Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
@marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
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Undocupoets co-founder author of📚Cenzontle (BOA Editions) 📚Children of the Land (Harper Collins) & Co-Editor 📚Here To Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (Harper Collins)
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · May 14
With affordable childcare hard to find, Head Start helps parents work, pursue education, and build better futures for their families.

We're suing to stop President Trump's dismantling of this essential program.
Can Head Start Survive the MAGA Era?
A sixty-year consensus on the War on Poverty program is at risk of finally coming undone.
www.newyorker.com
marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
Now while he and his ilk are abroad would be a great time to arrest him and take him to The Hague.
marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t hard to wake up and be hopeful. But I woke up, and I still have the rest of the day to be hopeful.
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thereclaimed.bsky.social
I refuse to let the next 4 years ruin the time I have here.
I will have joy.
I will laugh.
I will rest.
I will dance.
I will sing.
I will spend time with folks I love.
I will find ways I can help my community.
I will find the beauty.
I will hold on to peace.
I will live.
I will have joy.
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hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”

University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
This is the longest January I can remember and it’s still not over.
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melissahung.bsky.social
Sharing some resources compiled by @caasanfrancisco.bsky.social, a civil rights org based in San Francisco Chinatown that I work with. There's Know Your Rights info, numbers for Bay Area immigration hotlines, links to legal resources, & more in both English & Chinese.
了解您的权利:如果 ICE 来到您家或社区,您有什么权利?
Resources for Immigrant Communities in 2025
Latest Immigration Updates: 中文版本,请点这 Know Your Rights Legal Resources Immigration Court Quick Facts Click or Scroll Down ...
caasf.org
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markharris.bsky.social
I've heard a number of people say, "I live in a safe blue district/state--there's no point in calling my reps since they're already on the right side." Yes, there is: You can call and insist that they be among the loudest voices on the issues you care about, since they can afford to be.
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deecherrywriter.bsky.social
If you live in Wisconsin, you need to get involved with Susan Crawford's campaign now.

Far-right activists have been talking about this race since November.

If you live out of state, consider phone banking for crawford or throwing dough to her campaign or grassroots groups organizing for her.
deecherrywriter.bsky.social
A reminder that there's a big state supreme court race in Wisconsin coming up April 1st.

It's between a progressive who has defended planned parenthood in court, and Wisconsin's former AG who supports archaic abortion laws.

Guess which one Musk is supporting?

www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
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maggiemayhem.bsky.social
Protect trans kids
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cait.bsky.social
if you don't know what to do right now, consider doing what Mr Cait did yesterday: calling your government officials and leaving 5 minute long voicemails calling them pathetic cowards
marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
He doesn’t have the authority. full stop. doesn’t mean he won’t try everything or that irreparable damage won’t come of it even if it’s held up in courts or upended. they’re hoping we concede 1 defeat out of1000 hateful orders they vomit and that we’ll call that a victory, 99.99% No. Concede nothing
marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
Fight the chaos burnout: pick one thing, focus on that, support others who picked a different thing, then switch in due time. take a deep breath in between
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · Jan 30
Join us today at 8 PM EST for our Know Your Rights training to learn how you can protect immigrant communities facing the threat of mass deportation.
1/30 Know Your Rights Training: Mass Deportation
Take action with ACLU People Power!
act.aclu.org
marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
If you work for a school, email admin to demand they protect their vulnerable students AND demand they write to their superiors. Then write to those higher ups AND demand that they too write to their superiors, and so on and so on. It will get to the top.
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katebitz.bsky.social
i watched literally TWENTY CALLS change an issue from 2-5 to 5-2 at city council one day.
louisathelast.bsky.social
I recently reposted a former congressional staffer who said that when an issue got 20-30 calls it would get representatives freaked out and ready to do something. It takes less than you’d think, because so few people actually take that kind of action
marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
Make their lives INCREDIBLY difficult. flood their phones, inboxes, mail rooms. slow their gears
katebitz.bsky.social
i watched literally TWENTY CALLS change an issue from 2-5 to 5-2 at city council one day.
louisathelast.bsky.social
I recently reposted a former congressional staffer who said that when an issue got 20-30 calls it would get representatives freaked out and ready to do something. It takes less than you’d think, because so few people actually take that kind of action
marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
Keep pushing back.
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Worth remembering that it was a coup attempt--an attempt to steal Congress's powers and turn the presidency into a dictatorship--and that pushing back mattered. Thanks to everyone who raised a ruckus....
AOC mailer:

Rebecca,

This is Trump’s first major loss. 

When we fight, we win.

EXCLUSIVE: White House budget office has officially rescinded the order authorizing a federal freeze on grants, according to document obtained by The Washington Post

We may not have majorities in the House and the Senate, but we DO have the power to loudly educate and mobilize against the mass looting the Trump admin is attempting against our veterans, healthcare, education, and more.

Pa'lante,

Alexandria
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emkultra64.com
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.

Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
bookcritics.bsky.social
We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
The finalists for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry are An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang (Copper Canyon), Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat), Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat), Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (New Directions).
marcelohcastillo.bsky.social
Judge John Coughenour has blocked that fascist from implementing the executive order to end birthright citizenship.