Andrea Robbins

Remembering George on the 24th anniversary of his passing. Sending thoughts to Olivia and Dhani and all of George’s nearest & dearest.

“We who love music, we love the people who make it, we love the sound of it, and we love what it does to us, how it makes us feel, how it helps *us* love.” - George

Support Jamaica – Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Portal Join hands with the Government of Jamaica. Support national disaster relief, locate shelters, and stay informed on Hurricane Melissa updates.

Reposting supportjamaica.gov.jm

“The first verse was me just trying to make George and Jeff laugh. […] And then, you know, [George] got carried away with that song.” - Tom Petty on “The Wilbury Twist”

Read more at www.instagram.com/reel/DQXGBxx....

🎥: The New Music, 1990; interview by Denise Donlon.

“We did it like Carl Aid! I thought, if I want to get over my fear, my inhibitions about going on and playing or whatever, if I can’t play Carl Perkins songs there’s not much chance of me playing anything!” - George, Q (1988)

More at www.instagram.com/reel/DQE8mI0....

Taped on this day in 1985:

LISTEN.

YouTube video by The Bulwark EXCLUSIVE: Andry Hernández Romero Tells His Story

"What I can say to the people [...] and to everyone watching... is, let's be more empathetic, let's be more humane," shared Andry.

Watch his exclusive interview with @TimMiller.bsky.social on @Thebulwark.com and hear firsthand his powerful message for all of us.

🔗 youtu.be/-ySsBj3OOg0?...

#OtD 9 Aug 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking mass protests across the US stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1088...

I spoke with Andry Romero.

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.

Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Suleiman. Suleiman was a house painter (like my own dad was) before all this. He has three small children, Reem, 10, Ashraf, 6 and Mohammed, 3. He is really struggling to find food for his family and really needs help.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

I am fucking FUMING — but goddamn, I am so proud of this kid for having the wherewithal, the guts, and for refusing to delete the footage when threatened. He was arrested and charged for the footage alone

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon:

An event planner
A coal miner
An Uber driver
Tortilla maker
Barber
DoorDashers
Soccer coaches
Furniture-maker
Car washers
Taxi drivers
HVAC techs
Auto parts worker
Tire plant worker

and 240 more...

projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

Andry with his friends, freed, smiling. A sign in the back says “Liberdad para Andry.”

“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one. There were many people who worried for me.”

—Andry José Hernandez Romero

U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’ Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

Sharing this GIFT LINK so people can’t say they didn’t know what’s been happening in our name.

wapo.st/3GZuXCW

There hasn't been a day since March that my family and I haven't thought and worried about Andry and every person kidnapped and taken to El Salvador -- and while the situation isn't ideal, it's still very good news that they've been freed. Thank you so much for all you have done and continue to do.

"We were kidnapped" On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

"The bitterness is still there. The anger about what happened to him is still there.”

After four months, more than 200 men sent to El Salvador have been released from CECOT and returned to Venezuela. @nlanard.bsky.social and I spoke with family members and friends waiting to be reunited with them.

“We Didn’t Kill Enough Indians”: The Cost of Shrugging Off Genocide On Dehumanization, Media Complicity, and the Psychological Toll of Being Erased

I wish this essay didn’t need to exist.
But it does.
Please read it. Please share it.

My latest Substack:

“We Didn’t Kill Enough Indians”: The Cost of Shrugging Off Genocide open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...

The family of Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay asylum-seeker from Venezuela, has not heard from him since he was sent to El Salvador Andry Hernandez Romero, a make-up artist from Venezuela who sought asylum in the U.S., was sent to a megaprison in El Salvador because of his tattoos, his lawyers say. NBC News' David Noriega spoke to...

An overview from NBC News: in it, Andry’s father, bereft, says that not having any way to contact his son is unbearable.

www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts...

Philando Castile in glasses, a blue shirt, and red lanyard over his neck.

Rest In Peace to Philando Divall Castile who was taken from us by police on this day in 2016. (7/16/1983 - 7/6/2016).

It is day 100 since Andry was disappeared by Trump admin to a gulag in El Salvador. 100 days since this photo was snapped while he begged for his mom. 100 days of wondering if he is still alive. We’re still waiting for the devastatingly slow wheels of justice to turn. #FreeAndry

More than 200 people remain locked in prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration, without any right to trial.

Carlos should be spending #Father’sDay with his family. Instead, he has been disappeared to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, with no way for his partner or daughter to contact him. We demand the immediate release of all those disappeared to CECOT. We must #BringThemBack.

HELP KTOWN VENDORS STAY SAFE ® HOME DONATE NOW to love your neighbors & help them resist ICE TAMALE BUY-OUT! LET'S GO! Venmo: @AndreinaKniss

Organizers in LA are raising money to do tamale buyouts from local tamale vendors who are unable to safely vend on the street due to ICE kidnapping vendors. The tamales will be distributed to unhoused neighbors. Please consider donating — I personally vouch for this one: venmo.com?txn=pay&audi...

You can donate at ClueJustice.org/bond. @ImmDef has a team at the main detention facility holding people rounded up in the ICE raids this week to provide legal consults and assess eligibility for bond.

No immigrant stands alone.

#LAstandstogether #TeamImmDef

🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨

Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:

Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate

LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...

Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...

when people are saying certain authoritarian responses aren't american, when america has done these exact methods to black folk, native americans, japanese folk, latinx, etc...many many times

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2