Editor’s note: this call comes from MAPS *** Update from MAPS! *** We don’t have to escalate now because phone calls from family yesterday got him out tonight! This shows how powerful shining a public spotlight on MDOC abuse can be. Harold Gonzales (aka “HH,” our long-time comrade) has done everything in his power to…
Editor’s note: These short texts were submitted anonymously by an incarcerated Michigander. As I sit and watch the deterioration of the prison industrial complex here in Michigan, I’m struck by how far it has fallen. While it has never been ideal, in the past it had pseudo ethics, morals, and values; since the advent of…
From the organizers: We invite you to join folks in downtown Ann Arbor at Liberty Plaza on November 9, 2024 at 7 p.m. for a vigil honoring the memory of Aura Rosser. On November 9, 2014, Aura Rain Rosser was killed in her home by Ann Arbor Police Department officer David Ried. Ried was exonerated by the Washtenaw County…
[Editor’s note: this piece was submitted by Some Folks in Washtenaw County] American universities are colonial institutions. They are built on stolen land and support colonial projects abroad. They collaborate with weapons developers and train their workforce. They produce the next generation of leaders of US empire who will craft the ideological justifications for land…
Translated by Roba Alsalibi Since its establishment in 1948, the Israeli settler-colonial state, like other settler-colonial contexts, has employed incarceration as a tool of subjugation against the Palestinian indigenous population. In fact, many of the prisons now used by the Israeli settler state to suppress Palestinian resistance were first established under British colonial rule for…
[Editor’s note: this piece was submitted by Some Folks in Washtenaw County] After 30 days and multiple sweep alarms that did not materialize, UMPD finally evicted the Ann Arbor encampment at U-M between 5–6 a.m. on May 21, 2024. Unlike the credible sweep threat last week (for which dozens of community members mobilized to the…
In 1958 the assistant headmaster did the Bible reading at the morning assembly of the Karachi Grammar School (Pakistan), founded in 1848 by the Church of England.[1] The reading from Acts 17:23 concerned St. Paul’s declaration upon seeing the Athenian monument to an unknown God. “What you worship but do not know—this is what I…
Editor’s Note: This piece was first published March 6, 2024 by The Electronic Intifada It’s 8 pm in Gaza, Palestine right now, the end of my fourth day in Rafah and the first moment I’ve had to sit in a quiet place to reflect. I’ve tried to take notes, photos, mental images, but this moment…
Editor’s note: Here we share a Telegram statement from the Palestinian resistance. In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Our steadfast Palestinian people; The Arab & Islamic nations; The free peoples worldwide and those who advocate for freedom, justice and human dignity: In light of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the…
Editor’s note: This interview was conducted by the 161 Crew. The situation in Gaza Strip is getting more catastrophic every day. In our attempt to better understand the situation in the region, we made an interview with an Israeli anarchist. We talk about the modern anarchist movement, the Israeli occupation of Palestine, resistance against it…
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