Many of the activities used to incriminate the Prairieland defendants—who received extraordinary sentences—are the stuff of ordinary organizing. Their supporters weren’t scared off.
Last
summer, Bruno was in a Chinese class when he found out that three of
his close friends—Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto, and Savanna Battan—were among those
arrested after a noise demonstration the day before, outside an ICE detention
camp in Alvarado, Texas. While Bruno was working to locate his friends in the jail
Matt Sledge, who was at the sentencing for the Prairieland defendants, and Mark Bray on the government’s case against the…
Harsh sentences raise uncomfortable questions about equal justice under the law.
A group of Texas ICE demonstrators was hit with extraordinary sentences. This is dark news not just for them, but for anyone who…
Protesters at ICE's Prairieland facility recieved far harsher sentences than anyone from Jan. 6's violent mob
"The Prairieland model is in motion: inflate anti-ICE protest into a terrorism narrative, then use the courts to punish people…
The failed case against Chicago’s Broadview Six shows a federal government willing to go to almost any lengths to punish people…
