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A. Naomi Paik

@naomipaik.bsky.social
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Author - *Bans, Walls, Raids, #Sanctuary* on #abolition and #migrant justice. *Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in US Prison Camps Since WWII* on #imprisonment regimes under US #empire. #freepalestine #borderabolition www.naomipaik.com

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Our series, Fascism's Building Blocks, commissioned by @naomipaik.bsky.social & Catherine S. Ramírez, is now live in its entirety. Explore the series here: buff.ly/scgHOIf
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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/06/2026
The newest episode of Academic Freedom on the Line, "Organizing Lessons from Resisting ICE on Campus," addresses why higher education workers must resist ICE and the rising tide of fascism on and off campus, and get organizing lessons from the front lines. Check it out here ⬇️
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Organizing Lessons from Resisting ICE on Campus - AAUP Presents
On today’s episode of Academic Freedom on the Line, we’re talking about students, labor, migration, and what happens at the intersection of all those categories. We talk about how and why higher educa...
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This March, MiSC scholar A. Naomi Paik (@naomipaik.bsky.social) published "Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert." What does Paik teach us about the links between land conservation and the antimigrant violence?🧵 read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
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Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert
Abstract. This article examines migration through protected areas of the Sonoran Desert from the 1990s to 2024. During this time of accelerating globalization and transnational migration, US border po...
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A. Naomi Paik @naomipaik.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Join the Sanctuary Campus Network for this workshop against AI-driven surveillance on our campuses with Theo Dryer. Our goal is to ground & clarify what can seem overwhelming as AI surveillance rapidly escalates and to catalyze ways to fight back locally. Thurs, 4/16, 5pm ET, tinyurl.com/CounterAI
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A. Naomi Paik @naomipaik.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I'm attending National Day Laborer Organizing Network's event, “National Emergency Call: Supreme Court's Approval of Racial Profiling” - sign up n www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...
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National Emergency Call: Supreme Court's Approval of Racial Profiling · National Day Laborer Organizing Network
The Supreme Court has lifted a lower court order that had temporarily halted the Trump Administration’s terrorizing raids in Los Angeles. The decision paves the way for racial profiling, false arrests...
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In a recently co-authored @truthout.org article with Toby Beauchamp and Damián Vergara Bracamontes, MiSC scholar @naomipaik.bsky.social wrote about the increasing need for collective survival in light of Trump’s increasingly authoritarian administration. 1/🧵 truthout.org/articles/saf...
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Safety Is a Practice We Enact Together: Building Solidarity Under Trump 2.0
As authoritarian forces try to fracture our communities, we must remember that our collective survival is intertwined.
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Illinois Justice Project @iljusticeproject.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The Home for Good Coalition is on the way to Springfield to advocate: Formerly incarcerated people and those at risk of violence face serious housing barriers. It's time for a comprehensive solution. Home for Good (HB3162 and SB2403) can make it happen. #homeforgoodillinois. homeforgoodillinois.com
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Home - Home for Good
Join the Home for Good Coalition for our Advocacy Day on Tuesday, April 29, in Springfield, Illinois! Transportation available from Chicago, and food, t-shirts, and advocacy support will be available ...
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A. Naomi Paik @naomipaik.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
In this op-ed, Toby Beauchamp,Damian Vergara Bracamontes, and I tie together attacks on trans, pro-Pal activists, and migrants and emphasizing the need for radical solidarity if we are going to survive. Any attempt to carve out exceptions to democracy destroys it from the inside.
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Safety Is a Practice We Enact Together: Building Solidarity Under Trump 2.0
As authoritarian forces try to fracture our communities, we must remember that our collective survival is intertwined.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
WOW. Rep. @jayapal.house.gov says CBP's internal affairs department found that a Chinese woman who had overstayed a visa was arrested by Border Patrol and hung herself in a cell. She wasn't found for two hours—even though the records reported multiple welfare checks (suggesting records falsified?).
According to CBP OPR, the woman was taken into custody in California after it was determined that she had overstayed a B1/B2 visitor visa. Agents transferred her to Arizona where she was detained. 

