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Chicago Anarchist Black Cross @chicagoabc.bsky.social · Jul 30
Join us outside the federal jail downtown for RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS in solidarity with political prisoners. FREE THEM ALL! 🏴

Sept 19th - MCC Chicago - 71 W Van Buren
5PM Rally, March & 5K Marathon
7PM Generator show with bands and DJs (TBA)

abcchicago.noblogs.org/running-down...
Flyer for Running Down The Walls 2026 person playing guitar in front of graffiti covered crumbling prison walls Join us outside the federal jail downtown for RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS, the annual inside/outside 5K marathon, generator show and ABCF Warchest fundraiser in solidarity with political prisoners. FREE THEM ALL! 🏴 MCC Chicago - Sept 19th 2026 71 W Van Buren 5PM Rally, March & 5K Marathon 7PM Generator show with bands and DJs (TBA) We descend upon MCC Chicago amidst a dramatic escalation of fascist repression under the Trump Administration. Federal agents are ravaging our communities to murder and kidnap with impunity while dissent is targeted as terrorism. Now more than ever we must stand together to bring a fierce and endless solidarity; to have the backs of those facing repression while bringing the resistance to the front gates. Free the Prairieland defendants! Free all political prisoners! Free them all! More information: https://www.abcf.net/rdtw https://abcchicago.noblogs.org More info TBA. Seeking endorsers, tablers, and performers; we're also inviting people behind bars to send in statements to be read and will set up a # for people to call in Thank you to the amazing @fumando_takis & @arte.curando for the flyer art!
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New website and publication for 'In Contempt,' a roundup of news and analysis around state repression and political prisoners. A bad ass project! incontempt.ftp.sh/in-contempt-...
Logo for "In Contempt"
September 24, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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crimethinc.com
As part of our overview of resistance to ICE around the country, we present a report from Austin, Texas, where people gathered in protest after ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in the back.

The authors explore why we must hold police responsible for ICE attacks.

crimethinc.com/MeltICE#aust...
A photograph (by Scamlikely on Instagram) of a young person spray-painting a wall (paint on the wall already reads "Muerte a la migra") during the protests in response to the ICE shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin, Texas. A photograph (by Scamlikely on Instagram) of a circle of candles and flowers with a sign reading "Justice for Wilber."
September 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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unraveledpress.com
New: Before Renée and Alex, ICE fatally shot Mexican immigrant Silverio Villegas González last fall outside Chicago in suburban Franklin Park.

One year later, @domguan.bsky.social spent some time with the group of local women tending to his memorial. His family is still demanding answers:
Growing Where He Died: Silverio Villegas González, One Year Later
One year on from the killing of Silverio Villegas González, a community of Franklin Park women continue the fight to keep his memory alive–through art, flowers, and “a culture of celebrating life.”
unraveledpress.com
September 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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igd.bsky.social
"A second incident occurred around 1 p.m. Sept. 7, when about 130 detainees began throwing items, flipping furniture and disabling security cameras, according to DHS.

The agency said the detainees caused significant damage to the detention facility and other property." www.ktsm.com/news/nationa...
Riot at Camp East Montana: DHS reports violence, property damage involving detainees
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says two incidents involving detainees occurred at Camp East Montana in El Paso County in the past week, including an assault …
www.ktsm.com
September 10, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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crimethinc.com
One of the enigmas of the second Trump administration is that the fascist street activity of 2017-2020 has not returned. But as Trump’s grip weakens, we will likely see the far right return to the streets.

We should track what fascists are trying to do today and to block them every step of the way.
“Spider-Man Did Nothing Wrong”
As Trump's grip weakens, the far right will likely return to the streets. We should track what fascists are trying to do and block them every step of the way.
crimethinc.com
September 11, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
STRIKE ALERT: Prisoners across the U.S. will stage a National Prisoners' Human Rights Strike from May Day through June 19 (Juneteenth), 2027, uniting the fight to end legalized slavery with the struggle to restore voting rights to the prison class Jailhouselawyersspeak.com @jaillawspeak.bsky.social
Flyer showing an illustration of an injured Black figure with the text: NATIONAL PRISONERS' HUMAN RIGHTS STRIKE MAY 1 - JUNE 19, 2027 FROM MAY DAY TO JUNETEENTH: WE REFUSE TO SLAVE. SHARE THESE DATES TO THE INSIDE. GET THE FULL PRESS STATEMENT AT JAILHOUSELAWYERSSPEAK.COM
August 2, 2026 at 5:33 PM
chicagoabc.bsky.social
Join us outside the federal jail downtown for RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS in solidarity with political prisoners. FREE THEM ALL! 🏴

