In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

“When the raids hit, & I see my community out en masse, I feel myself transformed by the bravery, innovation & determination of my neighbors to keep each other safe & defend our shared belonging.” @ollycostello.bsky.social in @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s latest.

11/5, 7 pm: The in-person launch for READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and Atena O. Danner. Preorder the book before 11/4 and receive a special letter from Kelly!
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/47805

The Resilience Arts Fest will showcase stories from prison and beyond this weekend: "Art humanizes people." blockclubchi.co/4qlUzfh

A landscape oriented flyer for the Haymarket virtual launch of "Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis." There is a photo of the book cover on the left, which depicts a nighttime moonlit scene of someone wading through the water, looking towards the stars. To the right are four circles with individual speaker headshots. From top to bottom and left to right: Kelly Hayes, Shane Burley, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner. October 28th, 4pm ET.

Next week! Join @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in conversation with Shane Burley, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner to discuss 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩, a collection of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times.

Register: bit.ly/4ngNHwQ

If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.

THIS

Olly’s hand holds an 11x17” poster in front of a white brick wall. The dark image includes many garden plants, people marching arm in arm, farming and caring for children. White letters read “I am committed to growing our next world”. Below are the quarterly moons of 2026 in yellow and dark purple.

I AM COMMITTED TO GROWING OUR NEXT WORLD🌻🪏✨❤️‍🔥

My new 2026 Quarterly Moon Calendar is now available!

Find the link to my shop below👇🏼

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Illinois State Police are protecting ICE as they move their vehicles out of the Broadview Detention Center. Call Governor Pritzker now to demand that he remove the ISP from Broadview. No state resources to protect kidnappers. Pritzker: Call off the IL state police 312-814-2121

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336

I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Protesters face off with state troopers with batons

ISP putting protester in arrest wagon

ISP trooper side by side with Border Patrol agent

CBP ride their armored truck down the street for a propaganda op

Broadview, Illinois today—

A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.

Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.

Very grateful for @hoofprintchicago.bsky.social printing these for me! They turned out beautifully!!

I hope this poster can act as a visual reminder of our agency as world builders. To remember that we are invited to bring together our skills, our relationships & our imaginations to build new infrastructure that is caring, nourishing and rooted in our collective survival. Are you WILLING TO BUILD?

…I am always dreaming up new ideas and making things, because the world is not transformed primarily by what we think of it. Transformative change happens when we are willing to build the things we know must exist.” -Mariame Kaba ✨✨✨

“I have learned to take the construction work of organizing as it comes, creating things that I believe have to exist and working with others to build containers, organizations, and projects that I believe the world needs…

This quote comes from Mariame’s intro in Let This Radicalize You, co-authored with Kelly Hayes @mskellymhayes.bsky.social The full quote reads;

REBUILD - Darkness Rising Project Need help finding a Black therapist? We can help.

Learn more about the work of REBUILD here!

Willing To Build Print Fundraiser FUNDRAISER for REBUILD - a program of Darkness RISING that connects justice-involved and formerly incarcerated individuals of color with culturally competent therapists who understand this unique expe...

Here is a link for the poster ✨

Olly’s light skin hand holds a black poster in front of a garden background. Stary white words read “Transformative change happens when we are willing to build the things we know must exist.” A quote from Mariame Kaba. The image of a pitchfork and shovel surrounded by plants sits in the lower left half of the poster.

What are you building? What are we willing to build together? What do we know must exist?

New WILLING TO BUILD Prints for sale in my shop featuring this quote I love from @prisonculture.bsky.social ✨
100% of profits will go to support the work of REBUILD. More info below👇🏼

I love these prints, this quote and I hope we sell out :) @hoofprintchicago.bsky.social did such a great job!!

Willing To Build Print Fundraiser FUNDRAISER for REBUILD - a program of Darkness RISING that connects justice-involved and formerly incarcerated individuals of color with culturally competent therapists who understand this unique expe...

The wonderful @ollycostello.bsky.social created a lovely print and is selling it to help raise funds for REBUILD. ollycostelloshop.com/products/wil... - It includes some words by me.

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

‘We've got four public prisons and one private prison closed’: CA abolitionist coalition takes on the prison-industrial complex “We are pushing for the state to not only close prisons permanently and not reopen or sell them, but then to try and transform the conditions of the prison… detoxify the land, give it back to the loca...

Woods Ervin of Critical Resistance notes the Legislative Analyst’s Office found California could close five more prisons—saving $1.5B a year. That money could fund Medi-Cal, food aid, housing, and other vital programs.

Check out my latest @therealnews.com

therealnews.com/prisons-clos...

🥹

ICE Kills Immigrant Dad After Traffic Stop, Detains Day Laborer Who Sued Chicago Cops ICE’s “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago is entering its second week of ramped-up immigration enforcement. Community members are mourning the loss of Silverio Villegas Gonzales, a 38-year-old single ...

"I think it’s really important for us to understand $150 billion were just inserted into this organization, into this terror organization, that would be as big as the fifth-largest army in the world." - Rep. Delia Ramirez