Tag: Olly Costello

Continuing to Fight

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From Olly Costello, re-posted from social media (04.22.2025). Mohsen Mahdawi’s pre-trial hearing is this morning.

Friends, I know there is so much grief. So many people needing our attention and support. I am amplifying Mohsen’s story because he is a dear friend of some dear people in my life.

Mohsen is another Palestinian Columbia student, fighting for human rights who has been abducted by ICE. He has not been charged with any crime and the DoJ has not given a reason for his detention. His pretrial hearing is TOMORROW morning.

There are a few asks from his community for support that you can find on slide 3. If you can’t spare financial support, consider writing him a letter. Contact your congressional leaders and demand they take action on behalf of Mohsen and all our community members facing persecution for their status and advocacy. Please share his story and watch this incredible interview he did with CBS the day before his abduction.

I hope you will join me and so many others continuing to fight against the violence of detention, incarceration, state violence and growing fascism here and around the world.

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With These Commitments

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From the conclusion of Olly Costello’s opening note to their 2025 calendar. Every month is breath-taking. Order it here.

What must we do to build the power to finally topple these capitalist imperialist systems and end the cycles of violence we keep inheriting? To be honest, I don’t really know but I am determined to be a part of figuring it out. When I really think about where to go next, I know that the answers emerge out of our relationships. What we learn together, what we fight together, working through hard things together, what we are willing to build together…

So I’m gonna start here with these commitments: to rise up against mass death and refuse despair and abandonment, to educate myself and others about the critical connections between imperialism and capitalism, to practice love through resistance, to bring people into this work, to shape this rage inside of me into the fire that forges new bonds, and to ground in the knowing that “what we do in connection makes the world.”