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Harsha Walia

@harshawalia.bsky.social
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Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle. New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If we are serious about dismantling patriarchy and rape culture, we would stop calling it Cornell 7. It's the Cornell 57. Passive bystanders are a pillar of misogyny. Men must actively intervene in shifting social norms & refuse to participate in rape *culture* Its the Cornell 57, not Cornell 7.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My episode with Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social where we talk about what happened in Ceuta and why anti-immigrant narratives are so crucial to fascism. open.spotify.com/episode/3Hee...
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After Ceuta
It Could Happen Here · Episode
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With horrific residential school denialism, incl yesterday when white nationalists came to Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc, let us all show up in a good way to honour Survivors on TRC Day Compilation of TRC gatherings in the lower mainland and resources for all ages www.weavingourworlds.ca/truth-and-re...
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Truth and Reconciliation Day 2026
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is observed annually on September 30 to honour residential school survivors, their families, and the children who never returned home. TRC Day was establi...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Annoucement by Canada, UK, France & others to ban goods from illegal settlements in occupied West Bank is important & comes after much organizing! Note tho - annoucement is connected to these countries' efforts to revive Oslo. So we wont see end to trade agreement with Israel or full arms embargo.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Almost one in four voters in Europe now cast their ballot for far-right parties... a proportion that has grown nearly fivefold since the mid-1990s" Its been clear for over a decade- cost of living crisis and anti migrant consensus drives far-right across Europe www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Europe’s centre fears nationalist wave after AfD victory but only has itself to blame
Saxony-Anhalt win part of wider trend driven by mainstream policy failures and gradual normalisation of far right ideas
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Germany’s far-right AfD is set to win regional election in Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany This is hugely significant: far-right has not won in electoral arena in Germany since WWII. AfD is literally heirs to Nazis (zios dont care) & want to "expel Islam & immigrants" & establish citizen patrols.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
With mounting fights against IHRA around the world, sharing my piece on IHRA definition I argue IHRA defn is state-sanctioned legislative tool of anti-Palestinian racism. It suppresses opposition to Zionism thru liberal & colonial "anti racism" strategy. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Colonialism, racism and the IHRA | CCPA
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sobering interview with Raju Pandit Chhetri, Nepal's climate negotiator, about demands for damage financing and climate justice Most material support has come from neighbouring countries; UNFCC damage and loss fund of $850 million only has $350 million available. drilled.media/news/nepal-f...
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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test
An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"The records involve a US program set up after WWII to secretly settle large numbers of Nazi war criminals in Canada, often with the support of Canadian officials. US intelligence agencies recruited Nazis for their covert operations against the Soviet Union." ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
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Judge orders release of records on Nazi war criminals who settled in Canada
Documents from CIA program to settle Nazi war criminals in Canada ordered released by judge
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
While life saving medical & electrical supplies cant go from US into Cuba due to the blockade, it CAN go out thru Canada. Mariposa Brigade is the first humanitarian aid brigade from Canada to Cuba, coming up quickly next month. Donate & share to break the blockade: chuffed.org/project/1826...
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The Mariposa Brigade - Canada2Cuba with Love
Cuba is a beacon of international solidarity. Their doctors save lives. Their scientists created five COVID vaccines. But after decades of a cruel US embargo (or bloqueo) tightened during the pandemic...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
With Canada's new data center rush being co-signed by AI giants like Amazon, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta etc, this new roadmap for building a AI public policy framework is much needed! Concrete policy solutions to protect workers, civil rights & environment. bcpolicy.ca/2026/09/03/a...
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A roadmap for building BC’s AI public policy framework
How does AI work? Who profits? What does its use cost workers, communities and our environment? This report explores these questions and offers concrete policy recommendations to protect workers, civ...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters that he “can’t guarantee” ICE agents won’t be present at the polls. Disenfranchisement and voter suppression have a long history, and should always be fought. truthout.org/articles/vot...
