Originally published on https://chicagoantireport.noblogs.org/post/2025/06/20/a-guide-to-ice-infrastructure-in-chicago/
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Midwest Prison Censorship Update 2025: Exposing the IDOC Mail Scanning Scam
Originally published on https://chicagoantireport.noblogs.org/post/2025/06/09/midwest-prison-censorship-update-2025-exposing-the-idoc-mail-scanning-scam/
View the zine: Screen PDF – Printable PDF
View the Prison Censorship Survey results
Individual articles:
- “Stop Mail Scanning in Illinois” by Anthony Ehlers
- “The Censorship of Ideas is a Form of Psychological Warfare: A Message from the Diversionary Treatment Unit” by Hybachi LeMar
- Mail Scamming: IDOC’s Own Data Exposes how Politicians and Guard Unions are Lying about Drugs in the Mail
Download the FOIA request data (zip): 2023-2024 IDOC Drug Confiscations, 2024 Drug Exposures
Prison censorship is a front in the fascist american project. For the millions buried by the largest prison system on the planet, we know that access to communication and reading materials remain one of the only ways people behind bars can maintain humanity. Prison is censorship, a system of walls and borders that criminalizes people and ideas: a system we are determined to break by building bridges of solidarity – through sharing books and publishing zines.
Coinciding with the fascistic expansion of police and cop city projects, the prison censorship machine has rapidly marched on, consuming the majority of local, state and federal facilities. Played-out “war on drugs” fear mongering is why most people behind bars no longer receive physical mail: books are banned under cover of “content-neutral” and “publisher-only” restrictions, and private monopolies experiment with dystopian tablet technologies to monitor and profit from all communications.
Illinois has been one of the last holdouts until last year when prison copagandists began another all-too-familiar disinformation campaign. Guards are staging drug exposure hospitalization stunts to take away physical mail – incidents easily disproved as impossible by medical experts and according to IDOC’s own confiscation and exposure data. Unlike other states, this battle is being waged at capitol: multiple bills for and against mail scanning are being debated in Springfield. IDOC has not made any announcements yet, but has signed a new phone/email/tablet contract with ICSolutions: Illinois could fall to all-digital mail unless we organize now to stop it.
One voice that has not been heard from are those behind bars who are bearing the brunt of their draconian machinations. We made sure to share their plans to thousands of our incarcerated correspondents throughout IDOC, asking for comments and strategies on how to fight back and providing information on the bills and the addresses to write congress. Throughout these pages you’ll hear directly how mail censorship affects life behind bars: and special appreciations to the brave souls writing us, refusing to be silenced.
We are determined to stop mail scanning and book bans in Illinois: we share these tools and updates, seeking comrades to help break down the panopticon through underground networks of paper and print. Free the books, free the mail, free the people – free them all!
Spring 2025 Scouting at Proposed Location for the Quantum Campus
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Comrades visited Steelworkers Park and walked through the surrounding land to scout the area where the Quantum campus is scheduled to be constructed. This report back is based on two scouts. Go and see for yourself.
Steelworkers Park is a public city park: folks are on walks with their dogs, fishing, climbing, and birdwatching. There’s free parking, DIVY bikes, and community work days. A cop car was present in the cul-de-sac of the entrance/parking/exit, like at many public parks. Rainbow Beach is further north, another public park with several parking lots. It would be a manageable distance to bike from.
There are traffic cameras at the 87th and LSD intersection and some above the parking area for the park. No other cameras were spotted throughout the land at the time of writing [mid April 2025].
The land specifically designated for the first phase of the construction of the Quantum base is directly south of the Steelworkers Park entrance. It butts up against the west side of the park and continues south towards US Army Corps of Engineers signs (looks like piles of rocks mostly tbh). This land is surrounded with a 5.5 ft fence. There are gates at several points which are locked, but there are a number of places where the fence has been damaged (notably on the north side there’s a giant rock that opens the space). It is also climbable. “No Trespassing” signs are nearly entirely absent. One was seen along with a US Army Corps of Engineers sign at the very westernmost fence near a gated entrance along LSD.