According to information provided by CBP, logs note that multiple welfare checks were conducted, however, CBP OPR was unable to verify if those checks actually occurred, and for some of them, a Border Patrol Processing Coordinator (BPPC) stated that he did not conduct the logged checks. Surveillance footage showed the woman create a noose and tie it around her neck, yet no medical response occurred for nearly two hours.
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9
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Mohamed Elmay @mohamedelmay.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Thousands of protesters gathered in Somerville, Massachusetts, demanding the release of Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, abducted by ICE for publishing an article criticizing Israel.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
⏰⏰ April 17th is coming up soon! Where will you be for our National Day of Action?? Plan an event on your campus or find one near you. Let’s fight for the future of #HigherEd together! 👊👊👊
Map of the US featuring red markers across the country where higher education actions are planned for April 17th, 2025.
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
ICE just kidnapped farmworker organizer Alfredo Juarez, organizers are calling on people to go to a march in person TODAY March 25 at Ferndale Detention Center. Contact Liz Darrow at 360-220-9065 for more info. Also Call Ferndale ICE Detention Center: 360-380-2270 Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

GO TODAY TO FERNDALE ICE DETENTION CENTER TO DEMAND
THE RELEASE OF
contact Liz Darrow
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ALFREDO JUAREZ
FROM ICE DETENTION
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 22/03/2025
Right on. Do you know what else is in Tucson? A Raytheon weapons factory and the offices of Border Patrol—in case 23,000 people are looking for somewhere else to direct their energy after the rally…
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"sir a second strongly worded letter has hit the coup base"
"sir a second plane" iconic image of an advisor whispering to George W Bush
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A. Naomi Paik @naomipaik.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike bsky.app/profile/glob...
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juliet nebolon @julietneb.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
So honored to give this talk on Settler Militarism on 2/28 @ 6pm EST. All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project! Thank you to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for the invitation and for organizing 💜
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Settler Militarism — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $50). Step 2: Register for “Settler Militarism” here . In this workshop, Juliet Nebolon will discuss how settler colonialism and ...
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
When someone says any variety of “if you fight back they’ll authoritarian crack down you” I always wonder what they think is going to happen if we don’t fight back
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Coline Schupfer Galia (she/her/siya) @colinecoline.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Particularly striking how the review connects our analysis to recent events—from Musk's AfD appearance to the intensifying border politics under Trump—showing just how urgent these discussions have become. Thank you @naomipaik.bsky.social for your thoughtful words convergencemag.com/articles/boo...
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Borders? Technological Laboratories.
A book review of “Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence,” a collection of essays connecting geopolitics, technology, and imperialism.
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A. Naomi Paik @naomipaik.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Screaming once again that none of this is new. We’ve been using Gitmo to detain migrants for decades. It’s not DJT. It’s the USA and our long history of racist imperialism. I know we r overwhelmed, but pls find a lane & jump in. We have to protect each other, esp those most targeted.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
No criminal record, married to a U.S. citizen, and was already going through the long and difficult process of getting a green card. Currently locked in ICE detention.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Welcome to the Rebellion, Quakers! www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship
The suit appears to be the first from a faith-based organization challenging the change in court.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I got on a call with the right comrade. The aggravation in my voice melted away as we moved through stressful topics to Star Trek, political education, and what we could actually get done together. Talk to your peeps. Do what you can together.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
@diegomorales.bsky.social
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you are providing gender affirming care or care to migrants and have questions about how to keep doing that, or generally step into your commitment to do no harm, please contact @interruptcrim.bsky.social's help desk for health care providers! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/health-care-...
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Beyond Do No Harm Health Care Strategy Consult Desk — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action
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Michael Moore @mmflint.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
No filmmaker, writer or artist should ever have to tell the story of their own extermination. Yet 22 brave Palestinian filmmakers found a way to film their story last year in Gaza using whatever tools they could pull from the rubble of their homes & cities. Go see FROM GROUND ZERO—in theaters now!
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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Name a more contemptible quintet
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The House of Representatives has approved the first bill of the 119th Congress, legislation that would require federal immigration authorities to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for certain nonviolent crimes. Forty-eight Democrats sided with Republicans www.democracynow.org/2025/1/8/hea...
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Congress Approves Bill to Deport Immigrants Charged with Minor Crimes
The House of Representatives has approved the first bill of the 119th Congress, legislation that would require federal immigration authorities to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for certain no...
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