@harshawalia.bsky.social has posted something smart on Ceuta on fb
Harsha Walia
@harshawalia.bsky.social
Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle. New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Our friends at @haymarketbooks.org are holding an online discussion on the struggle to dismantle the immigrant detention system. With @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @harshawalia.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social! Register for link to the livestreamed video the day of the event:
How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention
Join John Washington, Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, and Daniel Denvir as they discuss the struggle to dismantle the immigrant detention system.
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How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Join @jwashing.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, @harshawalia.bsky.social, and @danieldenvir.bsky.social for this virtual conversation hosted with @detentionwatchnetwork.org and @thedigradio.bsky.social RSVP to attend:
Register Now – How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention – YouTube
How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention – YouTube, Tue Jul 21, 2026 - Join John Washington, Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, and Dan Denvir as they discuss the struggle to ...
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"Borders exist to maintain racial capitalism. They’re monetized for the rich & militarized for the poor," says @harshawalia.bsky.social "This is designed by imperialism capitalism to maintain control." Incredible @rattlingthebars.bsky.social @therealnews.com #ICE therealnews.com/ice-from-the...
ICE: From the 'War on Terror' to the war on us
“Every president across party lines has poured money into ICE,” author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia tells us.
therealnews.com
“ICE’s abuses are not new, not created by Republicans alone, and not distinct from other enforcement agencies: they are tethered to otherwise normalized carceral and militarized infrastructures that will persist even without it.” @harshawalia.bsky.social:
How Not to Abolish ICE
What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?
bostonreview.net
“Every president across party lines has poured money into ICE,” author and immigrant justice organizer @harshawalia.bsky.social tells us.
ICE: From the 'War on Terror' to the war on us
“Every president across party lines has poured money into ICE,” author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia tells us.
therealnews.com
Fund Fifa not Housing at Oppenheimer Park today. block party, respite space, and a free feed the people.
Spot the difference: "Citizens from eTA countries – like Australia, Germany, Croatia, New Zealand – had all visitor requests approved Others that required visas – like Ghana, DRC, Syria, Uganda, Sri Lanka – had applications mostly denied." www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Canada rejected more than half of all World Cup visitor applications
Thousands of soccer fans applied to visit Canada for the 2026 men’s FIFA World Cup, but less than half were allowed to enter the country.
ctvnews.ca
AI is deepening worldwide webs of accumulation, bringing about new class and power relations This is cohering as triangulated bloc of transnational capital that brings together giant tech, transnational finance capital, and military-industrial-repression complex. truthout.org/articles/the...
The Fight Against AI Data Centers Is the Newest Frontier of Global Class Warfare
AI is deepening worldwide webs of accumulation, ushering in new class and power relations.
truthout.org
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
theguardian.com
please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/
A quintessential pillar of facism is the fascist and punitive crushing of anti fascist dissent. A few months ago, i was notified that alleged writings of mine were entered as seized evidence in the trial. *writings* Today is a horrifying day, and full solidarity with the Prairieland defendants.
Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
For the Arab Center I wrote about how displacement is a political project of erasure - not a simple outcome of war - especially when it comes to Israel's genocide in Palestine extending into Lebanon. arabcenterdc.org/resource/isr...
Israel’s War of Displacement in Lebanon
Since March 2, 2026, the most recent bout of Israeli violence in Lebanon has displaced an estimated 1.2 million people—a fifth of the country’s population. Israel has expressly used displacement as a ...
arabcenterdc.org
My latest published in @truthout.org and the @theappeal.org. Delaney Hall detainees: “We deserve to be free and to complete the process at home with our families. We demand freedom, a fair trial, and for our rights to be respected.”
Everyone Has a Role to Play in Supporting the Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail
The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.
truthout.org
EU Parliament has just approved "strictest-ever" migration law in its history. Pushed by far right, with support from centrist parties, new law will speed up deportations, sanction deportation camps ("return hubs") in third countries, facilitate enforcement raids. Césaire "Europe is indefensible"
And this is why I am always going off about people needing to stop thinking of Canada as "benign" peacekeeper or an "unwilling" imperialist partner. Former DHS head Kristi Noem has just been hired by BC mining company, NovaRed Mining headquartered in Vancouver. globalnews.ca/news/1190912...
Kristi Noem hired in strategic advisory role for B.C. mining company | Globalnews.ca
In March, Kristi Noem was reassigned from Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security after serving in the role for 13 months.
globalnews.ca
Save this link & tune in Friday, June 19th at 7pm ET to see writer-activists @harshawalia.bsky.social, IC cofounder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, & Stephanie Leitch talk policing, borders, militarization & abolition, moderated by Beverly Bain. Brought to you by No Pride in Policing Collective!
