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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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“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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‘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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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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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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‘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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“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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 9d
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 · 9d
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 · 9d
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 · 9d
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This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 9d
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 · 9d
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 · 9d
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 · 10d
"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 · 11d
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‘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 · 14d
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.

@tinavasquez.bsky.social for @prismreports.org

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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 · 14d
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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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 14d
Extremely proud of @tinavasquez.bsky.social & this very sensitive, difficult, & deeply informative investigation highlighting Isabella, a former H-2A visa worker who thought she was entering the program for agricultural work but faced harrowing circumstances instead. prismreports.org/2025/09/24/w...
She managed to get a farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse.
A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program. Those who get in report doing non-agricultural labor and facing sexual violence and trafficking
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Prism @prismreports.org · 16d
UPDATE 9/22/25: On Sept. 19, Maklad said he was flown from Texas to Venezuela, where Venezuelan immigration agents weren't expecting him & hadn’t agreed to accept him. He was flown back to Texas & still has no answers about how long he’ll be detained or what will happen to him.
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A Syrian man won his fight to avoid deportation. Ten months later, he remains detained, Stephanie Casanova reports. Kamel Maklad’s case reveals how authorities are imprisoning people who can’t legally be deported until they capitulate & agree to leave the country, immigration experts say.
Syrian man won fight to avoid deportation. He remains detained.
Kamel Maklad’s case reveals how people who can’t legally be deported are imprisoned until they capitulate and agree to leave the country
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Prism @prismreports.org · 16d
Meet Yamilet Galvan, an 11-year-old kid whose last days of summer were spoiled by the Department of Homeland Security.

@lesbrains.bsky.social introduces us to Galvan who has plenty to say about Trump, ICE’s racist raids, & the grown-ups who voted for the mess that young people find themselves in.
Meet Yamilet Galvan, voice of a generation in Los Angeles County
Like many youth across Los Angeles County, the 11-year-old Chicana has plenty to say about Trump, ICE’s racist raids, and the many failures of grown-ups
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Prism @prismreports.org · 16d
“I no longer know where my body ends & my heart begins,” writes Shaimaa Eid, uprooted once again in a new dispatch from Palestine. “My body is now stuck in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, while my heart remains in northern Gaza, where I left my home & memories under the horrors of war.”
Fleeing home once again, with only memories of a past life in Gaza
From nights stalked by drones overhead to taking her elderly parents across a “safe route,” Shaimaa Eid recounts being uprooted from home
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Prism @prismreports.org · 16d
Catastrophic health & environmental conditions from Israel’s genocide are increasing the incidence of life-threatening rare illnesses in Gaza's children, Ghada Abu Muaileq reports. “If we cannot even provide medicine for common pediatric illnesses, what hope do we have for treating rare syndromes?”
Gaza’s children have become susceptible to rare diseases
A doctor described how health and environmental conditions are increasing the incidence of rare illnesses like Guillain-Barré syndrome
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Prism @prismreports.org · 20d
📢Join us for Killing the Story, a virtual event on Oct. 7, 1pm PT/4pm ET!

Palestinian, Arab, & Muslim journalists give firsthand accounts about how media manufactures consent & silences dissent as we approach 2 years of the Israeli-imposed & U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza.
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Killing the story: Journalists speak on Palestine in U.S. newsrooms October 7 Panelists Aline Batarseh Abdallah Fayyad Eman Mohammed Sana Saeed Hosted by Laura Albast
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