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Pangea Legal Services

@pangealegal.bsky.social
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Worker-led nonprofit working at the intersection of disability justice, prison abolition, and immigration through cutting-edge legal strategies, vanguard community organizing, and policy advocacy. www.pangealegal.org

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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The way through is collective power ❤️‍🔥
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pangea is a democratically managed nonprofit because we aspire to embody justice and collective leadership from the inside out. Check out our library of democratic workplace management policies: www.pangealegal.org/democratic-g...
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Migrant justice and Palestinian liberation are deeply interconnected. More on Hani's case in July newsletter: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsl...
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We filed a habeas petition and motion for emergency relief in federal court, and the judge ordered Hani’s immediate release an hour later and granted the entire case. Read more here: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsl...
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Catch up on the latest from Pangea, including: ✨ Consolidating lessons from our strategic planning process ✨ Suing the U.S. government and private prison corporations ✨ Celebrating butterfly wins & more! 🔗: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-Jul-2026
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
❤️‍🔥 An organized community is a strong community. Let's keep showing up for one another. Let's keep each other free. @im4hi.bsky.social @faithinaction.bsky.social
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🚨TOMORROW: Help us pack the court to keep Enil free!
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“This lawsuit seeks accountability for the physical and emotional harms our clients suffered, but it also joins a growing wave of lawsuits challenging abusive ICE enforcement and detention practices,” said Elena Hodges, co-director at Pangea Legal Services... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Lawsuit accuses ICE and private prison contractors of abusing a disabled detainee
Ulises Peña López says guards taunted him—telling him he'd never walk again—while withholding the medication he needed.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
He is represented by @dlunited.bsky.social and @pangealegal.bsky.social. “We hope this case will send a powerful message to immigrant communities that they are not alone,” Elena Hodges of Pangea said, “and that ICE officials and private prison contractors are not above the law.”
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Calling asylum applicants who need support getting their work permits. Register for this upcoming PRO-BONO clinic.
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Ulises Peña Lopez and his family, represented by Pangea and Disability Law United are taking on ICE and two notorious private prison corporations, GEO Group and CoreCivic. What ICE did to Ulises is not just inhumane––it is illegal. 🔗: www.pangealegal.org/news-and-upd...
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🚨URGENT: Donate to help Pangea client Connie purchase basic necessities while in detention. Connie came to the United States from Cambodia as a refugee when she was just 8 years old and has called this country home for nearly 40 years. 🔗: bit.ly/HelpConnie
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
At least 20 people detained at the Adelanto ICE jail have been on a hunger strike for a week. Their demands: due process, bond reform, better conditions, accountability for the 4 deaths that have occurred inside, & the right to organize. Take action today to support them!
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We stand with Guillermo! We will continue to manifest people power in defense and support of our community members.  🔗: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-Apr-2026
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Pangea, in parallel with partner organizations around the Bay Area, California, and nationally, has been at the forefront of a new wave of habeas litigation aimed at securing the freedom of our community members. 🔗: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-Apr-2026
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We're disrupting immigration detention at its legal core. 🔗: Read the full newsletter at bit.ly/Pangea-Newsl...
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
✊ A powerful May Day to all! ❤️‍🔥 Whether you are in the streets, organizing, at work, or at home, we wish you a day full of collective power and community. #MayDay #WorkerJustice #Solidarity
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🌳 We’re starting the year off tending to each branch of Pangea’s multi-pronged approach to movement building. 🔗 Read our April newsletter here: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsl...
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“People are not a legal case,” Hodges said. “People are more than that, and they need to be able to have all of their needs met to have a fighting chance.” 🔗: Read the full article featuring Pangea attorney Elena Hodges here: www.sfchronicle.com/california/a... #immigration #asylum #sanfrancisco
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The S.F. immigration court is being dismantled. Charts show how bad it’s gotten for asylum-seekers
Staffing of the San Francisco immigration court has been decimated over the past year — and removal orders have spiked.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 26/03/2026
WATCH: Learn about ICE warehouse expansion and how to fight back from our recent movement call webinar. Warehouse detention is part of the Trump administration’s plan to expand detention capacity to more than 100,000 people at any given time. 🔗Tell Congress no ICE warehouses! bit.ly/NOicewarehouses
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ICE Warehouse Detention 101and How to Fight Back
YouTube video by Detention Watch Network
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
In this season of Nowruz, Pangea renews our hope and commitment for freedom and safety for all oppressed people around the world. 🔗: Read the full statement here: bit.ly/solidarity-w...
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Our movements for liberation must reflect our commitments both externally, through the work we do, and internally, through the ways we treat and show up for each other. We stand with survivors.❤️‍🔥
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
❤️‍🔥: Organized communities are empowered communities. 🔗: Read about some of our organizing work in 2025 in our end of year newsletter: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-Dec-2025
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
❤️‍🔥: Organized communities are empowered communities. 🔗: Read about some of our organizing work in 2025 in our end of year newsletter: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-Dec-2025
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🦋❤️‍🔥 Read about Pangea's 2025 Butterfly Wins in our end of year newsletter at the link below and in our bio. 🔗: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-Dec-2025
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Keep up with Pangea's wins by subscribing to our newsletter! www.pangealegal.org/subscribe #immigration #abolishice
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Our clients call us "los abogados de los casos imposibles" ("attorneys for impossible cases") because we take on legally complex cases, and we win! #immigration #abolishice More on our 2025 Butterfly Wins in our end of year newsletter: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-Dec-2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/02/2026
NEW: Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. The cases, known as habeas petitions, total more than were filed under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
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More Immigrants Are Challenging Their ICE Detention Than Ever Before
Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Tru...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10/02/2026
“I Have Never Felt So Much Fear”: Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX
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“I Have Never Felt So Much Fear”: Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX
A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food, with children and...
