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A Palestinian psychologist and dear friend partnered with me on this important initiative: mental health workshops and recovery kits for kids in Gaza who were detained in "Israeli" prisons.
Just two weeks to go, for supplies & facilitation: chuffed.org/project/hmg
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
A service I haven’t offered in a while:
If you know someone who _would benefit from_ having someone explain immigration policy to them for an hour, or be here to ask questions, or whatever, hit me up via DM.
“Would benefit” = not just “change my mind” but “actually work to inform/persuade others.”
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
Macbeth: SHIT
Naseeruddin Shah showing the rest of Bollywood how not to be fascist bootlickers. 'student activists are held for years without trial but convicted rapists/murderers are frequently granted bail...cow vigilantes have a free hand to maim and kill...just how long can this hatred be sustained?'
US police arrested 12 anti-ICE protesters at Columbia University in New York. The demonstrators accuse the university of cooperating with immigration enforcement agents and are demanding the campus be declared a sanctuary.
Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
these conditions are horrifying. this is an amazing story of community organizing strategy and commitment, as well as another example of the criminalization of mutual aid @lataco.bsky.social
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HELP FOR SOMEONE KIDNAPPED BY ICE!
Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom.
Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!
almost late to my dentist today FOR THE VERY BEST REASON. because a bunch of middle schoolers IN austin, tx staged an ICE OUT protest
My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is permitted to do a somersault before he gets changed. “THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP,” he said. Last week my dad, who will be seventy in August, got his friend Malcolm, who is seventy-three, to film the somersault. “It’s shattered all his illusions,” my mum told me. “Until he saw the film he thought he was creating poetry in motion. But it’s really just an old bloke who can’t run fast doing a sideways flop.”
THREAD.
A selection of notes I have made in my notebook about my dad, and the things he does.
1. The Public Swimming Pool
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
How did I not know this? I didn't know AEW wrestler Brody King is doing a fundraiser for Mpls families affected by ICE. By selling variant comics covers. With comics artist Daniel Warren Johnson. Who is a fellow Chicagoan? And has raised $58K so far and is still going! headlockedcomic.bigcartel.com
I’m offline but Akram REALLY has to be offline. He’s trying to give his siblings & mom some place to live and right now trying to restore their apartment event a little.
Please yall this is an urgent need. It’s shelter. chuffed.org/project/help...
The first rent checks from this fund are starting to go out. The community is so grateful and the need continues, so please give if you can.
We've paid 32 families rent today.
Thank you to the random one of you who paid like half of those.
My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.
Actually, can we make a little short goal in the next day? They really need fold & winter supplies, especially for Seraj’s baby sister. 0/183
Really can’t be online but I’d appreciate some shares for this. Our friend Seraj was suspended from the bird app, and that’s where his only reach is. Usually we have zero capacity to help this family, but now they have no one & ZERO visibility whatsoever. This is a critical + priority need.
again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
Hundreds of Ann Arbor Pioneer High School students walked out of class in solidarity, speaking out against the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of a nationwide protest.
michiganadvance.com/briefs/hundr...
Story by Martin Slagter
This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care.
It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero