The level of crude indifference this administration has shown towards the massive loss of Palestinian lives is indicative of deep-seated dehumanization of Palestinian, Arab, Muslim people.
We shall not forget.
Today marks the 21st anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old American who was crushed to death by an Israeli soldier driving a bulldozer when she was trying to protect a Palestinian home from being demolished.
She will always be remembered.
BREAKING: An 18-month Senate investigation finds that migrant women detained at the Irwin County Detention Center endured excessive, unnecessary gynecological procedures, often without consent.
This confirms earlier reports by Project South & partners.
THREAD. Many things to say about this.
Most importantly, if your economy is based on profiting off of the misery of other human beings, there's a problem.
On August 6, 1945, U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 3 days later, U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki.
210,000 people were annihilated. Many more died from injuries, radiation poisoning, cancer.
The U.S. is the only country to ever drop a nuclear bomb on people.
BREAKING! Immigrants will no longer be detained at the corporate-run Irwin County Detention Center, where women were subjected to medical abuse.
This momentous victory is the result of years of organizing & exposing the human rights violations by orgs on the ground.
Onward!
Anticipate heightened targeting of Palestinian and Muslim community members by the FBI in the coming weeks.
If you live in the U.S. South and are contacted by the FBI for questioning, contact us at Project South.
The National Lawyers Guild has a national hotline: (212) 679-2811
One year ago, police murdered Atlanta Cop City protester Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán during a militarized raid on the Defend the Atlanta Forest encampment.
Police shot Tortuguita 57 Times.
May their memory serve as a call to us all to intensify our organizing to Stop Cop City.
Jalil Muntaqim, recently paroled after 49 years, was arrested Friday & is facing re-imprisonment for completing a voter registration form.
Sign this petition to oppose any efforts to remove him from community and/or place him back in prison!
BREAKING: The final known survivor of gynecological abuse at the Irwin County Detention Center secured her freedom yesterday.
She was the last of dozens of identified survivors of medical abuse & neglect while detained at Irwin.
#ShutDownIrwin
BREAKING! As of today, no immigrants are detained at the corporate-run Irwin County Detention Center, where women were subjected to medical abuse.
This momentous victory is the result of years of organizing & exposing the human rights violations by orgs on the ground.
Onward!
BREAKING! The
#Georgia
Immigration Enforcement Review Board has been ABOLISHED! The body that allowed anti-immigrant vigilantes to file complaints against localities perceived to be friendly towards immigrants and enforced its decrees through subpoenas and fines. A HUGE VICTORY!
As a lawyer who has defended in court the right of women to wear hijab, I want to say this loud & clear: forced hijab & forcing women to remove their hijab are violations of human dignity.
Wearing hijab or not is a woman's decision. Period.
Long live the memory of Mahsa Amini.
BREAKING: There are currently no women detained at the Irwin County Detention Center, the corporate-run ICE prison where immigrant women were subjected to medical abuse, including forced sterilizations.
Next step: Shut down Irwin, free them all!
Wow! Anti-immigrant sheriffs in Cobb & Gwinnett are gone!!!
Kudos to all the friends who have fought for more than a decade against the devastating 287(g) program which led to untold numbers of families being torn apart in these two counties.
Onward!
#HastaLaVictoriaSiempre
I'm
#VotingForBernie
because I want to see an end to endless wars & lifting of sanctions hurting people of
#Iran
&
#Venezuela
.
I want to see repeal of the
#MuslimBan
& all Islamophobic policies.
I want to see an immigration policy based on dignity &
#HumanRights
not xenophobia.
BREAKING: LA Times documents the accounts of 19 mostly Black and Latinx immigrant women who suffered medical abuse while detained at Irwin
#ShutDownIrwin
Video of the U.S. military drone attack that killed the Afghan aid worker Zemari Ahmadi and nine of his family members, including seven children.
Per a Dec 13th announcement from the Pentagon, nobody will face accountability for this war crime.
To be clear, Trump is attempting to criminalize fighting against fascism and racism.
This will be used to further weaponize white supremacist state institutions and groups.
Statement by Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine - Georgia on Morehouse College's choice of commencement speaker, Joe Biden:
"Any college or university that gives its commencement stage to President Biden in this moment is endorsing genocide."
Today marks the 17th anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old American who was crushed to death by an Israeli soldier driving a bulldozer when she was trying to protect a
#Palestinian
home from being demolished.
