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Category Archives: Section
Winter Issue Front Cover
Posted in Front Cover, ICE, Immigrants, Police brutality, Section
Tagged front cover, ICE, Immigrants, police brutality
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Chicago ICE Raids: Self-Determination for All Subjugated Internal Nations
In October of 2025 Julio Cucul-Bol, a Guatemalan citizen, was sentenced to 30 years in Illinois prisons for the fatal hit-and-run accident which claimed the lives of two white women here in Urbana. In September of 2025 the Department of … Continue reading
Posted in Chicago, ICE, Immigrants, Police, Police brutality, Policing, Section, White Nationalism
Tagged Chicago, Department of Homeland Security, federal repression, ICE, Immigrants, police brutality, white nationalism
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Second Invasion of Chicago Spurs Resistance
For more than three months, the Chicagoland area has been under invasion by an outside armed force. At a cost estimated between $70 and $100 million, Trump has ordered an occupation of the city by federal agents, most of them … Continue reading
Posted in Chicago, ICE, Immigrants, Police, Police brutality, Policing, Section
Tagged Chicago, Department of Homeland Security, federal repression, ICE, police brutality
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The Real Dividing Line in America: Class Power
On Wednesday, January 7, a white US citizen named Nicole Renée Good was driving near her home in Minneapolis when a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed her. Renée, as she was known to her family and … Continue reading
Posted in African American history, ICE, Immigrants, labor history, Labor militancy, Labor/Economics, Racism, Section, union soldarity
Tagged Bacon's Rebellion, class power, economic racism, ICE, labor solidarity, police brutality, Racial oppression, working-class issues
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Resistance in a Red State: Jail Support for Immigrants Held in Missouri
Author’s note: If local immigrants are picked up by ICE in the Urbana-Champaign area, they will likely be cycled through at least one of three major detention centers in Missouri. I spoke with activists doing solidarity work in Missouri jails … Continue reading
Posted in ICE, Immigrants, Immigration, incarceration, Racism, Refugees, Section
Tagged community resistance, ICE, Immigrants, jail conditions, Missouri, solidarity
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The Venezuela Raid: Venture Capitalism in a Gunboat
Kidnapping the president of Venezuela was a showy move, to be sure. Having already attacked boats in nearby international waters and positioned dozens of naval vessels in the region, on January 3 the US deployed 150 aircraft from bases across … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Imperialism, International, International, International law, Latin America, Section, Social Media, Trump, Venezuela, War, World-wide death and suffering
Tagged social media, transactional world view, Trump, US foreign policy, US imperialism, Venezuela, war
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UCIMC Statement on ICE Violence
The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center condemns the extralegal surveillance, harassment, and violence waged by ICE against the people residing in the United States. We call for the abolishment of ICE and the prosecution of all ICE personnel who have participated … Continue reading
Posted in ICE, Immigrants, Section, UC-IMC, UCIMC
Tagged federal repression, ICE, Immigrants, UCIMC
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Winter Issue Back Cover
Friday Forum + Conversation Café Spring 2026 Series Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Spring 2026 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from community leaders tackling our most pressing public concerns through an … Continue reading
Posted in Back Cover, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tagged back cover, UIUC, University YMCA
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December Issue Front Cover
Posted in Front Cover, Israel, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Section, War
Tagged front cover, Gaza War, Israel, Palestinian rights
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Not Every Israeli, but All of Israel
It’s been nearly four weeks since the start of “not a ceasefire” in Gaza. This “ceasefire,” like every previous one, means that Palestinians cease while Israel continues to fire, albeit at a slower pace—one more palatable to world leaders. Since … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, International, Israel, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Palestinians, Section, Voices, War
Tagged Gaza, Israel, Netanyahu, Palestinian rights, war, West Bank
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Friendship during Genocide: Former Marine and Palestinian Mother in Gaza Claim Each Other as Family
This is part one of a two-part article on friendship and solidarity during Israel’s war against Palestinians in Gaza. Ear-to-ear smiles form on all three women’s faces when Asma appears on Zoom from 6,000 miles away in Khan Younis in … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Gaza, International, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Palestinians, Section, Voices, War, Women
Tagged Gaza, Gaza War, Middle East, protest, solidarity, US foreign policy
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Labor Exploitation, Exclusion, and Racial Terrorism, 1874–1924
This article is adapted from Dr. Cha-Jua’s address “Stolen Labor, and Hindered Opportunity,” presented at the African Descent–Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC) public meeting on October 4 at the Krannert Center in Urbana. All of the presentations from that gathering are … Continue reading
Posted in African American history, African Americans, African Americans, labor, labor history, Labor/Economics, Racism, Reparations, Section, Violence, Voices, Voices of Color
Tagged African American, African American history, exploitation, Labor, nadir, racial terrorism, racism, reparations
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UCIMC’s 25th Anniversary
Twenty-five years ago, Indymedia was born out of anti–World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999. Using democratic media, volunteer journalists broadcast the voices from the global justice movement to millions of people around the globe. Out of that realization … Continue reading
You Need to Listen to the Radio
I recently quit using Spotify when I learned that its former CEO, Daniel Ek, had major investments in AI weapons manufacturing. As if I needed another reason, I later learned that the company had been streaming ICE recruitment ads. If … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Local Arts, Local Resources, Section, UC-IMC, UCIMC
Tagged community radio, local arts, UCIMC, WRFU
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Don’t Ask Me to Mourn Kirk: White Grief, Black Truth
Charlie Kirk is dead. For some, that sentence alone stirs discomfort, because you’ve already been trained to mourn. But not all deaths are tragic. Sometimes people live in such a way that when they die, the earth exhales. Kirk was … Continue reading
Posted in African American history, African Americans, African Americans, Alt-Right, Politics, Politics, Racism, Section, Voices
Tagged African Americans, alt-Right, Black church, Charlie Kirk, political hypocrisy, racism
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The Venezuelan Crisis: Product Placement for the Wars at Home
Trump notified the world of his intended campaign against “narco-terrorist cartels” on Inauguration Day, but the reality of this summer’s naval buildup and military strikes in the Caribbean still took Americans by surprise. Analysts have been working overtime to decipher … Continue reading
Posted in Drug policy, Foreign Policy, ICE, Immigrants, Imperialism, International, Latin America, military, Section, Venezuela, War
Tagged Immigrants, US foreign policy, US imperialism, US militarism, Venezuela, War on Drugs, War on Terror
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Mamdani’s Masterclass: The Winning Path for Democrats
New York did it. Its people elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor of America’s largest city. The 34-year-old democratic socialist, immigrant from Uganda, and two-term state assemblyman not only put the disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo and his political machine into … Continue reading
December Issue Back Cover
Posted in Back Cover, IMC, Section, UCIMC
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October Issue Front Cover
The Human Cost of the War on Gaza Ms Rachel, a YouTube preschool educator, has suffered online and offline harassment for bringing attention to children suffering in the Israeli War on Gaza. She is shown here with Rahaf, a three-year-old … Continue reading
Posted in children, Front Cover, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Music, Section
Tagged children, front cover, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Ms. Rachel
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Co-Conspirators: American and Israeli Bombs Drop on Iran
On June 21, 2025, “pro-peace” President Donald Trump announced to the world that the United States had (illegally) bombed Iran. After decades of bloodlust, Israel had finally gotten the war in Iran that it desperately craved. Israeli prime minister and … Continue reading
Posted in Imperialism, International, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Nuclear Power, Nuclear War, Section, World-wide death and suffering
Tagged bombing, Iran, Israel, nuclear power, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, US foreign policy
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