Dare to Struggle Austin
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Inside and Outside, Repressed and Amplified: A Report Back from the Protest at Pearsall
On Sunday, we pulled up to the Pearsall Detention Center where Wilber Perez is still being held with a fucking bullet in his back to demand his immediate release to a medical facility, and to demand that these torture camps close their doors across…
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Revolution was felt stronger than any pepper ball or tear gas: Report back from the Attempted murder of Wilber Garces Perez
Within an hour, people started gathering at the scene where Wilber Garces Perez was shot in the back through his car door by ICE. All could see Austin PD and State Troopers stand side by side, putting themselves between the ICE agents involved in…
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VIVOS SE LOS LLEVARON ¡VIVOS LOS QUEREMOS! Free Wilber Rafael Garces Perez
On September 20th in Austin, Texas, ICE agents who currently remain unidentified shot Wilber Garces Perez in the back as he tried to flee from a “targeted immigration operation”. Within hours of being brutalized, he was sent to a torture camp in Pearsall, Texas…
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ICE MACES ACTIVISTS AND DPS SLAMS IMMIGRANT TO THE GROUND KNOCKING HIM UNCONSCIOUS
Yesterday on July 19th at around 7:45 AM, Dare to Struggle intervened in the ICE detention of Ever Daniel Velazquez on North Lamar and Longspur blvd., during which his partner who is 6 months pregnant, his 6-year-old daughter, and three DTS members were brutalized…
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JUSTICE FOR FELIX ALCORTA-RODRIGUEZ! ¡JUSTICIA PARA FELIX ALCORTA-RODRIGUEZ!
63-year-old Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez died in ICE custody on June 19th, just 3 days after being detained by ICE and taken to the Webb County Detention Center in Laredo, Texas. This is at least the fifth death in Texas detention centers, which make up 25%…
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Geo Group’s attempt to repress the Hunger Strikers
On June 15th, ICE cruelly retaliated against detainees participating in ongoing hunger and labor-strikes across the country by rolling out new operating standards for detention centers. These standards serve only to intensify the inhumanity inside ICE concentration camps, and squash the brave acts of…
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HSO is Cleaning Up “Homeless Sanctuary” Tech Capital Austin
Being homeless means facing daily state violence and fighting every day to survive. Just the act of becoming homeless is a violent one, often being forcibly evicted by a landlord who cares only about profit. On the streets, you can’t be sure when your…
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The Undefeated Lizard King and His Fight Against Police Brutality
Julian Reyes of Texas and his dog Shiner Bock were brutalized by Austin’s police department 13 years ago this month. The tragic events of a single night would become the beginning of the Lizard King’s continued fight against the crimes and injustices committed by…
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DANGEROUS SEXUAL PREDATOR – Gregory “Ty” Parra.
In the past few months, over 60 women have come forward to share testimonies and corroborate stories of rape, sexual harassment, blackmail, revenge porn and coerced drug use by Gregory “Ty” Parra. These accounts date back to 2011, during Ty’s high school years, and…
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Nation-Wide Speak-Outs March 21st
Immigrants Stand With the Youth and Stand Up Against ICE On March 21st, Dare to Struggle is calling for nationwide speakouts in immigrant neighborhoods that encourage immigrants, their families, and people who have faced repression for protesting ICE to come into the streets to…