She will always be remembered.
#FreePalestine
This is an outrage.
At least 16
#Iranian
students have been turned away since Aug despite valid visas.
They've gone through grueling vetting to get a visa to pursue a PhD, only to be detained, humiliated, demeaned.
Will Congress hold CBP accountable?
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled that the Biden administration must undo the harms of the Muslim & African Bans, and reconsider denied visa applications.
The Biden administration must move quickly to develop a fair, effective visa process for our communities.
Today marks the 18th anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old American who was crushed to death by an Israeli soldier driving a bulldozer when she was trying to protect a Palestinian home from being demolished.
She will always be remembered.
National Lawyers Guild in support of Fatima Mohammed: "Fatima’s speech represents the best traditions of the legal profession, too often suppressed. We urge all lawyers, law students, legal workers, orgs to speak out in defense of Fatima & denounce the attack by university admin"
Seven men detained without charge or trial, tortured, and finally released from Guantanamo have penned an open letter to Biden asking him to shut it down
BREAKING: Another migrant has died at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia. 61-year-old Salvador Vargas from Mexico.
At least 11 migrants have died at Stewart. Two by suicide. Yet the Biden administration has refused to close this deadly ICE prison.
Shut down Stewart now!
BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit last night on behalf of women who have faced medical abuse at Irwin
Along with
@NIPNLG
@ddreyer
@ColumbiaLaw
Immigrants' Rights Clinic & others
#ShutDownIrwin
The U.S. government must pay reparations to the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, other countries that it has invaded, destroyed, exploited over the past centuries
Attention Emory faculty, staff, students, alumni, please sign & share this statement demanding that Emory drop the charges against protestors!
"We uphold Emory students’ demands that the university fully divest from Israeli genocide, including Cop City."
At least 724 people have died in
#Iran
of
#Covit19
. US Sanctions have made it much harder to tackle the pandemic.
Iran is facing shortages of respiratory-assistance devices & basic medical equipment.
And yet, no questions about US sanctions during
#DemocraticDebate
?
#DemDebate
As we speak, the US govt is facilitating the colonization of Palestinian land & atrocities against the Palestinian people, imposing a brutal sanctions regime targeting the Iranian people, backing the Saudi-led blockade starving the Yemeni people.
Your well wishes ring hollow.
Another victory against anti-BDS laws!
A federal court has ruled that Georgia’s law punishing boycotts of Israel is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment
Lawsuit was brought by
@CAIRNational
& partners on behalf of
@AbbyMartin
Happy International Women's Day!
A reminder that the Irwin County Detention Center where immigrant women were subjected to medical abuse, including forced sterilizations, with ICE's knowledge, is still open.
#ShutDownIrwin
BREAKING!
#Atlanta
will no longer detain immigrants for ICE! One down, three more immigration detention centers in Georgia to go! Here's to shutting them all down! Our report on treatment of immigrants at Atlanta City Detention Center here:
#AbolishICE
Hi folks, write down this number NOW! 212-679-2811
@NLGnews
is launching a federal defense hotline for activists & lawyers to report instances of federal repression, such as FBI "door-knocks," grand jury investigations, subpoenas.
The CIA has caused untold catastrophes in the Global South. Including engineering the 1953 coup against the democratically elected
#Iranian
prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh because he espoused the radical idea that Iranians should have control over their own oil.
#AbolishTheCIA
Biden just repealed the
#MuslimBan
and
#AfricanBan
on his first day in office!
We owe this victory to the countless organizers who worked tirelessly over the last four years to see this repugnant policy rescinded!
Onward!
The US military should not be deployed on US streets.
But neither should they be in Iraq or Afghanistan or in any other country for that matter.
US Out of Everywhere!
Anti-imperialist & anti-colonialist grassroots movements for justice have historically used boycott as a tool of resistance.
Now the right to boycott Israel is under threat in the U.S.
Our article on boycott & the BDS movement, with
@AssalRad
Remember when about 200
#Iranian
-Americans, including US citizens, were held for long hours & asked intrusive questions, CBP said there was no directive to target people?
Well, surprise. Turns out that was a big lie.
When is CBP gonna be held accountable?
@ananavarro
You forgot to include the Afghans who were killed, injured, had their lives destroyed as a result of the U.S. invasion & occupation. Some info here
URGENT: ICE is still trying to deport witnesses to medical abuse at Irwin!
