Blockade at the Northwest
Detention Center Happening
Now!
Happening right now
in Tacoma, Washington,
Northwest Detention Center
Resistance Coalition members
are locked down to prevent
the morning's deportation
buses from leaving the
privately run facilities.
Watch Live Now: http://notonemoredeportation.com/2015/09/21/Tacoma
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
Today at the Northwest
Detention Center in Tacoma,
Washington, more than 20
community members are
locking down to prevent the
morning’s deportation buses
from leaving the privately
run facilities.
The goal is 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." says
Jill Mangaliman, one of the
protesters locked down today
and executive director of
Got Green.
Members of TWAC (Trans
and/or Women Action Camp)
carry 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 today’s
blockade, which include
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.
For more information and to
read about who's risking
arrest today, visit our
website. www.nwdcresistance.org and
visit our FacebookFacebook.com/nwdcresistance
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