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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For @hammerandhope.bsky.social, our board member, Lisa Armstrong, writes about a movement in one rural middle Georgia town to protect Black ancestral land & resting places from a new railroad—a consequence of the dismantling of Black voting rights. Read at bit.ly/gavotingrights. 📸: Ray Spears

Image description from Hammer & Hope: “Ida Lowe Blocker at her home in Sparta, Ga., April 18, 2026.”

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is Carlos and Daysi. Their primary motivating factor for going public with their story is the hope that what happened to Carlos will not happen to other workers. [Photo by Kaoly Gutierrez]

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.

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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields

Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We support empowering trans narratives as an antidote to mainstream journalism that dehumanizes trans people. Our grantees, Salgu Wissmath (they/them) & Nicky Yeager (they/she) @bogusnic.bsky.social, collaborated on a story for @us.theguardian.com about a queer & trans youth summer camp in Texas. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month, we remember Ruben Salazar (1928-1970), a Mexican American movement journalism ancestor. He was one of the first journalists to shine a light on the oppression of Chicanos & Mexican Americans and boldly pushed back against the myth of objectivity. 🎨: Billy Dee

Black and white linocut illustration of Ruben Salazar on the phone with a paper in his hand alongside his quote, “Newsroom objectivity may result in an absence of truth.”

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dear friends: So…do y’all want Press On swag? Let us know in the replies if you would be excited to buy Press On merchandise if we offered it and what you would like to see! 👀

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s been an increase in deportations of Marshallese people from northwest Arkansas, and the org Chikin Melele is making sure this crisis doesn’t go uncovered. Our Southern Movement Media Fund recently awarded a grant to Chikin Melele to continue amplifying this critical issue.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Soon, @pressonsouth.bsky.social's fellows will publish stories about eugenics in the U.S. immigration system, the use of surveillance tech by law enforcement in TN, how doulas are filling healthcare gaps for women in the South, and much more! I'll update this thread when those stories are live.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As our beloved @pressonsouth.bsky.social fellows begin to publish their work, I thought I'd share some of their excellent reporting here in a thread, starting with this story from G. Samantha Rosenthal about North Carolina being the center of anti-Zionist organizing in the South:

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Jewish anti-Zionism in the American Bible Belt

Southern Jews aligned with the pro-Palestine movement are building “a Judaism of liberation” in the heartland of Christian Zionism

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I oversee a reporting fellowship for @pressonsouth.bsky.social, an organization focused on movement journalism, or journalism in service of liberation. This year, our Freedomways Reporting Fellowship had six fellows, all of them movement journalists from the South working on their first big stories.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We’re pleased to have co-sponsored tonight’s sold out premiere of A City in the Forest. There’s another chance to catch the documentary in Atlanta at the Tara Theater on September 26—get your ticket at bit.ly/cityinforest before it sells out! Video credit: www.instagram.com/p/DdCvmW-AXx6/

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The term “movement journalism” was born at Project South @projectsouth.bsky.social in 2017. Their senior narrative strategist, Desiree Evans (she/her), reminds us that our journalism is inextricably linked to systems of power and oppression; we must challenge them so we don’t reproduce them.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Movement journalism ensures oppressed communities can access trustworthy news & info in the aftermath of natural disasters. Grantee partners Sara Murphy & Deana Lytle (both she/her) are reporting on how the people of Swannanoa, N.C. are dealing with the effects of Hurricane Helene two years later.

Photos of Deana and Sara. Deana’s photo shows a smiling woman with dark, curly hair highlighted with blonde down to her shoulders, wearing a pink button down over a yellow top with a flower pattern and three necklaces. She is standing in the center of a street lined with trees, with a large building in the background, the Swannanoa Resilience Hub. Sara’s photo depicts a woman with olive skin smiling, her head tilted to one side. Her hair is slightly less than shoulder length and is dark and curled. She wears a black tank top made of slightly shiny fabric. Behind her is a honey-colored wooden pillar, with furniture of various colors—a dark wood table, artwork of reds, beiges, and whites —behind her.