An immigrant woman who is a survivor of dental abuse & witness to medical abuse against other women is facing imminent deportation either tonight or tomorrow night!
#ShutDownIrwin
A nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center has blown the whistle on the horrid conditions during the pandemic.
Together w/
@GovAcctProj
we are representing her & have filed complaints w/DHS Office of Inspector General.
@jlosc9
@jbwashing
@theintercept
OK folks, you know what to do!
Now that the billionaires & corporate interests are all lining up behind Biden, we the people have got to support Bernie stronger than ever!
#BernieForPresident
On February 15, 2003, millions of people across the world, in almost 800 cities, came together to say no to the US war on Iraq.
They chanted: “Not in our Name! Not in Our Name!”
Reminder: ICE knew as far back as 2018 about the systematic medical abuse of migrant women detained at the Irwin County Detention Center.
They refused to do anything.
Instead, they promptly proceeded to cover their tracks in the fall of 2020 by deporting survivors & witnesses.
SHAME! Welcoming one under whose watch members of his party killed hundreds of Muslims; under whose orders his forces terrorize
#Kashmir
; under whose direction millions in
#Assam
are losing their citizenship.
Not surprising given the role of RSS in your rise to power.
#AdiosModi
Aloha and Namaste,
I’d like to extend a warm welcome to India Prime Minister Modi on his latest visit to the United States. Glad to see so many Indian Americans from all across our country, as well as many of my colleagues in Congress coming together there
#tulsi2020
#modi
Thanks to the active complicity of the Democratic Establishment, the Racist In Chief has taken the hate-filled attacks against Rep
@IlhanMN
to a whole new level.
#IlhanOmar
needs our urgent support NOW! DEMAND that your rep condemn the racist Islamophobic attacks!
#IStandWithIlhan
Reminder that all Afghans deserve to live their lives in peace and free from persecution, not just "our allies."
The least that the U.S. & other western govts that have done so much damage in Afghanistan can do at this moment is to offer refuge.
It is not enough to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
The U.S. government must pay reparations to the people of Afghanistan, Iraq & other countries that it has invaded, destroyed, and exploited over the past centuries.
"I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death. Your war drum ain't louder than this breath.”
Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad
Should be clear by this point that the only ones who benefited from the U.S. war on Afghanistan were war-profiteering politicians & corporations.
While countless lives were destroyed.
Remember this the next time the U.S. war machine is pushing for yet another invasion.
HAPPENING NOW! Undocumented folks are at President-elect
@JoeBiden
’s transition headquarters today demanding he prioritizes undocumented people in his first 100 days, starting on day 1.
No more broken promises!
We need immediate executive action.
#MoratoriumDay1
The ongoing legal attacks on Stop Cop City protesters should concern us all — they’re part of a national trend of silencing people who disagree with government actions.
@projectsouth
has joined 40+ orgs telling Georgia to stop criminalizing protest.
Filled with rage and sadness.
Another US war launched to fulfill the wishes of an egomaniac to get re-elected at all costs.
Another US war that will create misery for the people and enrich war-making corporations.
Wishes of strength to the people of
#Iran
.
#NoWarWithIran
Another war criminal, Henry Kissinger, is dead without facing accountability.
Instead of bestowing accolades on those war criminals still alive, we must hold them to account.
.
@KeishaBottoms
, when are you going to stop sending Atlanta police to Israel to further learn repressive tactics to implement against Black people & communities of color in this city?
#AyeKeisha
In an outrageous decision, the Dean of UGA law school has ordered its First Amendment Clinic to cease all work related to public records law – including a Cop City lawsuit against the Atlanta Police Foundation.
Somebody fears the truth getting exposed.
A man threatened to kill 27 yr old congressional candidate Amani Al-Khatahtbeh and her family because she’s Muslim and dares to have a voice. We, 200 women leaders, will not be silent nor normalize this violence. We stand with Muslim women
#IStandWithAmani
In light of US aggression against
#Iran
, FBI will surely ramp up surveillance of Iranian-Americans & other Muslim & Middle Eastern communities.
If you live in the US South & are contacted by the FBI, please contact us
@ProjectSouth
.
@NLGnews
also a great resource.
@MPower_Change
This is truly outrageous & sets a dangerous precedent.
Criminalizing courageous journalism b/c the info
@ggreenwald
& his team revealed is embarrassing to
#Bolsonaro
& the Fascist regime in
#Brazil
.
