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Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago "Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

Just a reminder that if you preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis through my favorite bookstore, @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social, you will get an extra letter from me tucked into your book. I wrote that letter this week, and I think some of you might find it useful.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section.

Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

The book cover for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Edited by Kelly Hayes. The book cover features an artistic rendering of a person with long hair wading into a body of water at night in a wilderness.

Just want to remind folks during these messy times that you can buy a copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart for an activist in need. This book is a care package that my friends and I made for people on the front lines & in the thick of crisis. Let's pass it around: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

How the Prison Industry Became a Booming Business CoreCivic’s CEO called the Trump administration “one of the most exciting periods” of his career.

#OpEd: "We must recognize the prison industry for what it is: an industry built on the human suffering of crime victims, incarcerated people, their families, and still others." Read the full story on how the prison industry became worth over $80 billion a year.

Just gave. Please consider helping if you can. Right now is an incredibly important time. Right now.

For those who asked. The link tree for the Sameer Project is here: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

and wearing a mask is indeed punk as fuck

here’s a free zine about it: shorturl.at/C1OEE

Washington State Passes Bill To Cover 12-Month Hormone Therapy Stockpiles “The bill will alleviate a lot of suffering,” one Republican lawmaker said.

1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington.

It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.

The latest from S. Baum.

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A handwritten quote by Howard Zinn on a red-bordered white paper over an illustration of blue-green blades of grass. The words "FIRST MOVE" are written in large, bold red letters at the bottom.

PEOPLE ARE PRACTICAL.They want change but feel powerless, alone, do not want to be the blade of grass that sticks up above the others and is cut down.They wait for a sign from someone else who will make the first move, or the second. And at certain times in history, there are certain intrepid+

The Anti-Empathy Revolution of Elon Musk Musk views empathy as a “bug” that threatens his political agenda. This framing is instructive.

Ping-pong paddle signage won’t beat back the techno-fascist revolution. To fight Musk’s vision, we need something deeper—solidarity, mutual aid, and a refusal to abandon each other. My latest:

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It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

All 3 patterns are available for pre-order!! If I don't sell enough of them. I'll have to cancel orders. So please support!!

Which ones are you buying? Galaxy, bats or strawberry?

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Security and Privacy Tips for People Seeking An Abortion Given the shifting state of the law, people seeking an abortion, or any kind of reproductive healthcare that might end with the termination of a pregnancy, may need to pay close attention to their dig...

This is now a thread with resources.

In Final Plea, Amnesty International Urges Biden To Free Leonard Peltier Granting clemency to the ailing, 80-year-old Native American rights activist “could be forever part of your legacy,” reads a letter to the president.

For those too young to remember the conviction of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, and the case for his release, here’s a primer from @amnestyuk.bsky.social. www.huffpost.com/entry/amnest...

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Considering places to donate this ‘Giving Tuesday’ (or any day, really)? These folks are doing really impactful work.

Take a Deep Breath and Think About What You Need to Do How powerful will we choose to become as the world falls down and what will we have the potential to build?

Some thoughts on how to navigate this moment.

This women’s day, stand in solidarity with the women of Gaza, who are enduring unthinkable suffering, watching their children die, experiencing miscarriages at unprecedented rates, giving birth unassisted, undergoing c-sections without anesthesia, and using tent scraps as menstrual products

Devasted urban area by the sea in Gaza

Posted by the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza a few hours ago. Expand to see the scale of what has been done.

More than 12,300 Palestinian minors have been killed in Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza, health officials say More than 12,300 Palestinian minors have been killed in Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza, health officials say

In American news media, the term "children" refers to underage white people, whom they portray as—well—people.

Brown, Black, Indigenous, and Muslim children, particularly when murdered, are referred to by terms such as "minors" to avoid making such an association.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Kind reminders:

1—Palestinians don’t owe you a clarification or condemnation of any kind regarding their stance on the resistance. Unlearn your western exceptionalism

2—Calling it a “religions conflict” is reductive & lazy. It’s Israeli colonialism, racism, ethnic cleansing, occupation & apartheid