A. Naomi Paik
naomipaik.bsky.social
A. Naomi Paik
@naomipaik.bsky.social
Author - *Bans, Walls, Raids, #Sanctuary* on #abolition and #migrant justice. *Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in US Prison Camps Since WWII* on #imprisonment regimes under US #empire. #freepalestine #borderabolition www.naomipaik.com
I'm attending National Day Laborer Organizing Network's event, “National Emergency Call: Supreme Court's Approval of Racial Profiling” - sign up n www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...
National Emergency Call: Supreme Court's Approval of Racial Profiling · National Day Laborer Organizing Network
The Supreme Court has lifted a lower court order that had temporarily halted the Trump Administration’s terrorizing raids in Los Angeles. The decision paves the way for racial profiling, false arrests...
www.mobilize.us
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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In a recently co-authored @truthout.org article with Toby Beauchamp and Damián Vergara Bracamontes, MiSC scholar @naomipaik.bsky.social wrote about the increasing need for collective survival in light of Trump’s increasingly authoritarian administration. 1/🧵

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Safety Is a Practice We Enact Together: Building Solidarity Under Trump 2.0
As authoritarian forces try to fracture our communities, we must remember that our collective survival is intertwined.
truthout.org
April 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The Home for Good Coalition is on the way to Springfield to advocate: Formerly incarcerated people and those at risk of violence face serious housing barriers. It's time for a comprehensive solution. Home for Good (HB3162 and SB2403) can make it happen. #homeforgoodillinois.
homeforgoodillinois.com
Home - Home for Good
Join the Home for Good Coalition for our Advocacy Day on Tuesday, April 29, in Springfield, Illinois! Transportation available from Chicago, and food, t-shirts, and advocacy support will be available ...
homeforgoodillinois.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
In this op-ed, Toby Beauchamp,Damian Vergara Bracamontes, and I tie together attacks on trans, pro-Pal activists, and migrants and emphasizing the need for radical solidarity if we are going to survive. Any attempt to carve out exceptions to democracy destroys it from the inside.
April 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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WOW. Rep. @jayapal.house.gov says CBP's internal affairs department found that a Chinese woman who had overstayed a visa was arrested by Border Patrol and hung herself in a cell. She wasn't found for two hours—even though the records reported multiple welfare checks (suggesting records falsified?).
April 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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www.wealthsimple.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Thousands of protesters gathered in Somerville, Massachusetts, demanding the release of Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, abducted by ICE for publishing an article criticizing Israel.
March 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
March 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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⏰⏰ April 17th is coming up soon! Where will you be for our National Day of Action?? Plan an event on your campus or find one near you. Let’s fight for the future of #HigherEd together! 👊👊👊
March 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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ICE just kidnapped farmworker organizer Alfredo Juarez, organizers are calling on people to go to a march in person TODAY March 25 at Ferndale Detention Center. Contact Liz Darrow at 360-220-9065 for more info. Also Call Ferndale ICE Detention Center: 360-380-2270

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
March 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Right on. Do you know what else is in Tucson? A Raytheon weapons factory and the offices of Border Patrol—in case 23,000 people are looking for somewhere else to direct their energy after the rally…
Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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"sir a second strongly worded letter has hit the coup base"
March 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike

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Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike
March 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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So honored to give this talk on Settler Militarism on 2/28 @ 6pm EST. All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project! Thank you to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for the invitation and for organizing 💜
Settler Militarism — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $50). Step 2: Register for “Settler Militarism” here . In this workshop, Juliet Nebolon will discuss how settler colonialism and ...
www.workshops4gaza.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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When someone says any variety of “if you fight back they’ll authoritarian crack down you” I always wonder what they think is going to happen if we don’t fight back
February 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Particularly striking how the review connects our analysis to recent events—from Musk's AfD appearance to the intensifying border politics under Trump—showing just how urgent these discussions have become. Thank you @naomipaik.bsky.social for your thoughtful words convergencemag.com/articles/boo...
Borders? Technological Laboratories.
A book review of “Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence,” a collection of essays connecting geopolitics, technology, and imperialism.
convergencemag.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM