CrimethInc. : The Trial of Ayla King : The First of the Stop Cop City RICO Cases Goes to Trial

On July 7, 2025, Ayla King will become the first of the Stop Cop City defendants absurdly charged with violating the RICO Act to go to trial.
— Read on crimethinc.com/2025/07/06/the-trial-of-ayla-king-the-first-of-the-stop-cop-city-rico-cases-goes-to-trial

What to do when you, too, become a “terrorist”: New zine launch! | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is launching a new zine, “What to do when you, too, become a ‘terrorist’” — inspired by our own experience being banned in Germany and being labeled a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT)” by the United States and a “terrorist entity” by Canada, and by the ongoing attempts of the British state to proscribe Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organization.
— Read on samidoun.net/2025/07/what-to-do-when-you-too-become-a-terrorist-new-zine-launch/

Committee to Stop FBI Repression Says, Drop the charges against Alejandro Orellana!

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CFSR) condemns the unjust arrest and targeting of immigrant rights activist and Centro Community Service Organization (CSO) member Alejandro Orellana.

On the morning of June 12, FBI agents, National Guard troops and LA County Sheriff’s deputies descended on Orellana’s East Los Angeles home in a coordinated, militarized raid. Agents forcibly entered his residence and ransacked his belongings before taking him away in handcuffs.

Alejandro faces absurd charges of “conspiracy to commit civil disorders.” This is a transparent political accusation meant to criminalize and deter the wave of protests and legitimate activism against ICE terror in Los Angeles.

Alejandro has done nothing wrong, and his arrest is unjustifiable. As an organizer who has spent years courageously defending immigrant families, he represents exactly the kind of grassroots leadership that the Trump administration seeks to eliminate with intimidation and repression.

This arrest is part of a broader pattern of political persecution, from the FBI’s historical targeting of Chicano activists, Black liberation organizers, and anti-war protesters to the current escalation of attacks against those resisting Trump’s deportation agenda. The state is seeking to crush dissent. The charges against Alejandro follow this same playbook of manufacturing crimes where none exist and equating organizing with conspiracy.

We reject this attack in the strongest possible terms. We stand with Alejandro and call for his immediate release and that all charges against him are dropped.

We urge all organizations and individuals committed to justice, immigrant rights and civil liberties to join us in defending Alejandro.
— Read on stopfbi.org/news/drop-the-charges-against-alejandro-orellana/

How to Answer the Stupidest Questions About Palestinians | The Nation

To simply imagine Palestine without settlers, to simply imagine a sky without drones—that, in the Zionist imagination, is genocidal. If you stick with the “want” of the charge, the notion that Palestinians want to kill all Jews, you find that Zionism is at war with our future. It is at war with our ability to articulate, even if only through poems and protest chants, a future in which Zionism does not reign. For in the past 100 years, Zionism has situated us in a condition of constant dispossession and premature death; our Nakba remains and renews. We are besieged in an inescapable, eternal present tense.
— Read on www.thenation.com/article/world/mohammed-el-kurd-book-excerpt/

ICE targets Iranian man living legally in Buffalo : Investigative Post

His neighbors aren’t having it. 

More than a dozen have organized themselves into rotating shifts to keep watch on the ICE agents.

“You picked the wrong block,” said Jennifer Connor, one of the residents keeping watch.
— Read on www.investigativepost.org/2025/07/01/ice-targets-iranian-family-in-buffalo-here-legally/

Revolutionary Intercommunalism (Huey P. Newton, 1970) | abolition notes

The ruling reactionary circle, through the consequence of being imperialists, transformed the world into what we call “Reactionary Intercommunalism.” They laid siege upon all the communities of the world, dominating the institutions to such an extent that the people were not served by the institutions in their own land. The Black Panther Party would like to reverse that trend and lead the people of the world into the age of “Revolutionary Intercommunalism.” This would be the time when the people seize the means of production and distribute the wealth and the technology in an egalitarian way to the many communities of the world.
— Read on abolitionnotes.org/huey-p-newton/revolutionary-intercommunalism-1970

Indiana University Bloomington to Eliminate or Suspend Over 100 Academic Programs in Sweeping Restructuring – The Bloomingtonian

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University Bloomington is suspending or eliminating more than 100 academic programs across a wide range of disciplines ahead of the 2026-27 academic year. The programs are on a list from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education released on a PDF from the June 30, 2025 meeting. Universities across Indiana are eliminating
— Read on bloomingtonian.com/2025/06/30/indiana-university-bloomington-to-eliminate-or-suspend-over-100-academic-programs-in-sweeping-restructuring/

Unfinished Acts: Utopia, Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War – O. L. Silverman, 2025

This essay interprets Thomas More’s Utopia, not chiefly through its intended audience, an elite, international circle of humanists and jurists, but through its intentionally excluded audience: the lower classes of Europe. Five centuries of scholarship on the critique of private property in his Utopia have generally overlooked More’s opposition to the largest popular uprising of his time, the German Peasants’ War. This essay argues that More’s polemics against proto-communist movements and thinkers, like Protestant propagandist Simon Fish, are essential to understanding Utopia in context. More’s Tudor schooling trained him in forms of legal play meant to sharpen the faculties to adroitly enforce law and social order. Challenges to law, private property, and authority were “heresies” for Sir Thomas More. The attempt to restrict Utopia’s readership mirrored More’s opposition to heretical, vulgar translations of the New Testament. He feared that the ungovernable play of a literal reading would result in disastrous misinterpretations: in acts of popular uprising that sought to put all things in common.
— Read on journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00905917251345497