Areas of work
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NATIONWIDE PROTEST TO FREE THE PRAIRIELAND DEFENDANTS
Dare to Struggle and Fire Ant Movement Defense have called for protests today around the country to condemn the conviction of 9 Prairieland Defendants in Fort Worth, Texas. We are calling on all people who hate ICE and support all struggles against ICE terror…
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Mother of neglected autistic inmate Shawn Fraraccio at Tarrant County Corrections courageously speaks out at Commissioners meeting. Judge Tim O’Hare threatened to “clear out the room” when audience clapped in support.
Today at the Tarrant County Commissioner’s meeting, family and friends of Shawn, an autistic inmate, demanded his immediate release to a proper facility that could care for his needs. Shawn has been in jail for about 400 days. Guards are starving him and inadequately…
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The Federal government coerced several Prairieland Defendants to take Plea deals through vile treatment at Johnson and Tarrant County Jail*.
Now they are propping them up as trophies to break public support In July 2025, a group of people were arrested after holding a noise demonstration outside the Prairieland Detention Center. Original arrests took place following an altercation that occurred 200 yards away from the…
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PROTEST TO FREE THE PRAIRIELAND DEFENDANTS: WEDNESDAY 3/11
PROTEST IN SUPPORT of the Prairieland Defendants this Wednesday 3/11 outside the courthouse at 4pm. The Prairieland Defendants are a group of 18 people arrested for holding a protest outside an ICE detention facility in Texas where they set off fireworks and made noise…
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Dare to Struggle Chicago x Cook County Jail
A summation of the struggle at CCJ – Nov 2024 to Dec 2025 Why Cook County Jail? Cook County Jail (CCJ) is the largest single site jail in the country (96 acres spanning eight city blocks). Holding anywhere between 5,000-6,000 inmates on any given…
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Burke and Snelling celebrate gun felony program, while people are forced to arm themselves for their own protection
On November 21st, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen Burke gleefully announced the city-wide expansion of the Felony Review bypass program. Originally a pilot program launched in the predominantly Black Englewood and Calumet districts, the program allows CPD to directly file felony gun possession charges…
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Notes on O22 from Inside CCJ
A letter from participants of the October 22nd National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality inside Cook County Jail When we dare to struggle, we dare to win, and we either STAND for something of FALL for anything. To all the men and women…
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Free Adrian Rucker
The following is a letter from 25-year-old Adrian Rucker, the young man arrested “in connection” to the June 5th killing of CPD officer Krystal Rivera, with minor grammatical edits. Rivera was shot from behind by her partner, Carlos Baker, a Chicago cop with a…
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Protest Sheriff Tom Dart 9/23
Protest Sherriff Tom Dart’s speech at City Club Chicago! Tell him how you really feel! Tuesday, September 23rd, at 11AM at 111 W Grand Ave Chicago IL In June, Dare to Struggle stood alongside side families and inmates to hold a people’s trial against…
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Rinse & Repeat
Why reforms can be unreformed in the talk shop of legislative politics On August 22nd, the Chicago Sun-Times published an article citing the reversals of six high-profile misconduct rulings enacted by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA). In all but two cases, COPA…
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