All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336

I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Broadview, Illinois today—

A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.

Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.

Very grateful for @hoofprintchicago.bsky.social printing these for me! They turned out beautifully!!

I hope this poster can act as a visual reminder of our agency as world builders. To remember that we are invited to bring together our skills, our relationships & our imaginations to build new infrastructure that is caring, nourishing and rooted in our collective survival. Are you WILLING TO BUILD?

…I am always dreaming up new ideas and making things, because the world is not transformed primarily by what we think of it. Transformative change happens when we are willing to build the things we know must exist.” -Mariame Kaba ✨✨✨

“I have learned to take the construction work of organizing as it comes, creating things that I believe have to exist and working with others to build containers, organizations, and projects that I believe the world needs…

This quote comes from Mariame’s intro in Let This Radicalize You, co-authored with Kelly Hayes @mskellymhayes.bsky.social The full quote reads;

Learn more about the work of REBUILD here!

Here is a link for the poster ✨

What are you building? What are we willing to build together? What do we know must exist?

New WILLING TO BUILD Prints for sale in my shop featuring this quote I love from @prisonculture.bsky.social ✨
100% of profits will go to support the work of REBUILD. More info below👇🏼

I love these prints, this quote and I hope we sell out :) @hoofprintchicago.bsky.social did such a great job!!

The wonderful @ollycostello.bsky.social created a lovely print and is selling it to help raise funds for REBUILD. ollycostelloshop.com/products/wil... - It includes some words by me.

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

Woods Ervin of Critical Resistance notes the Legislative Analyst’s Office found California could close five more prisons—saving $1.5B a year. That money could fund Medi-Cal, food aid, housing, and other vital programs.

Check out my latest @therealnews.com

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"I think it’s really important for us to understand $150 billion were just inserted into this organization, into this terror organization, that would be as big as the fifth-largest army in the world." - Rep. Delia Ramirez

Please read this. “Less than one week into President Donald Trump’s surge of deportation arrests in Chicago, an immigration agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on a near suburban street Friday morning.”

Like I just said on CNN, it’s absolutely evil that people are sleeping on concrete floors at the ICE detention center near Chicago.

Join us to protest this Friday at 7 am at the Broadview Detention Center.

There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism.