NWDC Resistance News
Week 4 of Hunger Strike September 2018
Join us 6/26 to support Maru's Court Hearing and to put ICE on Trial!
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At the end of December, immigrant activist Maru Mora Villalpando received a letter from ICE calling for her deportation as retaliation for her work against detentions and deportations. Her last court was postponed for Tuesday June 26th. Maru will go before an immigration judge for the second hearing in her deportation case. Typically, people have three hearings before they are issued an order of removal or are detained.
Maru is a fierce and tireless truth-speaker who has put her life on the line in the fight to end detention and deportation. She is clearly being targeted for her powerful activism, and she intends to continue fighting.
We are asking you to be there with Maru outside the immigration court building before and during the hearing. Please bring your signs ("Defend the Defender", "ICE Hands Off Maru” "Chinga la Migra" "Abolish ICE") and your friends.
Come early at 12:30 to hear from Maru before she goes inside. Starting at 1:00, a tribunal against ICE will take place outside the building while we wait for Maru to emerge and update us on what happens in court. "As ICE takes me to court, I'm taking them to the People's tribunal in our community"
Please share and RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/242338639681878/
A fines de diciembre, la activista e inmigrante Maru Mora Villalpando recibió una carta de ICE empezando un proceso de deportación en su contra como represalia por su trabajo contra las detenciones y deportaciones. Su última corte fue pospuesta para el martes 26 de junio. Maru se presentará ante un juez de inmigración para la segunda audiencia en su caso de deportación. Por lo general, las personas tienen tres audiencias antes de que se les expida una orden de deportación.
Maru es una guerrera e incansable oradora de la verdad que ha arriesgado su vida en la lucha para terminar con la detención y la deportación. Claramente está siendo atacada por su poderoso activismo, y tiene la intención de seguir luchando.
Le pedimos que esté allí con Maru afuera del edificio de la corte de inmigración antes y durante la audiencia. Por favor traiga sus letreros ("Defendemos a la Defensora", "ICE No te metas con Maru" "Chinga la Migra" "Abolir a ICE") y a sus amigxs.
Venga temprano a las 12:30pm para escuchar a Maru antes de que ella entre a corte. A partir de la 1:00pm, un tribunal contra el ICE se llevará a cabo afuera del edificio mientras esperamos que Maru salga y nos actualice sobre lo que sucede en la corte. "Cuando ICE me lleva a corte, también los llevaré a ellos al tribunal del pueblo de nuestra comunidad"
-NWDC Resistance
P.S.
Did you follow our recent actions with the Mijente #ChingaLaMigra tour? We blocked the roads outside the ICE building downtown Seattle bringing attention to theepicenter of deportations in Washington State.
If you haven't already, sign the petition to demand Martin Selig Real Estate stop renting office space to Trump's deportation forces!
#ChingaLaMigra Kicks Off Tour in Seattle!
June 5th // Activists Lock Down Outside Downtown Seattle ICE Offices
For more related press, visit our Press page.
Watch the #ChingaLaMigra kick off episode of Seattle here!
Activists with Northwest Detention Center Resistance and Mijente locked down outside of 1000 2nd Avenue in downtown Seattle, Washington, calling attention to the building’s role as Washington State’s deportation epicenter. The building, owned by billionaire developer Martin Selig, houses regional offices for ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and Office of Chief Counsel, regional offices for Customs and Border Protection, and the Department of Justice-controlled Seattle Immigration Court. Sign the petition to demand Martin Selig Real Estate stop renting office space to Trump's deportation forces!
The lockdown is part of the launch of the “Chinga La Migra” organizing tour to tell the story of what the deportation crisis under President Trump looks like in real time, and amplify the efforts and stories of resistance.
“Chinga la Migra is a battle cry. We think it's time to stop waiting for Trump to tweet and start exposing the real trends inside of his Enforcement-first Administration.”- Marisa Franco, Executive Director of Mijente
Immigrant activists Maru Mora Villalpando of Northwest Detention Center Resistance herself faces deportation in the Immigration Court housed at 1000 2nd Avenue due to her anti-ICE activism. ICE received Mora Villalpando’s information directly from the Washington Department of Licensing. She stated, “This building serves as the epicenter for the deportation pipeline in Washington State. Seattle presents itself as a sanctuary city, while several floors of this downtown building house the offices of the very people tearing our communities apart. Trump's cops have no place in our city, and we want them gone. From 1000 2nd Avenue in Seattle to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, we say, ICE out of Washington State.” Protesters are demanding that Martin Selig Real Estate stop renting office space to Trump’s deportation forces.
The June 5th shutdown action follows the previous night’s sundown noise and light demonstration at the now infamous Northwest Detention Center that drew attention to the unrelenting struggle against detention in Washington state under the leadership of those detained. With over a dozen hunger strikes in the past three years and increasing retaliation by ICE and GEO Group (who jointly run the facility) against people detained, the resistance has nevertheless continued. Washington State is only the first stop in the national Chinga la Migra tour, which heads from here to Chicago, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Mora-Villalpando concluded, “More than ever, it’s important for us to stand against an agency that has become Trump’s police force. Until this detention center shuts down, until deportations end, and until ICE is abolished, our work will continue.”
#ChingaLaMigra
Meet Some of the Folks Who Locked Down & Why
"I'm choosing to risk arrest today because my savta came to this country to escape the holocaust in Poland, leaving everything behind to do what she needed to do for her family. I'm out here today because her lineage lives in me, and I know that migration is beautiful. I honor my family's story of genocide and resilience and struggle here - by standing against ICE, and on the side of freedom, dignity, and home for all people. I will not forget how I got here, and that means putting my body on the line. Enough deportation, enough ripping families apart, enough of our silence." - EvaRose
"I'm here to protest a police force with the most funding and no oversight known as ICE. ICE is Trump's personal police force carrying to a racism-first agenda. I'm saying no more." - Noel
"I’m standing with NWDC Resistance and other immigrants rights groups in WA and nationally to respond to the call to ‘Chinga la Migra’. The city of Seattle and the state of Washington have facilitated ICE in terrorizing and persecuting my community members with impunity. We must stand together in compassion to support and love all members of our community, especially undocumented immigrants and refugees targeted by the state. As a nation we must reckon with our years-long complicity in allowing lawless, white supremacist federal agencies to harass and terrorize the immigrant and refugee community." - Max
"Today, I am locking down because as a Seattle resident who is opposed to Trump’s agenda, I know that our city and state can’t claim to be a place of sanctuary until we kick out ICE altogether. I want our leaders and politicians to take a bold stand in support of human dignity — and against the terrorism that ICE enacts on migrant communities." - Kelsen
"I am risking arrest as a Jew. My family is alive today because of immigration and therefore I cannot in good conscious be docile while a secretive police force targets and rounds up our neighbors. This is an immoral system and industry that is fueled by fear and profits from the destruction of families and lives. Let's be courageous and abolish ICE." - Ross
"I'm participating today because it's past time to abolish ICE, an out-of-control deportation force that upholds racist laws, terrorizes families and keeps nobody safe. I believe in a world where every person has the right to migrate as well as the freedom to stay and build a dignified life in their community. ICE lawyers and investigators, immigration courts, and Border Patrol have no place in this world and no place in our community." - Helena
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Justice for Mele
Sign our petition to stop Mele’s deportation! Undocumented loved one and father of three young children Melesio Morales Mata was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this week after his lawyer presented a stay of removal at his monthly check-in with ICE. Activists Across Walls! Join Us for a Week of Hunger Strikes
Join us for a week of hunger strike solidarity by observing a one day hunger strike anytime today, Monday February 12 to Sunday February 18.
For one week we will do a rolling hunger strike in solidarity with the hunger strike and work stoppage currently happening in the Northwest Detention Center as well as the harsh retaliation they are receiving from Geo. We invite you, whether individually or with an organization, to join us by choosing one day of the week (or more) and going on hunger strike. We are doing this to honor the current hunger strikers’ demands inside, and to demand an end to detention and an end to deportation.
Activists who speak out against ICE and the deportation machine are targeted by the state, whether inside the detention center or outside. When people detained at NWDC go on hunger strike to demand better conditions inside and an end to deportations, GEO Group retaliates with isolation, threats of force feeding, physical and emotional abuse, and more. When people on the outside demand freedom of movement for all and take actions in line with those demands, the state spies on us, our families, deports us, arrests us, intimidates us. But we are not alone. Inside or out, we will continue to work towards a world with no detention and no deportations. We will continue to work towards a world where freedom of movement is granted for all people.
Join us and pick a day between February 12 and February 18 to strike in solidarity with the activists detained at NWDC.
1 - Email us at resistenciasolidarity (at) gmail.com and tell us what day.
2 - Take a picture of yourself, or your organization, with the signs attached (or make your own) and post them to your social media! Tag us!
3 - Write a message or letter of support to the strikers inside. We will send them the messages and photos.
4 - Download our most recent People’s Tribunal findings and use them as talking points to chat with people around why you’re on hunger strike.
Messaging for signs:
Activists Across Walls
Week of Hunger Strikes
#WeAreNotAlone
#TacomaStrike #YouCantDeportAMovement #HungerStrikersVsICE #MaruVsICE #DetentionStrike #EndDetentionEndDeportation
February 2018 Breaking Hunger Strike & Third Annual People's Tribunal Report
#MaruVersusICE
Hunger Strikes: A Call to End Immigrant Detention
Watch our newest 11 minute documentary!
Hunger Strikes: A Call to End Immigrant Detention from Resistencia NW on Vimeo.
September 4th: A Dozen Continue on Hunger Strike in NWDC. Cuban Asylum Seekers Face Force Feeding and Solitary Confinement
Support Camp Zapata!
Farmworkers strike after the death of a fellow worker in Sumas, WA.
Fourth Hunger Strike of 2017 Happening Now!
Two Upcoming Events:
July 20 - Justice for Cynthia
July 23 - Hunger Striker Documentary Release
Support the Hunger Strikers! June 20 Call To Action!
Maru Joins the Tacoma 12 & Adelanto 9 in Calling for an End to Human Rights Abuses in Immigrant Detention
April 2017 Hunger Strike Call to Action!
2. Call ICE and demand that they meet the Hunger Strikers' Demands (see below) and that GEO Group not retaliate against hunger strikers. We have reports that strikers have been threatened with transfer to facilities away from their loved ones as punishment.
Acting Field Director, Bryan S. Willcox
Assistance Field Director (Detention): William Penaloza
Facility Main Telephone: (253) 779.6000
Field Office Main Telephone Line: (206) 835.0650
Hunger Striker’s Demands
▪ Change the food menu
▪ Lower commissary prices.
▪ Improve hygiene, including the ability to wash clothes with soap and water.
▪ Increase recreation time.
▪ Have schoolwork and other programs available to keep detainees occupied.
▪ Improve medical attention.
▪ Increase wages for working detainees.
▪ Help speed up the legal process for detainees.
Other hunger strike updates 4/14/17: Seventy Detained Women Join Protest as Hunger Strike Enters Fifth Day. Download the press release on our press page here. Follow our social media for updates.
April 12th Update: 750+ Immigrants on Hunger Strike at the Northwest Detention Center
Prince and Jonathan, two of over 700 hunger strikers being held inside the Northwest Detention Center. Listen to Jonathan explain why he's on hunger strike.
Visit our press page here. Follow our social media for updates.
Breaking News: 100+ Immigrants Start Hunger Strike at the Northwest Detention Center
Download the press release here. Follow our social media for updates.
Download the Hunger Strikers Handbook Now!
The Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, WA is one of the largest immigration prisons in the country, with the capacity to hold up to 1,575 people. On Friday, March 7, 2014, over one thousand people held in the NWDC fought back against an unjust system by putting their bodies on the line: a hunger strike. The strike continued for 56 days and spread to other detention centers across the USA. This year, on the third anniversary of their action, we reflect on their achievements and make an abolitionist call to stop locking people up and end all deportations. Learn more and download the Hunger Strikers Handbook.
Feb 26, 2017 Second People's Tribunal against the Immigration System and the Northwest Detention Center
On February 26th, 2017 we gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center to hold a hearing pertaining to the detention and deportation process, conditions of the detention center, and treatment of detainees. Download the hearing findings here.
Time to Rise
Darker times are coming. As undocumented immigrants and co-conspirers we are committed to continue fighting for justice and ending detentions and deportations. And we will continue to offer our hands to all other communities that will be targeted.
This election was won by first attacking immigrants of color and giving permission to all the bigots to use us as a punching bag for their frustrations against the establishment. Then other communities were lined up for the punching.
But all those punches and promises from the now-winner of the presidential election have already been happening to most of us. The difference is that now it will happen to the rest of the country. This moment calls for a ramping up in organizing towards an end to all deportations and detention, and collective liberation for all of us. This moment, we must unite forces and work together.
We are the experts alongside many other communities of color in surviving. We are the experts in protecting each other. We are the experts and have organized for a long time. We are willing to share our knowledge of wining and resisting. We need each other. We need to fight together.
Will you join us?
Will you protect us as we will protect you?
Will you be there for us when they come to get us and try to deport us?
Will you organize with us?
Will you?
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Join Us Oct 29th: Dia de los Muertos @ NWDC
Dia de los muertos is a cultural and spiritual celebration that brings together souls of our departure ones and the importance of having a quality of life for those celebrating this important Mexican festivity.
NWDC Resistance and partners invite you to celebrate with us and to call for an end to detentions and deportations, without forgetting the thousands of people still detained and separated from their loved one in detention centers throughout the nation.
At NWDC Tacoma, we call for this place to shut down and be replaced with a community space that commemorates life not incarceration.
As DHS, under outside pressures, holds a small group of people to write a “review” of the private detention centers they use to incarcerate people awaiting for a result on their deportation process, we ask you to join us and listen to the voices of those detained, the voices that DHS refuses to listen to while making any decisions about their lives.
Join us for a weekend of learning, sharing and working towards liberation of our communities of color.
There will be different events and activities happening with the help of members of the Tacoma community and beyond.
We remind our allies that this event will create a space of respect and intentantionally stopping any cultural appropriation from happening.
We also ask that everyone that attends participate fully and engage with us respectfully.
People in detention are waiting for us to take action, not only to observe without taking their call seriously.
A detailed agenda will be shared later on, keep an eye on the event page.
Solidarity with Standing Rock #NoDAPL
Read our solidarity statement with the people of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and others who oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline and work for the future of our land and people. Our liberation are connected.
ICE-Free Zone Flyers
Check out our ICE Free Zone Flyers, download them on our Press page.
Happy #MamasDay from the NWDC Resistance
As we celebrate Mother's Day, we reflect on the US immigration policy that separates mothers from their families. We want to see an end to deportations and an end to detention. We want to see our families together and thriving. So NWDC Resistance teamed up with CultureStrike, Presente.org, Forward Together,and Strong Families to deliver Mamas Day Cards to Mamas inside the Northwest Detention Center.
The Mamas Day Project started in 2011 to create cards that reflect the various ways our mamas and families look, including a spectrum of gender, race, income, sexual orientation, immigration status, and more. This year NWDCR teamed up with the Mamas Day Project and took those cards in to the Northwest Detention Center and delivered to Mamas inside.
For more on Mamas Day, click here
DUMP TRUMP, Lynden Washington Style.
On Saturday May 7th, 2016 we participated in a blockade on a hot road in Lynden, Washington that lead to a Donald Trump rally. Over a dozen Latinx, Native American, and white Washington residents risked arrest blocking traffic to two main roads in Lynden, Washington during a Donald Trump Rally with “Make Lynden Coast Salish Again” banners.
"As someone who has grown up in Washington, today I am putting my body on the line to stop fascism from taking over our country. Today I am fighting for my mom, for my Native American neighbors and friends, and anyone who has been the target of hatred whether it comes from Trump or the local police. The residents of Lynden today have a chance to stand with us and reject hate,” said Josefina Mora, 18, one of the participant’s of today’s action.."
Call to Action: Justice for Angel Padilla!
Angel Padilla is being detained at the NWDC without access to the healthcare his life depends on. Desperately in need of a major surgery for a cancerous tumor in his left kidney, Padilla waits in an immigration detention center that does not and will not provide adequate health care. Take action now and demand that Angel Padilla is released immediately, that he be given full access to medical files, and that his deportation be stopped altogether.
Padilla is one of 1,500+ detainees in the Northwest Detention Center exposed to human rights violations on a daily basis. Many who are detained not only have health care needs that are not met, but are often put in solitary confinement instead of being provided with adequate health care. This needs to stop!
Learn more about his story here:
http://www.thestranger.com/news/feature/2016/02/24/23614331/fighting-cancer-and-deportation-at-the-same-time
Take Action Now!
1) Call the Seattle ICE Field Office Director Nathalie Asher: (206) 835-0058
Suggested script: “Hello, I’m calling about the detention of Mr. Padilla (A 092 721 003), a 39-year-old man currently detained at the Northwest Detention Center. In December 2015, a CAT scan detected a cancerous tumor in his left kidney. Mr. Padilla’s health is deteriorating in detention and on February 19 he was rushed to the hospital after collapsing in his cell. I’m aware Mr. Padilla has a conviction from 1996, but I also know he has taken the steps to atone for his actions. I urge you to use prosecutorial discretion and release Mr. Padilla from immigration detention, so he can receive the medical attention he needs to survive.”
2) Sign the petition and demand: Justice for Angel! Click here to sign the petition and join NWDC Resistance and the #Not1More Campaign in sending a message to ICE officials.
People's Tribunal Against the Tacoma Immigration Prison aka Northwest Detention Center 2/6/2016 at the NWDC
for more information: www.facebook.com/events/453250351547234/
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#SHUTDOWNICE ACTION 9/21/2015 at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington
For press about this action visit our Press page.
Diverse coalition of activists risk arrest to stop immigrant deportations, call for immediate end to detentions. Community members lock down for what has become a global human rights issue
September 21, 2015, at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, more than 20 community members locked down to prevent the morning's deportation buses from leaving the privately run facilities.
The goal was not only to prevent the day's immigrant deportations, but also to protest the criminalization and scapegoating of immigrants, highlight the moral injustice of privately-run for-profit detention centers and their collaboration with the local police departments creating a road to detention, and call for an end to all immigrant deportations and detentions.
Banners spread next to protesters read "Climate Justice means Ending Deportations" "Queers Demand and End to Detention" and "Not1More", speaking to how immigration is an environmental issue and issue of gender justice.
"Climate change is resulting in worsening drought and super-storm conditions which displace millions across the globe. These climate refugees will number 200 million by 2050. World leaders and communities across the U.S. need to end these unjust deportations and commit to policies that stop climate change." said Jill Mangaliman, one of the protesters locked down today and executive director of Got Green.
Members of TWAC (Trans and/or Women Action Camp) carried signs protesting ICE's controversial practice of placing transgender detainees in solitary confinement. While transgender women only make up 1 out of 500 detained immigrants in this country, they make up an alarming 1 out of every 5 confirmed sexual assaults in immigration detention.
Participants of the day's blockade, which included Rising Tide Seattle, the Raging Grannies, and other groups fighting for climate justice, economic justice, reproductive justice, worker rights, and more, vow to keep returning to the detention center for future actions as long as unjust detentions and deportations continue.
Watch clips here! http://notonemoredeportation.com/2015/09/21/Tacoma
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Meet Some of the Folks Who Locked Down & Why
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“I’m here to end deportations because I want a world where families can stay together and people be treated humanely . I have family and friends impacted by this unhealthy, violent system of detaining and disposing of communities in the name of profits. Then from super typhoon Haiyan to Hurricane Katrina, to the wildfires and drought here and around the world, people of color are bearing the brunt of environmental racism and displacement from their homes. I want to see justice for all the migrants who have been forced to migrate because of the damage to their homelands caused by this destructive economy. Privatization, market-based solutions are false solutions! Climate justice means ending deportations and detentions.” – Jill Mangaliman |
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“As a queer Xicano of Mexican diaspora and a child of an immigrant, I feel personally connected to the importance of stopping and ending detentions. Stopping detentions is queer and gender justice because there are so many trans and queer people who are detained who experience transphobic and homophobic targeting within the system and who aren't getting proper/gender affirming care. No one should be detained and no one is illegal.” - Yecelica Valdiva |
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“I’m participating in this action for my mom who is undocumented, and for all the children of undocumented parents that are separated from their families because of this unjust system. “ -Josefina Mora |
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“I decided to do another direct action to stop detentions and deportation with the possibility of risking arrest and deportation because I believe the federal and local authorities continue cooperating to criminalize our communities of color.While we are here outside organizing to bring light to this violation of human rights, this private prison is at capacity, thousands of people are there waiting to be deported, separated from their loved ones, living infra-humane conditions just so Geo corporation can make more profits and ICE meets their daily quota.We have to end this corruption and it has to end now!” - Maru Mora Vilalpando |
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"I am participating in this action because I want to support the movement to end deportations. We don't need borders or prisons. Our action is one small part of a dynamic, growing movement to stop the violence of immigration enforcement." - Dean Spade |
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"I am doing this work because we need to understand why people migrate in the first place. Everything is connected. Everything. Environmental justice is connected to food justice is connected to reproductive justice, racial justice, gender justice is connected to immigrant rights. " - Elizabeth Ortega |
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"I am risking arrest as a Jew, whose family has survived the horrors of being targets of the state. I am alive today because of immigration, and therefore I cannot in good conscious be idle while this country, and corporations like Geo Group, profit from the targeting, detention, and deportation of people in our community." - Ross Kirshenbaum |
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"I'm participating in the Deportation Resistance because my identity grants me the privilege to avoid being targeted for an ignorant kind of xenophobia that is maintained by hatred." - Emanuel da Silva |
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"I am very concerned with how we are treating immigrants in this country and am here to bring attention to the plight of those who are being separated from their families. My grandparents came to this country from Eastern Europe without documents and were treated well. I am ashamed that this is happening in my country." - Cynthia Linet |
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"We are engaging in a powerful action against a violent system - it is the same government that is responsible for displacing communities around the world (via economic and military policy) and then criminalizing them when entering U.S. borders. And as a white citizen committed to racial justice, I'm hopeful my participation in this action will inspire more white people to join the multiracial, undocumented-led movement for migrant justice." - Sean O'Neill |
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“I am participating in this demonstration and risking arrest to demand an end to immigrant detention and deportations. No one is illegal and no one should be criminalized for migrating. I'm showing up to call for justice and to honor the dignity of everyone impacted by our cruel immigration system.” - Jenny McIntosh |
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“I’m here in solidarity with the Northwest Detention Center because deportation is part of a larger system of oppression built to remove valuable lives of color from the community. Deportation is racist. Drop the borders.” – Max Black |
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“I’m here with Twac (Trans and/or Women Action Camp) locking down in solidarity with the Northwest Detention Center Resistance. I’m here in solidarity with the movement to abolish detention centers and end deportations. “ – Sage Ridenour |
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“I am taking part in this work to support all the organizing being down, tirelessly and passionately, by migrants and their supporters across the land. Migrant justice now! Let’s end the cruel fiction of borders, let’s end incarceration and deportation, let’s make a more just and open world!” - Joe Hiller |
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“I am participating in this action to remind the detainees that they are not alone. That they have strangers and friends on the outside that still care about their lives and their families, and are outraged by the injustices that they face.” – Hollis Proffitt |
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Victory in #Michigan! Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is canceling a plan to sell state land to a company trying to build a private immigrant detention center in Michigan
#AbolishICE
Breaking: Whitmer halts land sale for $35M private immigrant detention center ⋆ Michigan Advance
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is canceling a plan to sell state land to a company trying to build a private immigrant detention center in Michigan, the governor’s office told the Michigan Advance on Friday....La resistencia presente at #ElPaso9 rally in support of those still on #hungerstrike
Maru
El Paso processing center rally
"We directly observed that the feeding tubes attached to their noses appear larger than typical feeding tubes, and the men described them as hard and painful. They bleed profusely from their noses during feedings."
#ElPaso9 #DefundHate #AbolishICE
ICE is trying to hide a hunger strike in El Paso [Opinion]
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When President Trump arrives in El Paso today, there’s a good chance his presidential limo will drive past the El Paso Service Processing Center — an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention ...#ICE is not only expanding detention of adults & children. They are also expanding superfund toxic detention sites
#AbolishICE
Thanks Shannon! Keep them coming
More pics #AbolishICE messages in the snow#AbolishICE #NoBordersNoPrisons
Direct action yesterday against walls cages and #ICE and in support of #ElPaso9 hunger strikers
The resistance is everywhere! #DefundHate #CommunityNoCages #AbolishICE
Xicanisma
Trump held a rally in El Paso tonight, so a few of us organized to disrupt to denounce militarization of the border and to stand in solidarity with the #ElPaso9, a group of asylum seekers who have been on hunger strike in ICE detention. It was awful having to be in surrounded by MAGA shits all day, but it was worth it!
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“For the last 40 days a group of Sikh asylum seekers from the Indian state of Punjab have been engaged in a hunger strike to protest their unjust detention and the deplorable conditions in ICE detention. In response, ICE agents have begun force feeding nine of the men via nasal tubes and IV. Those who are on strike have reported that the tubes are too large, causing nasal bleeding, wounds and lesions on their throats and nasal passages, and are having difficulty speaking and breathing.
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On February 7, 2019, when officials attempted to put the tubes down their nostrils without allowing them to lie down, the asylum seekers resisted, resulting in ICE throwing them into solitary confinement. We are deeply concerned about their health, well-being, and safety.
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We demand an immediate stop to the force feeding and inhumane conditions that they are currently detained in. Furthermore, we are calling for all of those currently in detention to be released, including the #ELPASO9.”
PSA: This is how @ICEgov keeps gaming the system: they overspend, jail thousands more people than Congress intended, & then use inflated numbers during the next round of negotiations. Even @DHSOIG called out ICE. Learn more here: bit.ly/2DuHfi0 #DefundHate
“Congressional negotiators have reached what they are calling "an agreement in principle" on a border-security spending agreement. Details of the agreement have not yet been released.”
Today, people detained by #ICE at #YubaCountyJail started a #hungerstrike to protest the terrible conditions that they are suffering. The detainees are asking allies on the outside to call the jail administration to pressure them to address the hunger strikers’ demands.
Please call the jail today or tomorrow (February 10-11), 530-749-7740 and Sheriff Anderson at 530-749-7777
February 10th-11th: Call-In Campaign to Support Yuba County Jail Hunger Strike - It's Going Down
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Today, people detained by ICE at Yuba County Jail started a hunger strike to protest the terrible conditions that they are suffering. The detainees are asking allies on the outside to call the jail ad...FOR THE LOVE OF RESISTANCE
CALL TO ARTISTS!
