“WE PROTECT US,” one of many slogans people turned to as they flooded the streets in the summer of 2020, reappeared this summer with new urgency: In Los Angeles, amid protests—call it community defense —against ICE, and in dispatches announcing four detainees’ escape from a Newark, New Jersey, immigration detention center. Like any good political slogan, it points toward a different way of living, without the threat of racist police violence, and without the threat of state-enforced