Western Mass Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice
Ending child-asylum-seeker detention
Please Note: Registration link is in the text, underneath the flier Award-winning Latino-Jewish Poet Jonathan Mendoza Featured in “Waking Us From Our Complacency”: An (online) event on immigration justice and racial justice First in a three-event series, presented by Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice of Western MA and Never Again Action Boston Performance poet and …
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We have organized many report-backs on our recent experience witnessing tent courts and deportations, and providing humanitarian aid to asylum-seekers who are being forced to wait for months in crowded and unsafe refugee camps on the Brownsville/Matamoros Border under the controversial MPP (aka Wait in Mexico) Program. Please spread the word and contact us if …
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.
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 …
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Immigration Activist Josh Rubin, Who Helped Close Two Migrant Teen Prisons, to Speak/Show Film in Northampton, December 17
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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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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We will also be part of a panel organized by the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice on July 30th. https://www.facebook.com/events/2761158953899583/
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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