Immigration Activist Josh Rubin, Who Helped Close Two Migrant Teen Prisons, to Speak/Show Film in Northampton, December 17
Author Archives: Shel Horowitz
Letter: How “praying with our feet” turned out
This letter summarizing the October 6 Immigration Justice Taschlich in Northampton, MA was published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton’s newspaper) on October 19, 2019. We were very grateful for Bera Dunau’s article, “Praying with Their Feet,” which previewed our October 6th March and Tashlich ritual. And we think Gazette readers will want to know …
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Press Release for October 6, 2019 Immigration Justice Tashlich
This press release was sent around the Valley to media and organizations. You are welcome to share it. “Praying With Our Feet”: Jews and Allies Around the Valley to Converge for Immigration Justice Ceremony October 6, Northampton For Release: Thursday, September 26, 2019 Contact: Shel Horowitz, 413-586-2388, shel at greenandprofitable.com Event Summary: Valley-wide Rally and …
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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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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. …
Why Are a Bunch of Jews in Massachusetts Going to Florida to Protest at a Prison?
By Shel Horowitz Why Are We Here? Why This Blog? This blog will cover the actions of a small group of Jewish activists from the Northampton/Amherst area of Western Massachusetts (and one from Eastern Massachusetts) who came together as an affinity group to protest the jailing of innocent migrant children. We are appalled at the …
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