Action Alert: Support Hunger Strikers @ NW Detention Center

[Alliance For Global Justice]

*CALL TO ACTION!*
Today, if you can make it, head to the NW Detention Center, 1623 E J St,
Tacoma, WA, to show solidarity with the detainees and to prevent the GEO
Group from violently force feeding and threatening the hunger strikers.
There are people there at the fence starting at noon going till 4pm, and
then at 5pm and a noise demo at 8pm. Carpool from Media Island, 816 Adams
St. SE, at 5pm. https://www.facebook.com/ShutdownPrisons



*Urgent Action Needed*

*Support Hunger Strikers at the Northwest Detention Center*

*Sign the **petition*<http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FgL3Bpf1kcbQfoRV1WthJfC1DEU6uNmp>*
NOW!*

Friends,

*Your urgent support is needed.* You may have read the news reports about
the hundreds of detainees on a hunger strike since Friday, at the Northwest
Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington.

*We share this message from Maru Mora Villalpando of Latino Advocacy in
Washington state:*

"We have reports that more than 20 of the strikers were placed in isolation
yesterday with no communications. ICE and GEO [the private prison company
running the detention center] are pressuring immigrants to break the strike
and harassing them verbally. We need more than 1000 signatures by tomorrow
at 5PM. Please keep forwarding the petition and make sure all your contacts
sign it as well.

The strikers need you!!!!!!!"

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 *Go **here
<http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jdBrgMihySeP0WvoKCyn%2BfC1DEU6uNmp>
to sign the petition (hosted by #not1moredeportation) by 5 pm PDT on
Tuesday, March 11.*
*About the situation:*

On Friday, March 7th, 1200 people held at the Northwest Detention Center in
Tacoma, Washington, one of the largest immigration prisons in the country,
began a hunger strike and work stoppage. They are putting their bodies on
the line to protest the on-going deportations overseen by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement and the inhumane conditions at the for-profit detention
center owned and operated by the GEO Corporation.

Inspired in part by the February 24 #Not1More deportation action at the
detention center, the hunger strikers timed their action to begin on Friday.
On Fridays, the people facing imminent deportation are separated and
processed for deportation, weekly events that contribute to the nearly
2,000,000 deported during the Obama administration. The hunger strikers
join a nation-wide movement of resistance against unprecedented levels of
detention and deportation.


*Apart from calling attention to the unrelenting deportations, the hunger
strikers demands include: *

   -
*Improved food quality *
   -
*Improved treatment (including medical treatment) *
   -
* Increased pay for work in the facility (the current pay is $1.00/day) *
   -
* An end to exorbitant commissary prices *
   - * Fundamental fairness and justice*

 People in the detention center are risking their health by not eating and
withstanding potential backlash for participating in the hunger
strike.Sign the
petition<http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Wr6JFkznQHWaApbQacQvyfC1DEU6uNmp>and
share widely to support the
hunger strikers and their demands. Not one more deportation!

To:  Natalie Asher, Washington Field Office Director, Immigration and
Customs Enforcement
CC: Daniel Ragsdale, Deputy Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
      John M. Hurley, Senior Vice President, GEO Corrections and Detention


*I support the hunger strikers at the Northwest Detention Center and their
demands. I am alarmed and disturbed by the ongoing deportations and the
conditions facing those held at the Northwest Detention Center awaiting
deportation. *
*I urge you to initiate accountable negotiations with the hunger strikers
and/or their chosen representatives. I urge you to take action to implement
the demands immediately, and in good faith. I also want your guarantee that
hunger strikers will not face retaliation.*
*Add your name
<http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1n%2BN%2BgqO1gYrlXiQyuFyjvC1DEU6uNmp>
to the petition now!*


 *Connect/Support: **
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<http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OssAuFKUqlGkbfWdP2yKW%2FC1DEU6uNmp>

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<http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uBveVB%2BuzZicM0kOFsbaMvC1DEU6uNmp>*
<http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=83SpY0m2hgkO3%2ByXbXHrKvC1DEU6uNmp>

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