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SarahTowle.bsky.social

@sarahtowle.bsky.social

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Award-winning author of CROSSING THE LINE: FINDING AMERICA IN THE BORDERLANDS: “A powerful exposé of the human costs of America’s immigration policies.” - Kirkus Reviews. Contact @ www.sarahtowle.com

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Democracy Labs @demlabs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sarah Towle author of Crossing the Line shares her findings from on-the-ground investigation of ICE detention and deportation practices. digitalpoliticsradio.com/for-profit-d... @gailwaldby.bsky.social #ICE @sarahtowle.bsky.social

Sarah Towle author of Crossing the Line shares what she saw in her on-the-ground investigation of ICE detention and deportation practices.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A Message For US Voters & Democratic Candidates... Please Pass it On... sarahtowle.substack.com/p/a-message-...

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A Message For US Voters & Democratic Candidates...

Immigration Should Be An Election Issue For ALL Parties, Not Just MAGA-Republicans

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SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There are few books that meet our present historic moment as honestly and urgently as John Washington's latest. Join John, Dora Rodriguez, and me on September 20th at 5 p.m. ET to learn HOW TO CLOSE A CAMP. Allies Welcome! Please share! @haymarketbooks.org sarahtowle.substack.com/p/turn-this-...

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Turn This “Uncommon Period” Into Opportunity: Meet John Washington, Author of HOW TO CLOSE A CAMP, and Join the Movement to Build Communities, Not Cages.

Mark Your Calendars: September 20, 2026, 5 pm ET. Register below for a virtual book talk and resistance meet-up, hosted by the Hope Knows No Borders Network and Coalition for Values-Based Investment.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 31/08/2026

I write this from sacred ground. As a promise, a final update on the 1,000 Miles to Memphis voting rights march that you helped make possible. What we accomplished. What we learned. And what comes next. qasimrashid.substack.com/p/we-marched...

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We Marched 1,000 Miles. Here Is What We Found.

A letter to the movement—from the steps of the National Civil Rights Museum, where Dr. King breathed his last.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Divest From For-Profit Prisons: A Practical Workshop Powering a National Campaign to Drain the Devil of Dollars -- Together! sarahtowle.substack.com/p/divest-fro...

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Divest From For-Profit Prisons: A Practical Workshop Powering a National Campaign

Turn Your Outrage Into Action. Watch and share with your family, friend, faith, and professional circles, because a committed community CAN change the world.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Introducing the Coalition for Values-Based Investment: We Make Crimes Against Humanity BAD BUSINESS. Join us on Aug 23, 3 pm ET, to help grow a movement to divest all our funds from ICE, BP, and DHS prison, infrastructure, and weapons profiteers. sarahtowle.substack.com/p/webinar-an...

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Workshop Announcement: Introducing the Coalition for Values-Based Investment, We Make Crimes Against Humanity BAD BUSINESS

Mark Your Calendar: On August 23, 2026, we welcome you to join us in building a movement to put our money where our values are (registration required - link below).

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We need to make Crimes Against Humanity a BAD business model and a worse investment. We need @democrats.org to know that moderation got us here: ICE is not reformable. DHS = domestic terror. The for-profit immigrant gulag is a bipartisan shame that must be slain. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Make Crimes Against Humanity a BAD Investment: ICE's Deadly For-Profit Prison Gulag Is a Bipartisan Shame That Must Be Slain

A Divestment Case Study with Eyes On ICE at Delaney Hall, Newark, New Jersey, and a Call to Action to invest your values

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Divest Now! Say NO! to ICE Impunity, For-Profit Human Trafficking, and Enslavement by Prison Profiteers Hiding in Your Pension Plan, Mutual Fund, or Retirement Portfolio open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Divest Now! Say NO! to ICE Impunity, For-Profit Human Trafficking, and Enslavement by Prison Profiteers Hiding in Your Pension Plan, Mutual Fund, or Retirement Portfolio

Watch the webinar above ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼 to learn how. Register below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 to help us grow this effort into a nationwide divestment campaign.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In our chat on reimagining immigration, we learn about the Not Forgotten Project: a week-long intensive community search and rescue effort, book party, and faith gathering to say ¡Basta! to the dehumanization of women and girls. June 1-7. Click the link for more... open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Immigration Reimagined with Abbey Carpenter and James Holeman of Battalion Search and Rescue, PLUS News of their Never Forgotten Project, June 1-7, 2026.

