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Jessica Stites

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In These Times@inthesetimes.com · last yr.

Private prison company Geo Group just opened the biggest immigrant detention center in the Midwest with 1,800 beds. Advocates say they've already identified one immigrant there who has working papers and was arrested anyway. inthesetimes.com/article/blac...

A Massive ICE Prison Just Reopened in Michigan

Advocates are pushing for the release of a Senegalese immigrant whom they say was arrested in Detroit despite work papers. The GEO Group-run detention center has also sparked civil rights concerns in ...

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Jessica Stites@jessicastites.bsky.social · last yr.

"If we don’t use this opportunity to build lasting power, then we’re just blowing off steam," @ufcwforward.bsky.social told reporter @lfelizleon.bsky.social Luis reported on protests in six cities and what's next after the 5 million strong nationwide mobilization inthesetimes.com/article/no-k...

“No Kings” Seeded a Mass Movement Against Trump, Backed by Labor

This weekend’s protests rallied millions in defense of immigrant workers and against authoritarianism. Now what?

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Jessica Stites@jessicastites.bsky.social · last yr.

SEIU was already stepping up for immigrants, but the Los Angeles raids and David Huerta's arrest propelled it to the forefront of the fight against authoritarianism. read @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/davi...

Trump Has Put a Target on SEIU, and the Labor Movement Is Fighting Back

The arrest of labor leader David Huerta in Los Angeles has put unions on the leading edge of resistance to mounting authoritarianism.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Students say they have frequently identified undercover investigators and confronted them. In two bizarre interactions captured by one student on video, a man who had been trailing the student faked disabilities, and noisily – and falsely – accused a student of attempting to rob him. The undercover investigators appear to work for Detroit-based City Shield, a private security group, and some of their evidence was used by Michigan prosecutors to charge and jail students, according to a Guardian review of police records, university spending records and video collected in legal discovery. Most charges were later dropped. Public spending records from the U-M board of regents, the school’s governing body, show the university paid at least $800,000 between June 2023 and September 2024 to City Shield’s parent company, Ameri-Shield.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil anti-genocide protesters on and off campus. This is absolutely unconscionable and a complete betrayal of students by the university, not to mention a violation of their fundamental rights to academic freedom.

The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned. The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · last yr.

URGENT: This morning in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained.

Emergency Rally Tonight May 2, 2025 @ 6:30pm Join the U.F.W. to demand the release of detained farm worker leaders being held at Buffalo Federal I.C.E. Detention Center 4250 Federal Dr, Batavia, NY 14020 With any inquiries contact ny@ufw.org SISE PUEDEProtesta de Emergencia Hoy, 2 de Mayo, 2025 @ 6:30pm Únase con la U.FW. para exigir la liberación de los líderes de trabajadores agrícolas detenidos en el Centro de Detención de I.C.E. Federal de Buffalo 4250 Federal Dr, Batavia, NY 14020 Contacte al Coordinadorx Organizadorx de Nueva York Con preguntas: Ny@ufw.org
Jessica Stites@jessicastites.bsky.social · 2y ago

Last I checked two people shouting at 1 person is not a "shouting match" If your brain hurts from the media both-sides-ism about Vance/Trump/Zelensky & you keep rewatching the video like "is anyone seeing this?", this annotation from @thebulletin.org is therapeutic thebulletin.org/2025/03/trum...

Trump’s Oval Office outburst with Zelensky, annotated

A real-time guide for watching the White House face-off between Volodomyr Zelensky, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.

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Jessica Stites@jessicastites.bsky.social · 2y ago

Labor organizers are some of the most underrecognized people out there. They're doing the grunt work, often without sleep, of building worker power -- sometimes organizing their own workplaces without pay. Help us celebrate them.

Alex Han@alexhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really excited to launch out the @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social "Labor Organizer of the Year" awards - please share widely, nominations are open. And think of "labor organizer" as broadly as you can - we want to honor the depth and breadth of workers who are building power at work in every way.

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 2y ago

"Left Out: The Missing Election Narratives" is a collaboration between The Forge, @convergencemag.com, & @therealnews.com. Together, we tell the unreported stories of the election, featuring the voices of organizers, voters, and cultural workers. Read them here: inthesetimes.com/left-out

A collaboration featuring essays, reporting and conversations by and with organizers, writers and cultural workers across the country.

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2y ago

"...if we campaign on everything, we campaign on nothing. In the coming years, we need to pursue a ruthlessly focused politics that highlights issues that will best build a popular base for the Left." @sunraysunray.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/soci...

The Path for Socialism Is Focus

The Left should reject identity politics in favor of an oppositional economic platform and credible, progressive policy solutions.

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Jessica Stites@jessicastites.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really important read by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Come for the Twitter hate, stay for the astute analysis of how to find solidarity in fractured times

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Those invectives preemptively blaming Latinos for the carnage promised by the ascendant Republican Party were made by well-compensated pundits...[Twitter] been converted into a de facto anti-organizing platform that eats solidarity and shits out bitcoin." inthesetimes.com/article/elec...