Divest Now! Say NO! to ICE Impunity, For-Profit Human Trafficking, and Enslavement by Prison Profiteers Hiding in Your Pension Plan, Mutual Fund, or Retirement Portfolio open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

In our chat on reimagining immigration, we learn about the Not Forgotten Project: a week-long intensive community search and rescue effort, book party, and faith gathering to say ¡Basta! to the dehumanization of women and girls. June 1-7. Click the link for more... open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Webinar Announcement: Learn How to Divest from Prison Profiteers Hiding in Your Portfolio. Join us on May 24, 3:00 pm ET. And please spread the word. DIVESTMENT WORKS! open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Cashing In on the ICE Gold Rush open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Shut Down Dilley Family Internment! Prison is No Place for Kids. Tell your reps to tell DHS and Prison Profiteer CoreCivic that Making $$$ off Children's Misery IS NOT OKAY! open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

There’s still time to learn and sing ICE OUT! A Resistance Anthem for today. Or add it to your playlist for #NoKingsDay @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org @vetsat.bsky.social @veteransforpeace.bsky.social See you in the streets @mn50501.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Ready to Resist ICE? Don't Miss This Masterclass by the OG Rio Grande Valley Resisters. Their Secret: Focused Hyperlocal Action open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

I wish it were otherwise. But in dark times like these, legacy media must stop enabling the worst of the worst. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Mass Deportation. Where human rights, decency, and constitutional law go to die... This Is What Mass Deportation Looks Like... open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Introducing two new must-read books poised to bring a potent, first-hand view of the walling-off of the US Southwest borderlands to audiences everywhere, and how to confront Wall Disease, which isn’t just a Cold War Berlin affliction anymore. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Can There Be Human Rights in a Security-Obsessed World? 77 years ago, the UDHR proclaimed all humans “born free and equal in dignity and rights,” without distinction of any kind. But human rights and dignity are not being respected in the US under ICE. Pls share: open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

The Judges are performing their constitutional duty & following the law. Unfortunately, we cannot say the same thing about the Justice Department in this regard.

Crossing the Line: How Women Activists Expose America's Immigration Cruelty. Radical care as an act of resistance and a "handbook for a more humane world." open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

Join us tomorrow for updates on the fight to stop Fisher Sand & Gravel from destroying Arizona's unique and pristine San Rafael Valley. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Imagine Being Scared of Diversity and Not Dictatorship. Ideas for helping others see our shared humanity this holiday season open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

"Just like family separation, I think we're starting to see people take to the street in really vocal opposition in a way President Trump has shown before that he will ultimately back down" -- interesting report from Jacob Soboroff on how Charlotte is organizing against ICE

We got here because Democrats thought campaigning with a Cheney would be more effective that standing up for the Human Rights and the Constitution. Grow some balls, Dems!

How do you solve a problem like the Department of Homeland Security and its unreformable, lawless “law enforcement” agencies? Check out my latest post to find out… "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our Legislature..." open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Join us tomorrow, online or at the Community Church of Boston, Boylston St, to find out how immigration became the weapon driving US democracy into crisis. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

Rally for the Valley: A Multicultural Border Happening November 15! Join borderlands conservationists to save the San Raphael Valley. Learn more by clicking on the post below… Trump's Ecocidal Boondoggle Border Wall open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Central PA Champions of Refugees to Receive 2025 Peace & Justice Awards, and I have the honor of offering the Keynote Address! Oct 21 in Harrisburg, PA. Meet me there, or in Burlington, VT, Oct 17; Amherst, MA, Oct 18; or New Paltz, NY, Oct 19. More dates to come! open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Indeed you do. And you're leading the rat pack.

Webinar & Breaking News: The Ecological Impacts of the Boondoggle Border Wall On People, Animals, the Environment, with Borderlands Conservationists @erickmeza7.bsky.social and Russ McSpadden, Sunday, September 28, 2:30-4:00 pm ET. Registration link in post below. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Don’t miss this 30,000-foot deep dive into the global leviathan that is the Border Industrial Complex - who it benefits, what it destroys, and how we can Resist its impunity - with @petramolnar.com Todd Miller of @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and Dora Rodriguez open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

This is right. We don't have the language to describe what we're seeing right before our eyes. That contributes to the disorienting effect it's all having, which I think people like Stephen Miller, who expressly uses the language of fascism as a weapon, understand perfectly well.

