BREAKING: A week after immigration raids were first leaked to be planned for Aurora, a federal operation is hitting Denver and the surrounding metro area, federal officials confirmed Wednesday morning.
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New: CPS confirmed that ICE agents visited Hamline Elementary in Back of the Yards Friday in Chicago.
Community note
It was secret service, not ice. Secret Service said they were investigating a threat, and responded to a house. They said they were then told the person they wanted to talk to was at Hamline Elementary School, but they did not enter the school.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
Puerto Rico nearly elected its first pro-independence governor. Candidate Juan Dalmau won 32% of the vote — a historic high reflecting Puerto Ricans’ growing support for independence from the U.S.
BT’s @ldejesusreyes reports
“She bucked her Party’s leadership, because she refused to ignore the needs of her constituents — which in this case meant opposing a genocide.” interc.pt/3YAsjsk
ALT A photo of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress in Washington on July 24, 2024, overlaid with the headline, "In Dearborn, Rashida Tlaib Did Nearly Twice as Well as Kamala Harris."
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right.
NEW: Colorado's open primary and ranked choice ballot measure, Proposition 131, has failed. Proponents have conceded as it trails by 10% . The measure was backed by wealthy interests including former DaVita CEO Kent Thiry and Chevron. #copolitics
We finished installing the political art gallery last night.
Toni Cade Bambara says "the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible." I promise you she's right.
We've got some beautiful art for sale, with all proceeds going to the artists. See you Thursday!🌱🌹✊🏽
ALT An event flyer with a burgundy background with a large yellow square includes the text language “Ballot Pachanga: Thursday, October 17 6-8PM.” The flyer includes the logos of Colorado Working Families, Party and COLOR Action Fund. The event flyer reads that there will be food, drinks, our galleries, performances, and music. The address for the event is at the bottom of the flyer and says “Re:Vision (3800 Morrison Road, Denver, CO.”
This year’s ballot is full of racial justice issues from abortion access, to police funding, to billionaires trying to buy elections.
I’m hosting this event with @coloractionfund and @COWorkingFam to talk about racial justice on the ballot. Come kick it with us on 10/17!🌱🌹✊🏽
ALT An event flyer with a burgundy background with a large yellow square includes the text language “Ballot Pachanga: Thursday, October 17 6-8PM.” The flyer includes the logos of Colorado Working Families, Party and COLOR Action Fund. The event flyer reads that there will be food, drinks, our galleries, performances, and music. The address for the event is at the bottom of the flyer and says “Re:Vision (3800 Morrison Road, Denver, CO.”
I attended the press conference with residents at this apt. complex last week; there is no “immigrant problem” in Aurora, only a slumlord refusing to maintain his property. Nevertheless, many are living in fear because of Trump’s anti-immigrant fear mongering. Fuck Donald Trump.