Andrea Ritchie
@dreanyc123
Black. Lesbian. Immigrant. Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice bit.ly/NoMorePolice bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com
FBI raids across multiple states targeting anti-genocide on Palestinians organizing in Michigan - protest at noon at federal court 231 W. Lafayette, please share widely!
NYC Healthcare workers come through for a training by Minneapolis health care workers on how to navigate ICE presence in healthcare settings! Sunday June 7, Queens #ICEoutofNYC
This #MayDay groups who have been organizing around policing, immigration enforcement, and abolition of ICE for decades like BAJI @criticalresistance.bsky.social @detentionwatchnetwork.org & @interruptcrim.bsky.social wanted to offer some clarity around what it means to demand to #AbolishICE #NOICE
We are raising funds for family reunification again through Asemblea Popular/Detroit People’s Assembly! Please help us reach our $10,000 goal by the end of this month! Venmo: @peoplesassembydetroit Cash App: $peoplesassembly Please note “Family Together” with your donation
Last post for today: I'm supporting my local Asemblea Popular (People's Assembly) fundraising for reunification of 2 families after violent ICE separation. Please contribute if you can as a way to honor the #NationalShutDown to get #ICEOUT - It would be amazing to meet the goal by the end of today!
Just a friendly reminder that today's national shutdown was called by Somali and Black students in Minnesota - learn more here nationalshutdown.org
100000% was recently at a training about their signs & symbols and the overwhelming consensus in the room is their shit is ugly af and our rainbow unicorns will beat them every time Speaking of folks in Detroit please support Posters to Melt Ice to benefit the People’s Assembly/Asemblea Popular
There is a LOT happening in Detroit today - My councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero introduced a resolution to create ICE free zones on city property & the orange menace will be in town. Actions all day starting now:
If you are in LA and want to interrupt criminalization in the context of care, join organizers in the streets tomorrow at 10 am to say ICE & cops out of care and get one of these gorgeous signs based on art by @monicatrinidad.bsky.social for @interruptcrim.bsky.social’s toolkit - or make your own!
If you are looking for ways to disrupt the abduction detention & deportation machine check out the new mini-toolkit from @interruptcrim.bsky.social gathering opportunities for action from orgs like @detentionwatchnetwork.org @siembranc.bsky.social BAJI + www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
You could take the Illinois National Guard out of the equation by calling the rest of them up first. Your Rebuild Illinois site suggests there’s plenty for them to do seeing as the state’s transportation infrastructure has a C rating & 26% of Illinois roads & 14% of highways are not “acceptable”
Criminalization of unhoused people. Criminalization of disabled people & people w/ unmet mental health needs. Criminalization of migrants. Criminalization of youth. Criminalization of underresourced Black communities The D.C. occupation shows in real time how criminalization is a vector for fascism
Criminalization - of migrants, resistance, protest - is at the heart of politicians & pundits’ responses - more from @tinavasquez.bsky.social @prismreports.org
Excellent piece on protest and self defense in LA from @melissagiragrant.com in @thenewrepublic.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1963...
Lastly, let the record reflect that the peonies had a message of their own 👇🏼 for their fans & the populace at large. FFS garden lovers stand down & get your priorities straight & stand up for the Gaza gardeners - including children growing food & flowers desperately trying to survive a genocide.
Let the record hereby reflect that folks CUT FLOWERS to call attention to GENOCIDE Let the record also reflect that I went to aforementioned peony garden yesterday and said peonies were FINE and in fact blooming GANGBUSTERS. (see, eg, exhibits A through D 👇🏼) www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
Shouldn’t ALL doctors be against genocide?!? Co-founders of Doctors Against Genocide arrested at press conference diagnosing a genocide in Gaza and prescribing an immediate end to forced starvation blockade & occupation. Join Doctors Against Genocide & @hcw4palestine.bsky.social in taking action
Some revolutionary mothers’ day history from @alexispauline.bsky.social Black motherhood has always been resistance to criminalization. Where, and on whose behalf, should we be sending 10,000 Mother’s Day missives to demand liberation? “Forget Hallmark. Have a revolutionary Mother’s Day people.”