Don't miss this interview with the directors of 'Elements of Mutual Aid' with @ella-writes.bsky.social on @truthout.org and check out the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMLL...

The Elements of Mutual Aid: Experiments Toward Liberation – Trailer

YouTube video by The Elements of Mutual Aid

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Ella Fassler@ella-writes.bsky.social · last wk.

I interviewed the co-directors of the new docuseries The Elements of Mutual Aid about the trajectory of the mutual aid landscape in the U.S and their theory of change for transcending capitalism & the state for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/mut...

A great interview with the co-directors of The Elements of Mutual Aid: "We think that the low to the ground, long-term relational infrastructure is the sharpest part of mutual aid, rather than ideology as a driving force." truthout.org/articles/mut...

Mutual Aid Isn’t a Handout — It’s a Framework for Resistance

The co-directors of a new docuseries offer their theory of change for transcending capitalism and the state.

truthout.org

I interviewed the co-directors of the new docuseries The Elements of Mutual Aid about the trajectory of the mutual aid landscape in the U.S and their theory of change for transcending capitalism & the state for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/mut...

Mutual Aid Isn’t a Handout — It’s a Framework for Resistance

The co-directors of a new docuseries offer their theory of change for transcending capitalism and the state.

truthout.org

The co-directors of a new docuseries offer their theory of change for transcending capitalism and the state. buff.ly/SHi3Ip5

Mutual Aid Isn’t a Handout — It’s a Framework for Resistance

The co-directors of a new docuseries offer their theory of change for transcending capitalism and the state.

truthout.org

Love a good prof slam: “It’s bewildering. It seemed weird and laughable,” Davis said of the indictment. “It felt like the length of the indictment was a cover for how thin it actually was. I’m a professor. I’ve seen people pad out papers when they’ve got nothing to say.”

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’

Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives

theguardian.com

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Title is accurate, this sounds so fun.

Being a Luddite Is Fun Again

As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.

404media.co

I covered the expanding local ear acupuncture landscape for the @thepvdeye.bsky.social & explored how the movement has retained a radical ethos of accessibility in an otherwise commercialized healthcare ecosystem pvdeye.org/ear-acupuntu...

Peer-to-peer and Ear-to-ear: Community Acupuncture Creates Accessible Support for Anxiety and Addiction

On an early July morning, a small group sat around a table at CODAC, Rhode Island’s oldest nonprofit addiction treatment center, with acupuncture needles protruding from their ears. Program administra...

pvdeye.org

I wrote about the my nephew's peculiarities and asked some larger questions. what are the conditions that allowed for these unbridled peculiar curiosities to emerge? ellafassler.substack.com/p/on-peculia...

on peculiarities

an ode to nephew asa kai

ellafassler.substack.com

Hell yeah we are

Asheville bookstore sues SC Corrections for destroying their books

Asheville shop Firestorm Books is suing South Carolina prisons over a policy that destroys books not from approved vendors.

citizen-times.com

new on the blog, a little slice of providence life ellafassler.substack.com/p/under-the-...

under the willow

a very providence afternoon

ellafassler.substack.com

these are the sentences for 8 of the Prairieland federal trial defendants Judge Mark Pittman: Benjamin Song: 100 years Maricela Rueda: 70 years Elizabeth Soto, Meagan Morris: 50 years Judge Reed O'Connor: Zachary Evetts, Savanna Batten, Autumn Hill: 50 years Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada: 30 years

We are without words. Our thoughts are with the Prairieland Defendants and their loved ones.

people in Massachusetts played by the state's rules to get rent control on the ballot in the Novemer by collecting 120K+ signatures (they 'only' needed 79,000) the MA Supreme Judicial Court just told them all to fuck off www.wamc.org/news/2026-06...

Top Mass. court shuts down rent control ballot question

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has issued a ruling that a question about rent control will be barred from the November ballot.

wamc.org

One of the 15 defendants in Minnesota indicted on "Antifa" charges for allegedly standing up to ICE is simply accused of writing an article we published about the murder of Renee Good. The author describes an ICE agent shooting a pepper ball at his eye, point-blank. You can read the article here:

Minneapolis Responds to ICE Committing Murder

On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent murdered Renee Good. This is an account from a participant in the protests that broke out on scene of the murder.

crimethinc.com

Nadiah@nadiah-at-home.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Writing for an anarchist blog, for example, counts as evidence and participation in the conspiracy.