Sept 19th - MCC Chicago - 71 W Van Buren
5PM Rally, March & 5K Marathon
7PM Generator show with bands and DJs (TBA)

abcchicago.noblogs.org/running-down...
Flyer for Running Down The Walls 2026 person playing guitar in front of graffiti covered crumbling prison walls Join us outside the federal jail downtown for RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS, the annual inside/outside 5K marathon, generator show and ABCF Warchest fundraiser in solidarity with political prisoners. FREE THEM ALL! 🏴 MCC Chicago - Sept 19th 2026 71 W Van Buren 5PM Rally, March & 5K Marathon 7PM Generator show with bands and DJs (TBA) We descend upon MCC Chicago amidst a dramatic escalation of fascist repression under the Trump Administration. Federal agents are ravaging our communities to murder and kidnap with impunity while dissent is targeted as terrorism. Now more than ever we must stand together to bring a fierce and endless solidarity; to have the backs of those facing repression while bringing the resistance to the front gates. Free the Prairieland defendants! Free all political prisoners! Free them all! More information: https://www.abcf.net/rdtw https://abcchicago.noblogs.org More info TBA. Seeking endorsers, tablers, and performers; we're also inviting people behind bars to send in statements to be read and will set up a # for people to call in Thank you to the amazing @fumando_takis & @arte.curando for the flyer art!
July 30, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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abc-soflo.bsky.social
4th of July Statement from Oso Blanco
independence - but for who? 4th of july statement from political prisoner oso blamco White text on a black background reads: “Good evening, beautiful people. This is Oso Blanco. Please let me tell you why I DESPISE the 4th of July. This is NO “Happy Birthday for America.” For us, this 4th of July madness is the American celebration of their 1776 celebration ON OUR LAND for the American’s freedom from the British Empire.” Under statement text is purple bar directing readers to swipe to next slide. White text on a black background reads “Independence Day” for who, I ask? Not for Native people. This 4th of Juy marks the next 250 years of massive waves of genocide, land theft, extinction of may tribes, environmental destruction of the Earth—rivers, lakes, all waters air and soil. Under statement text is purple bar directing readers to swipe to next slide “The 4th marks unrestrained colonialism, and the oppression of Native spiritual lifeways, healing practices, and Native peoples’ freedom. So, in short, the 4th is the end of Native Nations’ freedom and safety from attack and destruction of our cultures and customs. There is NO WAY I can “celebrate” that stupid EVIL day in ’76. The positives do not outweigh the negatives. The negatives far. FAR outweigh the positives starting with the 4th of July 1776. Under statement text is purple bar directing readers to swipe to next slide.
July 5, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place*

this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply!

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis
The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
ballsandstrikes.org
June 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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peoplesfabric.bsky.social
Here's the thing...many ICE agents just drove a couple hundred feet further down the road and drove through the grass to get to their facility without interacting with protesters at all.

This agent had other options to get to where he wanted to go, but he chose the path straight through the crowd.
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · Jun 9
A grand juror asked whether the agent could have stopped the SUV: "Isn't the right thing to do to stop?"

Mecklenburg: "Well, didn't you hear the testimony that he said he was afraid to stop because he was afraid they were going to break the windows and pull him out and he would be injured?"
GRAND JURY: Couldn't he have MS. MECKLENBURG: Couldn't he have GRAND JURY: If he is afraid of running over people, isn't the right thing to do to stop? MS. MECKLENBURG: Well, didn't you hear the testimony that he said he was afraid to stop because he was afraid they were going to break the windows and pull him out and he would be injured?
June 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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unraveledpress.com
DHS has confirmed this was an ICE "targeted enforcement operation."

The man they targeted, a Polish national, is currently being held in the Miami Correctional Center in Bunker Hill, Indiana, per the ICE detainee locator system.

The Miami Correctional Center sits next to Grissom Air Reserve Base.
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Jun 9
Earlier today rapid responders reported federal agents detaining someone on Grace & Olcott in Chicago.

A nearby resident got video of an unmarked SUV striking a red car at high speed in the residential area around 10:24 am.