The first part of this long post by @radleybalko.bsky.social provides an excellent account of LibCon2025 and is an important reminder not to cede leadership of the struggle for liberal democracy to reactionary centrists (however well-funded they are).

There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

In a world beset by rising fascism, where US democracy is under attack by those who seek to control us through division, paranoia, hate, and fear of “the other,” Mauricio Matiz’s experience reminds us that a nation without empathy can never be great. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Heartfelt Sunday Thanks to everyone out there making Good Trouble! Please share. XOXO, Sarah In Gratitude to All You Tiny Grains of Sand open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

"It is a stunt sending tanks into D.C. ...But stunts can be super serious and terrible and terrorizing," says @monicapotts.bsky.social.

When the raids are over and companies have been reimbursed, parents are gone. Children cry themselves to sleep at night, traumatized for life, not knowing if they will ever see their loved ones again. The real costs of our tragic immigration policies are human. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

From machines reading our passports, faces, eyes? From travel to an eye scan being your ticket to food. No, this is not my next novel. It's the Border Industrial Complex. Join me @petramolnar.com, Todd Miller @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, Dora Rodriguez, Aug 3. Until we know, we cannot resist.

I’ve been investigating Paramount’s deal with Trump. Here’s what we know: - Trump sued CBS - CBS called the lawsuit “meritless” - Paramount (owner of CBS) still settled, handing $16 MILLION+ to Trump’s library - Paramount has a billion-dollar deal that needs Trump’s approval

Exactly.

With our democracy under threat, as well as our neighbors, colleagues, family members, and friends, we must all do our part to aid and support the #resistance. That's why I'm offering learning communities a way to skill up fast on #immigration. This summer… open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Turn your Outrage into Action! Discover myriad ways you can join the growing resistance against the abuses of an expanding US police state. History is repeating itself in the so-called land of the free. What side of that line do you wish to be on? open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Check out this chat with Dora Rodriguez, Sarah Towle & Abbey Carpenter on 'Writing to Change the World' & focused on the no-good, truly deadly, now expanded US Border Industrial Complex & Police State. Two must-read immigration books noted within. Get Ur Copies! open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

The real crisis facing us today is the hardening of the human heart. Empathy is a necessary precondition for a healthy society. A society without empathy can never be great. Not now. Not again. This July 4th, 2025, I grieve. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

"History is repeating itself in the so-called Land of the Free. The decades-long buildup to this tragic outcome is the foundational plotline of my book." 2nd Edition coming Sept 2025. #immigration #humanrights #ICE open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

This Sunday! Don't miss Dora Rodriguez and me in conversation with Abbey Carpenter to discuss the transformative power of storytelling to touch hearts and change minds and launch Dora’s much-anticipated memoir. Click the link to register. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Trump & Co are committing violence against unarmed, non-criminal offenders: - to provoke a citizen backlash - to invoke the Insurrection Act - to side-step the Posse Comitatus Act, so they can - to turn US forces against all of us. And that is martial law. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

There’s still time to register for Sunday’s meet-up of the Hope Knows No Borders Webinar Series: Is No Invasion. There Is Only Militarization. Spoiler alert: It isn’t just a southwest border issue anymore. Feel free to share the invite with your communities. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

Take Action Today! Tell Congress to Oppose Trump's MAGA-Party Attempts to Triple the Size of the Criminally Inhumane For-Profit Detention-to-Deportation-with-No-Due-Process Pipeline. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

There Is No Invasion. There Is Only Militarization. Join me and borderlanders from TX to CA on May 25, 2:30-4:00 pm ET, to discuss the human and environmental impacts of border "securitization" for the Hope Knows No Borders Webinar Series. Registration required. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

"I'm Not an Alien. I Don't Bleed Green. I Bleed Red Just Like You." On how dehumanizing, anti-immigrant language enabled the fascist takeover of US democracy and how, by reclaiming the narrative, we can pull the nation back to its senses, w/ Dora Rodriguez & me. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

🚨 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...

How do I speak to my brainwashed uncle? How do I push back against the disinformation and lies? This is the most FAQ Dora Rodriguez and I encounter when engaging groups across the nation. We're going to tackle it this Sun, April 27, 2:30-4 pm ET. Please join us! open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...