Murshed Zaheed"This tragedy is the direct result of the United States’s immigration system, which has prioritized deterrence, detention, and militarization over humanity at every step. The U.S. and Mexican governments are morally complicit in the abuse and death that people migrating for safety face once they arrive at the Southern border." - @silky13 dropping some truth bombs. https://truthout.org/articles/at-least-39-asylum-seekers-dead-after-fire-at-migrant-jail-in-mexico/
Silky Shah
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executive director of Detention Watch Network, from Texas, organizing for abolition and racial & migrant justice, views my own, she/her, #FreeThemAll
Excited that my first post here is celebrating the closure of the Berks Detention Center! Congrats to the Shut Down Berks coalition for all their work to get us here. Berks, a former family detention center has been in operation for over 20 years. It was among 10 ICE jails @detentionwatch demanded Biden close in his first year. https://www.readingeagle.com/2022/11/30/federal-government-to-close-berks-county-residential-center/
Keri BlakingerThe lead story in the #Houston Chronicle today is that THREE MORE people died in the Harris County jail in the past week.
It's grim news but I think it also shows progress that the local paper sees deaths in the jail as front page news. It hasn't always been this way.
Texas Observer“We said never again, but here we are.”
The attention may have moved on, but the #Biden administration is still separating immigrant families and children. In 2019, the #Texas Civil Rights Project documented 272 cases of family separation.
John Washington and Anna-Catherine Brigida speak to experts and immigrants themselves in this new investigation: https://www.texasobserver.org/the-biden-administration-is-still-separating-kids-from-their-families/
Haymarket BooksLet This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
Releasing May 2023
Pre-order here: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781642598278
At a political moment when the urgency of radical, anti-carceral and anti-capitalist politics is clearer than ever, we've put together a book bundle of key, recent releases at the intersection of abolition and feminism.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/475-abolition-feminisms-book-bundle
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/475-abolition-feminisms-book-bundle
Abolition Feminisms Book Bundle
At a political moment when the urgency of radical, anti-carceral and anti-capitalist politics is clearer than ever, we've put together a book bundle of key, recent releases at the intersection of abolition and feminism. The Abolition Feminisms Book Bundle includes: Shira Hassan’s landmark account of liberatory harm reduction politics; Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie’s pathbreaking rebuttal to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—and even incompatable—political projects; Ray Acheson’s urgent and accessible analysis of the overlapping structures of state violence that define our terrain of struggle; and Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, and Brooke Lober’s field-spanning two volume anthology bringing together many of abolition feminism’s key thinkers. Get all five books for (less than) $55 until November 21st. For further reading, check out Abolition Now! Haymarket Books Against Policing & Mass Incarceration.