photos and videos of civil disobedience at ICE
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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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
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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
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sunrise
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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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
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liason
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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manpower
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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no more raids
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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a place to live
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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RobTv
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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smash the border
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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Small Frog / Lock Around Neck
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:57 AM
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chant
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 1:13 AM
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Gloria Speaks
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 1:18 AM

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Speaking Out with a Lock Around the Neck
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 1:26 AM

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You Can Keep the Banner
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 1:28 AM
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Hooray for Ashley
by Zapatista Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 7:14 AM

Hooray!!!!

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Sparks Flying
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 8:04 AM

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close up of cutting a lock off from around Ashley's neck

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Cut That Fence
by Firemen Cut Fence, release Ben with lock Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 8:07 AM

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Ben Speaks Out After Fence Cutting
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 8:34 AM

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The Fence Has Been Cut
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 9:20 AM

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Ashley is Cut Loose
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:39 PM

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Fireman agrees there was no damage to the fence in cutting out ashley
by Nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 12:45 PM

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cops put a yellow sheath around ashley
by nick Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 1:49 PM

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to block the cameras or the sparks?

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love love love
by champion Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 2:43 PM

i love them!

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Dirty South Holdin It Down
by TXRASH Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007 at 7:10 PM
indigopunk@riseup.net har-dyh-arhh ATX

Wow. Yall fuckin rule.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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