Vermont is a national nerve center for Trump’s fossil fueled fascist Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. All year we’ve struggled alongside communities fighting to get ICE Out of our communities, and now the struggle is coming home to our Brave Little State. Through the Law Enforcement Support Center on Harvest Lane and National Criminal …
Polls show that data centers and the AI bots built in them are unpopular with the American public. But Trump and his fossil fueled fascist regime are still trying to push data centers. Whether by placing them on public lands, or proposing weak regulations (or, in Trump’s case another ridiculous AI FORCE) in exchange for …
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This September we’re taking on the Big Tech companies that are puppeteering a massive AI data center buildout and worsening the climate crisis. We’ve talked a lot about how AI and the data centers it lives on are driving up costs, polluting our climate, and threatening communities — All to benefit the fossil fueled fascist …
We told you last week about Lorenzo Salgado and Johan Sebastian, two fathers, workers, and community members murdered by ICE just days apart. On July 13 in Biddeford, Maine, ICE agents killed 26-year-old Johan Sebastian. A witness watched his partner fall to her knees looking at her husband’s body on the ground. His three year old …
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July 27 – Just a quick report back from the weekend of action: Across the country, partners organized more than 300 vigils, rallies, and other gatherings to demand: Justice For Lorenzo. Justice For Johan. Justice For All. ICE Out. Thousand of social media posts and dozens of media stories have covered the day already. Take …
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Since Trump’s return to power, we’ve been talking more and more about data centers as a point of linkage between big tech, fossil fuels, and fascism. And we’ve been warning that fossil fueled AI is not a neutral tech – it’s increasingly being used as a tool of state sponsored terror, war, and surveillance. Defense Secretary …
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May 26 update – We won! For now. This is why we do not comply in advance. back in January when we first started calling for a freeze on all new funding for ICE and CBP, War powers resolutions to constrain Trumps illegal wars for oil, and more, it wasn’t clear whether or how we …
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Drew Hudson (@greenmtndrew) May 20 update – A quick update after the Vote: Thousands of Vermonters called, texted, and emailed their Representatives in favor of UnMasking ICE, but a group of most House Republicans and a few House Democrats banded together to defeat the amendment by …
If you’ve been watching the news lately, you’ve likely seen footage of federal agents using tear gas to suppress and disperse protestors. After being teargassed outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility near Chicago, Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss said “It was impossible to breathe, and really, really scary.” Congressional candidates and elected officials like Mayor …
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Last April we told you about student protests against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, one of the leaders of the Columbia University protest was Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian American permanent resident and Columbia University graduate student. We told you at the time that fossil fueled fascists were calling for violent mobs and military crackdowns on …