He then described seeing men in tactical vests on scene, one marked "ICE."
June 10, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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‘A Crock of Shit’: Amid Misconduct Allegations, Broadview Six Transcripts Offer Rare Window into Grand Jury talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-crock...
‘A Crock of Shit’: Amid Misconduct Allegations, Broadview Six Transcripts Offer Rare Window into Grand Jury
Grand jury sessions are among the most tightly held elements of the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
June 9, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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fireantmovement.bsky.social
Join us June 11th for a panel discussion with formerly incarcerated anarchist prisoners. We will discuss the state of repression, and how we can support our comrades who are serving sentences for their work struggling to free us all.

7:00 pm EST, Thursday 6/11.

tinyurl.com/y9knaws7
June 6, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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unraveledpress.com
Is the sweeping reform going to be firing himself, or
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · May 27
JUST IN: Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros says he is implementing "sweeping reforms to internal grand jury practices" in the wake of the "Broadview Six" revelations:
United States Attorney Andrew S. Boutros Announces Sweeping Reforms to Internal Grand Jury Practices and Disclosures; Remediation Plan Includes Most Substantial and Significant Changes in Decades CHICAGO — Andrew S. Boutros, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today announced a series of sweeping internal reforms to the Office’s grand jury practices and disclosures that took effect yesterday. The remediation plan, which represents the most substantial and significant internal changes to the Office’s grand jury procedures in decades, will streamline the Office’s grand jury processes and disclosures. The new process moving forward will be more transparent, effective, and impactful while greatly reducing the likelihood of mistakes and errors. The important reforms, which took effect yesterday for all grand jury presentations in the Northern District of Illinois, establish clear and unequivocal expectations and rules for federal prosecutors related to grand jury disclosures and the timing of those disclosures. Among the many changes in the remediation plan are increased and expanded education about grand jury presentations, including extensive, deep-dive training from national experts outside the Office. U.S. Attorney Boutros and the Department of Justice have also taken swift action related to internal personnel matters. “One of the benefits of being the first Chicago U.S. Attorney to have previously been Chair of White Collar in private practice is that I have represented and advised as my own personal clients some of the largest public and other companies and their audit committees, boards, C-suite executives, and others in highly sensitive and bet-the-company government and internal investigations,” said U.S. Attorney Boutros.  “Everybody who has handled high-stakes corporate cases knows that in addition to the importance of thorough, honest, and objective investigations, there must also be remediation, reforms, and process improvements to allow organizations to accept responsibility and make sure that the same mistakes don’t happen again.  What I have formulated and thereafter implemented on Tuesday of this week are among the most sweeping reforms to address root-cause issues in the Northern District of Illinois’s federal prosecutorial practices and procedures, especially as they relate to the grand jury and grand jury disclosures.  They also make the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office among, if not the leading district in the country on grand jury disclosures.  These remediations should also be deeply curative and put to rest once and for all the divergent practices that have existed across the Office for decades, including from one Assistant U.S. Attorney to another as well as from one generation to the next.  That’s because these are clear, bright line rules that everyone must abide by, which should streamline and simplify the decision-making and disclosure process, as opposed to bedevil it. It also should all but eliminate points of contention between federal prosecutor and defense counsel as it relates to these grand jury issues.” After learning of certain conduct by the government in the grand jury during a recent case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office immediately moved to dismiss the indictment in that case and proactively initiated an immediate review of other grand jury presentations that could have been impacted in a similar fashion.  The inquiry has included both a root cause analysis into the Office’s practices and procedures generally, as well as an exam of any cases by the AUSAs who went into the grand jury in that case that could have been impacted by similar conduct. The Office’s review is far along but remains ongoing. In addition,… The reforms announced today, many of which are being implemented for the first time anywhere in the country, will transform and modernize the Office’s procedures, while continuing to adhere to the longstanding tradition that a prosecutor serves as “one of the most beneficent forces in our society,” as then-Attorney General (and later Supreme Court Justice) Robert H. Jackson shared in his seminal 1940 address, “The Federal Prosecutor.” Attorney General Jackson remarked that the prosecutor’s “powers have been granted to our law-enforcement agencies because it seems necessary that such a power to prosecute be lodged somewhere. This authority has been granted by people who really wanted the right thing done—wanted crime eliminated—but also wanted the best in our American traditions preserved.” In announcing his reforms to the Office, U.S. Attorney Boutros thanked the Office’s Assistant U.S. Attorneys for all that they do for the people of the Northern District of Illinois: “Thank you for your hard work. Thank you for being on the front lines keeping our communities safe, making sure our victims are heard, protecting the public fisc, and working to hold accountable those defendants who commit serious crimes, all while doing so in the very best traditions of the Office and the Department. After all, the motto of the Department is ‘Qui Pro Domina Justitia Sequitur,’ meaning, ‘Who prosecutes on behalf of Justice.’” # # # # This statement is not intended to, does not, and may not be relied upon to create any rights, substantive or procedural, that are enforceable at law by any party, in any criminal, civil, or administrative matter. This statement does not purport to offer legal advice nor is it intended to substitute for the advice of legal counsel. It does not in any way limit the enforcement intentions or litigating positions of the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, or any other U.S. Attorney’s Office or compon…
May 27, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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lataco.bsky.social
Daily Memo: Around 500 People Are Now On A Hunger Strike at Five ICE Detention Centers Across the U.S.

