[Crsd] Fw: These are concentration camps -- Protests on July 2 and July 12 ( and ongoing resistance)

[Monty Kroopkin]

Fellow Workers, Friends, An Injury to One, Is an Injury to All !
 Close the Camps!  Several of the bigger liberal groups are mobilizing for two days of action against the concentration camps. Large turnouts are likely. Revolutionaries can mobilize to participate and to promote our perspectives on the class warfare of the billionaires against the rest of us and about how we can organize to win the New Society.
  If a regime can get away with putting one category of working people into concentration camps, then what is to stop that regime from expanding the categories to include any and all of us, whenever it wants? Well, that is exactly what they are doing. Just look at how they have exploded the size of the prison population since the 1990s, to make the USA the home of the more than 2 million in prison, largely Black and Brown and not by accident. Mass detention of refugees and undocumented workers without any good reason is the next big expansion of the FOR PROFIT prison-industrial complex. Massive resistance and revolutionary action is the only cure. Build for General Strikes and Workplace Takeovers to Make the Bosses Obsolete! Monty Kroopkin   

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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:15:50 +0000
Subject: These are concentration camps
From: "Mai Nguyen Do, Courage Campaign" <info at couragecampaign.org>
To: "Monty Kroopkin" <mkroopkin at juno.com>

 
 
 
 
We're protesting Trump's concentration camps -- will you join?
Dear Fellow Worker  X,
Stand up for immigrants on July 2 with MoveOn and on July 12 with Lights for Liberty.

Children as young as 4 months old are taken from their parents. Medicine is confiscated and medical care withheld. LGBTQ+ and disabled individuals are held in solitary confinement.(1) Elderly people are confined to “icebox” rooms for weeks at a time. At least 24 people have died in ICE custody so far.(2)

We've seen the images and heard the stories coming out of Trump’s concentration camps.(And if you have any concerns about the use of "concentration camps" in this context, please consider this Vox piece by a Jewish historian.) Trump’s administration is trying to terrorize immigrant and refugee communities and criminalize immigration by detaining children in horrific conditions, authorizing raids to break up families, covering up reports of immigrants dying in U.S. custody, and hiding abuses by border patrol agents.

It’s going to take all of us to shut down these concentration camps. That’s why we’re joining MoveOn on July 2 and Lights for Liberty on July 12 to protest these atrocities committed by Trump’s administration.

Take a stand against Trump Camps on July 2 with MoveOn and on July 12 with Lights for Liberty.

The refugees being detained in Trump’s concentration camps are now being moved onto military grounds such as Fort Sill, where Japanese citizens were interned during Word War II, and where reporters, lawyers, and human rights monitors will no longer be able to record and report the conditions inside the camps.(3) We -- and especially the immigrants inside of these concentration camps -- can’t afford to wait any longer to take action.

Find a protest near you on Tuesday, July 2 or on Friday, July 12 and join us in calling on Congress to shut down the camps.

In solidarity,
Mai, along with Analeeza, Annie, Brenna, Caitlin, Diego, Eddie, Gabby, Lindsay, Mary, Molly, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage Campaign team)

Footnotes:
1. https://www.thenation.com/article/ice-otero-joa-transgender-death
2. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3jd3/the-trump-administration-has-let-24-people-die-in-ice-custody
3. https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-japanese-internment-fort-sill-2019-story.html 
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