Introducing The Spark: A National Prison Newsletter & Roadmap to August 21st: George Jackson Day
On February 28th, 2026, the US military attacked the Minab all-girls school in Iran with two Tomahawk missiles, killing 168 people, most of whom were children. This initiated another war of aggression and continued the long history of US imperialist interventions in the Middle East. The Minab massacre is just one example of a long…
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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% of the national amount since the beginning of last year. ICE…
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CoreCivic & ICE abuse immigrant detainees while holding Torrance Co residents hostage
“Esta experiencia que tengo aqui no le deseo a nadie” -Edgar Lalvay Gallego in Torrance County Detention Facility P, an older Latina woman who serves lunch at the Estancia Senior Center just three miles down the road from Torrance County Detention Center (TCDF), thinks about quitting her job almost weekly. The measly $13/hr she makes…
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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 resistance led by the immigrants being held there. Hundreds of detainees…
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Take out Flyers Exposing the Police Killing of Kohen Wiley
Kohen Wiley was a 1 year old boy who was murdered by Senatobia police officer Hunter Foster on Sunday. Wiley’s mother and her friend were leaving Walmart when employees called the cops claiming they stole pampers, a claim they refute. Police arrived to the scene watched Wiley enter the car with his mother and then…
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¡Viva la Huelga!
Join our national organizing call on June 8th to get ready to go to the ICE detention center nearest you on June 27th for a nationwide protest in support of immigrants in detention! DOWNLOADS The whole world has heard the cries of the Delaney Hall hunger strikers – immigrants are not passive victims, but the…
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The War on the Poor: One Sided No More
When the federal government cut off SNAP benefits in November 2025, 40 million people didn’t receive their benefits for over two weeks, with no idea when funding would return. Welfare recipients are familiar with this treatment; they are routinely kicked off their benefits or required to re-certify unexpectedly. Even when they get benefits, it’s not…
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Crabs in a Bucket: How the ruling class spreads chaos in public housing
Lea el texto en español más abajo. We’ll start with a story that’s familiar to anyone living in public housing in New York City. One afternoon, we were in Red Hook Houses, a NYCHA development in Brooklyn that the city government and real estate companies have been plotting to privatize. We were there with two…
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