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photos and videos of civil disobedience at ICE
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
solidarity action with the victims of immigration raids
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Statement by the Activists:
"Here in the United States, a rising xenophobic sentiment in large parts of
the population is being fed and exploited by politicians who are
scapegoating immigrants and this system that is stratifying the working
class.
To this end we have chosen to commit an act of civil disobedience,
blocking gates to the "Houston Processing Center"; an Immigrant Detention
Facility in North Houston run by the Corrections Corporation of America
(CCA). CCA is a company that turns a profit of over a billion dollars a
year by administering prisons for state and federal governments. They run
the notorious Don T. Hutto Facility in Taylor Texas, a converted jail that
imprisons asylum seekers and children. These children are subject to
inhumane treatment and ICE/CCA denied access to the United Nations Special
Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants this past month as he tried to
investigate the conditions at the Hutto Facility. By the fall of 2007 ICE
will spend an estimated 1 billion dollars a year to detain over 27,500
people. ICE operates eight Service Processing Centers and seven contract
detention facilities such as Hutto, Raymondville and the Houston
Processing Center, all three run by CCA.
We decided we had to put our bodies on the line in an effort to slow down
and expose the oppression and exploitation of immigrants by the capitalist
economic order, the US Government and the US Prison Industrial Complex. We
condemn the policies of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the
Corrections Corporation of America. We recognize this escalation of raids
and deportations are not a fundamentally new development, but part of a
continued effort to terrorize our communities for the sake of maintaining
an unjust social order."
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cop gathering evidence
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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back of shirt
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
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banner
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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ben
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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ben feet
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
benfeet.jpg, image/jpeg, 1152x864
sunrise
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
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a happy cop
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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keep the lock
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
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liason
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
liason.jpg, image/jpeg, 640x480
manpower
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
manpower.jpg, image/jpeg, 640x480
no more raids
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
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a place to live
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
placetolive.jpg, image/jpeg, 640x480
RobTv
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
robtv2.jpg, image/jpeg, 640x480
smash the border
by Nick
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
nickcooper--at--indymedia.org
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DATE |
| Dirty South Holdin It Down |
TXRASH |
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 7:10 PM |
| love love love |
champion |
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 2:43 PM |
| cops put a yellow sheath around ashley |
nick |
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 1:49 PM |
| Fireman agrees there was no damage to the fence in cutting out ashley |
Nick |
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:45 PM |
| Ashley is Cut Loose |
Nick |
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:39 PM |
| The Fence Has Been Cut |
Nick |
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 9:20 AM |
| Ben Speaks Out After Fence Cutting |
Nick |
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 8:34 AM |
| Cut That Fence |
Firemen Cut Fence, release Ben with lock |
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 8:07 AM |
| Sparks Flying |
Nick |
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 8:04 AM |
| Hooray for Ashley |
Zapatista |
Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 7:14 AM |
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