The American Immigration Council describes the detention system as a system of systematic failure exposing its flawed nature of detention or deportation as a one-size-fits-all response.
Law enforcement experts are criticizing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics that killed a record number of civilians on U.S. streets. Police accountability and immigration enforcement experts say deaths will continue until Congress takes ICE's guns and bans them from making community arrests.
A year after Trump allocated billions for his immigration terror campaign, deportation agents are amassing historic amounts of military weapons.
This article looks at El Salvador's State of Exception through the lens of the unrightfully detained lawyer, activist and human rights defender Ruth López.
Following the election of a far-right government in Colombia that threatens vulnerable and marginalized communities, the author describes a feeling of initial fear and paralysis among activists and citizens. Drawing inspiration and faith from the creative, peaceful resistance of local peasant communities like Guayabo, the author calls for renewed spiritual and social resistance against oppression, injustice, and violence.
Was a Canadian military/security consultant company complicit in the 2016 assassination of Indigenous Lenca land defender Berta Céceres? Did they financially benefit? What was their role in broader intimidation efforts against Indigenous land defenders?
Brian Stefan Szittai, Co-Director of the InterReligious Task Force on Central America and Kathleen McDonell, a mediator with the Cleveland Mediation Center, will provide on overview of de-escalation techniques and the priniciples of non-violent protest as useful tools for those in our community who are preparing to monitor and respond to immigration enforcement in our communities.
As the world faces an out of control diversion of energy and human recources into warmaking and with the United States planning a large costly upgrade of nuclear weaponry, Dr. Helfand will outline the work of Back from the Brink.
To dismantle authoritarianism and the fascist surveillance state, communities must strategically target and break its local foundations, such as municipal contracts for surveillance technologies, data centers, and detention facilities. By engaging in these targeted local campaigns, people can achieve tangible structural wins that disrupt oppressive machinery while building durable, lasting neighborhood organizing networks for broader resistance.
