ICE raids tried to split LA apart, but might have made it stronger

From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say Los Angeles County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone. Over the past three days, thousands of people in Los Angeles heeded calls from organizers to join protests against ICE and help their undocumented neighbors.
— Read on lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ice-raids-separate-families-but-bring-los-angeles-together/

Victory! Austin Organizers Cancel City’s Flock ALPR Contract | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Austin organizers turned out to rebuke the city’s misguided contract with Flock Safety— and won. This successful pushback from the community means at the end of the month Austin police will no longer be able to use the surveillance network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the city….
— Read on www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/victory-austin-organizers-cancel-citys-flock-alpr-contract

Recent FBI activity in the Seattle Area – Puget Sound Prisoner Support

If you are a participant in the radical left in any capacity, it is important that the people you live with understand that the police and the FBI should not be allowed into the home. You do not need to talk to federal agents, and they cannot gain entrance to your home without a warrant. 

-If you find yourself in a situation where they have gained access to you, or your home, work, school, do not talk to them. Even small talk, which feels unimportant, is possibly giving them information they do not need to have. Ask for a card and walk away, do not engage.

-We do not know why this information was not made public by the person targeted or when it was disclosed to SUPER, but we know that people often move from panic and not malice in these types of situations. We implore everyone on the left, individuals and formal organizations alike, to have a set of protocols in place to communicate internally and publicly about visits or attention from federal agents. We are all safer when we don’t keep this info from each other. 

Federal repression is not new and the generational historic memory of FBI activity in the PNW leans heavily towards the majority of their tactics being based in intimidation. They want the left in the region to be scared, to pull away from each other, to accuse each other, to not support those targeted–we cannot let any of those things happen.   
— Read on pugetsoundprisonersupport.noblogs.org/post/2025/06/05/recent-fbi-activity-in-the-seattle-area/

Israel sets food traps across Gaza – Good Shepherd Collective

Over the last week Israel bypassed the UN and seized sole control of aid deliveries to Gaza. The new scheme funnels the besieged population toward four fenced distribution points in the extreme south of the Gaza Strip, guarded by drones, Israeli forces, and 300 heavily armed U.S. contractors from the hastily formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
— Read on goodshepherdcollective.org/posts/2025/06/04/israel-sets-food-traps-across-gaza