House arrest is still a form of incarceration. Neither the Canadian nor American governments have rectified the wrongs they committed against Peltier & his community. But as Peltier himself has said, house arrest is a million times better than what he was living in (prison).

NDN Collective@ndncollective.bsky.social · 2y ago

This morning, Leonard Peltier was released from over 49 years of wrongful incarceration. Peltier is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and will reside on his Tribal homelands in North Dakota.

If elections severely distort your sense of the world around you and you can't see populations beyond exit polls and voter maps, more serious political education is necessary. Outside electoralism and the state, a whole universe of struggles, strategies, and methods exists.

Activists in tenant unions + rapid response networks supported working-class people in #Colorado targeted by militarized #ICE raids. Agents used flash-bang grenades and went door-to-door at an apartment complex asking people for their IDs. The raid was spurred by far-Right conspiracy theories.

Elizabeth Hernandez@lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m at Leetsdale and Oneida at the Cedar Run Apt complex ICE has raided this morning. Activists are out here on bullhorns saying majority of CO stand with their immigrant neighbors as federal agents pace the neighborhood @denverpost.com

Unpopular opinion, but people thinking Mexican and Cdn govts played Trump by agreeing to what was already in place (border securitization) are misreading ideological dimension of far right rise Anti migrant racism is cross party, but openly conceding it here entrenches it as "common sense" racism.

Boston Children’s complying in advance. Trans kids deserve better and this won’t go unanswered by the community! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/04/m...

ACLU and Mass. youth sue Trump over transgender medicine order - The Boston Globe

Boston Children’s canceled appointments for trans youth due to order, lawsuit alleges.

bostonglobe.com

ICE went to the home of a 61-year-old man with poor health and after his family informed ICE agents that they needed a warrant signed by a judge, dozens of ICE agents instead showed up in an armored vehicle with a battering ram and flash grenades and took him by force.

azcentral@azcentral.com · 2y ago

A family member is speaking out against an ICE operation in northwest Phoenix on Sunday, calling it an unnecessary use of force www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

trade war btwn imperialist allies (US & Canada) is means to use economic nationalism to rally behind otherwise status-quo. struggle between 'foreign' & 'domestic' capital maintains capitalism, hurts ppl through price gouging, reinforces racist nationalism & intensifies extraction on Indigenous lands

As Tom Homan doubles-down on claims that ICE will raid schools, protesters hit the streets of cities across the US and students organize school walkouts to demand an end to #ICE raids. Check out roundup here: itsgoingdown.org/protests-and...

Protests and Student Walkouts Against ICE Spread Across the US

Anger is boiling over in the streets, as demonstrations, protests, and school walkouts are spreading against ICE raids and attacks on undocumented workers, schools and communities. While the Trump adm...

itsgoingdown.org

I know not everyone is here in a news-gathering capacity, but news-sharing is serving that function. Here's some stuff I try never to do unless there's huge urgency and I know the story: 1. Posting/reposting screencaps of news stories, without a link. URLS are not suppressed here! Don't do it.

The MK-84 is made by General Dynamics, who've also expanded production for Ukraine, at times employing some of the very same workers to make ammo for Ukraine as they did to make bombs for Israel.

Pentagon Opens Ammunition Factory to Keep Arms Flowing to Ukraine

A plant still under construction in Mesquite, Texas, will soon turn out 30,000 artillery shells each month, roughly doubling current U.S. output.

nytimes.com

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2y ago

The White House has instructed the US military to release a hold imposed by former US President Joe Biden’s administration on the supply of 2,000-pound (900kg) bombs to Israel, reports Axios, citing three Israeli officials. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/s3c9de

IF YOU THINK YOU SEE ICE: Don’t share unverified info! Contact your local rapid response network (RRN) immediately. RRNs respond to local ICE presence and provide support to neighbors facing detention/deportation. There are local RRNs across CA, many w/ hotlines: www.ccijustice.org/rapid-response

Rapid Response | CCIJ

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one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

Already there are wannabe local influencers here in Chicago making all-caps posts about ICE raids in neighborhood Facebook groups because their friend saw an unmarked cop car somewhere and they consider that evidence enough to growth-hack off of people's fear. Listen to trusted orgs, not randos.

this is about protests, but i’m going to use it to talk about protecting people from ICE. join a group, get alerts, show up, and literally get in the way. it’s not as scary as it sounds, and ICE raids are only going to increase, so better get a feel for how these actions work sooner than later.

