I am absolutely not forgetting or forgiving that this week of violent repression of peaceful protest on college campuses began on Sunday with Joe Biden authorizing it all.

I keep saying it but I really really hope this moment is bringing everyone to police abolition. Police will always stand between us and the future we want, no matter what form of justice you fight for. Abolition resource guide here: micahherskind.com/abolition-reso…

Over the last 27 years, IDP has supported attorneys, advocacy and community members fighting against the harms of the entanglement of the US’s criminal legal and immigration systems. Thanks Silky Shah with Detention Watch Network (DWN) for sharing what our work means to them:

Just so everyone is clear, the Governor of Texas announces he ordered the protestors at the public university arrested because he is discriminating against their viewpoint, and the police confirm they acted at his instance.

I was having this exact convo w/another friend of ours from college last night. The scenes from UT are beyond disturbing. DPS in Texas is out of control from harassing, abusing, and arresting migrants at the border to doing the same to peacefully protesting college students at UT

I organized many, many demonstrations at UTexas while studying there 20 years ago.

We camped out on the South Mall several times.

We held huge marches in this very location (it was still a working road, not a plaza). Never that I can remember was DPS called in like this.

STATEMENT FROM CONCERNED UT AUSTIN FACULTY. #NotOurTexas

Good reminder from John Washington

brilliant spring reading! Silky Shah Jonathan Blitzer

Details for the virtual launch of my book in two weeks! Truly a dream panel. Really can’t imagine having written Unbuild Walls without Ruthie’s lessons and Amna’s support ✨

My copy of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, by Silky Shah, published by Haymarket Books, just came in the mail today! #FreeThemAll

🥳 May 7, 5:00-6:30pm ET

Virtual launch of *Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition,* by Silky Shah of Detention Watch Network (DWN)

Hear Silky Shah, Ruth Wilson Gilmore + Amna A. Akbar in conversation on immigrant rights, racial justice + prison abolition

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Unbuild Walls - a new book by Silky Shah - couldn’t be more timely. Order a copy and join this convo with Silky, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Amna A. Akbar on May 7.

Every single university in Gaza destroyed and yet we’re told that the students protesting this genocide are the monsters.

Unbuild Walls

Join Silky Shah, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Amna A. Akbar for a conversation about the intersections between immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition, hosted with @detentionwatch

Tuesday, May 7th at 5:00 pm ET

RSVP to join: tickettailor.com/events/haymark…

When I met Jose Franco in an immigration jail 14 yrs ago, neither of us could have imagined how he would change the law, and so many lives, for the better. I’m thrilled to share Franco’s story—a reminder that a better way (and a better world) is possible. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

WH statements don't happen in a vacuum. Groups like the ADL advocated for that statement. More below. And it's also why it's time to droptheadl.org.

After Jake Tapper's misleading post this morning, his colleagues at CNN reached out to more accurately represent the situation on the ground at Columbia. Grateful for the due diligence here.

cnn.com/2024/04/21/us/…

Can’t pay teachers, can’t house the homeless, can’t provide healthcare, can’t invest in useful infrastructure of any kind, can’t can’t can’t but: