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Good news, but each of these folks will have to post a $1,500 bond. Please consider donating to our bond fund.

Reaching out, connecting and coming together with others, and committing to collective care and action. There is no other way to navigate what we are experiencing. Art by @ollycostello.bsky.social

“When the raids hit, & I see my community out en masse, I feel myself transformed by the bravery, innovation & determination of my neighbors to keep each other safe & defend our shared belonging.” @ollycostello.bsky.social in @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s latest.

11/5, 7 pm: The in-person launch for READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and Atena O. Danner. Preorder the book before 11/4 and receive a special letter from Kelly! pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/47805

The Resilience Arts Fest will showcase stories from prison and beyond this weekend: "Art humanizes people." blockclubchi.co/4qlUzfh

Next week! Join @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in conversation with Shane Burley, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner to discuss 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩, a collection of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times. Register: bit.ly/4ngNHwQ

If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.

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I AM COMMITTED TO GROWING OUR NEXT WORLD🌻🪏✨❤️‍🔥 My new 2026 Quarterly Moon Calendar is now available! Find the link to my shop below👇🏼

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW: (Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 (Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831 Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336 I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Broadview, Illinois today— A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.

Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.

What are you building? What are we willing to build together? What do we know must exist? New WILLING TO BUILD Prints for sale in my shop featuring this quote I love from @prisonculture.bsky.social ✨ 100% of profits will go to support the work of REBUILD. More info below👇🏼

The wonderful @ollycostello.bsky.social created a lovely print and is selling it to help raise funds for REBUILD. ollycostelloshop.com/products/wil... - It includes some words by me.

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

Woods Ervin of Critical Resistance notes the Legislative Analyst’s Office found California could close five more prisons—saving $1.5B a year. That money could fund Medi-Cal, food aid, housing, and other vital programs. Check out my latest @therealnews.com therealnews.com/prisons-clos...

"I think it’s really important for us to understand $150 billion were just inserted into this organization, into this terror organization, that would be as big as the fifth-largest army in the world." - Rep. Delia Ramirez

Please read this. “Less than one week into President Donald Trump’s surge of deportation arrests in Chicago, an immigration agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on a near suburban street Friday morning.”

Like I just said on CNN, it’s absolutely evil that people are sleeping on concrete floors at the ICE detention center near Chicago. Join us to protest this Friday at 7 am at the Broadview Detention Center.

There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism.

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

Chicago! Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual) www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Two million people are being threatened with forced starvation in #Palestine, as the US government continues to support ongoing ethnic-cleansing. We've created a list of on-the-ground mutual aid groups in #Gaza that you can support, amplify, and follow. itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-o...

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

New poster design for @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, published by @akpress.org 🦋

Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill. It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.

This list of resources for trans people and their loved ones—groups that we should all support directly and donate to—includes groups that provide support through mutual aid and microgrants, legal support, crisis support and mental health resources, as well as local and regional support:

Art, care work, and movements for liberation are intertwined. Children’s books hold liberatory potential! Come join @ollycostello.bsky.social, Keisa Reynolds, and me TODAY to talk about this stuff and more. www.eventbrite.com/e/on-caregiv...

This is tomorrow! :)

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

Prisons Must Fall—the latest children's book from our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social, co-authored with Jane Ball and illustrated by @ollycostello.bsky.social—shows the harm that prisons cause and explores alternatives. You can learn more about it and download free related resources here:

14y later, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States is more relevant than ever, from criminalization of trans folk as inherently “fraudulent” to framing queer & trans people & supporters as predatory & deviant to the role of gender & sexuality in Right wing agendas.

This is still one of the best ways to limit deportations. Stop collaborations between ICE, local police departments, sheriffs, and county jails.

🧵1/2: We demand the immediate release of Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda (A 208-276-014), a long-time Chicago resident, loving mother and grandmother, and a dedicated community leader, who was unjustly detained during a routine ISAP check-in on June 4, 2025. ocadchi.salsalabs.org/freegladis

There is no reforming or fixing something that is doing exactly what it was set up to do. As our co-founders @prisonculture.bsky.social and @dreanyc123.bsky.social have long said, the demand to defund the police was always just the basement floor. Everyone who pushed for it was right.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Lubna. Lubna is an accountant and the mother of three sons, Mohammed, 11, Hassan, 8 and baby Yazan, 2 who has been sick. Her husband, Ahmed, a sports trainer, was injured and then captured while they were trying to flee Rafah last month.

ICYMI the conversation is up on @haymarketbooks.org channel lots of juicy nuggets of wisdom and lessons for this moment!

hi, cis folks! it’s pride. you with us? cool. have you called your senators about the budget bill that’s trying to strip trans healthcare from people of all ages on medicaid or ACA plans? that’s like 20% of us & this is the govt we’re up against. find reps here reps.fyi tap the thread for scripts

If you look at the state of the world and start feeling like hope is pointless, I want to share this passage from @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's book LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU, from the chapter "Hope and Grief Can Coexist." www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

“To those of you in the US, the organizers, activists, community workers, & everyday ppl of the Global South are writing to you about hope… We mean the kind of hope fierce enough to confront the suffering caused by systemic oppression, & one that tactfully & persistently fights to put an end to it.”

“The exclusion of individuals labeled ‘criminals’ in the U.S. immigration system … ignores the complexity of human behavior and reinforces [a] harmful narrative of irredeemability.” Love this op-ed by Marina Manoukian about undoing the very idea of criminality.

Looking for ways to support Palestinians in Gaza? Here are two families!!

Looking forward to this!