@rss there have been many instances where community members in Los Angeles have been able to chase ICE agents away and prevent people from being detained.A "member of Unión del Barrio, a national organization that has led resistance efforts against [police violence and ICE] since its inception in 1981" said abductions happen less "when there’s large numbers of community members, when the agents are outnumbered in large quantities...."Unión del Barrio also encourages people not to walk on the street by themselves, to stay in large crowds, and to use their right to stay silent, so that it’s impossible to distinguish if there’s anyone in the group who’s undocumented.

@rss For the first time ever, the strategy incorporates everything from closing the borders and establishing “National Defense Areas” along them, immigration enforcement operations, the war against Antifa and other domestic groups, and even boat strikes in the Caribbean into a singular coherent war.

@rss Maryland’s public pension fund raised its Israeli bond holdings to $74 million in 2024.On a cold, sunny morning in October, Grace Smith, a 42-year-old Baltimore County middle school teacher, arrived at the annual statewide teachers union convention in Ocean City, Maryland, with two fellow educators and a folder full of zines. Their mission: talk to as many teachers as possible about Maryland’s pension investments in Israel and hand out every copy they’d brought.Source