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nicky yeager @bogusnic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

many thanks to @pressonsouth.bsky.social for their support of this project!

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In Durham, N.C., the Durham Rising coalition is demanding justice from Duke University & Health System (one of the city’s largest employers & land owners): living wages, affordable housing, union rights, and community power. Durhamites: join them for a convening on 9/19—RSVP @ bit.ly/durhamdreams26!

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dania Warhol (elle) is a Puerto Rican media maker calling much-needed attention to the water crisis on the island. Dania shared thoughts w/ us on how journalists can be accountable to movements by centering communities, keeping them safe & engaging in decolonization, popular education + more. 🇵🇷

How can journalists be accountable to grassroots justice movements? Dania Betún Warhol, EspicyNipples Founder. Includes photo of Dania, a visibly Black, transmasculine Puerto Rican person with cornrows, an Orula necklace, a black shirt that spells out the word "trans" in sign language, a microphone in one hand as if rapping, and a cell phone in the other, standing in front of an orange background wall.

As journalists, we are accountable to the people and to community-based movements, not to corporations, institutions, or powerful interests—and certainly not to the ‘like’ economy. Especially in these times we are living in with artificial intelligence and with all these narratives surrounding the issue of legality, that is a language and a discourse in itself that journalism has the ability to demystify and put the power (knowledge) in the hands of the people.

Therefore, a crucial first step for every journalist is to undertake the internal work of decolonizing themselves because possessing strong narrative techniques is insufficient if your practices and discourse reproduce the very same forms of violence you denounce. Furthermore, journalists must put their knowledge at the service of these movements through popular education, thereby ensuring that people from the most marginalized communities can continue this work.

Accountability also requires returning resources and visibility to communities, correcting mistakes, protecting vulnerable sources, refusing to provide coverage based solely on suffering, and remaining answerable to people and movements beyond publication.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Movement storyteller Zaira Campos (she/her) @adopteecrossing.bsky.social, one of our new grantee partners, is reporting on the intersection between abortion surveillance and child welfare investigation systems, and their negative impacts on Black, queer, disabled, and low-income families.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The theme of this year’s National Association of Black Journalists Convention, “OUR REVOLUTION: Truth, Power and Black Journalism,” set the tone for 4,000+ journalists who convened in ATL to build toward a media ecosystem that empowers Black communities. The Black press is alive and well! #NABJ26

Press On board member Lisa and Neesha smile and pose for a photo at the LGBTQ+ Task Force reception.

Neesha smiles and poses by a large sign that says, “Welcome. #NABJ26. August 12-16, 2026. Atlanta, GA. Our Revolution: Truth, Power and Black Journalism.”

Photo of a booklet that says, “The Trans News Initiative: for journalists, media researchers, community organizers & more. transnewsinitiative.org.”

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Have you enjoyed a deliciously juicy slice of watermelon this summer? If so, take a few minutes this Labor Day to read our grantee Tonya Abari’s story for Offrange about how climate change is threatening farmers’ ability to grow watermelons at bit.ly/melonfarmers. 🎨: Adam Dixon

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Level up your backgrounding skills with Laura Kurtzberg, training director at Investigative Reporters and Editors @ire.org! Register for our virtual training by 9/9 @ bit.ly/backgroundingire. Backgrounding will help you tailor your interview strategies, verify images, videos & info + much more. 🕵️

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Kinda chic for us to follow the examples of ancestors like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Claudia Jones, and Monica Roberts by advancing justice and liberation through the practice of movement journalism. 😎

Graphic with purple background that says, “Kinda chic to be a movement journalist” and features photos of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Monica Roberts, and Claudia Jones.

