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Please don't look at what's happening & think that a system that was otherwise humane suddenly produced the conditions you're hearing about solely bc of Trump. These camps are what happens when a demagogue gets control of an already cruel and violent system. This is escalation.
.@MayaSchenwar and I wrote a piece about the lineage of Trump's torture facilities along the border. We must #CloseTheCamps while having an analysis of how all of this was built, and what it exists in concert with. truthout.org/articles/they-…
I also wrote this piece cautioning against oversimplifications of what we are up against. truthout.org/articles/the-p…
Now, I'm fundraising to get as many people out of detention as we can this week. While we fight to close the camps, we have to bond these folks out every chance we get. I don't do patriotic holidays, but I will celebrate getting ppl free. #FreedomDay

secure.actblue.com/donate/freedom…
Friends, we are on day 3 of this effort & we've raised $11,469! Conditions in detention are dire, so let's keep this moving. Migrants who are released on bail have a MUCH greater chance of avoiding deportation. Let's help them. #FreedomDay #CloseTheCamps
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If you cannot donate or already have, here are some more ways to help us raise bail money for detained migrant folks today: facebook.com/hayeskelly/pos…

#FreedomDay #CloseTheCamps
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Something I'm thinking about today: I am worried about whose leadership people will attach themselves to as the reality of the climate crisis sinks in. There are no good answers. No easy ways out. But some ppl will offer simple solutions to complex problems & ppl will want that.
I wince a little when people say that the U.S. government has no plan for millions of climate refugees, because they do. It's to slam the gates shut and let them die. Any other interpretation of what's gone on, policy and rhetoric wise, is a little naive.
While you might hope that we'd take to the streets en masse as such inhumanity played out, we're not on track to do so. When it comes to our treatment of immigrants, new horrors hit the news everyday & the only ppl taking action are organizers who've been on the issue for yrs.
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Puff the Magic Hater
@MsKellyMHayes
If you don't see the connection between felony disenfranchisement, the disenfranchisement of imprisoned people and these efforts to criminalize people who abort pregnancies or perform abortions, it's time to take a step back and examine how these issues are connected.
People talk about how we are living in The Handmaiden's Tale but most are not discussing criminalization as a means of imposing civil death. As @prisonculture has pointed out, the GOP can't *stop* abortions. But they can enact systemic violence on people who choose to abort.
This is why we have to discuss abortion rights w in a repro justice framework. Abortion prohibitions do not exist in a vacuum. They are one tentacle of a violent apparatus that negates our ability to live freely, to safely abort pregnancies AND to bear & raise children in safety.
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@MsKellyMHayes
I'd love to preach unity but establishment Dems are asking marginalized ppl to support a man who was pro-segregation, who scripted the end of bankruptcy protection for student loans, says he has no sympathy for young folks, fucked over Anita Hill & wrote the crime bill. NOPE.
If we so much as mention Biden's record of harming our communities we're red-baited or told we're helping Trump. That is oppressive af. If you don't think we should even be allowed to talk about the impacts these candidates have had and will have on us, stop and think about that.
If you are actively trying to suppress Black folks naming Biden's role in the crime bill, brown folks talking about how Biden wanted to build a wall, anyone talking about Anita Hill, what politics do you think you're participating in? Because it's ugly and shameful. So know that.
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