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City in Resistance, launches April 17, 2026 at 127 Walker Street in Chinatown, New York. Taking place during Earth Week and in parallel to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, it offers a week-long, community-centered space for gathering, exchange, and organizing. Spearheaded by Chinatown Art Brigade, Alicia Grullón, Quito Ziegler of Dandelions NYC, Mon M, and the W.O.W. Project, and building on the 2024 Borough Based Liberation Project, the convening brings together Indigenous land defenders, artists, organizers, and movement workers from across territories and New York City. At a time of overlapping ecological, political, and social crises, City in Resistance centers the interconnected struggles for land, housing, sovereignty, justice, and collective survival. Located adjacent to the site of one of four new city jails, the project is grounded in Chinatown’s long history of resistance and asks what futures can be built beyond systems of incarceration. The week will include cross-movement dialogues with visiting land defenders alongside locally rooted gatherings, creating space for strategy-building, relationship-making, and collective reflection. Through workshops, conversations, and informal exchanges, participants will explore pathways toward sustained solidarity and coordinated action across communities and borders. ACCESS: 127 Walker Street is a storefront and community center that fosters ideas for community wellbeing. In this spirit, the city in resistance hopes to nurture the space in a way that is accessible for all who wish to enter. With this, we recognize that the COVID pandemic is ongoing, so first and foremost, we will be requiring and providing masks during our gatherings. We also recommend that if you’re feeling sick on any given day, you stay home and focus on caring for yourself :) The space’s ground floor is wheelchair accessible as is the Canal St station via the 6 train. There is additionally a bathroom onsite on this floor that is ADA accessible. Throughout the week we’ll absolutely have seating available. Please just ask for what you need as it arises because we want to prioritize folks’ comfortability! (cont in captions)
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1 month ago
long live the bolivarian process (¡comuna o nada! translates to commune or nothing, from ch*vez’s last speech) & solidarity w venezuelans resisting empire
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4 months ago
New art for an event featuring Marisa Solomon’s book ‘The Elsewhere is Black” for Barnard Center for Research on Women. A favorite!
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3 months ago
Illustration for ‘We Are Each Other’s Liberation’ out in October, titled ‘Real Girl’s Talk.’
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8 months ago
We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities is out this fall on October 14 & I’m excited to have a piece in this anthology. The anthology is a collaborative project between @blackwomenradicals and @aafc.nyc and envisions a cross-racial and internationalist politics that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists. Pre-order link: /a/1039/9798888903728
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9 months ago
Join abolitionist organizers from across NYC for the fourth annual Abolition BlockParty on Sunday, August 10, 2025 from 1pm to 6pm in Crown Heights’ Brower Park! There will be free food, music, performances, speakers, workshops, and more. 🎪 This year’s theme, “Black August & Summer Rebellion: Beyond Ballots, Borders & Bans,” honors Black political prisoners who have struggled for collective liberation, while recognizing the urgency of abandoning systems that have enabled present horrors, from state-sanctioned kidnappings to genocide. ✊🏾 Masks provided and required! Participating organizations include @survivepunishny , @criticalresistance , @projectlets , @bkjailsupport , @paroleprepny , @courtwatchnyc , @aad.nyc , @recessart_assembly , @blu4black , @plazaproletaria , @blackandpinknyc , @nycabc , @chcarecollective The Abolition Block Party also will also kick off #JSFest2025 (August 11–15, 2025) five days of programming and mutual aid to celebrate the one-year anniversary of @bkjailsupport (120 Schermerhorn St, Downtown Brooklyn) 🫱🏾‍🫲🏿 (Rain location: ☔️📍 @come.to.life.world , 563 Johnson Ave, Bushwick)
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9 months ago
you’ve got to commemorate the big moments in life! featuring some california buckwheat (native to the region and a symbol of resilience and adapatability 🥹). of course #abolishice #chingalamigra forever
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11 months ago
customary reminder that this was an illustration page — excited to have worked on this cover for a new book, ‘Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity,’ by Rachel Kuo, out soon from Oxford University Press. And will be sharing some work from the past 6 months over the next month! Grateful for the longstanding collaboration w @_kuolabear who I told years ago that I wanted to illustrate the cover for her book.
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Rashid was “compacted” on May 1 to the Perry Correctional Institution in South Carolina, 430 Oaklawn Rd., Pelzer, SC 29669. His ID number in South Carolina is 397279. In the transit van, he was severely injured – probably a broken bone – in his left leg. He has not been given any treatment for it. He is in solitary confinement, with only a concrete slab to sleep on. He can make only one phone call per week. A comrade is helping him get onto the “GTL Getting Out” app so that he can communicate with everyone. Meanwhile, he has been on hunger strike since he got there. He lost 17 pounds during the first week. He appeals for maximum publicity and pressure. The phone numbers listed for the prison are: 864-243-4700 and 803-737-1752.
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1 year ago
For sharing!! The shop is back open for some time. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Help support inside organizing in PA through the 9971 Study Groups led by our comrade Stevie Wilson! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Link in bio! If you don’t want to purchase anything but want to donate, link for that is in bio too. Art by Stevie, @em_bergman @baby.phag and me! ID: Gradient green and pink background with merch collaged onto it. White shirt at the top left says Abolish Prisons and Defend the Criminalized with a picture of a bird holding bolt cutters. Black shirt on the right is a long sleeve with an illustration that says FTP. At the bottom is a folded white shirt that also says FTP, and a brown tote bag that says ‘No New Jails.’ Text at the top says Fund The Inside. Text in the middle says Abolitionist Merch Fundraiser and free-them-all.printful.me. Text at the bottom says Fund Stevie Wilson’s work! Stevie is an incarcerated organizer currently in Pennsylvania!
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MASKING REQUIRED — Love Letters is back for its sixth year! Every year around Valentine’s Day, @sofreshtoday and I host a letter reading and letter writing event where folks read letters from anyone to anyone. Funds to @thesameerproject & letters via @wmnsprisonbookproject ! 💌 strongly suggested $10 donation We’re excited to do it this year at @thewordischange with an incredible lineup on February 14 at 7 PM: aishvarya arora fabliha yeaqub danialie fertile madison jamar aristilde kirby tal mancini & shaira chaer
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Belatedly sharing two books featuring conversations that I and others had in 2022/2023 with organizers about carceral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic (slide 1) and the complicated dynamics of the No New Jails Network (slide 2). Book 1: How to be Disabled in a Pandemic edited by Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp. Book 2: The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration by Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Judah Schept — also had the chance to talk with some of the organizers in the book recently at the ASA convening and it was so so good. Definitely recommend people pick up a copy!
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1 year ago