Reposting supportjamaica.gov.jm

“The first verse was me just trying to make George and Jeff laugh. […] And then, you know, [George] got carried away with that song.” - Tom Petty on “The Wilbury Twist” Read more at www.instagram.com/reel/DQXGBxx.... 🎥: The New Music, 1990; interview by Denise Donlon.

“We did it like Carl Aid! I thought, if I want to get over my fear, my inhibitions about going on and playing or whatever, if I can’t play Carl Perkins songs there’s not much chance of me playing anything!” - George, Q (1988) More at www.instagram.com/reel/DQE8mI0.... Taped on this day in 1985:

LISTEN.

"What I can say to the people [...] and to everyone watching... is, let's be more empathetic, let's be more humane," shared Andry. Watch his exclusive interview with @TimMiller.bsky.social on @Thebulwark.com and hear firsthand his powerful message for all of us. 🔗 youtu.be/-ySsBj3OOg0?...

#OtD 9 Aug 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking mass protests across the US stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1088...

I spoke with Andry Romero.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Suleiman. Suleiman was a house painter (like my own dad was) before all this. He has three small children, Reem, 10, Ashraf, 6 and Mohammed, 3. He is really struggling to find food for his family and really needs help.

I am fucking FUMING — but goddamn, I am so proud of this kid for having the wherewithal, the guts, and for refusing to delete the footage when threatened. He was arrested and charged for the footage alone

This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon: An event planner A coal miner An Uber driver Tortilla maker Barber DoorDashers Soccer coaches Furniture-maker Car washers Taxi drivers HVAC techs Auto parts worker Tire plant worker and 240 more... projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one. There were many people who worried for me.” —Andry José Hernandez Romero

Sharing this GIFT LINK so people can’t say they didn’t know what’s been happening in our name. wapo.st/3GZuXCW

"The bitterness is still there. The anger about what happened to him is still there.” After four months, more than 200 men sent to El Salvador have been released from CECOT and returned to Venezuela. @nlanard.bsky.social and I spoke with family members and friends waiting to be reunited with them.

I wish this essay didn’t need to exist. But it does. Please read it. Please share it. My latest Substack: “We Didn’t Kill Enough Indians”: The Cost of Shrugging Off Genocide open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...

An overview from NBC News: in it, Andry’s father, bereft, says that not having any way to contact his son is unbearable. www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts...

Rest In Peace to Philando Divall Castile who was taken from us by police on this day in 2016. (7/16/1983 - 7/6/2016).

It is day 100 since Andry was disappeared by Trump admin to a gulag in El Salvador. 100 days since this photo was snapped while he begged for his mom. 100 days of wondering if he is still alive. We’re still waiting for the devastatingly slow wheels of justice to turn. #FreeAndry

More than 200 people remain locked in prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration, without any right to trial.

Carlos should be spending #Father’sDay with his family. Instead, he has been disappeared to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, with no way for his partner or daughter to contact him. We demand the immediate release of all those disappeared to CECOT. We must #BringThemBack.

Organizers in LA are raising money to do tamale buyouts from local tamale vendors who are unable to safely vend on the street due to ICE kidnapping vendors. The tamales will be distributed to unhoused neighbors. Please consider donating — I personally vouch for this one: venmo.com?txn=pay&audi...

You can donate at ClueJustice.org/bond. @ImmDef has a team at the main detention facility holding people rounded up in the ICE raids this week to provide legal consults and assess eligibility for bond. No immigrant stands alone. #LAstandstogether #TeamImmDef

🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨 Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs: Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate LA Jail Support / Bail Fund: account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor... Unión del Barrio: uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...

when people are saying certain authoritarian responses aren't american, when america has done these exact methods to black folk, native americans, japanese folk, latinx, etc...many many times

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

More information on this despicable case here: thehill.com/homenews/sta...

2/ @micarosenberg.bsky.social, Perla Trevizo, Gabriel Sandoval, Ronna Risquez, Adrian Gonzalez and I have been reporting on what the government did to these 238 men, beginning with this story today: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

BREAKING: Our client Andry's asylum case was dismissed ~75 days the enforced disappearance to CECOT. “It seems the government’s intention in dismissing these cases across the country is to complete the disappearance of people,” - @l-toczylowski.bsky.social #FreeAndry www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Imagine spending your birthday imprisoned behind bars in a foreign country with no way to contact the outside world. Today, our client Andry turns 32 yrs old and is spending his birthday in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison despite having no criminal history. bit.ly/4k92cSP

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

🚨 Day 60: 238 men remain forcibly disappeared in El Salvador’s CECOT prison. U.S. Reps toured the prison, heard their desperate cries,“Freedom! Help! Kidnapped!” & walked past w/o helping. Visit freeandry.org to learn how you can still help. #FreeAndry #BringThemBack youtube.com/shorts/20o79...

Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison. I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.

Today a fundraiser was launched for Derek, to help him purchase a used car to get to and from work and parole meetings, and to help him recover after a horrendous storm flooded the home where he lives. If you can donate, every little bit helps! If you can't, please consider sharing his fundraiser:

THIS IS NOT NORMAL Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation #immigration

On this day in 1961, 21-year-old John Lewis and two other civil rights activists were severely beaten by a mob at the Rock Hill, South Carolina, Greyhound bus terminal while protesting segregation.

When a toxic waste disaster unfolded in the 1970s, a White housewife became the face of the movement. Down the street, Black mothers worked twice as hard to be heard.

NDN Collective is ramping up efforts to stop a graphite drilling project at Pe’sla, a sacred Lakota site in the Black Hills. The proposed mining would harm water sources, destroy land, and threaten Indigenous sovereignty. Read Full Press Release: ndnco.cc/mbhppr

CBP quietly revoked protections for at-risk people in custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and those with serious medical conditions—calling them “misaligned” with enforcement priorities. The rules required basics like diapers, formula, and water. www.wired.com/story/cbp-re...

The family has set up the following GoFundMe to cover Ximena’s secure legal representation — please consider sharing/donating if possible: gofund.me/a821621c?fbc...

DC restaurants are on alert but ICE is also targeting schools. There is currently ICE presence at the Mondo Verde school on P Street -- parents are forming a human chain and plan to do so for the rest of the week. If you're in DC and able to, they would like help

Hey guys- White nationalists have helped a white woman in Minnesota raise $300k after she was filmed calling a five-year-old Black child the n-word. The local NAACP chapter is fundraising for the boy and his family to get legal help. The least we could do is out-fundraise the nazis. Donate here:

"Be strong." Wilmer Gutiérrez sends a message to his son Merwil, held in El Salvador's CECOT prison without due process after being sent there by the Trump administration along with hundreds of other immigrants.

“I felt this kind of fear, like something was telling me we weren’t going to Venezuela at all. Because the cops, when they had us here, they kept laughing a lot." @nlanard.bsky.social and I interviewed six Venezuelans who were nearly removed from Bluebonnet—presumably to El Salvador—on April 18.

What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

“Photojournalist Philip Holsinger, who documented the prison for Time, said Hernández Romero sobbed uncontrollably, praying and calling out for his mother as guards dragged him down a hallway.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-r...