ResistAustin
@resistaustin.bsky.social
We coach activists to lead lawful, nonviolent civil resistance to authoritarians.
Know Your Rights: Police Encounters & Criminal Defense Free training led by a volunteer criminal defense attorney. Learn what to do (and not do) during police encounters. 📍 Carver Branch Library, Austin 🗓️ Mon, Aug 3 | 6:00–7:30pm Free & open to everyone First in our KYR series. Bring a friend.
Ya’ll! We're looking for a criminal defense attorney to help lead an upcoming Know Your Rights training session focused on police encounters and criminal defense. If you (or someone you know) can volunteer time and expertise to help Austinites understand their rights, we'd love to hear from you.
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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We’re designing a know-your-rights (KYR) training for Austin residents and are seeking collaborators and partners! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ResistAustin Know Your Rights (KYR) Training
Know Your Rights by ResistAustin Overview ResistAustin is launching a monthly, in-person Know Your Rights training series for Austin-area activists and community members. The series will run on a two-...
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🖤 ACTIVIST OFFICE HOURS — Saturdays at Noon Got questions about lawful, nonviolent resistance? Come hang. We coach activists to lead nonviolent civil resistance to authoritarians. Pool party after! 📍 Industry, 1211 E 5th St Ste 150, Austin TX resistaustin.us #ResistAustin #Austin
🎶 Austin, rise up with us! Join @resistaustin.bsky.social for Rise Up, Sing Out: First Amendment Concert Watch Party at Brew and Brew. 📍 500 San Marcos St #105 🕡 Doors 5:30pm | Introduction 6pm CDT | Concert 6:30pm CDT | June 14 Song, solidarity, and action. All are welcome. Bring a friend. ✊
Ilhan Omar: “In the 4 years when Biden was president, my death threats went to almost zero — now they are back up — so there is a clear correlation between his presidency & the political violence that we see & the political danger that a lot of members of Congress & electeds feel across the country”
Dilley protesters are being gassed by Texas DPS - an trying to find a news link to post.
Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 7mo agoTexans have massively come to protest outside the Dilley Texas ICE facility where many people, including kids, are being kept captive. Let’s go!!
If you are, or know anyone, in the Austin… Lookout for freezing temps
UPDATE: “A US regulator ruled Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power huge datacenters in MEMPHIS.” As the people told @mayorpaulyoung @MemphisChamber — who allowed it to happen. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Among other things, this piece makes clear the connections between ICE tactics and gang rape, something I've pointed out, but which a lot of people want to pretend isn't real.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 8mo agoFor @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
This sounds like a violation of the Geneva Convention: "HC is a highly regulated toxin, labeled as a 'likely carcinogen' and skin irritant by the Environmental Protection Agency. . . . the U.S. military actually stopped using HC in grenades in the 1990s due to its extreme toxicity."