Vero Castro 🐜

Professional Troublemaker. Luchadora. Fluent Spanglish speaker. How Cool? Ice Cold. Tweets son mios.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Jasmine Crockett on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “bleach blonde, bad built, butch body” during a House committee oversight hearing.

This started after MTG said her ‘fake eyelashes were messing up her reading’

[Mayor Brandon Johnson @ChicagosMayor]

This morning, I was proud to accept the Chicago For The People Transition Committee report, “Building Bridges and Growing the Soul of Chicago: A Blueprint for Creating a More Just and Vibrant City for All." View the report at: https://t.co/MmzP7qem3J.

[AAAN #Justice4Murod #Justice4Hadi @aaanmarkaz]

🚨#JUSTICE4Hadi RECAP & ACTION ALERT 🚨

On May 3rd, AAAN w/Allie’s attended the Oak Lawn Village board meeting to demand the firing of the racist cops who beat 17-year-old Palestinian Arab American Hadi Abuatelah back in July 2022.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Brittney Griner, a WNBA star who was detained in Russia for nearly 10 months, spoke with reporters for the first time since her release in a prisoner exchange in December. “Stay strong. Keep fighting. Don’t give up,” she advised other American detainees. https://t.co/TMtsgWaisw

[Heidi Altman @heidiraltman]

Today's announced package of new border policies includes several ways U.S. officials can send refugees back to harm without even screening for asylum. This is the United States walking away from core principles of the international refugee protection regime.

[Vero Castro 🐜 @verocastro]

Building a Broader Movement: ICIRR's 2022 Fall Fundraiser https://t.co/zdxZb6zXdG via @YouTube

[AAAN #Justice4Murod #Justice4Hadi @aaanmarkaz]

The Immortal Harold Washington and the 1983 Election for Mayor of #Chicago, by our Executive Director Hatem Abudayyeh https://t.co/GnHL5j4dhn

And #WATCH Punch 9 for #HaroldWashington at https://t.co/WcnhHdmg3r

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Overturning Roe and outlawing abortions will never make them go away.

It only makes them more dangerous, especially for the poor + marginalized.

People will die because of this decision. And we will never stop until abortion rights are restored in the United States of America.

[OCAD @OCAD_CHI]

(1) @POTUS & @SecMayorkas have once again said F*%K YOU to immigrants, a thread🧵:
#AlAmin’s request for release was denied by ICE & he’s been taken to a facility in TX as a last stop before deportation. His hand was forcibly used for fingerprints to sign for his own deportation.

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

"One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.'"

-- Mitch McConnell, August 2016 https://t.co/QPpzws7GWA

[William Fitzgerald @william_fitz]

omg

the terribleness of databrokers is mainstream now

[OCAD @OCAD_CHI]

Transferring people in the middle of a pandemic is inhumane and dangerous to everyone. How is transferring people when you have the discretion to let them go back to their families different from the last administration? @SecMayorkas #ReleasesNotTransfers is the only way forward!

[IL Immigrant Rights @icirr]

Our #FreeThemAll petition has 3,000+ signatures from supporters who demand RELEASES, not transfers! It’s time @SecMayorkas and @EROChicago #ReleaseNotTransfers everyone from McHenry, IL and Kankakee, IL ICE detention!

[Vero Castro 🐜 @verocastro]

.@SecMayorkas , ICE contracts in IL end on Feb 12th. Everyone should have the right to fight their immigration case alongside their family & community. Transferring people is inhumane, medically dangerous and unnecessary. Use your power to #FreeThemAll! #ReleaseNotTransfers

[🔗 @bass_emK]

After a COVID outbreak, McHenry County Detention has 45 confirmed COVID cases. People have been put in solitary confinement & lack access to soap, masks & hand sanitizers. @SecMayorkas Sylvie Renda @EROChicago it’s time to #FreeThemAll! #ReleasesNotTransfers

[OCAD @OCAD_CHI]

While Angela has since been released from detention, everyone still detained at McHenry and Kankakee are going through this. @SecMayorkas & Sylvie Renda @EROChicago do the right thing and #ReleasesNotTransfers #FreeThemAll!

[IL Immigrant Rights @icirr]

Last year, immigrant communities won the passage of the Illinois Way Forward Act, which will close the remaining ICE detention centers in our state. We are demanding that @EROChicago & @SecMayorkas #FreeThemAll and RELEASE, don't transfer, the 30 people remaining in detention

[Vero Castro 🐜 @verocastro]

We call on @EROChicago Sylvie Renda, Acting ICE Field Office Director, and Secretary of Homeland Security @SecMayorkas to #ReleaseNotTransfer everyone who is detained at McHenry and Kankakee!

[IL Immigrant Rights @icirr]

From @cbschicago: Groups Rally Outside Daley Plaza For Immigration Provision To Social Spending Bill. WATCH ⬇️⬇️ #Citizenship4All https://t.co/OOXnUKvq9y

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

Powerful article by USPCN & @NAARPR leaders:

"If @RepBowman truly wants 2 uphold progressive values ... he should listen to people in his district & to Black liberation movement. He should support #BDS, disavow & vote against US aid to apartheid Israel"

https://t.co/QajwsuRDrw