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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 3d

Join us for the launch party of The Future Is Collective by our co-founder Nilou Khonsari!

The book offers a practice-based guide for movement-workers shaped by the lived experiences of BIPOC leaders, nonprofit staff, & organizers.

Register today! bit.ly/CollectiveFu...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 12d

"My father’s vocation is journalism. He is a storyteller, a truth-seeker, a man who believed — and still believes — that people deserve to know what’s happening in their communities..."

Mario Guevara has been detained away from his family for over 100 days. He could be deported at any moment.

Opinion | My father is a journalist. The Trump administration is about to deport him.

I will continue to fight for his freedom, and the freedom of all those who ask the hard questions

www.msnbc.com

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 15d

Encuentra mas informacion en: pangealegal.org/know-your-rights

Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 15d

Polizas que efectivamente cuidan de la poblacion para asi poner un fin a la pobreza y los ciclos de violencia y trauma son verdaderamente eficientes en realmente disminuir el crimen.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 15d

La "guerra contra las drogas" marca un punto importante en la expancion de la criminalizacion como una via hacia una economia domestica militarizada.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 15d

La criminalizacion racializada contra la gente de herencia Mexicana tiene una larga historia.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 15d

La creación de prisiones para inmigrantes comenzo en el siglo 19.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 15d

Las raises de la criminalizacion estan entrelazadas con la esclavitud.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 15d

Algunas de las primeras fuerzas policiales organizadas en los EE. UU. surgieron de patrullas de esclavos en el sur del siglo 18.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 15d

❤️‍🔥 La criminalización de los inmigrantes es la evolución de un sistema que existe desde las primeras décadas de la colonización y la esclavitud en este país.

Es por eso que la organización basada en la solidaridad es nuestra via estratégica hacia la libertad para todes.

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 24d

Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable deadly scope and scale. The human toll and cost to all Americans continues to be shocking.

Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez: the third casualty of Trump’s mass deportation operation : Peoples Dispatch

Outrage grows as ICE raids under “Operation Midway Blitz” turn violent, highlighting deadly pattern in immigration enforcement

peoplesdispatch.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 29d

NEW: The House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that would impose extreme criminal penalties on immigrants.

This legislation will massively increase the federal prison population and divert resources away from youth services and prevention programs that improve community safety.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 29d

#Care is the strategy. We can undo criminalization. It's already happening.

Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 29d

Between 400,000 and 2 million people of Mexican descent, 60% of whom were U.S. citizens, were #deported or coerced into "voluntary repatriation" during the great depression.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 29d

The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) explicitly #criminalized entry based on race and national origin.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 29d

Survival behaviors have been #criminalized since the early days of #slavery.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 29d

Some of the first organized police forces in the U.S. grew out of slave patrols in the 1700's south. These systems directly shaped modern policing.

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 29d

Solidarity because care is the winning strategy. We organize our way to freedom. ❤️‍🔥

#organize #criminalization #communitycare

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · Sep 2

“At Pangea, I got to see how staff, organizers, paralegals, attorneys, and the community work together as an orchestra might, each role as important as the next, all to respond synchronously with power over fear.”

🔗 :https://bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-July-2025

#organize #peoplepower #righttomove

Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · Aug 29

🦋 This July, Pangea co-led the 3rd Leadership Summit for directly impacted community organizers in collaboration with incredible partners. ❤️‍🔥

🔗 Read more here: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsl...

#organize #transformativeleadership #solidarity #healing #right2move

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · Aug 28

Trump’s unprecedented agenda is unmistakably authoritarian.
The deployment of the National Guard in Washington DC and in 20 states, including Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Texas and Louisiana, is an alarming unilateral move that is supercharging the already massive police presence in communities.

The escalating use of the National Guard and military for immigration enforcement is yet another marker of an authoritarian regime

Washington, DC — In response to news that the Trump administration is deploying the National Guard to assist in processing people for immigration detention in 20 states, Setareh Ghandehari, Advocacy D...

www.detentionwatchnetwork.org

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · Aug 27

At Pangea, we know that a flat organizational structure doesn’t mean chaos.

Our system of hubs empowers groups to lead and decide. We get things done and share power. Worker-led from the inside out.

🔗 www.pangealegal.org/democratic-g...

#Nonprofit #Democracy #OpenSource

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · Aug 26

🦋 Since February 2025, we've held Know Your Rights workshops with over 130 community members and launched a new apprenticeship model for community members to lead trainings.

Since November 2024, we have trained nearly 1,500 legal observers.

🔗 bit.ly/Pangea-Newsl...

#Organize #KnowYourRights

Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · Aug 25

🦋 Read about the latest on Ulises' ongoing case for freedom and the full Pangea midyear newsletter here: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-July-2025

#MovementLaw #MovementLawyer #Organize #CommunityCare #RightToMove

Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · Aug 21

🦋 A round up of reflections, wins, and news from the first half of the year. As always, our greatest strength lies in collective action.

🔗 Read the full article in @yesmedia.bsky.social
www.yesmagazine.org/racial-justi...

#organize #communitycare #communitydefense #immigrantjustice #movementlaw

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