Graphic with purple background that says, “Kinda chic to be a movement journalist” and features a group photo of six movement media makers smiling and posing at a recent movement journalism meetup in Asheville, N.C.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Movement journalists make sure that Black people aren’t erased in migrant narratives. For @prismreports.org, Alexandra Martinez writes about how Haitian communities are mobilizing as a recent Supreme Court ruling threatens Haitian migrant families—read the story @ bit.ly/tpsruling. 📸: Spencer Platt

Image description from Prism: “People hold posters during a news conference and rally on June 25, 2026, at a Manhattan, New York, union headquarters to support the Haitian and Syrian communities after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could end Temporary Protected Status for potentially millions of foreign nationals from countries such as Haiti and Syria.”

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Learn the art & science of backgrounding—how to research sources before interviewing them, how to verify info, images & videos online + more—with Laura Kurtzberg, training director at Investigative Reporters and Editors @ire.org! Register for our 9/16 virtual training @ bit.ly/backgroundingire. 🔍

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In honor of Black August, we’re sharing advice for movement journalists from legendary Black lesbian feminist writer Barbara Smith, co-founder of the Combahee River Collective. We hosted an intergenerational conversation with her about Black feminist media past, present, and future in 2023.

Graphic with black and white photo of Barbara Smith with her hand on her chin and a quote that she shared during our 2023 event: “The way that Black journalists should function under capitalism ideally is to do work that undermines capitalism and that also illuminates how that system operates so that people can be more ready to seek alternatives to a system that only serves a tiny, microscopic proportion of humans on Earth.”

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The nonprofit Project NOLA may be using “crime cameras” to monitor migrant construction workers in New Orleans’ French Quarter, putting them at risk of ICE surveillance. Our fellow, Edith, spoke to organizers & advocates about this issue for @prismreports.org—read her story @ bit.ly/projectnola.

Image description from Prism: “Construction workers refuse to come down from a roof after U.S. Border Patrol agents conducted a raid at a construction site, on Dec. 3, 2025 in Metairie, La.”

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Migrant Roots Media unearths the root causes of planetary migration through centering migrant voices. Their founding director, Roxana Bendezú (she/her), told us that journalists can be accountable to social movements by making sure those most impacted by oppression can tell their own stories.

Journalists can be accountable to grassroots justice movements by first recognizing that hegemonic media structures were not built for us; they were built to silence us. That means decentering institutional sources and treating movements not as objects of coverage, but as knowledge producers and collaborators.

Ideally, people directly impacted should become the ones reporting about their own communities: we are the experts on our own lives, our histories, our struggles, and our victories. Palestinian journalists reporting from Gaza under genocide are the most powerful proof of this truth. Counterhegemonic journalism isn't a style or a methodology; it's a daily political commitment to democratizing who gets to define reality.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Movement journalists & movement artists share a commitment to reflect the cultural, social & political conditions of the oppressed with ethics and care. Here are a few tips from artists Sonia Guiñansaca & Julio Salgado for movement journalists looking to incorporate visual art into their practice. 🎨

Press On: How to Work With Movement Artists as a Movement Journalist. As told by Sonia Guiñansaca & Julio Salgado.

1. It’s important to be in community with artists and cultivate intentional relationships with artists and community members that are rooted in consent. We encourage you to continue nourishing these relationships post-collaboration.

2. Be honest and transparent about your budget when discussing the possibility of collaborating with an artist.

3. Bring artists into a project at the beginning versus at the last minute.

4. Trust the creative process. Ensure the number of allowable feedback/edit rounds are reflected in your scope of work, memorandum of understanding (MOU), or contract.