It started with one man from Cuba at the Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico, who has been in ICE detention since last August.

Full report: lataco.com/huger-strike...
Daily Memo: Around 500 People Are Now On A Hunger Strike at Five ICE Detention Centers Across the U.S. ~ L.A. TACO
It started with one man from Cuba at the Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico, who has been in ICE detention since last August.
lataco.com
May 27, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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harshawalia.bsky.social
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.
How Not to Abolish ICE
What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?
www.bostonreview.net
May 27, 2026 at 3:42 PM
chicagoabc.bsky.social
A new "In Contempt" in the wild:

"Marius Is Free, June 11 Solidarity Without End (& J11 Interview), Daniela’s Trial Statement, International May Day Resistance & Repression"

Catch the latest roundup of political prisoner and prison rebellion news:
incontempt.noblogs.org/2026/05/27/i...
Against the State, its Prisons, and its Police graphic for In Contempt #7
May 27, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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igd.bsky.social
Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'
As people rally outside of Delaney Hall, detainees inside the facility push up against a window, their bodies and hands seen from the outside. Antifascist flag flies in front of Delaney Hall as people gather in protest.
May 26, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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unicornriot.bsky.social
Minneapolis Police officers killed George Floyd six years ago tonight. A popular uprising against police and anti-Blackness quickly spread across the globe.

In Minneapolis, community overran the 3rd Precinct and set it aflame.

Watch UR's feature-length documentary on the uprising:
George Floyd Uprising - Reporter Reflection Documentary & Series - UNICORN RIOT
Unicorn Riot's exclusive Reporter Reflection series bringing front line perspectives from the historic George Floyd uprising in Minneapolis.
unicornriot.ninja
May 26, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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rangemedia.co
Activists and community members rallied Monday to support the Spokane 3, whose trial over federal conspiracy charges started that morning. The case “will set precedent that ripples across the nation. We're calling all of you to raise awareness and to stand in solidarity.”
PHOTO ESSAY: Community rallies for Spokane 3 as federal trial starts
'The implication of the jury's ruling will set precedent that ripples across the nation. We are calling all of you here to help raise awareness and to stand in solidarity.'
www.rangemedia.co
May 19, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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transnews.network
A new, proposed ATF rule aims to make it far more difficult for trans people to legally purchase firearms.

@queerarmorer.bsky.social breaks down what it is, why armed defense is such a key part of queer and trans survival and what you can do in response to this attack on trans rights:
The ATF takes aim at trans gun rights: what it means and how to fight it
The federal firearms agency has proposed new background check rules that will restrict trans people's constitutional right to legally purchase a gun.
transnews.network
May 18, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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crimethinc.com
After over 17 years of imprisonment for taking direct action to defend the ecosystems that all our lives depend on, environmental activist Marius Mason has finally been released from captivity.

Thank you for everything, Marius.

supportmariusmason.org
A photograph showing Marius Mason embracing a tree, moments after being released from prison, en route to a halfway house.
May 14, 2026 at 7:49 PM
chicagoabc.bsky.social
Int'l. Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners

"We may take moments of evasion and defensive posture, only to come back stronger and more intransigent ... Solidarity without end means always acting towards the goal of destroying the prevailing order"

june11.noblogs.org
Graphic with various beautiful animals, fish, turtles, including one sweety holding a June 11 letter
May 19, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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mulchy.bsky.social
new: last week, the cook county board signed off on sheriff tom dart's request to nearly double the size of his flock license plate reader network.

it came despite revelations the agency worked with the controversial company for years without an agreement and as other cities are ditching the tech.
Cook County expands Flock license plate reader network - Chicago Reader
The county board approved Sheriff Tom Dart’s $1 million request, even as his office used the technology for years without an active contract.
chicagoreader.com
May 19, 2026 at 3:07 PM