It's Going Down@igd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Large protests against ICE raids in farmworker communities are spreading following ICE raids in the #California central valley. itsgoingdown.org/protests-spr...

This is enforced disappearance, which is a violation of international human rights law (and can be a violation of international criminal law). Anyone held in government custody when the gov refuses to confirm their whereabouts is a victim.

I am increasingly concerned about the expanded use of enforced disappearance against migrants, in particular, in the US. It is is a well documented practice in BP custody, but I'm seeing more reports from lawyers in listservs and on social media that they cannot confirm their clients whereabouts.

If you are looking for ways to support those impacted by the ongoing fires in the #LosAngeles area, please check out and support the Mutual Aid Los Angeles Network (MALAN). Check out their site here for updates and more info: mutualaidla.org

Mutual Aid LA Network

Mutual Aid LA Network is a connector and information hub for mutual aid efforts across Los Angeles.

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More models are keeping up w/ the fact that carbon capture is not working & that older models over-relied on it. Updated studies are contrasting the failure of carbon capture with future projections of less economic growth to achieve emissions reductions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Keeping emissions scenarios current

Nature Climate Change - Climate change research and policy rely on emissions scenarios to project future warming and its impacts. Now, a study highlights both progress and challenges to keeping key...

nature.com

Great vibe on the Amazon picket line in Queens today

On the scene of the Amazon strike in Maspeth, the NYPD is trying to break the picket, engaging in arrests of union members and engaging in physical confrontations with workers and their supporters.

Germany & Israel are in the same camp. This thread confuses some kind of revolutionary defeatism w/ campism. The anarchist Malatesta advocated a kind of revolutionary defeatism before Liebknecht or Lenin did. For anarchists, the *main* enemy being at home doesn't equal the *only* enemy being at home

William Gillis 🏴@rechelon.bsky.social · 2y ago

If Israel is a case study in nationalism of the oppressed being so single-minded it turned them into oppressors, the antideutsch are a case study in how the "focus on fighting your own nation" campist prescription led them to champion the US and Israel as an axis of resistance to German nationalism.

The Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, has led UFW marches since the pilgrimage from Delano to Sacramento in 1966. She’s still leading the way today. #WeFeedYou

"Because the rich own things, and the poor do not, it is legal for the rich to destroy Earth and illegal for the poor to stop them." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?

Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system

irishtimes.com

“(Mass deportation) is getting an unexpected head start from Joe Biden...Instead of reassuring and preemptively protecting many terrified families and workers among the 11 million undocumented people in the US, the Biden administration has been working on contracts for more detention beds.”

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y ago

Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office

Mass student strike happening in #Montreal at Concordia university. After a vote, students have voted to go on strike to demand divestment from the state of Israel by the university. In the 1980s, similar struggles helped push for divestment from apartheid South Africa.

Clash Montréal@clashmtl.bsky.social · 2y ago

They filled the lobby before marching to every floor, disrupting classes. Behind them, boarded up windows can be seen. These were smashed during a demo in late September that reportedly caused $600,000 in damages to the university, which has refused to divest from Israeli apartheid and genocide.

Obama and Biden had way more success stimulating fossil fuel production than entrenching green energy. They both gambled that supporting fossil fuels was politically necessary to sustain the green transition. And they both handed power to Trump. We have to learn from these failures.

there is no way to dismantle fossil capitalism at a global scale without tackling the position of the Gulf states in the global economy, which are connected to the role of Israel and the US in the region and in the global order.

As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes: 1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/

I'm sorry but 1.5c is dead. It's over. Climate politics today is about mitigating runaway heating and ecological decline, while those with the levers of power -states and capital- push on the accelerator. This is why we must build new forms of popular power. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

The 1.5°C Target for Global Warming Must Prevail | by Joeri Rogelj - Project Syndicate

Joeri Rogelj argues that the threshold established by the Paris agreement remains crucial – even if it is breached.

project-syndicate.org

The Kenya Peasants League says it is collecting a million signatures to support its appeal against a ruling that okayed genetically modified crops – the latest front in a decades-long battle to keep GMOs out of Kenya.

Kenyan fight against GM crops heads to the appeal court

The state has opened the door for modified seeds to help grow food. Activists desperately want to close it.

continent.substack.com