A Week Occupied by ICE, or How Close Does the Violence Become

Rhys Langston reports from #LosAngeles.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-week-occupied-by-ice-or-how-close-does-the-violence-become/
#LAprotests #LAresists #stateRepression #ICEraids #USpol

"The raids have not been on drug dens or sex-trafficking rings. They have been on restaurants and schools, hospitals and court houses. #ICE’s war is not simply at home, but on home."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/ice-s-war-on-home
#USpol #USpolitics #ICEraids #ICEdetentions #deportations #stateRepression #policeViolence #LAprotests #LAresists

#LettersAndPolitics talks with author, photographer and #immigrantRights activist #DavidBacon about #Trump's military response to #SanctuaryCities and immigrants' right to work

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-10-2025/
#USpol #USpolitics #LAprotests #ICE #ICEraids #stateRepression #policeViolence #deportations #activism #LAresists

Tomorrow is the International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners (or, simply, June 11th, because the full name is a mouthful) and we're marking the date with a fundraiser!

Last year we raised almost $900 for freedom fighters inside the prison system, and this year we're aiming to break a grand by donating net proceeds from every single sale we make in-store and online!

Every book, t-shirt, sticker, or other item you purchase Wednesday will generate funds for prisoner commissary, legal defense, and other crucial support needs.

So, grab your next read, and then, if you're local, head next door to The Odd, where BRABC is organizing a benefit concert featuring four bands, local art, and a raffle. For more information on June 11th, check out https://june11.noblogs.org, where you can also find a list of individuals supported by the campaign.

#June11 #PoliticalPrisoners #StateRepression #Anarchism #FeministBookstore #FireToThePrisons #AbolishPrisons #MariusMason #FirestormCoop (- L)

#LettersAndPolitics looks at #Trump's deployment of the #NationalGuard to quell the #LAprotests over #ICEraids

guests
⦁journalists Ben Camacho & Sonali Kolhatkar
⦁Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law
⦁Mohamed Shehk of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-9-2025/
#USpol #USpolitics #stateRepression #ICE #ICEdetentions #deportations #policeViolence #LAPD #LAresists

"Beyond targeting the mere content of speech, these efforts are meant to forestall even the acknowledgment of Palestinian life. Our mere identity as #Palestinians is controversial, we are told; not even our children, not even our dead, can be celebrated or memorialized." - Jennifer Zacharia

Can Anyone Hear Me?

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/can-anyone-hear-me/

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaGenocide #censorship #stateRepression @palestine @israel

'Between this push and pull of executive and judiciary hangs the ultimate, vexing question of what Americans are willing to accept. As Hannah Arendt observed in The Origins of Totalitarianism, “The first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.” '

"They're Here to Detain Me"

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/06/26/theyre-here-to-detain-me-rozina-ali/
https://archive.ph/woxZt

#USpol #PalestineSolidarity #MahmoudKhalil #deportations #ICE #ICEdetentions #civilRights #stateRepression @palestine

"Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho, Renea Goddard, Cody Nowlin and Angel Espinosa-Villegas were all sentenced to time in federal prison related to the torching of Little Rock, AR police vehicles during the 2020 uprisings.

Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho received a five and a half year sentence after pleading guilty to arson in August, 2023, and has been incarcerated since September 2021.

You can send money to support Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho on CashApp at: https://cash.app/$JohnLungaho

Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho
08572-509
FCI Beaumont Medium
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. Box 26040
Beaumont, TX 77720"

https://uprisingsupport.org/2024/04/21/mujera-benjamin-lungaho-arkansas/

#PrisonerSupport #Arkansas #GeorgeFloydUprising #StateRepression #BLM

'The #Trump administration’s crackdowns on pro-Palestinian #activism look eerily similar to a conservative proposal to target universities and international students it claims are part of a “terrorist support network”.

'Who is behind the plan, and what will its impact be?'

guest: Tariq Kenney-Shawa, AJ+ producer and US policy fellow, Al-Shabaka

https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/usa-projectesther

#ProjectEsther #USpol #HeritageFoundation #stateRepression #studentProtests #civilRights #PalestineSolidarity @palestine

#Jadaliyya's screening/streaming of the #documentary #ThePalestineException followed by its co-director, Jennifer Ruth, in conversation with Bassam Haddad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gg5CLZp57o

#Gaza #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #StudentProtests #USpol #USpolitics #stateRepression #censorship #activism #campusActivism #peaceActivism #cinema @palestine @film

Understanding the Immigration Crackdown

"[T]hough the sheer speed and spectacle of the offensive makes it appear new, many of the legal and enforcement tools at play are old, with the administration drawing on Cold War-era laws, War on Terror-era agencies, and Obama- and Biden-era precedents."

#JewishCurrents speaks w/ attorney Sophia Elena Gurulé & reporter Tanvi Misra

https://jewishcurrents.org/understanding-the-immigration-crackdown
#USpol #ICEraids #ICEdetention #deportations #stateRepression #civilRights #immigrantRights

highly recommend this series of 4 episodes about #JustStopOil protesters who are political prisoners in the #UK and the devastating effect of #StateRepression on themselves and their families.

