Ann Russo

Nightmare indeed

Great info!

See y’all there! I’ll be talking about space as a site of leftist organizing and imagination 🌝🌚

Tomorrow: Chicago Join @haymarketbooks.org Saturday, June 7th at Haymarket House (800 W. Buena Ave.) for their Radical Used Book Fair!
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Woman suffers burns after three children throw suspected acid on her in West Philly, police say The woman was attacked while on her way to Pride celebrations, friends said.

Jesus fucking Christ a bunch of *children* committed an acid attack against a trans woman in Philly. this is what this fucking ever-escalating rhetoric gets us; children are radicalized before they can even conceptualize of the weight of their actions www.inquirer.com/crime/acid-a...

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

“The Basic Liberal Narrative Is Gone”: Immigrant Rights and Abolition with Silky Shah “A singular focus on conditions, rather than the violence of immigration detention itself, just lent itself to expansion.”

“We were in fact calling attention to the horrendous conditions of immigration detention. But a singular focus on conditions, rather than the violence of immigration detention itself, just lent itself to expansion.”

I wish they would come here. A rally for something not-terrible would really lift the spirits right now! And a reminder that people, most people, do NOT want what is happening.

We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build Together Across Difference “We need each other, and interdependence is key to survival for human beings,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.

This week, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I talk about what our book Let This Radicalize You brings to the current moment. We also discuss the fight for reproductive justice, working across difference, and the need to build collective courage.

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I am sitting with this quote tonight from @prisonculture.bsky.social thinking about the interconnected of systems and methods of oppression.

As kids in fundamentalism, we were regularly taught to both "other" and label "criminal" those who stood in the way of the holy war. It's front & center rn.

"They showed him ... surveillance photographs, of his wife, and said, 'We will bring her here and gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit that you're Hamas,' which is what their request was when they were breaking individual finger bones. And then they showed him a GPS photo of his house."

Mahmoud Khalil and the Repression That Was, Is, and Will Be Do not wait until this violence comes to your doorstep.

I wanted to write this piece to give people a thorough breakdown of what happened to Khalil and why this case represents a sprawling threat to so many people. I also wanted to address some relevant history that many people may not be aware of, while also emphasizing what's new and terrifying here.

For Fearful Immigrants, It’s the Card They All Want Right Now Distributed by a legal aid group, the “red card” lays out key rights and protections. Demand for them has surged since President Trump returned to office.

This movement isn't just about knowledge — it’s about empowerment. Thanks to incredible organizations like Center for Immigrant and Refugee Advancement (CIRA), Project South, the @the-ilrc.bsky.social, and Freedom for Immigrants, more people are learning how to protect themselves and their families

Protesters from Jewish Voice For Peace occupy Trump Tower to protest the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil. (via @btnewsroom.bsky.social)

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Headline: "Protestors along Buford Highway condemn ICE arrests." A large crowd holds flags of Mexico, the US, and other countries.

Via @ajc.com: about 1000 people protest on Buford Highway in metro Atlanta, an area targeted by ICE raids.
www.ajc.com/news/atlanta...

We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth — Interrupting Criminalization

We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth is available below.

"This brief is intended to help organizers working to stop the violence of surveillance, policing, and punishment and advance racial, reproductive, gender, LGBTQ, migrant, and disability justice. ... This fight belongs to all of us."

this poem, for this moment

Culture Wars and Criminalization | Kay Whitlock | INQUEST Absent a sustained politics of solidarity, culture wars will continue to erode civil rights while criminalizing, surveilling, and punishing those who claim them

I wrote this for @inquest.bsky.social a couple of years ago. No, culture wars are NOT a "distractions" from "real" issues. They are organizing vehicles for criminalization and repression; they fuel fascism. inquest.org/culture-wars...

Thank you!! Wow… it’s been years. Thanks for the reminders. Will be sharing out with folks at DePaul today! ❤️