Very important article to read and share! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/19/never-again-means-nothing-if-holocaust-analogies-are-always-off-limits/?utm_term=.a5512735ba20
Monthly Archives: June 2019
Powerful Spirit: Father’s Day Rally at Homestead Detention Center
What an amazing day at the mass rally to shut down Homestead Detention Center! Hundreds of people, both locals and out-of-towners like us, showed up for a spirited, passionate rally and march, despite drenching rain and some logistical issues (like the extra porta-potties that were ordered never showing up, leaving exactly one–and a need to …
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Key Reasons to Shut Down the Child Detention Center in Homestead, FL and What You Can Do
Here’s what we learned from our AFSC training on the key reasons to shut down the Homestead Child Detention facility. It is a prison. The individuals who are there asked for asylum at the border, which is their legal right under international law. Yet instead of being immediately released to a sponsor or family member …
Day 2 of Witnessing
An inspiring, saddening, exhausting day. We’ve been meeting several courageous, hardworking volunteers who show up almost daily to bear witness to what is happening at Homestead. They are friendly, upbeat, helpful. We spent part of the morning standing on ladders, holding heart signs, waving and shouting slogans of solidarity to the 12-17 year olds waiting …
Conditions at the Homestead Detention Center (Day 125/Day 2)
125 days of social activists maintaining a presence outside the massive Homestead Detention Center, where somewhere between 2000 and 4000 migrant teens are held. Our second day bearing witness. The shutdown campaign’s slogan is “Homes Instead,” an apt pun on the town’s name. When any group of kids are outside for their brief periods of …
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First Day at Homestead
Today was Day 124 of the witness at the massive detention center in Homestead, Florida. But for all but one of our Western Massachusetts affinity group, it was Day One. Joan Epstein had been here a few months ago, and she sparked the rest of us (directly or indirectly) to get involved and come down. …
Witnessing in Homestead
We arrived in Homestead mid-morning, a hot and muggy day, but not as hot and muggy as we feared. There is a steady witness presence at “base camp,” a small set of tents at the corner of the complex, which consists of several buildings and tents, all behind a high fence on which there are …
Waving from Behind the Wall
We were there today. We were there in person, in body and in heart. With the guidance of those who have been there to witness day after day, we climbed up on ladders holding large red hearts and signs so that the children and youth inside could see us. Some were playing soccer. (Thank God …