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Voting Rights Groups Are Preparing to Confront ICE at the Polls
Trusted figures such as firefighters and clergy will protect Black, Latino, and Asian precincts that could be targets.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Excellent piece assessing Cockroach Janta Party crossroads: "As generation of Indians comes of age, how does cockroach movement address oppression of country’s religious minorities by Hindutva? Does it gain overall by not addressing it, and lose more if it does?" newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
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The Cockroach Movement’s Careful Silence Over Hindutva
The pressure group has brought together Indians across generations and identities, but its broad coalition is being tested by the country’s deepest political fault line
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Update from Team Kalam in Nepal Scientists are determining whether flood was triggered by earthquake-induced avalanche or glacial collapse, but climate change was major underlying causal factor with increasing dangers for Nepal's mountainous regions kalamweekly.substack.com/p/nepals-dev...
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Nepal’s devastating flash flood
A brief update from Team Kalam
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Canada has barred Jerusalem deputy mayor Arieh King! King is touring to raise funds for settlers. Canada (after legal filings by Legal Centre for Palestine and Hind Rajab Foundation concerning crimes against humanity) revoked his travel authorisation. www.middleeasteye.net/news/canada-...
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Canada bars Jerusalem deputy mayor Arieh King from entry over war crimes complaints
King was due to raise funds in Canada for settlers before authorities revoked his travel authorisation over allegations of crimes against humanity
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
most important organizing during municipal elxns will be drug crisis. not because other issues are less important but because drug war has become political football, and a stand-in for both right ("crime") and liberal ("health") failures - rather than an indictment of austerity politics in BC.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
will never stop saying bordering is linchpin in escalating far-right, with globalization of carceral infrastructure & propping up authoritarianism in imperial order "How Europe’s expanding border machinery unites reactionaries and reproduces colonialism" reactionary.international/cases/first-...
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First They Came For the Migrants
A Research Consortium on the Illicit Network Undermining Democracy Across the World
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Crucial investigation uncovering RSS’s secretive Vishwa Vibhag (overseas arm) & "yoga instructors" like Saumitra Gokhale Like Zionism, Hindutva is *global* - organizing against it is not just about "solidarity with over there," its dismantling global fascism. www.wearesavera.org/resources/re...?
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Fibs, Fronts & Fixers: The Hidden Machinery Behind Mohan Bhagwat’s Visit - Savera
A Savera Report | Part One Fibs, Fronts & Fixers The Hidden Machinery Behind Mohan Bhagwat’s US Visit “RSS works only in Bharat. But it is possible that we will be able to connect you to some like-min...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Breaking: US has announced sanctions & terror designations on Palestine Action. UK previously banned Palestine ​Action, and there is ongoing legal challenge. Solidarity must be unequivocal esp as Pal Action is one of the most effective & inspiring organizations.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"The legal weed boom is just the first stop on capital’s search for a new frontier." Yup yup, look at Marc Emery in BC, aka"Prince of Pot" who calls himself a libertarian capitalist & supports far right People's Party of Canada and residential school denialism. inthesetimes.com/article/cann...
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Cannabis Is Capitalism’s Next Fix
The legal weed boom is just the first stop on capital’s search for a new frontier.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Mohan Bhagwat, RSS head, is planning global PR tour next week to "promote positive view of India and rights of Hindus" RSS is world's *largest* far right organization with millions in this paramilitary militia and ideological backbone for BJP & Hindutva fascism. breachmedia.ca/the-head-of-...
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The head of the world’s largest far-right organization is coming to Canada—unless he’s stopped ⋆ The Breach
The leader of a major Hindu nationalist network is planning a North American public relations tour amid scrutiny of right-wing religious persecution in India
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Domestic & foreign tarriffs has been sold to American working class as a means of generating jobs & debt reduction. However "main effects of tariffs has been to cause massive transfer of wealth from the poor & middle class to wealthy and well-connected corporations" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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ANALYSIS | How Trump's tariffs work to redistribute wealth up the food chain | CBC News
Though nominally aimed at making foreign "cheaters" pay, the U.S. president's tariffs have in fact been a powerful domestic mechanism for taking money from poor and middle-class Americans and giving i...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
New prison projects across the US champion reforms that appear progressive: trauma-informed (in NJ); a wellness center (in PA); a model for rehabilitation (in SD). Each reform justifies and usually expands carceral budgets, logics, and footprints - normalizing prisons. truthout.org/articles/sta...
