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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity
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Prisoner solidarity crew out of so-called Oakland.

Bring it all down so all may rise up.
Three weeks ago, Sean Middlebrough, one of the Palestine Action/Filton 24 slipped away while out on a special 4-day bail release and has since refused to report.

Prisoner support includes fugitives. Are we ready for that?

electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
Exclusive: Absconded activist refuses to be “prisoner of war”
Sean Middlebrough says he and fellow Palestine Action activists were “kidnapped” by British counter-terrorism police at the point of a gun.
electronicintifada.net
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
SNAP update for Alameda County:
Everybody here on CalFresh (SNAP for CA) in Alameda County has gotten their full amount. State stepped into the breach to fund it this month.
Check your EBT cards. It should be loaded by now.
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Most reviled, hated and pathetic man on the planet.

So dumb, vain and vile, it is truly making it hard to hold the line and keep a systemic analysis instead of a personalized hate of the individual.

Man, I wouldn't let this man into my house or near my dog.
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
🖕🖕🖕
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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"Beyond the beatings, tear gas and trips to the isolation room, the men said they were mocked or ignored by medical personnel, forced to spend 24 hours a day under harsh lights and made to drink from wells of fetid water."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Five UK political prisoners now on hunger strike as T. Hoxha joins.

"...their demands, including immediate bail and an end to prison interference with their personal communications, as well as the de-proscription of Palestine Action."

www.middleeasteye.net/news/fifth-p...
UK: Fifth Palestine Action prisoner joins rolling hunger strike over detention conditions
T Hoxha previously went on strike over tightening restrictions in the aftermath of the group's proscription
www.middleeasteye.net
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
As much as this brutality described in terms of "human rights", cruelty etc., it would be more accurate to recognize that the prison is a site of warfare, that it is a battlefield.

It is indeed true that sadism and violation saturate the zionist prisons but it is in service of a STRATEGY.
Zionist prisons have escalated measures to suppress Palestinian resistance... starvation, overcrowding, every deprivation imaginable +
"Four surveillance cameras have been installed in each cell, recording audio and video around the clock."

Jailers live in fear.

english.palinfo.com/news/2025/11...
Rights Center: Israel returns to 1970s conditions amid unprecedented abuse of Palestinian prisoners
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Defense Center revealed on Friday a wave of severe violations and escalating abuse targeting thousands of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
english.palinfo.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Zionist prisons have escalated measures to suppress Palestinian resistance... starvation, overcrowding, every deprivation imaginable +
"Four surveillance cameras have been installed in each cell, recording audio and video around the clock."

Jailers live in fear.

english.palinfo.com/news/2025/11...
Rights Center: Israel returns to 1970s conditions amid unprecedented abuse of Palestinian prisoners
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Defense Center revealed on Friday a wave of severe violations and escalating abuse targeting thousands of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
english.palinfo.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Feds are once again ruthlessly targeting ktown & adjacent areas. This is getting really intense. We need to do more.
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The problem is not press unable to identify themselves properly. The problem is LAPD shooting us with kinetic munitions and interfering with our work. Ysabel Jurado and Eunisses Hernandez would have us meet LAPD on LAPD’s terms when LAPD is the one breaking the law and shooting people.
Councilmember Ysabel Jurado has introduced a motion to protect journalists covering protests. The motion: LAPD will create a public campaign on how to obtain LAPD-issued press passes along w/ signing MoUs between press groups and the city to create an agreement on conduct at protests.
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Rather than correcting the behavior of non-discriminant shooting by cops at protests, this shifts the blame towards press not having proper credentials. I doubt a mutual agreement will be honored by LAPD. It's not like there is a long history of them breaking laws and "agreements".
Councilmember Ysabel Jurado has introduced a motion to protect journalists covering protests. The motion: LAPD will create a public campaign on how to obtain LAPD-issued press passes along w/ signing MoUs between press groups and the city to create an agreement on conduct at protests.
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Rampant criminalization, DAs stacking tons of charges on people, explosion of digital evidence submissions demanding time to review.... PD system (and us) taking the hit.

The cop-prison machine groaning under it's own weight
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office warned that the city’s public defense system is collapsing under excessive workloads, forcing it to declare itself unavailable for new cases on certain days"

davisvanguard.org/2025/11/publ...
San Francisco Public Defenders Warn Caseload Crisis Is Forcing Unavailability Declarations - Davis Vanguard
The San Francisco Public Defender's Office is facing an overload of cases due to increased complexity of laws and digital evidence, leading to potential release of incarcerated people due to lack of d...
davisvanguard.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Several hundred kids just marched past my house because John Marshall High is doing an anti-ICE walk out.

LA's tradition of high schoolers using their voices to push back on racism and inequality is really an inspiring thing.
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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In her defense, it’s not possible to become vice president unless you think it’s ok to kill a million people.
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Right on cue.
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"As Trump prepares an assault on a South American field of resource extraction and deploys federal forces to terrorize American cities, Cheney can eternally look up from his well-earned spot in the afterlife at the fruits of his labor."

Best obit I have ever read.
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
gOTdaMN.

bangerrrrrrrr.
"Trump and Cheney were more characterologically alike than either man would prefer to admit. While Trump is charismatic and Cheney was anything but, they both ruled through fear, cruelty and domination. Not even Trump has gotten his own friend to apologize after shooting him in the face"
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in US history.
thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"That was the other legacy of Dick Cheney: fiasco. The wars he wanted did not showcase American power. They put on display American weakness, avarice, futility and manic resource extraction."
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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“No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Cheney. Any discussion of his works must begin with the 2021 assessment that the War on Terror killed between 897,000 and 929,000 people across five of its battlefields. Codirector Neda Crawford called that assessment “a vast undercount,
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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just an fyi, naomi klein went to a village in eastern greece that was fighting a gold mine, and rather than encourage direct resistance to the mine (which the villagers were already doing, and going to jail for), she channeled their energy into SYRIZA and her book, all while spouting NVDA fluff
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’

As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come"

www.wired.com/story/an-ana...
An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’
As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
$750k bribe to force ICE cooperation?

"AC Transit staff had recommended applying for the funds to cover overtime costs for security provided by the Alameda County Sheriff, but withdrew those plans after pressure from advocates and public officials."
oaklandside.org/2025/11/03/f...
$750k grant for BART had strings attached: ICE cooperation
Under court order, FEMA stopped requiring security grantees to collaborate with immigration enforcement on Oct. 21.
oaklandside.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM