Criminalizing #Dissent

https://bit.ly/4v1HtWY

#Prairieland #protest

The state locked up Maricela Rueda for protesting the brutality of immigrant detention, and now her family is left carrying the weight: caring for her daughter, managing the house, and dealing with the financial fallout. The money goes directly to her daughter’s care and urgent household needs.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-maricelas-family-while-she-fights-for-justice

#prairieland

“FBI records directly undercut 1 of the Prairieland prosecution’s core claims: that antifa is a violent, criminal organization bent on overthrowing the gov. These records were never turned over to the defense & thus never seen by the jury. Could have major implications.” ~ Ricci Sergienko

#prairieland #Fbi
https://inthesetimes.com/article/prairieland-antifa-trial-protest-repression-fbi

Trump’s first ‘antifa’ prosecution is a warning to the left - The case against the Prairieland Nine is an attempt to put a face on Maga’s mythical enemy, even as masked ICE agents terrorise communities with impunity
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That’s when I found the T-shirt with two flags – one black, one red – inspired by a German communist group from the Weimar era called Antifaschistiche Aktion. If Trump or his proxies wanted to brand me a terrorist, I thought, they’d have to contend with the history of the people who resisted the Nazis. By being against anti-fascism, the Maga movement made it clear what it stood for.

Perhaps I was being naive. On 13 March, a jury in north Texas convicted nine people of a range of federal charges, including providing material support to terrorists, for an incident outside an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention facility in Prairieland, near Fort Worth. The government prosecutor alleged that the defendants were members of an antifa cell on the basis that they were dressed all in black, wearing surgical masks and in possession of leftist zines. One of them had a sticker that depicted a stick figure throwing a swastika in a bin. On these grounds, my T-shirt would have landed me in Guantánamo.
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https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/trump-first-antifa-prosecution-is-a-warning-to-the-left

#uspol #USA #trump #antifa #Prairieland

“When you resist the death machines, no matter how tall the shadows around you and how far from others you feel, you may be alone, but you are also with all of us who resist.

When you raise a brick against the police at the riot or barricade or alone in an alley, you do so with all those who know the taste of state violence and who refuse to accept its assumed permanence.

When you strike against the commodity form, through theft or sabotage or a refusal to work, you do so with all those who refused to be lubricant for the gears of that ecocidal and genocidal project.

Every action you take to articulate, and fight for, the world you desire is taken in concert with all who desire something similar. You are alone, and you are together.”

source: From “If We Go, We Go On Fire”, a #zine presented as evidence during the #Prairieland Trial

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ignatius-if-we-go-we-go-on-fire

Random question about the #Prairieland "Antifa" convictions: Did ICE/cops ever produce physical evidence that one of their guys was shot? I assume they must have or the judge wouldn't have allowed the attempted murder charge; however, I also remember that, a week or two ago, ICE had a wild, shifting path of claims: multiple officers shot, just one shot, shot multiple times, dead (I think that was claimed at one point), nobody shot (pretty sure someone said that very briefly), then one guy shot in the neck.

I recall reading a couple of weeks ago that, when ICE supervisors were asked for evidence that someone was shot--a body, a hospital report, etc.--they refused and basically said "take our word for it."

So what kind of evidence did they finally produce for the shooting? How serious was it? I know attempted murder is attempted murder; I'm not contesting that, if it happened. I'm curious about what the reality was, underneath the allegation shuffle #ICE was doing for a while there.

#PrairielandDefendants #trial #legal #question #uspol