{"id":288973,"date":"2021-09-21T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T21:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/?post_type=to4_author_post&#038;p=288973"},"modified":"2024-11-08T13:31:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T18:31:51","slug":"silky-shah","status":"publish","type":"to4_author_post","link":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/authors\/silky-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Silky Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Silky Shah is the executive director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power to abolish immigration detention in the U.S. She is also the author of the recently published book, <em>Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition<\/em> (Haymarket Books, 2024). She has worked as an organizer on issues related to immigration detention, the prison-industrial complex, and racial and migrant justice for over 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silky Shah is the executive director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power to abolish immigration detention in the U.S. She is also the author of the recently published book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024). She has worked as an organizer on issues related to immigration detention, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/authors\/silky-shah\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":323041,"template":"","tags":[],"admin_tag":[],"class_list":["post-288973","to4_author_post","type-to4_author_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/to4_author_post\/288973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/to4_author_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/to4_author_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288973"},{"taxonomy":"admin_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/admin_tag?post=288973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}