Western Mass Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice
Ending child-asylum-seeker detention
When you volunteer at the refugee camp in Matamoros, as we did in February, you can’t more than a few feet without running into Tucker’s work. He’s built or rebuilt infrastructure from outdoor sinks on up. He cooks. He’s very active in the medical tent. He helps out at the Resource Center. Plus he’s just …
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Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice has written letters to these companies. Our call for them to stop doing this dirty work will be much stronger if you join it.
Eyewitnesses from Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice delegation to the US/Mexico border share their deepest takeaway AND a list of public reportbacks in Western Massachusetts.
A few times when I’ve been witnessing this week at the spot where people come off the bridge from Mexico, I’ve wondered if our actions were making a difference—especially when we’ve discovered and participating in so many opportunities to roll up your sleeves and get involved directly with helping the refugees. Haven’t the people of …
We crammed quite a bit into our first morning. Meeting at the Brownsville bus station, we joined a good-sized group of volunteers in a centering ritual before walking en masse across the bridge into Mexico. Crossing was smooth. They were telling people to open their backpacks for inspection, but when I got to the front …
Not much to report from yesterday, but honoring the commitment to make sure there’s a new post covering every day of our witness and relief mission. Of the 10 members in our delegation, nine were on the same Hartford-Houston-Harlingen itinerary. The tenth, flying out of Boston, arrived a couple of hours later. Most of the …
Daily Hampshire Gazette reporter Scott Merzbach interviewed three of our 10-member Jewish activists for Immigration Justice delegation and wrote this excellent article about our humanitarian mission, which starts tomorrow.
Build a conscience, not a wall.” Just in time for our humanitarian mission to the border tomorrow, I found a mini-flier with the URL of Amador’s (of Flor de Cana) powerful “Nana Rabiosa.” It starts with a beautiful lullaby and then morphs into a hard-hittting rap on the shame of our government’s cruelty toward migrant …
Continue reading “Why Are We Going to the Border? This Song is the Perfect Explanation”
Quick report on the amazing talk we sponsored this past Sunday on the art of children facing severe trauma by our good friend Simone Alter-Muri. She not only brought in images from the art show we have at Michelson Gallery through 2/21—but (like the show itself) brought in the historical context, discussing art that kids …
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Thank you so much for your support of our work on immigration justice. Our December 17 event with Brooklyn immigration justice activist Josh Rubin was a huge success, getting about 100 attenders on a snowy, icy night and raising hundreds of dollars for Josh’s work on the border and our own February trip (going directly …
Continue reading “January/February 2020 Events: Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice”
