An activist media project exploring the system of migrant child detention US and the fight to expose and dismantle it. Collaboration with Little Village Solidarity Network and Chicago Anti Detention Network, a series of videos, website, and screenings/events/workshops. www.NoShelterProject.com
Grass-roots, frontline network of mixed-status border abolitionist organizers in Chicago fighting to stop new detention centers in the region, developing popular education campaigns on the politics of so-called Immigration Reform, and rethinking migrant resistance from below, beyond and against the Immigration Lobby NGO complex. Building relationships with indigenous struggles, MDC organized conferences, info-sessions and active solidarity around rethinking the Southwest border as indigenous lands and border enforcement as militarized colonial occupation. MDC also authored several analyses of the expansion and normalization of detention and the ways “migration crisis” is produced and managed by the colonial state.
Contra la Migra! Contra la Ciudadania! Liberación total!
Chicago-based abolitionist collective that supported rapid-response community defense against ICE networks, and spearheaded numerous campaigns against detention centers, Poli-Migra and the increased militarization of indigenous lands along the US-Mexico border. The collective fought for a vision of self-determination beyond rights-based or reformist horizons.
A political art retreat held in Chicago with around 80 participants from across the country. The gathering was organized by Rozalinda Borcila, Daniel Tucker, Robin Hewlett, Nicolas Lampert, Abby Satinsky, with additional organizing help by Michael Thomas, Nato Thompson, and Rachel Wallis. The retreat began by prompting discussion on cultural work in relation to social movement… Read more »