Living & Fighting

A multiplicity of fragments from the so-called Southwest.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

A police officer in Senatobia, Mississippi shot and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Wal-Mart parking lot over an alleged shoplifting incident.

This is just the latest in a long list of violent incidents involving Senatobia police over the years.

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

tear gas in Senatobia, MS after the police shoot and kill a ONE YEAR OLD.

[Action News 5 @WMCActionNews5]

TAKE A LOOK: Police deployed tear gas on protestors outside Walmart in Senatobia, days after a police officer shot and killed a 1-year-old boy. https://t.co/juNgXjqQCK

[Vitalist International @VitalistInt]

🚨 DHS conducted raids this morning in Minneapolis, targeting rapid responders. In a few hours, they will announce conspiracy charges against popular defenders who allegedly resisted federal occupation of the city, describing them as “antifa” groups. Another NSPM-7 case.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

State police deployed tear gas, flash grenades and batons against demonstrators outside Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, as serious concerns mounted over the treatment of detainees inside.

Reporting from the scene, Middle East Eye witnessed officers using extreme crowd-control measures as protesters attempted to erect barricades in defence.

Middle East Eye reporter Mounira Elsamra said police appeared to make "no differentiation between journalists and activists and protesters", and described seeing people struck with batons during the operation.

The unrest comes as detainees continue a hunger and labour strike that organisers say began with more than 300 participants.

Advocacy groups say detainees have faced intimidation and retaliation in response to the protest.

Campaigners also say some detainees have been asked to sign English-language documents they do not understand and have struggled to communicate with immigration officials because translators were unavailable.

The incident brings about renewed criticism of the already controversial US immigration detention system, with advocates calling for greater transparency and independent oversight of conditions inside facilities such as Delaney Hall.

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

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[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

We were lucky enough to get to talk to someone fresh off the front lines at Delaney Hall as they were heading home still exhausted from the battle with flailing ICE agents desperate to maintain their fragile order.

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

"The overwhelming feeling of love and solidarity between the people that have shown up is just such a beautiful thing to witness/Folks have thrown their own bodies between the fascists and their comrades to protect them, jumped in with shields to protect or to de-arrest them."

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Bolivan miner on strike: The police are raised by working class families then grow up to shoot at their own people.

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

A brief interview with a life-long Minneapolis resident about why some in the city are turning towards filter blockades as a new tactic in the fight against federal occupation

https://t.co/BpBpgMelwB

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

How can we build upon these innovations and push them into new sectors? How can we deepen the crisis between the people and the Democratic leaders positioning themselves to ride the anti-Trump rhetoric into power? How can we transition from rapid response to revolution?

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

After leading the way in 2020, the people of Minneapolis are innovating a new form of collective insurgency. This one is widespread and broad based, highly organized and decentralized, and readily adaptable to new modes of self-governance.

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

An ICE SUV was abandoned after it smashed into a telephone pole in MN yesterday. This is how you drive out an invading army--disrupt and demoralize.

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

"They tried hard to juke us which just confirmed to us that they were an actual abduction team, and while they eventually lost us on a sketchy left turn across the highway, we felt good with how much time and distance we put between them and their intended targets."

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

From the notebooks: "We hopped out with 10 people aggro as fuck all screaming at them “fuck you, get the fuck out, we hate you piece of shit” and the vibe shifted quick. They were a little snotty and gave us some half-hearted insults back, but you could tell they were scared."

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

An anonymous partisan dispatched from the Southwest gives an account of a week spent battling ICE in the streets of the Twin Cities while navigating trauma, exhaustion, and the sublimity of a popular uprising.

https://t.co/gXGo37tPWa

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

"Within 10 minutes they piled back into their cars and retreated. By that time a whole convoy of observers had formed and chased the fuck out of them all over St. Paul, catching them in gas stations when they tried to hide, blowing reds with them while they ran code."

[Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City @defendATLforest]

Officers mocked onlookers after federal agents murdered a protester in broad daylight.

[Ill Will @illwilleditions]

New dispatch up on @sw_commune, written by folks who spent a week in Minneapolis fighting ICE

https://t.co/2cKIixCyLG

[Living & Fighting @sw_commune]

An anonymous partisan dispatched from the Southwest gives an account of a week spent battling ICE in the streets of the Twin Cities while navigating trauma, exhaustion, and the sublimity of a popular uprising.

https://t.co/gXGo37tPWa