#GifsArtidote: the extreme crackdown by #UKgov on peaceful protest & direct action shows the narcissistic power dynamic in the relationship between civilians and the state. when the state acts with impunity, resistance becomes moral duty.

the state has the #responsibility to respond decisively and systematically to tackle imminent threats to life and our environment caused by this political and economic system.

just like my ex-partner has to take responsibility for systemic threats to his life by his trauma induced thinking and behaviour (his political system on micro level) and his actions as a result (his economic system on micro level, for instance spending money on alcohol & weed whilst cutting on healthy food & essentials). if he then manipulates me to sacrifice my income to sustain him, i have a moral duty to take responsibility for myself and protest that demand by stating he first needs to take steps to address the causes of his fundamental problems, in other words, take accountability.

same happened with these protesters. they pointed out the state should stop fossil fuel extraction and consumption because it's threatening our collective life and environment. but because the #BillionaireClass relentless addiction to profit and fossil fuel, they manipulate civilians into believing we have to pay for their 'essentials' instead of dealing with the root cause of climate change: #capitalism and #authoritarianism. their actions show the government only represents the billionaire class, and the system is set up to only benefit them, like narcissists do.

by gaslighting the public to believe these protesters are terrorists they destract and ignore their own terrorism by deliberately fuelling climate catastrophe to maintain the status quo of capitalists' narcissistic psychopathic megalomania.

now, like my personal situation, the #StateWeAreIn is life threatening. therefore militant direct action is justified to save our lives, our dependants lives and our environment. narcissistic psychopaths can only be stopped through cutting off all contact, enablement and money before a multi-disciplinary intervention, restrainment of freedom and then psychological treatment.

we can all take personal responsibility to #educate #organise & #resist through #boycotting big business, #invest in local community, #sabotage the system and create alternatives. but the most important priority is focusing on caring for ourselves and each other, setting boundaries and defending them, asking for help and looking to help others.

to be honest, i have no one I can ask and state & community services seem to have largely abandoned me, or are grossly insufficient.
i am looking to build a social safety net for myself, so if you can offer any emotional support and you are yourself emotionally and psychologically stable, please contact me. don't expect anything in return though, i have given my all and am running on empty, in every sense of the word. see it as an investment with a long term return. i also don't trust anyone so bring good references and accreditation cause i don't take nobody's bullshit.
if you do succeed in building my trust in you, you'll have a sibling for life who'll return the favour.

#NovaraMedia #press #news #BreakingNews

https://pca.st/episode/2382c0cb-4da5-439f-b9e9-b446429808dc

Highly recommend this series of 4 episodes about #JustStopOil protesters who are political prisoners in the #UK and the devastating effect of #StateRepression on themselves and their families.

#GifsArtidote: the extreme crackdown by #UKgov on peaceful protest & direct action shows the narcissistic power dynamic in the relationship between civilians and the state. When the state acts with impunity, resistance becomes moral duty.

#NovaraMedia #press #news #BreakingNews

https://pca.st/episode/2382c0cb-4da5-439f-b9e9-b446429808dc

"If history is any guide, rescuing the rights now being rolled back will require a range of tactics, including vigorous #protest itself. It will also require building broad and unwavering consensus about the speciousness of the rationales being offered for today’s draconian crackdowns."

Alex Gourevitch | The Right to Be Hostile

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-right-to-be-hostile/

#USpol #StudentProtests #FreeSpeechOnCampus #stateRepression #PalestineSolidarity #rightToProtest #civilLiberties #activism @palestine

Reflection on state repression and the increasing use of grupos de choque in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca

https://itsgoingdown.org/state-repression-and-grupos-de-choque-in-oaxaca/

#Oaxaca #GruposDeChoque #StateRepression

"The stories featured on this site are not just data points or headlines. These are true stories of nearly 700 people that capture one of the darkest moments in American history."

Disappeared in America: The Faces of #Trump's #Immigration Dragnet

https://theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-in-america/
#USpol #USpolitics #civilRights #ICE #ICEraids #ICEdetentions #deportations #stateRepression #immigrantRights

This Is #Palestine pod | Justice for Mahmoud Khalil

Diana Buttu speaks with Dr Noor Abdalla, a Syrian-American dentist and the wife of Palestinian student activist and political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil

https://this-is-palestine.simplecast.com/episodes/justice-for-mahmoud-khalil-a-conversation-with-dr-noor-abdalla-wife-of-mr-khalil

#USpol #USpolitics #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #FreeMahmoudKhalil #stateRepression #politicalRepression #studentProtests #ICE #ICEdetention #civilRights #civilLiberties #politicalPrisoners @palestine

'Washington, inundated with protests, had become a “besieged city,” wrote Henry Kissinger [...] In the moment, few activists could have imagined their resistance was having such dramatic effects. But time showed that their actions had set the stage for #Nixon’s eventual political downfall.'

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-chorus-of-defiance/
#USpol #PeaceMovement #AntiwarMovement #stateRepression #VietnamWar #BombingOfCambodia #ThirdIndochinaWar #NixonTrumpParallels #PlusÇaChange #activism #protest

"A year ago, the #ColumbiaPalestineEncampment sparked a national #studentMovement that eventually spread across the globe. As the #Trump administration wages war against university students and the institutions themselves, Francesco Anselmetti argues that in the US, the campus remains a crucial site in the struggle for #PalestinianLiberation."

https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/spring-again

#Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #USpol #StudentProtests #StateRepression #FreeSpeechOnCampus @palestine

> During El Salvador’s Civil War (1980-1992), the United States government provided over $3.6 billion.. aid to support the government of El Salvador, which the United Nations Truth Commission found responsible for committing the vast majority of human rights atrocities... Though the legacy of #StateRepression still deeply affects society, the #SalvadoranPeople have advanced in their struggle to create a society based on democracy, justice and rule of law.
https://cispes.org/sites/default/files/derailingdemocracy_2019_final_pdf.pdf
#ElSalvador