What follows is the truest version of the story y’all can get me to tell. In covering an event of the scale we saw with Charlie Kirk’s memorial, especially being so widely broadcast as it was, one might assume there are not stories from the ground left to be told. May this be my counterexample…
-Max E.
Tag: News
ICE OFF CAMPUS NOW!
“Support DFW Anti ICE Protestors” Zine
originally posted to Unity of Fields
Prisoners of war are being detained on $10 million bail each in Texas, accused of trying to liberate an ICE concentration camp.
Support their fundraiser and follow along updates on their case here: givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors
Contact their support committee here: dfwsupportcommittee@hacari.com
Download a zine with this information, how to write to the prisoners, and further updates from the support committee!
text of the zine below
Read MoreAs the valley goes into summer, Phoenix keeps the heat on
Written and Experienced by Maxwell Edison
As we round the final stretch into June, we’re entering protest season and things are getting a whole other kind of hot out on the street (not just our temperatures reaching into the low triple digits). Mutual Aid, community building, and resistance against the growing fascist threat don’t take a pause for the weather, and on Saturday two groups did just those in spite of the sun.
War Criminals, Prison and Surveillance Profiteers Courted by Law Enforcement at Dystopian Phoenix Trade Show
article in zine format
By 7 A.M on April 8th, the Phoenix Convention Center ballroom was beginning to fill up. Attendees included local law enforcement and top officials from an alphabet soup of agencies: the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP), U.S. Customs and Border Protections (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Read MoreFrom the Border Wall to the Freeway and Red Light Cameras, Death to the Surveillance State!
By G
On May 7th, 2025, the city of Tempe put its new Vision Zero plan into action, partnering with Mesa-based traffic and surveillance company Verra Mobility to erect 14 new red light cameras across the city. This comes 14 years after Tempe’s first traffic photo enforcement system, forced upon us courtesy of surveillance company Redflex, was deactivated in 2011. They claim that these new cameras, and the ‘enforcement’ that will come with them, are the solution to our dangerous roads. Rather than redesigning for pedestrian and driver safety, expanding public transit, or creating car free zones, city council has predictably seized upon the opportunity to expand the reach of policing and the surveillance state even further into our lives.
Read MoreTesla Cybertruck Arson – Mesa, Arizona
from Unravel and Mainstream News
Mesa police officers arrested 35-year-old [name] on suspicion of setting a Tesla Cybertruck on fire in the early morning hours of April 28.
Officials said [name] rode up on a bicycle and opened the door to a “suspicious van” parked near the dealership at Southern Avenue and Sossaman Road. “The Tesla Security Center provided photo evidence of the arson suspect and officers were able to match the photo to [name],” the bicyclist, Mesa police Detective Brandi Myers said in a statement.
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