Ella Fassler

great piece by @natashawalter.bsky.social

📢Syrian Kurds are Under Attack❗

📃Read and share our joint-statement and call-to-action in collaboration with other US-based Kurdish organizations.
www.defendrojava.org/news/syrian-...

The revolutionary women of Rojava are in grave danger. That has consequences for us all | Natasha Walter For a decade, the autonomous territory in Syria has been a bastion of gender equality. It holds important lessons for the fight against authoritarianism, says author Natasha Walter

"The intellectual confidence among the women I met struck me hard–and I don’t mean just the writers or teachers. I mean all the women: from soldiers to judges, from women working in a textile factory to those on an agricultural committee." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it's over

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

📣Call Congress Today! 📞Demand immediate action to stop the Syrian state's ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Aleppo! 🚨
www.defendrojava.org/news/call-in...

📢 ECR Statement on the situation in Aleppo:
🕊️ Hands Off Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh!
✌️ Solidarity with the Kurds of Aleppo!
🌿 Syria is for ALL Syrians!
www.defendrojava.org/news/ecr-sta...

Anti-ICE protesters are having a rolling noise demo and protest in downtown Minneapolis targeting hotels where federal agents are reportedly staying -- starting at the Canopy by Hilton and going to the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel. Police have just arrived as we are posting this.

Rohilat Afrin: "We are at the table because of our own achievements" – Kurdish Peace Institute

"We, as the YPJ, did not start with weapons. I want to emphasize this fact. We started with organization. Our greatest weapon at the very beginning was our organization. From two, three, four women, we became hundreds and hundreds."

www.kurdishpeace.org/research/kpi...

I’m only halfway through and it’s already the book that has excited me most this year, highly recommend 👇🏼

Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.

A grim reminder that police departments are not neutral arbiters of the law, but political institutions with their own interests, norms, and value systems

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Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.

Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org/articles/pol...

"[I]t's misleading for police to claim that 'sanctuary' laws will protect residents ... from deportation. Because ICE routinely mines FBI criminal databases, gang databases, and court records, even brief contact with the criminal legal system can put people at risk."

Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.

Alleged violations generally fall into two categories: illegal data sharing and assistance with immigration-related arrests.

Police in Many "Sanctuary Cities" Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.

"[M]isleading for police to claim that 'sanctuary' laws will protect residents."

"[N]ews coverage revealed that at least 18 jurisdictions allegedly unlawfully shared data and six may have illegally assisted with immigration-related arrests."
#USA #Policing #Courts #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

#JuryNullification works.

CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.

We are speedrunning "the worst, most dangerous technologies trickle down from military to feds to local police"

www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

#WarRavagedPortland

Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies Through time exchanges, members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need help themselves.

"For Beckett, time banking is less about economics, and more about mending social fragmentation. 'We invariably wind up making friends,' he told Truthout, noting that he offers sailboat rides to fellow members. 'The whole point is to knit community.'"

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Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies Through time exchanges, members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need help themselves.

Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies

Through time exchanges, members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need help themselves. truthout.org/articles/dig...

Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies Through time exchanges, members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need help themselves.

Members of time exchange networks come together to help each other with every day tasks, navigating challenging paperwork, or even moving house. One such community has 530 active members and more than 101,000 hours exchanged over the past 15 years.

Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies Through time exchanges, members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need help themselves.

While many modern time banks operate in relatively apolitical spaces, revolutionary mutual aid groups could reclaim them as tools for building power and breaking out of siloed organizing.

My latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/dig...

Black-Led, Progressive Homeschool Networks Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI As Trump attacks civil rights protections, a growing number of progressive parents are opting out of public schools.

Black-Led, Progressive Homeschool Networks Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI

As Trump attacks civil rights protections, a growing number of progressive parents are opting out of public schools
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The pieces also explores critical unschooling: "Traditional schooling systems in capitalist states reinforce colonialist legacies, serving to convince citizens of the state’s authority and necessity while preparing students to become either obedient workers or authoritarian bosses."

Black-Led, Progressive Homeschool Networks Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI As Trump attacks civil rights protections, a growing number of progressive parents are opting out of public schools.

Amid book bans and DEI rollbacks, Black-led homeschool co-ops are forming as liberatory and inclusive alternatives to traditional schooling.

my latest for @truthout.org

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Black-Led, Progressive Homeschool Networks Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI As Trump attacks civil rights protections, a growing number of progressive parents are opting out of public schools.

"In homeschool cooperatives, students learn side by side from one another’s parents — an embodiment of the saying “It takes a village to raise a child.” At For the Culture, parent-teachers introduced Cari and her classmates to the genocide in Gaza and other current events..."
How awesome is this?

Black-Led, Progressive Homeschool Networks Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI As Trump attacks civil rights protections, a growing number of progressive parents are opting out of public schools.

As Trump attacks civil rights protections, a growing number of progressive parents are opting out of public schools.

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Grassroots Assemblies Empower People to Fight Back Against Trump’s Agenda People’s assemblies across the country are committed to building people’s power beyond the electoral system.

"Across the board, the assemblies are committed to building people’s power beyond the confines of the electoral system."

Autonomous community assemblies are forming in various cities to coordinate mutual aid and community defense.

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