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States Claim to Invest in “Humane” New Prisons — But Prisons Were Never Humane
The historical record shows that the glossy language of “reform” contributes to the normalization of prisons and jails.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Solidarity with Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who has been treating children the world over for 40 years. He made his first trip to Gaza during First Intifada in 1989 But he is now facing UK high court case accusing him of posts supporting terrorism & antisemitism observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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‘Everything hurts’: The UK surgeon mending young minds an...
British-Palestinian Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah continues to treat victims of Israel’s wars, but is facing a UK high court case accusing him of posts supporting terrorism and antisemitism
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Nadja @radikaalinadja.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@harshawalia.bsky.social has posted something smart on Ceuta on fb
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our friends at @haymarketbooks.org are holding an online discussion on the struggle to dismantle the immigrant detention system. With @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @harshawalia.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social! Register for link to the livestreamed video the day of the event:
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How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention
Join John Washington, Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, and Daniel Denvir as they discuss the struggle to dismantle the immigrant detention system.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/07/2026
How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Join @jwashing.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, @harshawalia.bsky.social, and @danieldenvir.bsky.social for this virtual conversation hosted with @detentionwatchnetwork.org and @thedigradio.bsky.social RSVP to attend:
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Register Now – How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention – YouTube
How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention – YouTube, Tue Jul 21, 2026 - Join John Washington, Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, and Dan Denvir as they discuss the struggle to ...
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Under the Shadow podcast @undertheshadow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Borders exist to maintain racial capitalism. They’re monetized for the rich & militarized for the poor," says @harshawalia.bsky.social "This is designed by imperialism capitalism to maintain control." Incredible @rattlingthebars.bsky.social @therealnews.com #ICE therealnews.com/ice-from-the...
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ICE: From the 'War on Terror' to the war on us
“Every president across party lines has poured money into ICE,” author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia tells us.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“ICE’s abuses are not new, not created by Republicans alone, and not distinct from other enforcement agencies: they are tethered to otherwise normalized carceral and militarized infrastructures that will persist even without it.” @harshawalia.bsky.social:
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How Not to Abolish ICE
What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 13/07/2026
“Every president across party lines has poured money into ICE,” author and immigrant justice organizer @harshawalia.bsky.social tells us.
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ICE: From the 'War on Terror' to the war on us
“Every president across party lines has poured money into ICE,” author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia tells us.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Fund Fifa not Housing at Oppenheimer Park today. block party, respite space, and a free feed the people.
Fund housing not fifa at oppenheimer
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Spot the difference: "Citizens from eTA countries – like Australia, Germany, Croatia, New Zealand – had all visitor requests approved Others that required visas – like Ghana, DRC, Syria, Uganda, Sri Lanka – had applications mostly denied." www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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Canada rejected more than half of all World Cup visitor applications
Thousands of soccer fans applied to visit Canada for the 2026 men’s FIFA World Cup, but less than half were allowed to enter the country.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
AI is deepening worldwide webs of accumulation, bringing about new class and power relations This is cohering as triangulated bloc of transnational capital that brings together giant tech, transnational finance capital, and military-industrial-repression complex. truthout.org/articles/the...
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The Fight Against AI Data Centers Is the Newest Frontier of Global Class Warfare
AI is deepening worldwide webs of accumulation, ushering in new class and power relations.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: prairielanddefendants.com/defendant…
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A quintessential pillar of facism is the fascist and punitive crushing of anti fascist dissent. A few months ago, i was notified that alleged writings of mine were entered as seized evidence in the trial. *writings* Today is a horrifying day, and full solidarity with the Prairieland defendants.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
For the Arab Center I wrote about how displacement is a political project of erasure - not a simple outcome of war - especially when it comes to Israel's genocide in Palestine extending into Lebanon. arabcenterdc.org/resource/isr...