Policing, Borders, Militarization and Abolition
YouTube video by Scholars Strike for Liberation
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NEW: "It's literally the gulag." A Meta engineer describes their job in the new 6,500-person "Applied AI" unit, where highly-paid Silicon Valley talent are now "draftees" forced to write puzzle problems to feed the beast. WIRED's inside the morale collapse:
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta's chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
wired.com
If you watched the viral video of Bosnian soccer fans shouting for Palestine ahead of game in toronto today, read this piece about Bosnian team grappling with legacy of genocide & displacement with 17 of its players born elsehwere. "Playing for the national team becomes a symbolic act of return."
The country they never left
Bosnia’s World Cup squad is built on the descendants of war and displacement, players raised across Europe and North America who are finding their way back through football.
africasacountry.com
Abolish ICE, Abolish CBSA! The Montreal CBSA office is now processing about 200 deportations each week, and more than half of all deportations in Canada are happening in Quebec. "That drastic rise is really putting us in the eye of the storm." - Mostafah Henaway breachmedia.ca/cbsa-using-h...
CBSA using ‘harsh, unprecedented’ tactics in Quebec for record-breaking deportations ⋆ The Breach
Border agents confronting migrants in workplaces and schools, detaining them without prior contact, and rushing deportations before legal options for asylum seekers have played out
breachmedia.ca
Breaking: Four Filton activists have become first protesters in UK to be sentenced to prison as terrorists *without* even being convicted of terror offences Lottie Head, Samuel Corner, Ellie Kamio & Fatema Rajwani entered Elbit factory in UK in 2024 and damaged military arms equipment. Heroes.
Zapatistas on world cup 2026 "football, like almost everything, is caught between crime and resistance, between authoritarianism and rebellion, between business and play.. So, without any shame, let’s declare that FIFA is a shithole, period.” mexicosolidarity.com/zapatistas-f...
Zapatistas: FIFA is a Shithole, Reality in Mexico Prevails Over Frivolous, Superficial World Cup
Captain Marcos decried the "Trumpist FIFA, which pretends to give lessons in morality and good customs."
mexicosolidarity.com
Harsha Walia's text is a great updated summary of border regimes with a critical reminder of Europe's role in building these thanatoptical regimes and a striking definition of borders.
I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.
Inspiring piece detailing resistance to fifa and transnational networks being built across cities “It’s a party for the rich. We’re seeing that echoed across all cities and all of the profit is going to go back into international war and domestic repression.” thebaffler.com/latest/wicke...
Wicked Games | Madeleine Wattenbarger
Resistance to the FIFA World Cup transcends borders.
thebaffler.com
Interesting piece suggesting a turn from the already parasitic FIFA in two ways. One, Trump is indifferent to what visitors and tourists think. Two, with expansion of world cup infrastructure, FIFA now desperately needs host countries (rather than vice versa). www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Omar Artan scandal reveals Gianni Infantino for what he is: one of sport’s greatest cowards | Jonathan Liew
The Fifa president has prostrated the organisation before Donald Trump and lost control of his own tournament as a result
theguardian.com
Fundraiser for students activists targeted in recent FBI raid of pro-Palestine movement in Michigan. They are facing several charges and upto 20 years if convicted. Shamefully, University of Michigan aided the FBI with their investigation ahead of the raids. chuffed.org/project/um-p...
Legal Fund of Michigan Students for Palestine
6/11/2026 UPDATE ON FBI ARRESTS AND RAIDES -- URGENT AID NEEDED:
chuffed.org
Everybody fcking hates FIFA. "disruption, street closures, and security perimeters; lopsided accrual of revenue to FIFA; rearrangement of their city’s summer cultural and event calendar that many view as an unacceptable requirement of hosting” vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/09/w...
7 in 10 polled in Toronto, Vancouver say FIFA World Cup matches 'not worth public costs'
A new poll finds many people in Toronto and Vancouver don't think hosting the World Cup matches are "not worth the public costs."
vancouver.citynews.ca
AI is fossil capital accumulation: One of govt's stated top “public policy benefits” of constructing data centres is creating new markets for Canadian fracked gas producers, w/ build-out of vast electricity-consuming data centres providing markets for Canadian energy. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...
Federal Adviser Says Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ for Gas | The Tyee
Boosting energy production is one of the top ‘public policy benefits to Canada’ of data centres, says internal government document.
thetyee.ca
Violence in Belfast is tethered to growing anti migrant racism in UK, Scotland & across Europe. This fuels legislated violence, w/ new EU migration pact coming into force this week: expanded detention & more border outsourcing w/ return camps. Fighting far right means fghting border imperialism.
"Someone who is rioting doesn’t know that the person they are targeting is actually looking after their mother or their granny. Meanwhile, I left my mother back home.” Care workers tell of being trapped as fires took hold of their neighbours houses in Belfast www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘It was so terrifying’: care workers tell of being trapped at home by Belfast mob
Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot feared they would be next as fires took hold of neighbouring houses
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