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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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“I just wanted him to stop” Chicago State’s Attorney pursuing charges against survivor of domestic violence for ending her abuse
On October 22, 2022, 33-year-old Keshia Golden was 8 months pregnant celebrating her baby shower with friends and family. The celebration of life took a drastic turn when Golden’s abuser (the father of her unborn child) attacked her, slamming her head against a kitchen…
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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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PITTSBURGH STAND UP!
TAKE UP THE FIGHT AGAINST PRISON KILLINGS IN PGH Across Pennsylvania, incarcerated people are sent hundreds of miles away where they face horrific conditions behind bars. Correctional officers (COs) brutalize and murder inmates with no recourse and these killings are on the rise. There…
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November 2025 death in CCJ ruled a homicide
In November, inmates reported to Dare to Struggle about a fire at Cook County Jail (CCJ) that led to the death of an inmate later identified as Martinez Duncan, 24, and the removal of 5 Correction Officers (COs) from the deck. Just last week,…
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PACK THE COURT FOR CARL MILLER
Wed Feb. 25 @ 2pm at 320 jay st, Brooklyn, NY In 1979, then 19-year-old Carl Miller was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Rabbi David Okunov. Carl then spent the next three decades upstate in New York prisons. He has steadily maintained his…
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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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