In These Times

Sudan’s war has destroyed homes, institutions and much of the country’s filmmaking infrastructure. But it has also compelled a generation of filmmakers to invent new ways of telling stories.

Working with phones, archival footage, remote interviews and volunteer labor, displaced Sudanese filmmakers are building a resistance cinema shaped by urgency, intimacy and memory.

“We’re not just documenting the war,” filmmaker Ibrahim Ahmad says. “We’re inventing new ways to remember what we’ve lost.”

New from Mohammed Ahmed Wad Al Sak:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/sudanese-filmmakers-areej-hussein-war-displacement-sudan

Families say ICE agents and GEO Group guards retaliated against hunger strikers at Delaney Hall in Newark with beatings and pepper spray. Detainees say blood was left on floors and walls.

Luis Feliz Leon reports the violence followed a hunger strike and work stoppage organized by detained immigrant workers demanding medical care, the release of vulnerable people and freedom for all.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-jersey-prison-immigrants-strike-ice-trump

“While poetry cannot materially save us, it can become a vessel through which one arrives at a clarity necessary for surviving all of this.”

George Abraham shares two poems from their forthcoming collection, "When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America." The poems move between the intimate and the political, tracing the ways grief, displacement and carcerality enter family life.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/intifada-the-poems-abraham-arab-apocalypse-america

“We are here, we are part of the process. We’ve been an afterthought, and that’s not the case anymore.”

That was how South Dakota state Sen. Troy Heinert described the growing power of Native voters and elected officials in this 2019 archive piece.

Last night, Deb Haaland won the Democratic nomination for governor of New Mexico. If elected in November, she would become the first Native American woman to serve as a governor in U.S. history.

Stephanie Woodard on the movement that helped make this moment possible:

https://inthesetimes.com/features/native-american-voters-government-political-revolution.html

In Minnesota this winter, unions of janitors, teachers, healthcare workers and others joined faith communities, immigrant rights groups, small businesses and neighbors in organizing opposition to ICE operations.

Stephen Lerner and Joseph A. McCartin examine what labor movements in the United States and other countries have learned from periods of political crisis, and what those lessons could mean for unions today.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/resisting-trumpism-revive-labor-movement-protestors-strike-democracy

First came a $2 billion mega-jail proposal. Then came a “special purpose facility” with 1,800 beds.

Behind the proposals was a familiar process: hire jail-construction consultants, frame the problem as a lack of capacity and ask how many new beds should be built.

But Fulton County organizers have spent years challenging that premise. They point to overcrowding driven by case backlogs, restrictive bail amounts, arrests for minor offenses and mismanagement, not a shortage of cages.

October Krausch, Priscilla Grim and Micah Herskind report on the fight to stop another jail from being treated as the only possible answer.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/no-new-beds-organizers-resist-another-fulton-county-jail

Nine activists were convicted in the federal Prairieland case on charges ranging from material support for terrorism to attempted murder. The case centered around a noise demonstration on July 4, 2025, in which roughly a dozen activists set off fireworks outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, about a 45-minute drive south of Dallas.

Now, newly obtained FBI records raise major questions about the prosecution’s theory of the case—and whether evidence that could have helped the defense was withheld.

Adam Federman reports on what the FBI files show, why attorneys say they matter, and what the case could mean for protesters, organizers and the broader Left.

Copublished with Type Investigations

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“Solidarity is power.”

That’s how 32BJ SEIU member Justin Lashley-Maloney described May Day this year, after winning a contract and joining immigrant workers in the streets to protest ICE abuse.

Miles Kampf-Lassin looks at May Day as both a commemoration and a challenge: a reminder that the fight for worker power has always been tied to the fight for democracy, freedom and control over our own lives.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/may-day-labor-power-justice-freedom

Abortion bans, maternity ward closures, limits on therapy services and gaps in child care are often discussed as separate problems.

Regina Mahone argues that they are deeply connected. A reproductive justice framework asks what people need not only to decide whether to have children, but also to raise their children safely and with dignity.

Under a federal Republican trifecta, she writes, reproductive justice and disability justice movements must organize together.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/reproductive-rights-disability-justice-intersectionality-trump