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https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2025/03/Letter_from_a_Palestinian_Political_Prisoner_in_Louisiana_March_18,_2025.pdf

The letter reads as follows:

Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana Dictated over the phone from ICE Detention March 18, 2025

My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.

Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing.

Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.

On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern was for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours — I did not know the cause of my arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on the ground and was refused a blanket despite my request.

My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom.

I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention — imprisonment without trial or charge — to strip Palestinians of their rights. I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned home from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.

I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted.

While I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabled my targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University. Presidents Shafik, Armstrong, and Dean Yarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the U.S. government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing campaigns — based on racism and disinformation — to go unchecked.

Columbia targeted me for my activism, creating a new authoritarian disciplinary office to bypass due process and silence students criticizing Israel. Columbia surrendered to federal pressure by disclosing student records to Congress and yielding to the Trump administration's latest threats. My arrest, the expulsion or suspension of at least 22 Columbia students — some stripped of their B.A. degrees just weeks before graduation — and the expulsion of SWC President Grant Miner on the eve of contract negotiations, are clear examples.

If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change — leading the charge against the Vietnam War, standing on the frontlines of the civil rights movement, and driving the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Today, too, even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice.

The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent. Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.

Knowing fully that this moment transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free to witness the birth of my first-born child.

 

So far, my city doesn't seem to have a local protestor group and I was wondering how to find one. At the least, I want to be in contact with one.

 

Pack up your bags, Tesla is woke. You heard it from Elon Musk himself.

 

I decided to start a list of links as I thought that there was no collection of links. We should collect links and images relating to 50501. Please share this list around. If you want to save this repo to your hard drive, click the view source button and copy. Give suggestions to add or edit to the list, via replies or messages, description is not required but appreciated.

Other lists:

Organizing:

  • 50501 Protest in every state capitol! Find actions/virtual actions, Flyer templates so you can edit to include details, and some other resources.
  • Indivisible Find local groups and find actions to take here. Founded in response to Trump's election. Sign up with your Email and Zip code to receive actions you can take locally. You can also file a form to start organizing in your own area.
  • Build The Resistance Find actions, resources, and a hub of content you can contribute to anonymously. /resources contains links to training, mutual aid, know your rights, and a table of user submitted links just like this one.
  • Mobilize Events/Actions, Petitions, Volunteering, Virtual events, Organizations, and Groups, in one page.
  • No voice unheard
  • Political revolution
  • Women’s March An organization by feminists. There is an action hub where you can find protests, digital actions, and a People's Toolkit, where you fill out a survey of issues you care about so they can find stuff for you.
  • Stand Up for Science Find protests, local rallies, and local events, to stand up for science. Contains a link to protest safety too, and in the FAQs is a Google Drive for flyers and square images.
  • Tesla Takedown
  • Americans United Dedicated to the separation of church and state, which means they have to fight Project 2025, which they have a page on. Click on the "GET INVOLVED" button to find events and volunteer.

Protesting Areas:

Protestor Guides:

Boycotting:

  • The General Strike If 3.5% of America's population signs up to this, we can call a general strike and stop the economy if demands aren't met.
  • Strike For Our Rights A nonprofit that promotes strikes. You can sign a strike card here.
  • Goods Unite Us Website and App that lets you search a brand and find out it's political contributions.
  • MAGA Trash Search for companies that are MAGA.
  • Bankrupt Trump Find alternatives to products made in the US or Russia. You can search, and pick your location to show local options.
  • Buy European Buy European. Can search, or browse by category, or look for an alternative.
  • Go European
  • European Alternatives
  • Buy Beaver
  • Shop Blue (Google Doc) Regularly updated list of brands that have donated to Democrats. You want to buy from the blue and gray backgrounds, or even green.

Home Actions:

  • 5 Calls Helpful website and App that finds your representatives and gives you a script so you can call them on an issue that matters to you.
  • FaxZero Send free faxes to people, especially your representatives if they are ignoring your calls, which on the home page is links to a list of representatives you can fax to.

Trackers:

Communities/Social Medias:

Media:

Turnout:

Other:

[–] enub22@50501.chat 3 points 1 week ago

!Illinois@50501.chat

[–] enub22@50501.chat 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh, thank you. Yes, it's getting a bit of attraction from the mirror mainly.

[–] enub22@50501.chat 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

!Alaska@50501.chat

 

https://opdreadnought.com/

Twitter was replaced by this website for a couple of minutes. In the website, it states that it's purpose is to fight the fascism plaguing America, and lists helpful info/resources on protesting, OPSEC, and evil groups assisting with Trump's agenda. It even mentions 50501 and Tesla Takedown within the resources.

[–] enub22@50501.chat 0 points 1 week ago

The only way to form a progressive party and win is to install progressive leaders in key DNC roles. Actually creating a new votable party in a country using first past the post would be political suicide, and grants Republicans the win.

[–] enub22@50501.chat 11 points 1 week ago

I don't digg it.

 

50501.chat

A new official instance dedicated to the 50501 movement was created recently and is in the works. It has some brainstorming communities, a mirror of r/50501, and all 50 states have a community assigned to them. They are also looking for state organizers for their Lemmy state communities! Come join us!

Got permission from mods to post.

[–] enub22@50501.chat 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Call for an investigation, NOW!

[–] enub22@50501.chat 1 points 1 week ago

Backups are cool too, you don't need to erase it all.

 

How Hitler used hate to gain power and that its not worth it to fall for hate. Worth a watch, you can even do a movie night on it maybe, its scary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Be_a_Sucker

Videos:

https://spectra.video/w/t4sN6wtVxGox9V8MyK1EzX

https://archive.org/details/dont-be-a-sucker

[–] enub22@50501.chat 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wdym? I can communicate here too.

[–] enub22@50501.chat 1 points 1 week ago

Hi! I'm on there!

 

Response to https://50501.chat/post/12085

I'd say that we should not mirror Reddit comments if our comments will not be mirrored to the subreddit. It will not allow for Lemmy users to give their thoughts on the sub's posts because it would be hard to find Lemmy comments. But afaik, the mirror only saves posts for 15 to 30 days? With that restriction, it might be slightly pointless to not mirror comments.

I would like to be able to cooperate with the people on Reddit, but it might not be a good idea to mirror Lemmy posts/comments either because Reddit might crack down on it. Hoping for screencaps though.

If you wanted to see comments from Reddit, you could go to Reddit directly or use a privacy front-end like Redlib. (If you are gonna use that, I'd recommend the LibRedirect add-on!)

 

Thank you for this! I've been wanting to contribute to the movement, but Reddit won't let me post with a VPN. :<

Could you put the announcement post back up at Reddit? I don't think many people noticed it, I'd like the Lemmy instance linked in the fiftyfifty.one website too.