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Press On is a Southern media collective that catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of #movementjournalism. | presson.media

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I also LOVE how @pressonsouth.bsky.social's Freedomways fellows approached audience engagement in deeply creative ways. For example, Eden created a zine about Black birth workers in the South. She's also hosting a community panel with birth workers who appeared in her story. We truly love to see it.

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From Louisiana, Edith Romero Velasquez reported this story, published on Monday by @prismreports.org, about the treatment of pregnant people in ICE custody. In her story, Edith also dives into how U.S. immigration law was shaped by eugenics.

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Next up is this piece from Mo Viviane about how anti-trans bills coalesce with the Trump administration's Big Beautiful Bill to decimate healthcare for trans people in Kentucky, including those who are incarcerated:

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As movement journalists, we can’t and won’t forget the more than 260 journalists killed during the genocide being carried out by Israel in Gaza. Bear witness to their stories by visiting “THE LIVING RECORD,” an oral archive by Writers Against the War on Gaza, at bit.ly/livingrecord.

A graphic with a keffiyeh pattern that says, “THE LIVING RECORD. Gaza’s journalists remember their martyred colleagues. Published by The New York War Crimes, a project of Writers Against the War on Gaza. bit.ly/livingrecord.”
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This is Carlos and Daysi. Their primary motivating factor for going public with their story is the hope that what happened to Carlos will not happen to other workers. [Photo by Kaoly Gutierrez]

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NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.

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This Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month, we remember Ruben Salazar (1928-1970), a Mexican American movement journalism ancestor. He was one of the first journalists to shine a light on the oppression of Chicanos & Mexican Americans and boldly pushed back against the myth of objectivity. 🎨: Billy Dee

Black and white linocut illustration of Ruben Salazar on the phone with a paper in his hand alongside his quote, “Newsroom objectivity may result in an absence of truth.”
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There’s been an increase in deportations of Marshallese people from northwest Arkansas, and the org Chikin Melele is making sure this crisis doesn’t go uncovered. Our Southern Movement Media Fund recently awarded a grant to Chikin Melele to continue amplifying this critical issue.

A picture of Chikin Melele’s logo. A circular emblem in shades of blue, gold, and white. At its center, a rooster, hen, and two chicks stand on a sandy beach between coconut palm trees, with a stylized Pacific-centered world map clearly marking the Marshall Islands, colored with the Marshallese flag, including the flag’s 24-point star and orange and white diagonal stripes. The name CHIKIN MELELE appears prominently in gold lettering, with “Marshallese Information and News” below. Across the top is the Marshallese phrase, Bwe Enkab Ellowetak Kōn Aejemjem in Naan Ko Ad, which means, “To inspire action through the power of our words.”Headshot photos of Melanie and Michael. Melanie’s photo shows a woman with long dark hair and pink tortoise shell glasses smiling at the camera. She is a mixed-race Chinese and white woman wearing a navy blue blouse patterned with colorful butterflies, photographed against a softly blurred beige background. Michael's photo shows a brown man with dark hair pulled back, a trimmed beard and mustache, and small hoop earrings, smiling at the camera. He is wearing a blue polo shirt and a handcrafted coconut shell bead necklace, standing in front of a softly blurred indoor background.Headshot photos of Olivia and Thomas. Olivia’s photo is a black and white portrait of a white woman with shoulder-length hair, looking into the camera with a slight smile. Thomas's photo shows a brown man wearing a tan knit beanie and a black button-up shirt with a pattern of large gold and white varied stars, looking directly at the camera. He is standing in front of a backdrop featuring Chikin Melele’s logo.
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Soon, @pressonsouth.bsky.social's fellows will publish stories about eugenics in the U.S. immigration system, the use of surveillance tech by law enforcement in TN, how doulas are filling healthcare gaps for women in the South, and much more! I'll update this thread when those stories are live.

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As our beloved @pressonsouth.bsky.social fellows begin to publish their work, I thought I'd share some of their excellent reporting here in a thread, starting with this story from G. Samantha Rosenthal about North Carolina being the center of anti-Zionist organizing in the South:

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