5. Who’s telling the story and who’s making the ultimate editorial decisions matters.

6. All of our roles within the social justice movement ecosystem are interconnected.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

AI data centers aren’t inevitable, and the people have the power to resist! Across the U.S. South, communities are speaking out against the harmful impacts of data centers. This artwork by Vy Vu reminds us that true power lies with the people. www.creativewildfire.org/vy-vu

Drawing of diverse community members unplugging from a data center and growing and making things that heal our communities. It says, “Ditch the data centers” on a little boy’s shirt and on a picket sign. There is a ribbon that says, “Our community’s heartbeat is more important than a data center’s hum. We will always need clean air, water & land.” It also says, “The future is ours to build” in a body of water next to the data center.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For @truthout.org and @solitarywatch.bsky.social, incarcerated journalist @kwanetaharris.bsky.social writes about how commemorating Black August transforms prisons—“spaces of intended destruction”—into “laboratories of liberation.” Read her piece at bit.ly/blackaugustliberation. 📸: Getty Images

Image description from Truthout: “Mourners give the Black Panther salute as the casket of George Jackson is carried from St. Augustine's Church in Oakland, California. Jackson, a Black Panther, was killed on August 21, 1971, by guards at San Quentin Prison.”

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Shift Press is a movement journalism publication that makes sure youth in Houston, Texas are both seen and heard. Their director, Uyiosa Elegon (he/him), believes that journalists can be accountable to grassroots justice organizers by working to break down barriers between the two groups.

How can journalists be accountable to grassroots justice movements? By Uyiosa Elegon, Shift Press Director. Includes photo of a young Nigerian American man smiling while standing in front of a background of trees.

Journalists can be accountable to grassroots movements by considering themselves as a part of the work. Our framing, word usage, and sourcing all help or harm movements.

Journalists need to break the editorial fourth wall. More people need to know how we do what we do. We need to provide journalism trainings to grassroots movements so our people can learn, practice, and challenge editorial processes.

Journalists can be most accountable to grassroots movements when our people have the time, money, relationships, knowledge, and spiritual fortitude to uplift journalists or take them and their organizations out of business.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you already know the principles & commitments of movement journalism, it’s time to take the next step! Learn what movement journalism looks like in action from award-winning journalist @tinavasquez.bsky.social—register for our August 12 Movement Journalism 201 training @ bit.ly/mj201training.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

July is Disability Pride Month! Whether you’re a disabled journalist yourself or are able-bodied and wish to report on disability issues accurately, ethically, and respectfully, here are a few disability reporting tips based on our training last year with @thesicktimes.org & @newdisabledsouth.org.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We know that social movements and movement media are under state surveillance and vulnerable to attacks. Hilary Moore (she/they) of High Water Coaching (highwatercoaching.com) shared thoughts with us on how journalists can support the safety of grassroots justice organizers. 🎨: Asia Bordowa

How can journalists be accountable to grassroots justice movements? Hilary Moore. High Water Coaching Project Lead. Includes illustration of a woman with medium length light brown hair, blue eyes, and a blue hoodie.

Journalists can be accountable to grassroots justice movements by integrating the kinds of practices that keep more and more people safe. As stewards of key information, how you and your colleagues handle the data collected matters—you have the power to uplift and empower struggles, as well as expose people and make organizations more vulnerable.

Talk to organizers about the risks they face and get the support you need to play a meaningful part in mitigating those harms. Skilling up in this way is a critical part of our broader responsibility to grassroots justice movements and keeping each other safe.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tomorrow, July 21, is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. We’re grateful to Black women journalists who continue to persist in this precarious industry despite experiencing discrimination and receiving inequitable compensation—tag some of your favorite Black women movement journalists in the replies!

Graphic that says, “Redistribute your resources to Black women journalists on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, July 21.” There is a small linocut drawing of Ida B. Wells-Barnett in the left corner.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Check out a recent investigation with important findings by Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net for The Dissident @ bit.ly/nyttransnews. Her analysis of over 3,242 NY Times articles uncovered a shift from affirming to skeptical editorial framing in the paper’s coverage of trans people starting in 2022.