The duo reveal disturbing findings of desert deaths in Doña Ana County, NM, mostly of women and girls, and their determination to make elected officials give a damn. Learn here how to get involved.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Webinar Announcement: Learn How to Divest from Prison Profiteers Hiding in Your Portfolio. Join us on May 24, 3:00 pm ET. And please spread the word. DIVESTMENT WORKS! open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Webinar Announcement: Learn How to Divest from Prison Profiteers Hiding in Your Portfolio

Mark Your Calendar: May 24, 2026, 3:00-4:30 pm, SAY NO! to Coerced Complicity in ICE's Deterrence to Detention to Deportation Pipeline

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Cashing In on the ICE Gold Rush open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Cashing In on the ICE Gold Rush

Fascists and their followers flock to Phoenix for the largest Border Security Expo ever

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Shut Down Dilley Family Internment! Prison is No Place for Kids. Tell your reps to tell DHS and Prison Profiteer CoreCivic that Making $$$ off Children's Misery IS NOT OKAY! open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Shut Down Dilley Family Internment! Prison is No Place for Kids. Tell DHS and Prison Profiteer CoreCivic that Making $$$ off Children's Misery IS NOT OKAY!

What started with the "Family Values President" has been taken to the extreme under the Trump regime. But let us not forget: The US for-profit Gulag began with Ronald Reagan.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

There’s still time to learn and sing ICE OUT! A Resistance Anthem for today. Or add it to your playlist for #NoKingsDay @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org @vetsat.bsky.social @veteransforpeace.bsky.social See you in the streets @mn50501.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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ICE OUT! A Resistance Anthem for the 21st Century

Based on the WWII anti-Nazi and anti-fascist Liberation Song, "Bella Ciao"

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Ready to Resist ICE? Don't Miss This Masterclass by the OG Rio Grande Valley Resisters. Their Secret: Focused Hyperlocal Action open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Ready to Resist ICE? Don't Miss This Masterclass by the OG Rio Grande Valley Resisters. Their Secret: Focused Hyperlocal Action

Turn your outrage into action! Tune in to learn all the ways you, too, can resist ICE and DHS impunity. Join the movement now!

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I wish it were otherwise. But in dark times like these, legacy media must stop enabling the worst of the worst. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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My Farewell Letter to The Daily Podcast of The New York Times

At times like these, legacy media must stop giving the worst of the worst more oxygen.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Mass Deportation. Where human rights, decency, and constitutional law go to die... This Is What Mass Deportation Looks Like... open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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This Is What Mass Deportation Looks Like...

Survivors' stories from the unseen side of Trump & Co's genocide against the stateless

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Introducing two new must-read books poised to bring a potent, first-hand view of the walling-off of the US Southwest borderlands to audiences everywhere, and how to confront Wall Disease, which isn’t just a Cold War Berlin affliction anymore. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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We All Suffer Wall Disease Now

Artist-Activists Russ McSpadden, Virgina Maria Romero, Kate Scott, and Sarah Towle discuss how walls make us sick and the power of creativity and the grassroots to tear them all down

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Can There Be Human Rights in a Security-Obsessed World? 77 years ago, the UDHR proclaimed all humans “born free and equal in dignity and rights,” without distinction of any kind. But human rights and dignity are not being respected in the US under ICE. Pls share: open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Can There Be Human Rights in a Security-Obsessed World?

In this tribute to Amnesty International, Ute Ritz-Deutch and I discuss the post-9/11 human rights record of the US immigration deterrence-to-detention-to-deportation Border Industrial Complex.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The Judges are performing their constitutional duty & following the law. Unfortunately, we cannot say the same thing about the Justice Department in this regard.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Crossing the Line: How Women Activists Expose America's Immigration Cruelty. Radical care as an act of resistance and a "handbook for a more humane world." open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

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Crossing the Line: How Women Activists Expose America's Immigration Cruelty

Sarah Towle centers the "Angry Tías" of the Rio Grande Valley, revealing how radical care becomes the ultimate resistance against systemic cruelty.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Join us tomorrow for updates on the fight to stop Fisher Sand & Gravel from destroying Arizona's unique and pristine San Rafael Valley. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Webinar Announcement: The Power of Bearing Witness in Poetry & Pictures, with Kate Scott, author, Virginia Maria Romero, illustrator, and Russ McSpadden, poet

Plus updates on efforts to block Trump & Co's "immense metal fence that makes no sense"

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Imagine Being Scared of Diversity and Not Dictatorship. Ideas for helping others see our shared humanity this holiday season open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Imagine Being Scared of Diversity and Not Dictatorship.

