Poetry Corner: Champagne Song, Prairieland Defendant Sentence to 100 Years

https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/never-forget-other-poems/ This is Champagne Song, one of the Prairie Land defendants currently in solitary confinement. These are some poems that I wrote after being sentenced to 100 years. This first one is called “Never Forget”   Never Forget the Threat of communism/ that was Hitler’s excuse for everything that he did. We must go to war because of communism, he said. We must get rid of the Jews because of communism. No [...]

Haiti: Solidarity in a World at War

By Robert Roth, Haiti Action Committee [excerpts] As the world reels from the devastating U.S.-Israel war on Iran and Lebanon, and as the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide continues in Gaza and the West Bank, the Trump Administration’s plan to assert its dominance over the Americas is also moving forward at an unprecedented pace. Having kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and colleague, Cilia Flores, and taken control over Venezuela’s oil reserves, [...]

Removing Migrant Workers Reduced Jobs for Everyone

Stephen Miller Lied: Removing Migrant Workers Reduced Jobs for Everyone, Including White Men Pablo Manríquez, Migrant Insider [Excerpts] https://substack.com/@pablo/p-196878542 The promise was simple, and Stephen Miller has been making it for years: clear out undocumented workers, and US-born workers get their jobs. The data is now in. The promise was a lie. A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research — the first comprehensive, causal national study of [...]

Local Struggles on Many Fronts: ICE, LAUSD, World Cup

Shut Down Adelanto ICE Detention Center! There is an ongoing hunger strike in the Adelanto CA ICE detention center’s Desert View Annex, where at least 20 people are refusing food in a last resort effort to try and change the horrifying conditions they endure at the detention center.      All immigrants deserve to seek immigration relief in the care of their beloved communities and with access to resources. Studies by the American [...]

San Gabriel Valley Residents Unite Against Data Centers – Rally May 2

Last month, a proposed massive A-I data center in Monterey Park was scuttled after united community opposition in the San Gabriel Valley, particularly by immigrant residents in some of the unincorporated areas. The Monterey Park City Council approved a ballot measure for submission to voters in June that would ban data centers in the city. But the issue is still a live one in many other area cities. The City of Vernon [...]

ICE Detainees Go On Hunger Strike in Michigan

Several hundred detained immigrants started a hunger strike on Monday at the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan, the biggest in the Midwest with 1,800 "beds". They are refusing to eat or work, according to immigrant rights advocates and relatives of the detainees in Michigan. Protesters gathered outside to support them. The activist group No Detention Centers in Michigan, released a statement to the press that the hunger strikers are [...]

ICE Has No Place at Airports

by Color of Change https://win.newmode.net/colorofchange/iceoutfundtsa President Trump has deployed ICE agents to over a dozen airports around the country in response to the chaos that he has caused with the government shutdown and his refusal to fund TSA. It's simple. ICE is an unaccountable paramilitary force designed to terrorize Black and brown communities that has already killed multiple American citizens. ICE has no place in our airports. Tell your representatives to get [...]

No I.C.E.! No War! No Fascist USA! Minnesota Shows the Way!

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Whether you agree or disagree that Trump is a fascist or that fascism is already here, as George Jackson put it 55+ years ago, there is no doubt that the time for massive resistance and non-compliance is upon us. That is the only viable response to state efforts to terrorize civil society, stigmatize and red-bait any protest or political criticism as [...]

Palantir Colonizes Los Angeles

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA Palantir Technologies has long contracted with the LAPD to provide software and data analysis capacities that fuel "Pred-Pol",  predictive (some say, predatory) policing, and the widespread use of automated license plate readers that track and identify every vehicle on the streets of Los Angeles. Now Palantir is taking its act into the air above Los Angeles. Palantir has formed a partnership with Archer Aviation, aimed at [...]

The Alternative – A new Left Party in the United Kingdom

by Zarah Sultana [Excerpts] https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-alternative   Oliver Eagleton: Let’s start with your political trajectory and relationship with the Labour Party. How has it evolved? What brought you to the decision to leave? Will others on the ‘Labour left’ follow you?   Zarah Sultana: I was formed politically by the War on Terror and the aftermath of the financial crisis. The first time I engaged with parliamentary politics was when the coalition government [...]

Los Angeles ignites: from raids to resistance, and more repression

Shopping cart barricades blocked the streets. Protesters took over freeways and clashed against riot shields and armored vehicles. Chants cut through the sharp pop of flash-bangs. Wounds were bandaged under clouds of tear gas. Angelenos were enraged and poured into the streets on June 6, following early morning ICE raids across the city. Masked agents stormed the Fashion District and a Home Depot in Westlake, training their rifles on civilians and detaining [...]

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LAPD violence against protesters, journalists, could cost millions

https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/police-violence-against-protesters-journalists-cost-la/ Attorneys describe it as some of the worst such violence they have seen, much against journalists. The Los Angeles Press Club is suing the city. Excerpt: The LA Press Club documented at least 50 incidents of alleged police misconduct that led to injuries to reporters in LA since June 6, including at least five journalists being struck by 40mm less-lethal rounds, and journalists being charged at by mounted police. Jeremy Cuenca, a reporter [...]

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