This lot varies in appearance; some areas have waist-height grass, some areas have denser trees, some of it is almost cleared. There are construction cones and little marking flags throughout, but it is not clear whether these are new or leftover from the past. There’s a bunch of trash, including two human-abandoned, bee-busy beehives. There are multiple “well testing” spots throughout. There are a number of gravel / dirt roads at various locations as well. There was a truck with a drill parked on one of these dirt roads. No workers were seen; unclear if the truck is there long term or what.
There’s a smaller fenced in area with a taller fence (~10ft) with barbed wire. The gate however is wide open. There’s a caterpillar sitting near this area, also unclear how long it’s been sitting.
It does not look like construction has started nor that there is elevated surveillance at this time. Keep watch, take risks. Fight against Quantum. Fight for the lake, the beavers, South Shore, for privacy and autonomy, for ur lovers and friends.
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Your Neighbors are Being Trained by and Working with ICE. Do Something About it.
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This was originally written in mid-April but left unfinished. The awe-inspiring insurgency currently taking place in LA and the preceding pushes against the Feds in Minneapolis, Worcester, and other cities across the country have reminded me why I wrote this in the first place.
May their flames bellow unto us.
Note: All links within this article link to the Internet Archive.
With the surge of publicly recorded ICE arrests following Trump’s inauguration, videos have been posted to social media showing very odd behavior from the federal agents that have been arresting people.
A similar theme emerges—the pigs carrying out the arrest claim to be members of HSI (Homeland Security Investigations), a subset of ICE—while these raggedly dressed HSI ‘agents’ themselves look like they don’t have a clue what they’re doing.
My claim is that these HSI agents are in fact regular civilians that have underwent ICE’s civilian training programs, which have been up and running in the states since 2019 after its initial launch and testing in Puerto Rico. I examined three videos posted to Twitter/X since January, followed with a little investigating—from what I gather, all these arrests were carried out by amateur civilian HSI agents that almost certainly live in the same community as the people they are arresting. Continue reading “Your Neighbors are Being Trained by and Working with ICE. Do Something About it.”
Westville CI Hunger Strike
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https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/hunger-strike-announcement/
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🚨 URGENT: HUNGER STRIKE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
“Death before defilement.”
Ekong Eshiet (#304103), currently incarcerated at Westville Correctional Facility in Indiana, is beginning a hunger strike on June 9, 2025 to protest his wrongful and indefinite solitary confinement.
Ekong was transferred from Red Onion State Prison in Virginia, where he endured horrific abuse, racial and religious discrimination, and was denied mental health care. After surviving self-immolation, instead of receiving care, he was transferred across state lines as retaliation—and placed back in long-term solitary, without explanation.
He has now been held in “restricted housing” for over 33 days, despite being classified as seriously mentally ill—a direct violation of DOC policies.
📢 Ekong is risking his life to demand basic human rights.
✊🏿 Stand in solidarity. Share his story. Demand accountability.
📞 Contact Indiana DOC & Virginia DOC. Flood their lines. Write. Demand his release from solitary.
🎙️ Full statement on prisonradio.org
Vandalism at Michigan Tesla manufacturing site under investigation – Cascade Township, MI
Originally published on https://unravel.noblogs.org/vandalism-at-michigan-tesla-manufacturing-site-under-investigation-cascade-township-mi/
The vandalism allegedly took place between March 28 and March 31 at the manufacturing site located at 5460 Executive Parkway SE in Cascade Township, police said.
There was minor damage to one of the building’s windows, the Kent County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.
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ANTI QUANTUM DAY Reportback, Opponents of PsiQuantum Facility in Chicago Disrupt Architecture Center Event with PsiQuantum VP
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We offer to you on “World Quantum Day” this report-back of recent movement building and protest against the specter of Quantum in so-called Chicago.
On the spring equinox, March 20, 2025, opponents of a plan to build the 9 Billion dollar Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park(IQMP) on the shores of southern Lake Michigan or Mishigami, disrupted an event that the Chicago Architecture Center hosted to sell the project to the public.
