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Dallas cops + ICE cooked up bullshit charges and caged 17+ people for making noise at the Prairieland detention center. Two months later they’re still inside, with obscene collective bail. Fuck ICE and anyone greasing the gears of this machine.

Oct 3: bring the noise, write letters, drop banners, throw a benefit, pass the hat. Donate: https://givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors.
Send pics + reportbacks: dfwsupportcommittee@hacari.com
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Learn more: dfwdefendants.wordpress.com • IG: @dfwsupportcommittee @fireantmovementdefense

No one left behind. Free the Prairieland defendants.

Flyer titled ‘Who are the Prairieland Defendants?’ explains that 17+ Dallas anti-ICE protesters face trumped-up charges from a noise demo at Prairieland ICE detention center and remain jailed with massive collective bail. It lists Oct 3 actions: letter-writing, banner drops, noise demos, fundraisers with donation link givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors, and asks for reportbacks to dfwsupportcommittee@hacari.com . Learn more at dfwdefendants.wordpress.com and IG: @dfwsupportcommittee @fireantmovementdefense.”
Flyer titled ‘Who are the Prairieland Defendants?’ explains that 17+ Dallas anti-ICE protesters face trumped-up charges from a noise demo at Prairieland ICE detention center and remain jailed with massive collective bail. It lists Oct 3 actions: letter-writing, banner drops, noise demos, fundraisers with donation link givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors, and asks for reportbacks to dfwsupportcommittee@hacari.com . Learn more at dfwdefendants.wordpress.com and IG: @dfwsupportcommittee @fireantmovementdefense.”
Flyer titled ‘Who are the Prairieland Defendants?’ explains that 17+ Dallas anti-ICE protesters face trumped-up charges from a noise demo at Prairieland ICE detention center and remain jailed with massive collective bail. It lists Oct 3 actions: letter-writing, banner drops, noise demos, fundraisers with donation link givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors, and asks for reportbacks to dfwsupportcommittee@hacari.com . Learn more at dfwdefendants.wordpress.com and IG: @dfwsupportcommittee @fireantmovementdefense.”
Flyer titled ‘Who are the Prairieland Defendants?’ explains that 17+ Dallas anti-ICE protesters face trumped-up charges from a noise demo at Prairieland ICE detention center and remain jailed with massive collective bail. It lists Oct 3 actions: letter-writing, banner drops, noise demos, fundraisers with donation link givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors, and asks for reportbacks to dfwsupportcommittee@hacari.com . Learn more at dfwdefendants.wordpress.com and IG: @dfwsupportcommittee @fireantmovementdefense.”

"As the rally grew tense and Dallas police began to mobilize with shields for better crowd control, Ford said he tried to get a few individuals to back up, when an officer pepper-sprayed him.

“An officer came up, totally out of control, and started pushing and pulled out his baton, his pepper spray,“ Ford said. “I put my hands up (and said) ‘Officer, I’m not a threat.’ And he began to pepper spray.”

Clarence Ford is a pastor, btw.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/06/09/protestors-in-dallas-rally-to-show-solidarity-with-la-demonstrators-amid-ice-crackdowns/

wants to read Rehab on the Range by Holly M. Karibo

Holly M. Karibo: Rehab on the Range (2024, University of Texas Press) No rating

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical …

RIP to an absolute real one, Dr. Allan Saxe of UTA, who just passed away. He gave away around $2.5 million in his life— $500k from an inheritance & the rest from his liberal arts professor's salary (about half of it each year). The most entertaining teacher I've ever had, and that's saying something!

Here's a talk he gave, which should be required viewing for . 👇
And a Thriller parody video he made (next toot 👇👇), which should be required for everyone 😂
https://youtu.be/jI1bCWGbvnY?si=-3yylET_BEKW4eky

Here's an old post of mine for any fans out there, about the time I read
on an iPad in a Kayapó village of the Amazon and received a visitation from the Wraith himself:

"Indigenous societies like the Kayapó, with their powerful sense of group identity and collective purpose reinforced through spectacular public ceremonies, would appear immune to -- even an antidote to -- the kind of mental, electronic and pharmaceutical 'cages' that are central to Infinite Jest."

@bookstodon

https://ethnoground.blogspot.com/2013/02/rainforest-wraith-reading-david-foster.html