Let's help others see our shared humanity this holiday season (ideas within...)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/11/2025

"Just like family separation, I think we're starting to see people take to the street in really vocal opposition in a way President Trump has shown before that he will ultimately back down" -- interesting report from Jacob Soboroff on how Charlotte is organizing against ICE

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We got here because Democrats thought campaigning with a Cheney would be more effective that standing up for the Human Rights and the Constitution. Grow some balls, Dems!

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

How do you solve a problem like the Department of Homeland Security and its unreformable, lawless “law enforcement” agencies? Check out my latest post to find out… "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our Legislature..." open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our Legislature..."

And, no, I'm not talking about King George or the military. History repeats itself under the "worst of the worst": Trump & Co and their Department of Homeland "Security" paramilitary armies.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Join us tomorrow, online or at the Community Church of Boston, Boylston St, to find out how immigration became the weapon driving US democracy into crisis. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Reject their fear. Reject their hate. A nation without empathy can never be great!

COME ONE, COME ALL! October 26, 11:00 am ET. Learn how immigration became the weapon driving US democracy into crisis, and hear some good music, too. Zoom link below. In-person option for Bostonians.

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Blasphemous Jones ↙️ @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Rally for the Valley: A Multicultural Border Happening November 15! Join borderlands conservationists to save the San Raphael Valley. Learn more by clicking on the post below… Trump's Ecocidal Boondoggle Border Wall open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Trump's Ecocidal Boondoggle Border Wall

Sierra Club's Erick Meza and Russ McSpadden of the Center for Biodiversity discuss with me the unregulated experiment en route to causing one of the greatest ecological disasters of the modern age

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SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Central PA Champions of Refugees to Receive 2025 Peace & Justice Awards, and I have the honor of offering the Keynote Address! Oct 21 in Harrisburg, PA. Meet me there, or in Burlington, VT, Oct 17; Amherst, MA, Oct 18; or New Paltz, NY, Oct 19. More dates to come! open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Central PA Champions of Refugees to Receive 2025 Peace & Justice Awards

Phuong Truong, Executive Director of the International Service Center, to be honored; Sarah Towle, author of Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands to offer the Keynote Address

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Indeed you do. And you're leading the rat pack.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Webinar & Breaking News: The Ecological Impacts of the Boondoggle Border Wall On People, Animals, the Environment, with Borderlands Conservationists @erickmeza7.bsky.social and Russ McSpadden, Sunday, September 28, 2:30-4:00 pm ET. Registration link in post below. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Webinar & Breaking News: The Ecological Impacts of the Boondoggle Border Wall On People, Animals, and the Environment, With Borderlands Conservationists Erick Meza and Russ McSpadden

Sunday, September 28, 2025, 2:30-4:00 ET (11:30-1:00 PT) pm, via Zoom

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Don’t miss this 30,000-foot deep dive into the global leviathan that is the Border Industrial Complex - who it benefits, what it destroys, and how we can Resist its impunity - with @petramolnar.com Todd Miller of @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and Dora Rodriguez open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Global Apartheid & The New Jim Code

NOT TO BE MISSED! Critical chat on the Border Industrial Complex: who it benefits, what it destroys, and how we can all Resist and Reclaim human rights and the rule of law.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

In the former official’s opinion, it was more likely that the vessel was carrying migrants on a human smuggling run. It would be impossible to know for sure, however, given that any evidence of drug smuggling was destroyed in the attack.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This is right. We don't have the language to describe what we're seeing right before our eyes. That contributes to the disorienting effect it's all having, which I think people like Stephen Miller, who expressly uses the language of fascism as a weapon, understand perfectly well.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The first part of this long post by @radleybalko.bsky.social provides an excellent account of LibCon2025 and is an important reminder not to cede leadership of the struggle for liberal democracy to reactionary centrists (however well-funded they are).

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Liberals Cannot Stop Authoritarianism by Compromising With It

They should heed Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza's warning at LibCon2025 to not fall for the false narratives that authoritarians use to consolidate power

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Revokes Kamala Harris’s Secret Service Protection

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

In a world beset by rising fascism, where US democracy is under attack by those who seek to control us through division, paranoia, hate, and fear of “the other,” Mauricio Matiz’s experience reminds us that a nation without empathy can never be great. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Practicing Humanity: Welcoming the Immigrant

A. Mauricio Matiz reflects on the gifts gained from aiding others during his year at the now shuttered St. Francis of Assisi Church Migrant Center in New York City

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SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Heartfelt Sunday Thanks to everyone out there making Good Trouble! Please share. XOXO, Sarah In Gratitude to All You Tiny Grains of Sand open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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In Gratitude to All You Tiny Grains of Sand

Thank You for standing up against this amoral moment with moral actions that sing ever louder in glorious harmony, "This is NOT the people we wish to be!"