Graphic with newspapers in the background that says, “Big surprise! The NYT continues to disappoint. A new study found that trans news coverage at the paper went from affirming and protective of trans rights to supportive of anti-trans policies and beliefs. Civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo tracked the newspaper from 2014-2026 and found that the New York Times shifted their editorial framing in coverage related to trans people beginning in 2022. Read Caraballo’s findings on The Dissident’s website at bit.ly/nyttransnews.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

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Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 15/07/2026

“As long as they continue to target, detain, deport and incarcerate people they will always be the same, no matter under what department or what name.” @sarahlazare.bsky.social reports on the movement’s demand to end ICE’s violence, not transfer it elsewhere.

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What We Mean When We Say Abolish ICE

Undocumented communities are demanding an end to devastating detentions, deportation and incarceration—not the transfer of such policies to a different agency.

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Disability Culture Lab @disabilitylab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We're diving into how anti-Black racism is disabling. In addition to state violence and the stress of discrimination, even in the disabled community disabled Black people are ignored. Support disabled Black folks through mutual aid and uplifting the work of disabled Black organizers and artists!

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Project South @projectsouth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Project South's Azadeh Shahshahani is quoted in this article on the latest death in ICE custody: “ICE’s callous disregard towards the humanity of Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva, not even allowing him to take along his essential medication, is abominable...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Venezuelan man becomes 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year

Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, found ‘unresponsive’ while being transferred between detention facilities in Georgia

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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/07/2026

Jury deliberations in the case of a group of San Francisco protesters dubbed the “Golden Gate Defendants” resulted in multiple misdemeanor convictions on July 2. 26 people were initially arrested for blocking traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and jailed for more than 48 hours.

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Latest Case of “Palestine Exception” to Free Speech Is “Golden Gate Defendants”

The Golden Gate Defendants have spent two years enmeshed in a drawn-out trial and now await sentencing in August.

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"I know it’s too hot in my prison when prisoners start checking into suicide-watch cells in our medical area. People employ various excuses, but most know they do it because the infirmaries have air conditioning."

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Summer Heat in Prison: Just How Hot Are Our Nation’s Prisons?

Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how hot their prisons get in the summer. One prison reached 117 degrees.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 16/07/2026

DATE: Saturday, July 25, 2026 TIME: 7-9 pm EST Given how Alice Wong's activism helped me to feel pride in my disabled personhood, I am hosting a workshop to celebrate her legacy!🔥🔥🔥 Free sign-up here, if needed!🫂 forms.gle/PTamAHjBDvJu... Monetary contributions welcome, if able!🙏🏾 PayPal @kjagoo

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Taking Alice Wong's Advice for Disability Pride

For this Disability Pride month, please join us on Zoom to celebrate the legacy of the late Alice Wong, as we learn together in community!✨

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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/07/2026

This past year has exposed just how dangerous automated license plate readers are as Flock Safety’s products have reportedly been used in immigration enforcement, abortion monitoring, repeated incidents of stalking, and experienced major cybersecurity breaches. But Flock is not alone.

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The Fight Against Surveillance Cameras Is a Struggle for Democracy

In a growing movement, over 80 communities have canceled, rejected, or deactivated automated license plate readers.

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Move beyond the basics of movement journalism with award-winning journalist & editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social! Register for our virtual Movement Journalism 201 training, August 12, 1-3pm ET at bit.ly/mj201training to learn inventive reporting formats for centering the most impacted, and much more.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

For the journalists & storytellers: For @pressonsouth.bsky.social, I'm doing a Movement Journalism 201 webinar on August 12! If you think journalism can be a tool for liberation, and you want to learn and talk about doing this work more thoughtfully and safely, register to attend!

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REGISTRATION: Movement Journalism 201

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Prism @prismreports.org · 08/07/2026

🗣️CALLING MOVEMENT JOURNALISTS!🗣️ How newsrooms discern what is newsworthy is anything but objective. On 8/12, join Prism's award-winning editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social in a virtual workshop with @pressonsouth.bsky.social on how to sharpen your judgement as a movement journalist. REGISTER by 8/5⤵️

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