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Silky Shah

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executive director, Detention Watch Network, author of Unbuild Walls from Haymarket Books, book info/events: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/unbuild-walls

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Murshed Zaheed 's avatar Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social
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So appreciate @silkys13.bsky.social's courage and clear eyed moral leadership on this issue as she is always speaking truth to power.

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Puff the Magic Hater's avatar Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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I wrote a reflection on Trump’s conviction, abolition, and the need for a real moral reckoning in the US.

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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The most draining part of movement work is the unprocessed trauma that so many in movements hold that gets misdirected. It's absolutely exhausting and dispiriting.

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Thrilled to have an excerpt of my book Unbuild Walls published in Teen Vogue! My hope for this book was to make analysis of the PIC and abolition accessible to broad audiences and I can’t imagine a better venue for doing that www.teenvogue.com/story/unbuil...

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Murshed Zaheed 's avatar Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social
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Few very influential Texans & high-power alumni have taken out this full page ad in Austin & Dallas papers in support of UT's response 2 protests. Signatories incl. Clarence Thomas' "close friend and a generous benefactor” billionaire (reported Nazi/Hitler memorabilia collector) Harlan Crow 👀

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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More than 500 UT Austin faculty members have signed a letter of no confidence in President Jay Hartzell after the school's police response to a peaceful pro-Palestinian campus protest and the April 2 termination of 49 staff members in DEI positions.

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gamera obscura 's avatar gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social
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UPDATED ENCAMPMENT LIST:

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Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
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RESULT: Summer Lee, the 1st Squad member to face a contested primary this year, has prevailed in PA12. AP just called it as Lee leads easily, with margin likely to continue growing. She faced Bhavini Patel, who took issue with Lee's left-wing politics and criticism of Israel.

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jon ben-menachem's avatar jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com
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University administrators are so far removed from pedagogy that they fail to understand how repression and police violence can educate those who are subjected to it.

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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politicians are building cop cities all over the U.S. Maybe people are going to start to make the analytic connections necessary for what's to come.

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Silky Shah's avatar Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social
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So cool to see book posts coming through!

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Alex Zucker's avatar Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social
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Glad to pass on the good news—and my copy just came today! Woot woot!

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Amanda in NYC's avatar Amanda in NYC @amandapaxton.bsky.social
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Abu Ghraib photos were released almost exactly 20 years ago - long enough ago that I've met folks younger than me who've never heard of it.

It's taken that long for the survivors to get their day in court

time.com/6966695/abu-...

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Craig Gilmore's avatar Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social
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Feds to close FCI Dublin, transfer incarcerated women & their rapist COs to other prisons.
“How does this solve the problems? The same policy & procedures are in place at other prisons. It is not the building that did anything wrong.” - M. Bien. @keribla.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Peter Steward Scholtes's avatar Peter Steward Scholtes @petescholtes.bsky.social
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“Communities across the country trained their sights on their local sheriff or detention center, and succeeded in ending ICE contracts with jails” from California to Alabama. “In 2018, a grassroots effort in North Carolina elected five sheriffs who promised an end to ICE collaboration
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Bolts's avatar Bolts @bolts.bsky.social
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A new book argues that “comprehensive immigration reform” is a red herring. Instead of petitioning lawmakers to pass bills that get diluted beyond recognition, Silky Shah writes, organizers should focus on changes that chip away at the broader system:

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we are all Palestinians 's avatar we are all Palestinians @amberlizt.bsky.social
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Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition 💚📖

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"Palestinians salute the more than 80 artists and panelists who have boycotted SXSW for accepting sponsorship from the US Army and weapons manufacturers that have armed Israel's Gaza Genocide. " Statement from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

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Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
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things Louisiana just did, all within days:

—speed up executions
—expand qualified immunity
—end mechanisms to release people from prison
—move all 17-year olds into adult courts & detention
—jail people for technical violations of prob
and more...:

boltsmag.org/louisiana-sp...

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Jonathan Cohn 's avatar Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social
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The "bipartisan" immigration deal would not have fixed a broken immigration system. It would have broken it further by passing a Republican wish list of xenophobic, punitive policies.

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Silky Shah's avatar Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social
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Thanks Vikki!! Such a beautiful pic 😍

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Scott Hechinger's avatar Scott Hechinger @scotthech.bsky.social
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How copaganda works. Police, prosecutor, & prison interests use media to exaggerate & lie about "sensational" cases. Amplify them on repeat. Create the *perception* that "crime" or "migrants" are a "Crisis!" Perpetual anger/fear buys votes & public opinion. Facts be damned.

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Dana El Kurd's avatar Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social
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"On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head."

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Silky Shah's avatar Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social
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Thanks for all the lessons, Mariame!

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Silky Shah's avatar Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social
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Thanks for your help Frank!!

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Silky Shah's avatar Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social
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Excited to share that the book I’ve been writing about immigration, abolition, and lessons from the movement will be out this May from Haymarket Books. It's called Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition – and feels as urgent as ever. bit.ly/buy-unbuildw...

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The reason they are pushing to criminalize bail funds is actually because funds are effective at freeing people from cages. This is actually simple. In just a few short years, we've built a solid start of an infrastructure. Now is the time to push harder not to fall back.

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Murshed Zaheed 's avatar Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social
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NEW. Donald Trump via Stephen Miller is working on a military roundup of immigrants by activating a private red state army that would go into blue states - deporting millions including immigrants who protested Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

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Silky Shah's avatar Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social
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The "border deal"/military spending bill includes what would be the largest appropriation of funds for immigration detention custody and surveillance operations in ICE’s history. Read the Detention Watch Network statement here www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...

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Silky Shah's avatar Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social
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Louisiana's new governor is ordering state police to publish identifiable info about undocumented immigrants that have been arrested. Years of Democrats pushing the good immigrant v. bad immigrant narrative (e.g. Obama's "felons not families") enabled this www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

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