Feed: "The Providence Eye" By: Ella Fassler on Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Oh yeah that's the good stuff

New today in @thepvdeye.bsky.social: an interesting piece from @ella-writes.bsky.social.

PVD Mayor Brett Smiley is set to veto a rent stabalization bill despite its popularity among voters. In an op-ed for the Providence Eye I argued this is a reminder we live in a highly centralized governing system & proposed democratic confederalism as an alternative pvdeye.org/decentralize...

The Worker's Assembly "shines a light on the political possibilities of an anti-ICE, anti-war movement organized democratically by rank-and-file workers, and provides an alternative to a movement dictated by the labor and social movement bureaucracies." www.leftvoice.org/no-ice-no-wa...

“The department's new Drone as a First Responder (DFR) program led to the arrest of a 14-year-old who was speeding on an e-bike…”

I think it's vitally important that everyone know that when baby bear cubs are orphaned and taken to our local wildlife center, they get fed and rehabbed by people masking their scent and wearing costumes like this so they don't get habituated to humans

Behind the Hunger Strike: Swift Justice Continues Fight for ‘Prisoners’ Rights’ Kenneth ‘Swift Justice’ Traywick started starving himself November 20, 2025, striking in solidarity with ‘prisoners’ across Alabama and the United States. unicornriot.ninja/2026/behind-...

Experts warn the verdict could set a precedent for prosecuting protest activity as terrorism.

We have a verdict and we are heartbroken at the results. This is only the beginning. We will continue to fight the remaining charges until every defendant is home.

“Kurds know themselves. They come from the depths of history. They have struggled for freedom for a century,” he said. “They are not in a position to be anyone’s soldiers or instruments of anyone’s interests.” bianet.org/haber/pkk-re...

these lies are told by: Israel-based broadcaster i24News, Axios relied on confirmation from a senior US official that post later deleted & of course a Fox News reporter on X citing a US official of course didn’t deny the lie of “thousands of Iraqi Kurds” launching a ground offensive in Iran

“Indigenous campaigners in the Brazilian Amazon this week after they staved off a threat to the Tapajós River by occupying a grain terminal operated by Cargill, the biggest privately owned company in the United States.”

Our top story: Protesting, wearing black clothing, owning zines, guns, or first aid kits. Using the encrypted messaging app Signal. The federal government is using all these activities to build a so-called "antifa" conspiracy case.

Beautiful piece from @ella-writes.bsky.social on how projects like @pmpress.bsky.social are building organized power and resistance culture.

"Unlike most outlets, The Defender pairs its editorial work with a robust community programs wing aimed at building material and political power through mutual aid, political education, and arts and culture events. These efforts include a free clothing program, a free grocery program ... and more."

“Good old-fashioned human interaction is the way that you actually build [movements]. Not through a virtual world that is owned and manipulated by corporations and the right.”

Left media workers & publishers are opening physical spaces aimed at building collective power. my latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/the...

Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.

“If Rojava were to be forcibly brought under the control of a re-centralized Syrian state, it could spell the end of the libertarian communalist project that has inspired the world.” great piece by @shaneburley.bsky.social @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/roj...

📢Syrian Kurds are Under Attack❗ 📃Read and share our joint-statement and call-to-action in collaboration with other US-based Kurdish organizations. www.defendrojava.org/news/syrian-...

"The intellectual confidence among the women I met struck me hard–and I don’t mean just the writers or teachers. I mean all the women: from soldiers to judges, from women working in a textile factory to those on an agricultural committee." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

📣Call Congress Today! 📞Demand immediate action to stop the Syrian state's ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Aleppo! 🚨 www.defendrojava.org/news/call-in...

📢 ECR Statement on the situation in Aleppo: 🕊️ Hands Off Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh! ✌️ Solidarity with the Kurds of Aleppo! 🌿 Syria is for ALL Syrians! www.defendrojava.org/news/ecr-sta...

Anti-ICE protesters are having a rolling noise demo and protest in downtown Minneapolis targeting hotels where federal agents are reportedly staying -- starting at the Canopy by Hilton and going to the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel. Police have just arrived as we are posting this.

"We, as the YPJ, did not start with weapons. I want to emphasize this fact. We started with organization. Our greatest weapon at the very beginning was our organization. From two, three, four women, we became hundreds and hundreds." www.kurdishpeace.org/research/kpi...

I’m only halfway through and it’s already the book that has excited me most this year, highly recommend 👇🏼

A grim reminder that police departments are not neutral arbiters of the law, but political institutions with their own interests, norms, and value systems My latest @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/pol...

Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond. truthout.org/articles/pol...

"[I]t's misleading for police to claim that 'sanctuary' laws will protect residents ... from deportation. Because ICE routinely mines FBI criminal databases, gang databases, and court records, even brief contact with the criminal legal system can put people at risk."

Alleged violations generally fall into two categories: illegal data sharing and assistance with immigration-related arrests.

"[M]isleading for police to claim that 'sanctuary' laws will protect residents." "[N]ews coverage revealed that at least 18 jurisdictions allegedly unlawfully shared data and six may have illegally assisted with immigration-related arrests." #USA #Policing #Courts #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

#JuryNullification works.

We are speedrunning "the worst, most dangerous technologies trickle down from military to feds to local police" www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

"For Beckett, time banking is less about economics, and more about mending social fragmentation. 'We invariably wind up making friends,' he told Truthout, noting that he offers sailboat rides to fellow members. 'The whole point is to knit community.'" truthout.org/articles/dig...

Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies Through time exchanges, members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need help themselves. truthout.org/articles/dig...

Members of time exchange networks come together to help each other with every day tasks, navigating challenging paperwork, or even moving house. One such community has 530 active members and more than 101,000 hours exchanged over the past 15 years.

While many modern time banks operate in relatively apolitical spaces, revolutionary mutual aid groups could reclaim them as tools for building power and breaking out of siloed organizing. My latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/dig...

Black-Led, Progressive Homeschool Networks Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI As Trump attacks civil rights protections, a growing number of progressive parents are opting out of public schools truthout.org/articles/bla...

Amid book bans and DEI rollbacks, Black-led homeschool co-ops are forming as liberatory and inclusive alternatives to traditional schooling. my latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/bla...

"In homeschool cooperatives, students learn side by side from one another’s parents — an embodiment of the saying “It takes a village to raise a child.” At For the Culture, parent-teachers introduced Cari and her classmates to the genocide in Gaza and other current events..." How awesome is this?

As Trump attacks civil rights protections, a growing number of progressive parents are opting out of public schools.

Share this thread and follow on the ground reporters, journalists, media collectives and organizing groups. go.bsky.app/HnGMTGN

"Across the board, the assemblies are committed to building people’s power beyond the confines of the electoral system." Autonomous community assemblies are forming in various cities to coordinate mutual aid and community defense. Latest from @ella-writes.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/gra...

Popular assemblies offer a space for anti-fascist and progressive forces to coordinate, strategize, and make decisions together to build power that can be leveraged against the U.S. government.

Grassroots Assemblies Empower People to Fight Back Against Trump’s Agenda truthout.org/articles/gra...