Everyone who cares about a
#FreePress
should speak up!
We are thrilled about freedom of women who suffered so much while detained at Irwin. This is only the first step in the path towards justice. Survivors of medical abuse must receive redress for the harm they suffered. We won't rest until this horrid facility is shut down!
Please support
@pal_legal
as they provide much-needed legal support to students, professors, community members facing harassment, retaliation, expulsion for speaking out in support of the Palestinian people.
Palestine Legal expresses our unequivocal solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for self-determination. As a legal organization, we are committed to supporting those organizing for Palestine at this critical moment.
Full statement:
A reminder that immigrants in many ICE prisons are also subjected to forced labor.
They're deprived from necessities or placed in solitary if they refuse to work.
Who profits? Private prison corporations.
Re the shameful refugee cap, as a reminder, the U.S. government is largely responsible for creating the conditions that have forced people to flee their homes. Through wars, coups, destabilization.
This is horrifying: reports from ICE detention centers in Louisiana and Texas of solitary confinement cells with no heat & guards blasting fans at detained immigrants complaining of cold.
By
@AlleenBrown
FBI is NOT your friend!PLEASE stop inviting FBI into your mosques & community.Look at their history of surveillance, entrapment, repression against communities of color.If you're approached by FBI & are Southern-based, mssg us: legal
@projectsouth
.org.
@NLGnews
also great resource.
Question. What exactly was a US drone doing in or near Iranian territory?
Why should the US military have a domineering presence all over the world?
AND why was $220 million of OUR tax money spent on this military spying equipment instead of basic needs?
@codepink
#NoWarWithIran
The Israel lobby has spent $2 million to defeat Ilhan Omar.
As someone who speaks out unapologetically about injustice where she sees it,
@Ilhan
is a huge threat to them.
The NYPD spying program devastated the Muslim community. The NYT article suggesting that
@amprog
removed a section on the program from its Islamophobia report because they feared retaliation from Bloomberg is troubling. We deserve answers.
#AskCAP
Just one example of how rotten the ICE detention system is: ICE is paying more than $1 million a day for empty beds.
That is: taxpayers are paying more than $1 million a day for empty beds.
Who Profits? Private prison corporations
Shut them all down!
In light of Trump & co beating the war drums,re-sharing the poem I wrote as a 16-year-old recently arrived immigrant. On the Iran-Iraq war I lived through as a child. A war that started by US-supported Saddam's attack on
#Iran
.
Join me in opposing war!
#NoWarWithIran
#WarIsHell
Resolution by
@RepJayapal
condemning unwanted, unnecessary medical procedures on individuals w/o their full, informed consent has passed overwhelmingly!
Thanks Rep Jayapal
@RepSylviaGarcia
@RepBarragan
& others for visiting Irwin & for launching a Congressional investigation!
The final release comes after the filing of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus & class action lawsuit against ICE, the prison corporation LaSalle, Dr. Amin, as well as the then-director of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, and other officials.
#ShutDownIrwin
"What can a colonized population feel towards its occupying state but disaffection?" Ahmed Bin Qasim, Kashmiri writer and the son of two political prisoners
The slanderous accusations against NIAC from Sens. Cotton, Cruz & Braun have zero merit. But they are indicative of a campaign to intimidate pro-peace
#Iranian
Americans from halting the admin’s push toward war, which Cotton & Cruz have long championed.
International Criminal Court has collected evidence of torture, rape & other crimes by US forces during the Afghanistan war.
Instead of cooperating w/inquiry, Trump & Co are punishing investigators w/economic sanctions & barring them from entering the US!
There is no comparison between the US govt sanctions regime causing immense pain for the people of Iran and the international grassroots BDS movement modeled on the movement which brought down Apartheid South Africa aiming to hold the settler colonial state of Israel accountable
1. I have been thinking about this a lot and it seems to me that if you oppose the use of sanctions in Iran/Iraq/Venezuela etc. you ought to oppose boycotts/sanctions on Israel. The politics of deprivation need to be rejected everywhere.
Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza is armed, facilitated, aided, abetted by the United States government.
More in our article for
@inthesetimesmag
with Sofía Verónica Montez
Thanks
@mehdirhasan
for speaking the truth about Trump's Apartheid Deal: "this is a plan for apartheid, this is a plan for settler colonialism."
#FreePalestine