This March, MiSC scholar A. Naomi Paik (@naomipaik.bsky.social) published "Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert." What does Paik teach us about the links between land conservation and the antimigrant violence?🧵
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Join the Sanctuary Campus Network for this workshop against AI-driven surveillance on our campuses with Theo Dryer. Our goal is to ground & clarify what can seem overwhelming as AI surveillance rapidly escalates and to catalyze ways to fight back locally. Thurs, 4/16, 5pm ET, tinyurl.com/CounterAI
I'm attending National Day Laborer Organizing Network's event, “National Emergency Call: Supreme Court's Approval of Racial Profiling” - sign up n www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...
In a recently co-authored @truthout.org article with Toby Beauchamp and Damián Vergara Bracamontes, MiSC scholar @naomipaik.bsky.social wrote about the increasing need for collective survival in light of Trump’s increasingly authoritarian administration. 1/🧵
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The Home for Good Coalition is on the way to Springfield to advocate: Formerly incarcerated people and those at risk of violence face serious housing barriers. It's time for a comprehensive solution. Home for Good (HB3162 and SB2403) can make it happen. #homeforgoodillinois.
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In this op-ed, Toby Beauchamp,Damian Vergara Bracamontes, and I tie together attacks on trans, pro-Pal activists, and migrants and emphasizing the need for radical solidarity if we are going to survive. Any attempt to carve out exceptions to democracy destroys it from the inside.
According to CBP OPR, the woman was taken into custody in California after it was determined that she had overstayed a B1/B2 visitor visa. Agents transferred her to Arizona where she was detained. According to information provided by CBP, logs note that multiple welfare checks were conducted, however, CBP OPR was unable to verify if those checks actually occurred, and for some of them, a Border Patrol Processing Coordinator (BPPC) stated that he did not conduct the logged checks. Surveillance footage showed the woman create a noose and tie it around her neck, yet no medical response occurred for nearly two hours.
WOW. Rep. @jayapal.house.gov says CBP's internal affairs department found that a Chinese woman who had overstayed a visa was arrested by Border Patrol and hung herself in a cell. She wasn't found for two hours—even though the records reported multiple welfare checks (suggesting records falsified?).
So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!
and they want to do it ...
... in *a few months*
I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...
... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here
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Thousands of protesters gathered in Somerville, Massachusetts, demanding the release of Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, abducted by ICE for publishing an article criticizing Israel.
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
Map of the US featuring red markers across the country where higher education actions are planned for April 17th, 2025.
⏰⏰ April 17th is coming up soon! Where will you be for our National Day of Action?? Plan an event on your campus or find one near you. Let’s fight for the future of #HigherEd together! 👊👊👊
GO TODAY TO FERNDALE ICE DETENTION CENTER TO DEMAND THE RELEASE OF contact Liz Darrow 360-220-9065 for more information ALFREDO JUAREZ FROM ICE DETENTION
ICE just kidnapped farmworker organizer Alfredo Juarez, organizers are calling on people to go to a march in person TODAY March 25 at Ferndale Detention Center. Contact Liz Darrow at 360-220-9065 for more info. Also Call Ferndale ICE Detention Center: 360-380-2270
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Hell yeah! 🫰
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
Right on. Do you know what else is in Tucson? A Raytheon weapons factory and the offices of Border Patrol—in case 23,000 people are looking for somewhere else to direct their energy after the rally…
"sir a second strongly worded letter has hit the coup base"
Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike
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So honored to give this talk on Settler Militarism on 2/28 @ 6pm EST. All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project! Thank you to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for the invitation and for organizing 💜
When someone says any variety of “if you fight back they’ll authoritarian crack down you” I always wonder what they think is going to happen if we don’t fight back
Particularly striking how the review connects our analysis to recent events—from Musk's AfD appearance to the intensifying border politics under Trump—showing just how urgent these discussions have become. Thank you @naomipaik.bsky.social for your thoughtful words convergencemag.com/articles/boo...
Thank you for bringing the book into the world. Everyone needs to read it!