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Israel’s War of Displacement in Lebanon
Since March 2, 2026, the most recent bout of Israeli violence in Lebanon has displaced an estimated 1.2 million people—a fifth of the country’s population. Israel has expressly used displacement as a ...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My latest published in @truthout.org and the @theappeal.org. Delaney Hall detainees: “We deserve to be free and to complete the process at home with our families. We demand freedom, a fair trial, and for our rights to be respected.”
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Everyone Has a Role to Play in Supporting the Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail
The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
EU Parliament has just approved "strictest-ever" migration law in its history. Pushed by far right, with support from centrist parties, new law will speed up deportations, sanction deportation camps ("return hubs") in third countries, facilitate enforcement raids. Césaire "Europe is indefensible"
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
And this is why I am always going off about people needing to stop thinking of Canada as "benign" peacekeeper or an "unwilling" imperialist partner. Former DHS head Kristi Noem has just been hired by BC mining company, NovaRed Mining headquartered in Vancouver. globalnews.ca/news/1190912...
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Kristi Noem hired in strategic advisory role for B.C. mining company | Globalnews.ca
In March, Kristi Noem was reassigned from Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security after serving in the role for 13 months.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Save this link & tune in Friday, June 19th at 7pm ET to see writer-activists @harshawalia.bsky.social, IC cofounder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, & Stephanie Leitch talk policing, borders, militarization & abolition, moderated by Beverly Bain. Brought to you by No Pride in Policing Collective!
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Policing, Borders, Militarization and Abolition
YouTube video by Scholars Strike for Liberation
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
NEW: "It's literally the gulag." A Meta engineer describes their job in the new 6,500-person "Applied AI" unit, where highly-paid Silicon Valley talent are now "draftees" forced to write puzzle problems to feed the beast. WIRED's inside the morale collapse:
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‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta's chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If you watched the viral video of Bosnian soccer fans shouting for Palestine ahead of game in toronto today, read this piece about Bosnian team grappling with legacy of genocide & displacement with 17 of its players born elsehwere. "Playing for the national team becomes a symbolic act of return."
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The country they never left
Bosnia’s World Cup squad is built on the descendants of war and displacement, players raised across Europe and North America who are finding their way back through football.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Abolish ICE, Abolish CBSA! The Montreal CBSA office is now processing about 200 deportations each week, and more than half of all deportations in Canada are happening in Quebec. "That drastic rise is really putting us in the eye of the storm." - Mostafah Henaway breachmedia.ca/cbsa-using-h...
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CBSA using ‘harsh, unprecedented’ tactics in Quebec for record-breaking deportations ⋆ The Breach
Border agents confronting migrants in workplaces and schools, detaining them without prior contact, and rushing deportations before legal options for asylum seekers have played out
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Breaking: Four Filton activists have become first protesters in UK to be sentenced to prison as terrorists *without* even being convicted of terror offences Lottie Head, Samuel Corner, Ellie Kamio & Fatema Rajwani entered Elbit factory in UK in 2024 and damaged military arms equipment. Heroes.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Zapatistas on world cup 2026 "football, like almost everything, is caught between crime and resistance, between authoritarianism and rebellion, between business and play.. So, without any shame, let’s declare that FIFA is a shithole, period.” mexicosolidarity.com/zapatistas-f...
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Zapatistas: FIFA is a Shithole, Reality in Mexico Prevails Over Frivolous, Superficial World Cup
Captain Marcos decried the "Trumpist FIFA, which pretends to give lessons in morality and good customs."
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canan coskan @canancoskan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Harsha Walia's text is a great updated summary of border regimes with a critical reminder of Europe's role in building these thanatoptical regimes and a striking definition of borders.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Inspiring piece detailing resistance to fifa and transnational networks being built across cities “It’s a party for the rich. We’re seeing that echoed across all cities and all of the profit is going to go back into international war and domestic repression.” thebaffler.com/latest/wicke...
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Wicked Games | Madeleine Wattenbarger
Resistance to the FIFA World Cup transcends borders.
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