#InContempt

2025-01-02

Our latest installment of #InContempt, featuring a roundup of news, action, and updates on political prisoners, repression, and abolitionist organizing.

This installment includes an interview with the support crew for @malikspeaks.

"Unfortunately, Malik is still in solitary. And with no clear timeline about when he’ll be out. This is the outrageous thing about how BHU and other statuses within OSP’s SMH work. You are there as long as they want you there."

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2024-12-28

#InContempt #47: #Trump Administration Gears Up to Attack #AntiWar Movement

December 1, 2024

"Judging from what has been pushed thus far, there are several legal measures most likely to be used once Trump returns to Washington. One would be deporting foreign college students in the U.S. on a visa after they’re found to have openly advocated for #Hamas or another U.S.-designated terror group, or after they participated in an unauthorized campus protest and were suspended, expelled or jailed.

Another measure would be to pursue federal prosecutions of #demonstrators who block synagogue entrances or disrupt Jewish speakers at events. A third approach is to charge #protest leaders and nonprofits that aid in fundraising for protest groups with failing to register with the U.S. Justice Department as an 'agent of a foreign principal.' And a fourth avenue is to open investigations into protest leaders who are in direct contact with U.S.-designated terror groups while advocating on their behalf.

"…#AmericaFirstLegal has in the past year filed four lawsuits that provide a glimpse into how the Trump administration could differ from its predecessor. America First Legal alleges in the suits that the State Department, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Education have protected pro-Hamas extremists.

"In court papers and in letters to several federal oversight officials, America First Legal has also said it believes the Justice Department should have forced several leaders of pro-Palestinian groups to report themselves under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, known as #FARA, which requires individuals acting as 'an agent of a foreign principal' to register themselves."

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2024-12-14

#InContempt #47: #Trump Administration Gears Up to Attack #AntiWar Movement

December 1, 2024, #ItsGoingDown

"In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays. There’s a lot happening, so let’s dive right in!

"On the Future of this Column

"The US/online #anarchist media space is going through a process of change at the moment, and this column is not immune from that. So far, this column has been primarily a one-person effort, but collective projects are always more stable than individual ones, and the more people that get involved, the more chance the project will have of surviving if the main contributor gets hit by a bus, feels like a break or catches a charge.

"If you’re involved in any kind of anti-repression or prisoner support work and there’s any aspect of it that you think people should hear about, please send reports and descriptions into this column. If you don’t have a project that you want to publicize yourself, but you have time and energy to help collect news about other people’s, that’s very welcome too.

"Call for New Year’s Eve Noise Demonstrations

"It’s that time of the year! The #NewYorkAnarchistBlackCross (ABC) has put out a call:

"This is a call for a raucous night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by the state on one of the noisiest nights of the year. On #NewYearsEve gather your crew, collective, community, organization, or just yourself and come together to raise a racket and remind those on the inside that they are not alone.

"Internationally, noise demonstrations outside of prisons are a way to remember those who are held captive by the state and a way to show solidarity with imprisoned comrades and loved ones. We come together to break the loneliness and isolation.

"Wherever you are, meet on New Year’s Eve at the prisons, jails, and detention centers, be loud in solidarity with those imprisoned and to push forward the idea of a world free from domination.

"Read the full call here! If you’re in Brooklyn, NY on NYE, check out the call here.

"Political Prisoner News

"The support crew for long-term indigenous political prisoner Xinachtli has put out a new statement and call for donations which you can read here.

"Long-term Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier has been released from hospital back into prison, but still needs ongoing medical care, and so there’s an ongoing call for people to pressure politicians and prison staff to provide Leonard with the medical care that he needs. Amnesty International also is pressuring the outgoing Biden administration to grant Peltier a pardon.

"The Rattling the Cages series of talks continues, with the most recent talks including 'Until All Are Free' with Eric King, Jason Hammond and Jeremy Hammond."

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#USPol #ReaderSupportedNews #IGD #IGDNews #FreeLeonardPeltier #AnarchistNews #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #SilencingDissent

2024-11-04

Repression against the movement in solidarity with #Palestine continues to ramp-up. Check out our latest installment of #InContempt here:

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2024-11-03

Don't miss the latest column of #InContempt, our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays.

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2024-10-06

Don't the latest column of #InContempt, featuring news and updates on state repression and political prisoners.

This includes news on the #Florida4, pro-choice activists that were hit with federal charges and jail time "ranging from 30 days to a year on conspiracy charges related to graffiti on fake [anti-choice] clinics."

#Abortion #AbortionRights #roevwade #reproductiverights #Florida #Dobbs

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2024-10-04

Don't miss the latest edition of #InContempt, rounding up news of political prisoners, repression, prisoner resistance and beyond.

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2024-09-14

Don't miss the latest #InContempt, a roundup of news, action, and updates on political prisoners, repression, and beyond.

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2024-09-12

Don't miss the latest #InContempt, a roundup of news, action, and updates on political prisoners, repression, and beyond.

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2024-09-03

Don't miss the latest #InContempt, as we roundup prisoner resistance, hunger-strikes, and news of political prisoners and state repression.

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2024-09-01

Don't miss the latest installment of #InContempt, featuring roundups, action, and news on political prisoners, resistance behind the prison walls, and ways to support those facing state repression. Photo via @chuckmodi1

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2024-08-01

Don't miss our latest installment of #InContempt, featuring a round-up of news on political prisoners, action inside the prison walls, and updates on campaigns to support those facing repression!

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2024-07-29

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2024-07-02

In installment of #InContempt just dropped!

"In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays."

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2024-06-02

Announcing our new column of #InContempt, our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays.

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2024-05-03

Don't miss the new #InContempt column, with updates and news on political prisoners, state repression, and beyond.

Includes and interview with @tom_nomad on the State's use of repression and counter-insurgency in the face of the growing anti-war movement in solidarity with #Palestine.

"After people ran them off the streets in 2020, and have done so a number of times since, specifically in Atlanta, every confrontation with the State now has the baggage of carrying implications for the legitimacy of the State as a whole. The concept that police are necessary is collapsing, and along with it their role in relation to the cities they occupy has shifted; their position is under acute threat, and they are responding to anything that undermines that position.

When viewed from this perspective, the tactics that have been used by the police, which have been incredibly heavy handed, make sense. For them, this is not about Gaza or the genocide of Palestinians. Rather, this is about asserting police authority. We have watched this assertion occur in two different ways. The first has been this brute-force approach of crushing dissent, and we are seeing that at places like Columbia University. The other approach, which we are starting to see emerge increasingly is a far more subtle, counter-insurgency inspired, approach."

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2024-03-01

Don't miss the latest edition of #InContempt, our roundup of news, action, and updates on state repression, prisoner resistance, and political prisoners.

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2024-01-03

Don't miss the latest installment of #InContempt, featuring updates and roundups of news on political prisoners, repression, and prison rebels.

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2023-12-07

Don't miss the latest installment of #InContempt, rounding up political prisoner, repression, and prison rebel news.

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2023-10-04

Don't miss our newest edition of #InContempt, featuring news, updates, and beyond on political prisoners, prisoner resistance, and beyond!

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