IN THE COURTS
On September 18, The judge in State of California v. United States Department of Agriculture issued a temporary restraining order to stop USDA from taking any further steps to demand SNAP recipient’s personal data or impose fiscal penalties on the 20 states and DC that are parties in the lawsuit. In addition, a CMS final rule, “Medicaid Eligibility Changes Under the Affordable Care Act of 2010; Giving States Freedom to Use Immigration Information to Determine State Residency for Medicaid Eligibility,” cleared OMB’s EO 12866 regulatory review.
L.A. petition alleges ‘ethnic cleansing’ by federal immigration agents, demands U.N. probe Rep. Maxine Waters and a group of U.S. citizens are petitioning the United Nations to investigate the Trump administration sweeps for potential human rights violations. Filed partly on behalf of four U.S. citizens, including a pregnant woman who was shackled and detained during one raid, the petition accuses federal agents of waging a campaign of ‘’ethnic cleansing against Latino minorities in the United States,” and calls on the U.N. Human Rights Council to appoint independent investigators to scrutinize “kidnapping arrests, prolonged detentions without due process of law and the brutal excessive use of force.”– The Los Angeles Times
Portland Is Taking Steps To Revoke an ICE Facility’s Land Use Permit City officials say they’ve uncovered 25 prolonged detentions in violation of its land use permit, which could provide an opening to shut down Oregon’s only ICE facility. – Next City
IN THE COMMUNITY
Community rallies in support of Massachusetts man taken by ICE, calls for his release Dozens of residents and elected officials in Malden, Massachusetts rallied Monday in support of Hernan Escobar, who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while on his way to work last week. “He’s going to feel so loved. So supported. He is so grateful, as I am, for all of you here,” Escobar’s wife Leslie Perera Gonzalez said at the rally. She said that her husband is a good man who does things for others and has been taking care of his ailing mother. – CBS News
‘Everyone is trying to figure out how to do their part’: East Somerville is keeping watch amid an ICE surge Residents of this self-described “sanctuary city” have been taking extraordinary steps to try to help their neighbors, repeatedly flocking to the streets to collect evidence. . . . “Our state and local institutions are not in a sufficient posture to protect our residents,” Scott said. “So community support is really the best way that we can keep each other safe.” – Boston Globe
INSPIRATION AND WAYS TO TAKE ACTION
Featured artist and activist Rosalia Torres-Weiner of Calaca Studios
Join MIRA on October 12 for HONKfest!
Join MIRA in Protecting Our Immigrant Communities!
HONK! ACTIVIST FESTIVAL
OCTOBER 12, 2025 1pm – 4pm
This free event unites brass bands from all over the world to Somerville for a celebration of music, community, and activism. Join us on Sunday Oct. 12th as we march from Davis Square to Harvard Square to advocate for immigrn=ants rights!
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FOR YOU
Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies and minds to work at an unrealistic, damaging, and machine-level pace — feeding into the same engine that enslaved millions into brutal labor for its own relentless benefit.
In Rest Is Resistance, Tricia Hersey, aka the Nap Bishop, casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us. Rest, in its simplest form, becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it asserts our most basic humanity. We are enough. The systems cannot have us.