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

vouched fundraiser for the Minneapolis defendants chuffed.org/project/1865...

Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers

On the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...

chuffed.org

Nearly 40 women have joined the hunger strike at Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, demanding improved conditions in the facility; the release of female detainees, beginning with those who are under 21 years old; and the firing of a guard who they say has sexually assaulted at least 10 women.

Dozens of Women Join Hunger and Labor Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail

“We are mothers, daughters, sisters. We are women that are being unjustly imprisoned,” the women said in a video.

truthout.org

In the face of rising government surveillance and the suppression of left organizing, independent libraries are part of growing efforts to expand non-state alternatives including mutual aid networks, free stores, and free universities.

As Censorship Expands, Autonomous Libraries Are Springing Up to Fill the Gaps

From California to Illinois to Oregon, flourishing anarchist libraries are spreading knowledge and building community.

truthout.org

Even when local police have no formal contracts with ICE, some departments still provide critical help to ICE agents. But in many jurisdictions, 911 call records are subject to public records law—providing watchdogs a tool for tracking ICE activity.

How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered - Bolts

How are states restricting ICE activity? Can local prosecutors charge federal officers? How can local leaders prepare for ICE deployments? We provide answers about local responses to the immigration crackdown.

boltsmag.org

i've been covering mutual aid groups for quite a while, and was especially impressed with this crew decentralized medical device manufacturing ftw👇 ellafassler.substack.com/p/a-grassroo...

A Grassroots Group in Tucson Is 3D-Printing Tourniquets to Send to Lebanon

A small non-hierarchical collective in Arizona is using an open-source design to create life-saving tourniquets.

ellafassler.substack.com

Repost the Leather Dachshund from Seattle Pride 1991 to be blessed this Pride Month!

“We need to take control of the ability to create the things that we need, especially the most important things — things that save our lives, things that we need in crises” my latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/a-g...

A Grassroots Group in Tucson Is 3D-Printing Tourniquets to Send to Lebanon

A small non-hierarchical collective in Arizona is using an open-source design to create life-saving tourniquets.

truthout.org

“‘My political camp is that I don’t want people bleeding out because they don’t have access to equipment that we have the luxury of having access to,’ Barton told Truthout.”

Ella Fassler@ella-writes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“We need to take control of the ability to create the things that we need, especially the most important things — things that save our lives, things that we need in crises” my latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/a-g...

Second night of Jersey cops attacking protesters who are there supporting hunger strikers inside a sadistic immigrant jail

Brendan Gutenschwager@bgonthescene.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New Jersey State Police push past barricades outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility

Don't miss the latest from @ella-writes.bsky.social. "The effort is notable, though, as grassroots groups are attempting to move toward decentralized medical manufacturing that is less dependent on traditional corporate production chains."

Ella Fassler@ella-writes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“We need to take control of the ability to create the things that we need, especially the most important things — things that save our lives, things that we need in crises” my latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/a-g...

“We need to take control of the ability to create the things that we need, especially the most important things — things that save our lives, things that we need in crises” my latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/a-g...

A Grassroots Group in Tucson Is 3D-Printing Tourniquets to Send to Lebanon

A small non-hierarchical collective in Arizona is using an open-source design to create life-saving tourniquets.

truthout.org

now on the blog, how I learned about Mexmûr, a refugee camp of more than 10,000+ kurds in Iraqi-occupied Kurdistan building a new society from the ground up ellafassler.substack.com/p/learning-a...

learning about Mexmûr

a displaced population of more than 10,000 Kurds in Iraqi-occupied Kurdistan have been building a new society from the ground up since 1998

ellafassler.substack.com

Author Daniel Gross argues that challenges to the ruling class will emerge when workers themselves—not union officials—design and refine unions that actually work for them. We'll be hosting @dgorganize.bsky.social alongside local organizers on Monday, June 2nd!

The Unions We Need Will Be Built by Workers, Not Labor Officials

Organizer Daniel Gross explains how to make sure that union building actually works and is sustained over time.

truthout.org

My first ever (speculative) fiction piece is set in a solarpunky democratic confederalist Providence and explores themes of wanderlust, communal obligation, and rootnedness 🌱 ellafassler.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...

Scenes From a Post-Revolutionary Federal Hill

A walk to the Housing Committee headquarters complicates Billie’s decision to become a shuffler.

ellafassler.substack.com