NWDC Resistance is embarking on its 5th year anniversary of resistance and looking for original art to inspire the new logo. Please submit ONE piece of visual art that describes RESISTANCE to you.
How to submit your art:
-Save art piece as YourFirstName_YourLastName
-Upload an image of your original art in jpeg format (200dpi, appx 3MB in size - min)
-Title your email “NWDC RESISTANCE ART” in the subject line
-Include a short statement about your art (medium/style/title) and what RESISTANCE means to you 250 words or less
-Include a short biography* about you 250 words or less
-Email your image to saiyare.refaei@gmail.com by March 1st at midnight PST by following the directions above to be considered
*All of your submission materials will be kept within the NWDC Resistance Core Team and will not be shared without your permission.
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POR EL AMOR A LA RESISTENCIA
LLAMANDO A LXS ARTISTAS!
Las Resistencia al NWDC se está embarcando en su quinto aniversario de resistencia y buscando arte original para inspirar su nuevo logo. Por favor, envíe UNA pieza de arte visual que describa lo que LA RESISTENCIA significa para usted.
Cómo presentar su arte:
-Guardar pieza de arte como SuPrimerNombre_SuApellido
-Suba una imagen de su arte original en formato JPEG (200dpi, aproximadamente x 3MB de tamaño - mínimo)
Título de su correo electrónico "NWDC RESISTANCE ART" en la línea de asunto
-Incluya una breve descripción sobre su arte (medio/estilo/título) y lo que la resistencia significa para usted con 250 palabras o menos
-Incluya una breve biografía* sobre usted con 250 palabras o menos
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From @SAALTweets🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨 The #ElPaso9 on hunger strike are still in solitary confinement and facing imminent deportation! Call the El Paso Processing Center at 915-225-0775 to demand a stop ✋🏽 to their deportation!
From our sister organization in El Paso TX Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee
“#HungerStrike Continues into 7th Week on the day of Trump’s Visit to #ElPaso. On this day of action, join us in calling on #ICE to immediately #stopforcefeeding and release all hunger strikers. We also call on ICE to take concrete steps to end abuse in the El Paso region immigration detention and create a clear and fair process that detained immigrants can follow to win parole and be freed.”
Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee
Hunger Strike Continues into 7th Week on the day of Trump’s Visit to El Paso. On this day of action, join us in calling on ICE to immediately stop force-feeding and release all hunger strikers. We a...Keep posting your #AbolishICE snow art! And keep donating to help Saja Tunkara access life-saving medical care:
fundly.com/help-saja-tunkara-get-necessary-medical-care?fbclid=IwAR2t1yHvFyNpc9bWxaylIGGoYhQu34tZ...
Bennett told the Blade that 111 “self-identified transgender individuals” were in #ICE custody in 20 facilities across the U.S. as of Feb. 4. She said there were “self-identified transgender individuals” at the Cibola County Correctional Center, a privately-owned prison in Milan, N.M., that has a specific unit for trans detainees, as of the same date.
ICE confirms 45 transgender women being held at Texas detention center
washingtonblade.com
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week confirmed to the Washington Blade that it is currently housing 45 transgender women at a privately-run detention center in Texas.“While the courts can authorize interventions requested by the government such as force-feeding, immigrant detainees have limited power to appeal to courts about the conditions of their detention.”
#ElPaso9 #AbolishICE
ICE detainees on hunger strike are being force-fed, just like Guantánamo detainees before them
theconversation.com
Alleged 'enemy combatants' held at Guantánamo Bay who went on hunger strikes to protest their indefinite detention were force-fed by the US military. Today, ICE is force-feeding immigrant detainees.From our sister organization Gorge ICE Resistance
Victory is near!
#AbolishICE*Breaking* Judge rules NORCOR, a county jail in The Dalles, violated Oregon law by notifying ICE when individuals were to be released from jail and by holding them beyond their release dates for ICE.
innovationlawlab.org/blog/judge-rules-norcor-violated-oregon-law/