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Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Terrible that police's obsession with "solving" crimes by any means necessary (extracting false confessions) led to the ruining of four other innocent young people's lives. I'm glad the families have answers and these men can finally be exonerated, for whatever it's worth decades later.

Fake Transgender Terrorists - It Could Happen Here | iHeart <p>Gare and Mia discuss the newest anti-trans conspiracy theory: the false rise in transgender mass shooters.</p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privac...

Re-sharing this important episode with @miawong.bsky.social and @bishonentype.bsky.social about how billionaires like Elon Musk and far-Right trolls are pushing disinformation in an effort to manufacture a narrative around "trans terrorism." www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

For many years, I waited for someone to start a books to incarcerated children program in IL. It didn't happen. So I decided that I would start such a program. What were the steps to do so?

1. I spoke to people who ran Illinois Youth Prisons about whether they would support such a program.

Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago “History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

Some Texas Schools Are Making Teachers Deadname Trans Students After New Bill Passed “This can’t be interpreted as anything else but an attack directly on trans kids.”

NEW @teenvogue.com: a Texas bill passed this summer mandating schools deadname trans students, leaving enforcement to districts. @kitoconnell.com speaks to trans students in TX:

“I’ve never felt more at threat here. I can’t stop thinking that everything would be so different if I detransitioned.”

As Prisons Deal With Heat Waves, Climate Crisis Makes Abolition Even More Urgent While the planet continues to warm, conditions in prisons, and specifically in solitary confinement, continue to worsen.

Even without climate change, prisons around the country have billions of dollars worth of deferred maintenance just to stop the walls from crumbling and keep the lights and the heat on. Now, climate change is turning already miserable conditions inside of prisons into life-threatening ones.

I thought it was very informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

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The Israeli military is now carrying out potentially lethal drone strikes targeting civilian vessels hundreds of miles away solely on account of the passengers' intention to symbolically challenge the blockade that Israel is using to starve all Gaza to death.

Pure evil.

crimethinc.com/Gaza2024

A hand holds several advance reader copies of the book "Read This When Things Fall Apart" in front of a background of yellow flowers.

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@prisonculture.bsky.social I would appreciate a ton if you could help by sharing this! 💜🖤

More: Jorge is finally returning to Laredo after 20 years in solitary confinement in Texas. He was incarcerated at a young age and his primary goals are reconnecting with his family and obtaining his GED and CDL license, which he has been unable to pursue while in solitary. Freedom date in Jan.

Drawing will be held 9/16 and can be shipped anywhere in the US. Please share widely. More raffles to come so we can meet this goal! Make sure to include your ig handle or email with a donation so we can contact you. Love & solidarity.

Graphic reads "Raffles for Reentry. Support Jorge's Soft Landing Fund with a $5 entry. Donate with your contact info included at venmo emtexab cashapp emtexab or ko-fi.com/texab. Enter by September 15th. Raffle #1 calico against cages picture frame." Photo shows a handpainted photo frame painted to resemble the head of a calico cat and reads cats against cages in purple.

For everyone who thinks All Cats Are Beautiful: Enter to win this handpainted photo frame with a $5 donation toward our comrade Jorge's soft landing fund. It's a perfect gift or addition to your home that was made with love. Details below.

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩'𝐬 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚
Three weeks before Trump's inauguration, I began building a comprehensive archive of independent journalism on state violence in Trump's America—an abolitionist educational resource designed to counteract state propaganda.

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Please consider donating $5 today (or monthly) towards our work to support incarcerated comrades and to keep people home when they come home! Help us make it past 10% of our goal this month!
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A photo lineup so flawed it's been researched and featured in a study by UT was the main evidence used to sentence Tony Egbuna Ford to die. Please ask the new El Paso DA to revisit this case. #abolition #elpaso

#htx #htown

Well this looks like I need to read it.

The organizers at Texas Abolitionists can use your help! $5 a month can go a long way in supporting our reentry campaigns, books, Commissary, and visits to our comrades in solitary confinement. Not to mention our education and letter writing events. Consider supporting us at ko-fi.com/texab

A photo lineup so flawed it's been researched and featured in a study by UT was the main evidence used to sentence Tony Egbuna Ford to die. Please ask the new El Paso DA to revisit this case. #abolition #elpaso

Because this is unbearable, I just gave to the Sameer Project - recommended by @prisonculture.bsky.social.

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Please help bring my comrade home! Sign & share today.
www.change.org/p/reinvestigate-the-case-of-tony-egbuna-ford-an-innocent-man-on-texas-death-row
#abolition

Please help bring my comrade home! Sign & share today.
www.change.org/p/reinvestigate-the-case-of-tony-egbuna-ford-an-innocent-man-on-texas-death-row
#abolition

Petition unterschreiben Reinvestigate the Case of Tony Egbuna Ford- an Innocent Man on Texas death row

Please sign & share with any contacts in the El Paso area. Egbuna is a long-time friend, passionate activist, and all-around solid and kind guy. There is so much evidence that he was railroaded.
www.change.org/p/reinvestigate-the-case-of-tony-egbuna-ford-an-innocent-man-on-texas-death-row

Petition unterschreiben Reinvestigate the Case of Tony Egbuna Ford- an Innocent Man on Texas death row

Please sign & share with any contacts in the El Paso area. Egbuna is a long-time friend, passionate activist, and all-around solid and kind guy. There is so much evidence that he was railroaded.
www.change.org/p/reinvestigate-the-case-of-tony-egbuna-ford-an-innocent-man-on-texas-death-row