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Our clients call us "los abogados de los casos imposibles" ("attorneys for impossible cases") because we take on legally complex cases, and we win! More on our 2025 Butterfly Wins in our end of year newsletter: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-Dec-2025
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🗞️ Grounded in the lived experiences of our clients and community as the foundation of our growing political home. 🔗 Read about a few of Pangea's wins in 2025 in our end of year newsletter at the link below: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-Dec-2025
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 20/01/2026
"If we are seeing that sort of outward extreme violence in broad daylight in the streets of Minneapolis & streets across the country, imagine what people must be facing behind closed doors and behind bars in ICE detention centers,” said Setareh, advocacy director at DWN to @truthout.org.
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Deaths in Detention Warn of Horrors Behind ICE’s Prison Walls
At least 32 people died in ICE jails in 2025, and four more have already died in ICE custody this year.
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Immigration enforcement policy has never been about public safety, crime reduction, or national security. That is why reform is not enough. We reject further public funding for militarized enforcement and detention. Read the full statement here: bit.ly/4bngSMj
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🖇️ Si eres solicitante de asilo y necesitas ayuda para solicitar un permiso de trabajo, asiste a nuestra clínica legal para permisos de trabajo este viernes. Haz tu cita hoy! 🔗 : bit.ly/49osihD
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🖇️ If you are an asylum applicant and need help applying for a work permit, join our work permit legal clinic this Friday. Make your appointment today! 🔗 : bit.ly/49osihD
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
📌 Our communities are not threats. We can undo criminalization and build a culture of care rooted and collective safety. www.pangealegal.org #immigration #deportations
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Join us tonight!
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The Future is Collective by Pangea co-founder, Niloufar Khonsari is out today! The story of our worker-led roots is a key part of the book. We are proud and excited to continue to do the work of embodying our values of justice and care from the inside out. Get a copy: bit.ly/CollectiveFu...
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Join us for the launch party of The Future Is Collective by our co-founder Nilou Khonsari! The book offers a practice-based guide for movement-workers shaped by the lived experiences of BIPOC leaders, nonprofit staff, & organizers. Register today! bit.ly/CollectiveFu...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/09/2025
"My father’s vocation is journalism. He is a storyteller, a truth-seeker, a man who believed — and still believes — that people deserve to know what’s happening in their communities..." Mario Guevara has been detained away from his family for over 100 days. He could be deported at any moment.
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Opinion | My father is a journalist. The Trump administration is about to deport him.
I will continue to fight for his freedom, and the freedom of all those who ask the hard questions
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
❤️‍🔥 La criminalización de los inmigrantes es la evolución de un sistema que existe desde las primeras décadas de la colonización y la esclavitud en este país. Es por eso que la organización basada en la solidaridad es nuestra via estratégica hacia la libertad para todes.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 16/09/2025
Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable deadly scope and scale. The human toll and cost to all Americans continues to be shocking.
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Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez: the third casualty of Trump’s mass deportation operation : Peoples Dispatch
Outrage grows as ICE raids under “Operation Midway Blitz” turn violent, highlighting deadly pattern in immigration enforcement
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/09/2025
NEW: The House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that would impose extreme criminal penalties on immigrants. This legislation will massively increase the federal prison population and divert resources away from youth services and prevention programs that improve community safety.
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Solidarity because care is the winning strategy. We organize our way to freedom. ❤️‍🔥 #organize #criminalization #communitycare
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“At Pangea, I got to see how staff, organizers, paralegals, attorneys, and the community work together as an orchestra might, each role as important as the next, all to respond synchronously with power over fear.” 🔗 :https://bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-July-2025 #organize #peoplepower #righttomove
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🦋 This July, Pangea co-led the 3rd Leadership Summit for directly impacted community organizers in collaboration with incredible partners. ❤️‍🔥 🔗 Read more here: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsl... #organize #transformativeleadership #solidarity #healing #right2move
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 28/08/2025
Trump’s unprecedented agenda is unmistakably authoritarian. The deployment of the National Guard in Washington DC and in 20 states, including Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Texas and Louisiana, is an alarming unilateral move that is supercharging the already massive police presence in communities.
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The escalating use of the National Guard and military for immigration enforcement is yet another marker of an authoritarian regime
Washington, DC — In response to news that the Trump administration is deploying the National Guard to assist in processing people for immigration detention in 20 states, Setareh Ghandehari, Advocacy D...
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
At Pangea, we know that a flat organizational structure doesn’t mean chaos. Our system of hubs empowers groups to lead and decide. We get things done and share power. Worker-led from the inside out. 🔗 www.pangealegal.org/democratic-g... #Nonprofit #Democracy #OpenSource
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🦋 Since February 2025, we've held Know Your Rights workshops with over 130 community members and launched a new apprenticeship model for community members to lead trainings. Since November 2024, we have trained nearly 1,500 legal observers. 🔗 bit.ly/Pangea-Newsl... #Organize #KnowYourRights
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Pangea Legal Services @pangealegal.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🦋 Read about the latest on Ulises' ongoing case for freedom and the full Pangea midyear newsletter here: bit.ly/Pangea-Newsletter-July-2025 #MovementLaw #MovementLawyer #Organize #CommunityCare #RightToMove
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