"Chicago and Los Angeles, where resistance to #ICE has been extraordinary and well-organized, have histories of #policeViolence that rivals anything ICE agents are doing. Indeed, it is precisely the long experience of organizing against this violence that prepared activists in these cities to resist ICE." - Robin D. G. Kelley

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/renee-goods-murder-and-other-acts-of-terror/
#USpol #USpolitics #ICEraids #ICEterror #policeTerror #stateRepression #stateViolence #resistingICE #activism

Call for Solidarity with Miguel Peralta Betanzos Continues

The three months given to the Collegiate Court of Oaxaca to resolve the appeal in case 631/2022 of politically persecuted anarchist, Miguel Peralta Betanzos, has come and gone. As is custom, the state doesn’t fulfill its own rules, further wearing down and tiring out those who are facing legal cases, their family members, communities, and compas. It now seems that the hearing and resolution from the court will come sometime in the final weeks of January or in February 2026. Although nor should we trust the state’s word.

It is important to highlight that this is one of the last remaining legal resources available for Miguel Peralta to free himself of the political persecution of the Mexican State. There are multiple possible results with this resolution. One is that his original 50-year sentence is confirmed. Another is that he is absolved of all charges and granted his absolute freedom. There is much at stake…

We continue calling on individuals, collectives, and organizations to show their solidarity with Miguel Peralta. Art, graphics, letters, communiques, events, street actions, everything and anything can add to the ongoing solidarity.

Absolute Freedom for Miguel Peralta!

Contact us: FB: Libres Ya - Instagram: libres.ya - Email: libresyaelox@riseup.net

#MiguelPeraltaLibre #EloxLibre #Mexico #Oaxaca #FloresMagón #StateRepression #Solidarity

#LARB Radio Hour welcomes #JuliaLoktev to talk about her new #documentary #MyUndesirableFriends

'Filmed in 2021, just before #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine, the five-hour epic follows independent journalists at #TVRain as they navigate escalating government repression and the “foreign agent” laws designed to silence dissent.'

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/julia-loktev-my-undesirable-friends/
#media #RussianMedia #censorship #stateRepression #pressFreedom #cinema #film #cinéastes

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #FatemehJamalpour, co-author w/ #NiloTabrizy of #ForTheSunAfterLongNights, a chronicle of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in #Iran following the murder of #MahsaJinaAmini.

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18155378-for-the-sun-after-long-nights-iranian-women-leading-fight-for-freedom

#IranProtests #IranianWomen #stateRepression #books @bookstodon

Aftershock: The #WarOnTerror | Ep 1: With Us or Against Us

The 1st ep of a 6-part series looking at the evolution of Western politics, esp #USpolitics & #UKpolitics, in the aftermath of #9_11 and the onset of the #GlobalWarOnTerror, examining as well the effects on #media & public debate.

The series uses the prism of #LRB's coverage of the #GWOT

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/aftershock-the-war-on-terror/episode-1-with-us-or-against-us
#régimeChangeWars #ForeverWars #militarism #USforeignPolicy #USpol #UKpol #stateRepression #WeTorturedSomeFolks

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/favorite-statute-section-111-ice/684961/?gift=j1oO8eedRcPJzo3QUxPxQ4xunHZY62RcwXxU2KJ9Ir0

#FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #Section111 #Law #Fascism #Repression #StateRepression

"[T]he land #CampEastMontana sits on has its own sordid histories of occupation, dispossession, and militarization backed by corporate interests—all of which have made the site into prime real estate for the nation’s latest exercise in industrial-scale detention for profit."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/profiting-in-nowhereland/
#USpol #USpolitics #ICE #ICEdetention #detentionCenters #stateRepression #deportations #borderMilitarization

"A movement that began in #Chicago’s Latino enclaves has arrived in neighborhoods everywhere, breaking through segregation and boundaries long defined by race and socioeconomic status. A city known for its resilience and a take-no-nonsense attitude has found another reason to unite."

An inspiring account of how #ChicagoResists #OperationMidwayBlitz

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/chicago-immigration-ice-resistance/?share=ewnceee0e5cptooeitci
#USpol #USpolitics #ICE #ICEraids #deportations #stateRepression #solidarity

Free Ms. Diana

#USpol #USpolitics #ICEraids #ICEdetentions #immigrantRights #immigrantWorkers #stateRepression #familyseparation

book talk: #RaidingTheHeartland

"Author #WilliamLopez documented the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) raids on small and rural towns -- and the fallout for families and local economies. The book is based on his own field work in communities and workplaces."

https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/raiding-the-heartland/666302

