This is one of the most brutal things I've ever heard in such a forthright declarative way

A new ACPC investigation reveals that the Atlanta Police Foundation pushed a surveillance program that would turn Atlanta into an “open air prison for everyone on electronic monitoring”. Their original plan was to test the program on a cohort of people that was 93% Black.

Before the action, an activist who goes by Stella sat down with ACPC to share why they decided to participate in the lockdown.

excited to share this short doc ‘A Day of Inconvenience’ that I directed with Atlanta Community Press Collective We were Tucson, AZ for a week covering the Nationwide Cop City Summit, spending the last day filming a non-violent direct action in the mountains targeting an executive of Nationwide

ACPC’s nolan is in the field with protesters as the presidential debate draws to a close.

Shot another piece for More Perfect Union this time about Delta baggage workers trying to start a new union!

Video series on direct action that nolan and I have been working on is a finalist at Institute for Nonprofit News Always happy to show up with a camera when folks are shutting things down 🫡

new vid with More Perfect Union

Trading forests for concrete: a parable on policing.

Happy birthday to Refaat. He turns 45 today. September 23, 1979-2024 If I Must Die, You Must Live, To Tell My Story.

The whole world needs to watch Atlanta

Two teams. One last game. Watch the official trailer for Carson Lund’s EEPHUS, “a sports film unlike any other” (Rolling Stone). Opening in select theaters March 7. ⚾️

Alma Bowman, who has lived in the US since she was 10 (she's almost 60 now) went to her ICE check-in, was told she needed to be fingerprinted, and instead was kidnapped and taken to Stewart Detention Center.

Second, the Bill sets the stage for massive privatized, for-profit concentration camps. It will quadruple the capacity of ICE to detain people--giving it capacity to detain, in for-profit arrangements where corporations make money per person/day, at least 100,000 more people.

Everyone I meet in the street swears they haven’t eaten in three days. They are starving—weak, weary, and forgotten. By Allah, we are witnessing a slow death—and silence is no longer an option.

Mahmoud Khalil is finally free 104 days after being abducted by ICE from his home in New York. The first thing he will do, he says, is “hug his wife and child,” whose birth he was forced to miss from behind bars.

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This is prominent Palestinian journalist Bayan Abusultan after miraculously survived an Israeli strike on a cafe that, with one of Gaza's last reliable wi-fi connections, is widely known as somewhere journalists gather to work. Early reports indicate 33 civilians were killed.

Sick and injured patients in the hospitals are also starving. chuffed.org/project/136892…. After being hit by shrapnel, or undergoing surgery, or suffering from illnesses, these cases have no nutritional support and no strength for their bodies to heal. As they are fighting hard to

New substack post! It starts with a clip from my documentary "Twenty" which features my friends Doran and Maggie discussing witnessing the murder of Rayshard Brooks in 2020. levomel.substack.com/p/they-shot-hi…