A dozen people rallied outside of the entrance of the swank downtown offices of the Chicago Architecture Center Thursday, calling simultaneously for the whole project to be stopped entirely, but also to make sure that the people are not forgotten if developers were to go forward with terraforming the lakefront to make room for this massive tech campus, and that there are also plans to ensure that somehow it would benefit the people currently living in the neighborhoods and the local ecosystem, not corporate profit and militarization. Colorful banners and signs held by people had the words, “Invest in People, Not Quantum”, “Quantum = Displacement: The Lake is for the People, Not Your Supercomputer” and “Love Mishigami, Hate Killer Quantum” while others played music and chanted.
What’s Happening in Turkey — From an anti-Authoritarian Perspective
https://projet-evasions.org/whats-happening-in-turkey-an-anti-authoritarian-perspective/
Background
The Republic of Turkey, which was founded on the genocide of the Armenians in the region with a nationalist and murderous leaven, has not changed much in the past century. For non-Muslims, Kurds, Alevis and women who did not hold the majority and power in their hands, the state and its successfully constructed society were always a source of oppression. But starting in 2002, as a consequence of Erdoğan’s dictatorship, oppression, poverty, violence and exploitation started to be felt also by the majority of the society. In 2013, after increasing bans and oppressions, millions of people stood up for their freedoms in the Gezi Park riot that took place in cities all over the country. The months-long resistance ended with unprecedented national-scale police attacks in which eight young people aged 15-22 were killed and thousands detained. Since 2014, the Turkish state has become a police state, and after the 2016 fictitious coup attempt, it has been ruled with absolute authoritarianism under the state of emergency. Since 2021, as a result of the economic crisis that has escalated with great momentum, 60% of the population now lives below the hunger line.
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New Zine: Birds of a Feather, Destroy a Flock Together
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WHAT IS FLOCK?
Flock Safety is a mass surveillance start up based in Atlanta, Georgia that promises law enforcement and private business AI surveillance, license plate reading (LPR) technology, and real time alerts. Founded in 2017, the company now claims presence in 4,000 cities across 42 states. Flock LPRs compile unique identifying car information – License Plate, Make and Model, Color, Unique Alterations, and Frequency of Visits – then stores this data for 30 days. LPRs are leased to police, businesses, property managers or Home Owner Associations; these clients receive up to date hardware, maintenance and custom applications such as Hot List Alerts which allow them to track any vehicle(s) they desire in real-time. Flock boasts about its ability to identify a “vehicle fingerprint” which it claims includes color, make, model, bumper stickers, roof or bike racks, after market wheels, major scratches or dents, etc.
Standard Flock cameras cover 1.5 lanes of one-directional traffic up to a distance of 75 feet. They use a 16mm 1/2” lens with an IR filter, meaning the field of view is quite large but low-resolution. For night surveillance, they are outfitted with 6 LEDs that flash infrared light into the field of view. They use solar panels for power and an LTE modem for sending and receiving data.
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Condemning Dana Nessel’s Hypocrisy
https://whatsleftypsi.com/2025/condemning-dana-nessels-hypocrisy/
Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel, a self-styled progressive who has attempted to build a reputation opposing Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, now exposes her own hypocrisy by weaponizing the legal system to suppress pro-Palestine protesters. Her refusal to drop the politically motivated charges against students and activists at the University of Michigan—despite mass demands to Drop the Charges—reveals a glaring contradiction: She claims to fight tyranny while enabling it. Nessel’s actions align her not with the communities she purports to defend, but with the same carceral systems and imperial logic she once condemned.
Nessel’s prosecution of pro-Palestine dissent is a betrayal of the principles she claims to uphold. Where was this zeal for “accountability” when white supremacists plotted to kidnap Michigan’s governor? Where is her outrage over “israel’s” US-funded genocide in Gaza, which has slaughtered over 40,000 Palestinians? Her selective application of justice exposes a dangerous truth: For Nessel, opposing Trump is a political brand, not a commitment to dismantling oppression. When the victims of state violence are Palestinians and their allies, she sides with the powerful.
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