted two other former officers — in the killing of Robert Brooks, an incarcerated man beaten to death last year inside Marcy Correctional Facility upstate."
#NewYork #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration
Officer Found Guilty in Robert Brooks’ Murder as Calls Grow to Overhaul Prison Oversight
David Kingsley faces up to life in prison after a jury returned its verdict in the fatal assault of the 43-year-old at Marcy Correctional Facility. Two other officers were acquitted in the case,…
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11h
BREAKING: A federal appeals court held the Trump administration could take control over 200 members of the Oregon National Guard, despite the governor's objections.

Peaceful protest, inflatable animal costumes, and bike rides are not a reason to send American troops into our communities.
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"142 homicides occurred inside Georgia's prisons."

"150 inmates died by suicide."

"Georgia's government, led by Governor Brian Kemp, has allowed this prison crisis to fester to falsely justify [..] that building new, harsher prisons is the only remedy."
#Georgia #USA #Policing #Incarceration
Georgia’s prison crisis is no accident – Scalawag
An incarcerated writer argues that the systemic failures of Georgia's state prison system is also systematic.
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Around the country, we’re seeing a parallel evolution: whimsy as the logical response to MAGA’s nonsense.

For many, the cleanest response to violence isn’t a manifesto—it’s a snort-laugh and a unicorn horn. It’s “I don’t know what that means, but I do know you’re full of shit.” trib.al/ZFhlDdR
How No Kings Embraced the Good Kind of Weird—and Won the Normies
In New Braunfels, Texas, a red county turned out against Trump, and made a joyous noise that was as American as apple pie ... or a fighting unicorn.
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"New Orleans and Palestine can be understood as carceral laboratories, or spaces where the state experiments with new ways of controlling [..] marginalized populations."

"Resisting it means forging solidarity across these terrains."
#Louisiana #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Genocide
Carceral Labs: Surveillance, Repression, and Media in Palestine and New Orleans – Scalawag
From New Orleans to Palestine, colonized people confront settler regimes and resettlement projects that dispossess native spaces.
scalawagmagazine.org