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"It is a stunt sending tanks into D.C. ...But stunts can be super serious and terrible and terrorizing," says @monicapotts.bsky.social.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

When the raids are over and companies have been reimbursed, parents are gone. Children cry themselves to sleep at night, traumatized for life, not knowing if they will ever see their loved ones again. The real costs of our tragic immigration policies are human. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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ICE Invaded Their Community. Their Grassroots Response Is a Model for Strategies of Resistance From Sea to Shining Sea

Tips and tools to prepare you and yours when ICE & CBP roll into your town...

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SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

From machines reading our passports, faces, eyes? From travel to an eye scan being your ticket to food. No, this is not my next novel. It's the Border Industrial Complex. Join me @petramolnar.com, Todd Miller @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, Dora Rodriguez, Aug 3. Until we know, we cannot resist.

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Webinar Announcement: On Global Apartheid, "Smart" Walls, and the Border Industrial Complex — with Petra Molnar and Todd Miller

Sunday, August 3, 2025, 1:00-2:30 pm ET,* for the HOPE KNOWS NO BORDERS BOOK CLUB & WEBINAR SERIES. Description and registration link below:

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/07/2025

I’ve been investigating Paramount’s deal with Trump. Here’s what we know: - Trump sued CBS - CBS called the lawsuit “meritless” - Paramount (owner of CBS) still settled, handing $16 MILLION+ to Trump’s library - Paramount has a billion-dollar deal that needs Trump’s approval

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Exactly.

At no point in history have the good guys built concentration
camps.

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

With our democracy under threat, as well as our neighbors, colleagues, family members, and friends, we must all do our part to aid and support the #resistance. That's why I'm offering learning communities a way to skill up fast on #immigration. This summer… open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Take Your Community from Outrage to Action — Form an Immigration Study Group with the Author of Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands

Discover how the US immigration system evolved . . . then devolved into a weapon to drive our democracy into crisis. Learn how you, too, can Resist, Refuse, and Reclaim our fundamental rights.

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SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Turn your Outrage into Action! Discover myriad ways you can join the growing resistance against the abuses of an expanding US police state. History is repeating itself in the so-called land of the free. What side of that line do you wish to be on? open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Our Basic Rights Are Under Attack. But You Don’t Have to Risk Tear Gas to Fight Back!

CALL TO ACTION: Here are a few things we can all do today…

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Check out this chat with Dora Rodriguez, Sarah Towle & Abbey Carpenter on 'Writing to Change the World' & focused on the no-good, truly deadly, now expanded US Border Industrial Complex & Police State. Two must-read immigration books noted within. Get Ur Copies! open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Writing to Change the World with Dora Rodriguez in celebration of the Launch of 'Dora: A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain'

A memoir of resistance and resilience and Must Read -- Out Now!

SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The real crisis facing us today is the hardening of the human heart. Empathy is a necessary precondition for a healthy society. A society without empathy can never be great. Not now. Not again. This July 4th, 2025, I grieve. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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This July 4th, 2025, I Grieve for the Great Experiment in Governance Now Gone; for the Dreams Now Deferred, for Lifetimes.

And I hold this truth to be self-evident: In the era of Fox News, Breitbart, and other drivers of the disinformation machine, Voters Are Not Created Equal.

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SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"History is repeating itself in the so-called Land of the Free. The decades-long buildup to this tragic outcome is the foundational plotline of my book." 2nd Edition coming Sept 2025. #immigration #humanrights #ICE open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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"History is repeating itself in the so-called Land of the Free. The decades-long buildup to this tragic outcome is the foundational plotline of my book. "

SNEAK PEEK! Author Foreword, Crossing the Line, 2nd edition, coming soon!

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SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This Sunday! Don't miss Dora Rodriguez and me in conversation with Abbey Carpenter to discuss the transformative power of storytelling to touch hearts and change minds and launch Dora’s much-anticipated memoir. Click the link to register. open.substack.com/pub/sarahtow...

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Join Dora Rodriguez and Me, June 22, to Celebrate Her Forthcoming Book and Discuss the Transformative Power of Storytelling to Touch Hearts and Change Minds

Learn now Dora's book joins a canon of topical must-reads capable of turning your outrage over Trump & Co's weaponization of immigration into action

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