This is why we must fight for everyone. Whether they’ve been incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal legal system or are merely undocumented. When you accept that some people are deserving of detention and deportation the scope of who is eligible is always under threat of expanding.
Not only conducting mass raids, ICE has posted notices for contractors to provide surveillance tech to enlarge, transform, and modernize capabilities to track, monitor & surveil noncitizens.
Migrants are at nexus of surveillance tech & expansion of racial state power.
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Make 2025 the year you end your dependence on corporate breaking news outlets, and return to substantive long form and nonprofit journalism. Here are some outlets I'm reading (and subscribing to) this year:
1. CalMatters. A dedicated nonprofit newsroom covering California in depth. calmatters.org
If you want to know what the death penalty actually looks like, not in the abstract, but as it plays out in courtrooms in America, check out what evidence Oklahoma prosecutors used to send Brenda Andrews to death row. This is from a case SCOTUS today asked lower courts to take another look at.
good evening, i am in place to watch and live-tweet the District 1 County Commissioners candidate forum happening at 7pm.
"Stand with us again": 120 Tribal leaders urge Joe Biden to release Leonard Peltier in final week in office www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...
I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week:
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Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'
Why jails and prisons can’t recruit their way out of the understaffing crisis
the latest from myself and the incomparable Emmett Sanders www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12...
"We're not looking to prosecute fellow law enforcement officers" said Eric Harden, former special agent
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Free Leonard Peltier.
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
If you donate more than $50, you could win this abolitionist wall quilt by rachel wallis docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
wishing you a fast recovery with no lasting impacts!
ok nature is healing @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social is here ✨
One thing to hold fast to is that so much of the work we do to fight fascism is also work that builds a better world. Building community, building power at work, forming bonds and practices of solidarity all lead us towards a better society, particularly if we approach it with that orientation.
My thought on the mass deportations is that I think a lot of people are, in my view, wrongly looking for something like a military coup, which would look like deputizing the military to go house to house and sweep up immigrants or people who might be immigrants. But I think that it’s going to look a lot more like policing, like policing people are used to, which is why I’m concerned. Because I worry that when it’s not immediately obvious to everybody, that they will say, “Oh, well, whatever. He can’t really do it.” And there’s been a lot of press about, it’s too expensive to do mass deportations. There’s no place to hold people, etc. And I’m like, look, you have states already doing it, and the costs have evidently not been a barrier. Not saying it doesn’t cost money, but it really hasn’t been a barrier.
"I think a lot of people are [imagining mass deportations as] something like a military coup... But I think that it’s going to look a lot more like policing, like policing people are used to, which is why I’m concerned." @jesspish.bsky.social
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If anyone wants to go deeper, I reported on where these jail/prison commissions go and how they’re used — including a 50 state policy analysis. I think this is a really under appreciated aspect of the scheme and one that companies and DOCs are VERY touchy about www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/shad...
I had my students read some of your blogs and do an assignment about copaganda this semester and it was such a useful/fun way to approach carceral stuff, can’t wait to be able to assign this book!!!
Call from Palestinians in Gaza for an immediate ceasefire, restoration of food, water and medical supplies, protection of medical facilities, safe passage for casualties and those in need of medical treatment, and a rejection of forced displacement
A group of Palestinians from Gaza have circulated these demands, calling people everywhere to take action. Please share if you can 🇵🇸
Katrina wearing an orange sweater and orange hat in an orange kayak, looking away from the camera up at a very tall bridge going across a river
The tip of an orange kayak in front of a bridge, with a person in a blue kayak in the middle ground
Photo looking up river at a beautiful waterfall
it’s been a good couple weeks for the outdoors
what’re the chances engaging here will be less exhausting?