#USpol #USpolitics #ICEraids #ICEdetentions #immigrantRights #immigrantWorkers #stateRepression #familySeparation #racializedCommunities #racializedPolicing #books @bookstodon

#RebeccaSolnit talks to the #StartMakingSense pod about the #NoKings protests: https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-102225/

Her piece in The Nation, "The Right is Lying About Left-Wing Violence": https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/left-wing-violence-myths-protest/

#USpol #USpolitics #stateRepression

Mahmoud Khalil Warns That the US Is Failing the #Palestine Test

"The negotiator for the pro-Palestine #studentProtests at #ColumbiaUniversity who was abducted by #ICE explains why he is suing the Trump administration for $20 million."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mahmoud-khalil-interview/
#Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #USpol #MahmoudKhalil #ICEdetention #stateRepression #civilLiberties #civilRights #activism

#RedNationPodcast welcomes historian #KellyLytleHernández and Diné cartographer #MariahTso to talk about Mapping #Deportations, their project which seeks to map the historical patterns of US #immigration enforcement and #deportationPolicy targeting #racializedCommunities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFFJLrxSL8

#MappingDeportations: https://mappingdeportations.com/
#migrants #xenophobia #racism #USpol #UShistory #AmericanHistory #stateRepression #forcedRemovals #settlerColonialism #racialCapitalism #infographics

"The #AI boom has helped accelerate #SiliconValley’s lurch into authoritarianism. AI has been crucial in the operations of President Trump’s deportation machine and has further emboldened foreign dictatorships to harass and track dissidents abroad."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/elon-musk-ai-saudi-funding/
#USpol #tech #BigTech #Musk #ElonMusk #surveillance #SiliconValleyRight #stateRepression #MBS #SaudiArabia #Grok #Twitter #socialMedia

"At a recent ethnic media briefing hosted by the American Community Media (ACOM), three UCLA scholars introduced Mapping #Deportations: A History of Bias — Who Gets Deported in the United States?, a sweeping digital project that traces more than a century of #deportationPolicy."

https://www.immigrantmagazine.com/mapping-deportations-a-history-of-bias-in-who-gets-deported-in-the-united-states/

#MappingDeportations : https://mappingdeportations.com/
#immigration #migrants #xenophobia #racism #USpol #USpolitics #UShistory #AmericanHistory #stateRepression #forcedRemovals #infographics

"[A]ll of this has been helped by the massive entanglement of the U.S. and Israeli military-tech complex—a longstanding economic relationship that Trump has not invented whole cloth. The late twentieth century’s steady supply of tanks and Uzis morphed into a twenty-first-century exchange of predator drones, facial recognition algorithms, and, now, #spyware."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-strongmans-surveillance-state/
#ParagonSolutions #surveillance #surveillanceTech #tech #BigTech #Israel #ICE #USpol #stateRepression

We Are All Puppeteers: 42 People from Anti-Authoritarian Networks Named as Suspects After Demonstrations

"From August 25 to September 5, Indonesia was a sea of fire. A wave of simultaneous demonstrations ended in street battles, the burning of government buildings and police stations, and the looting of politicians’ homes. A total of 3,195 people were detained in various locations during this period. This does not include subsequent arrests."

"Finally, on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, the West Java Regional Police held a press conference announcing 42 suspects involved in acts of vandalism in Bandung. However, they were all the result of a nationwide investigation and arrests carried out as far as Jombang and Makassar. They were accused of being anarchists."

https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/serikat-tahanan-we-are-all-puppeteers-en

#Indonesia #Anarchism #AnarchistPrisoners #StateRepression

"In his first extended broadcast interview since he was released from prison, #LeonardPeltier talks about adapting to life outside, the remaining restrictions on his freedom, learning to paint while incarcerated and more."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/19/leonard_peltier_interview_democracy_now_exclusive
#LeonardPeltierFree #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #decolonialStruggles #AIM #PineRidge #politicalPrisoners #stateRepression #USpol #USpolitics

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes Craig Aaron of Free Press Action and #Berkeley Prof Hatem Baziam to discuss the Trump 2.0 #FCC overreach against broadcasters and #UCBerkeley's collusion with the govt against the #PalestineSolidarity movement

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-september-18-2025/
#BrendanCarr #cronyism #JimmyKimmel #USpol #USmedia #censorship #stateRepression #civilLiberties #FreedomOfSpeech #academicFreedom #UShigherEd #Project2025

"In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself [...] its commitments to principles of equality and justice—to say nothing of truthful accounts of history—are being trashed."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-general-air-of-anxiety/
#USpol #USpolitics #UShistory #stateRepression #AcademicFreedom #education #AmericanSchools #UShigherEd #Trumpism #civilLiberties #SecondRedScare #McCarthyism