Western Mass Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice
Ending child-asylum-seeker detention
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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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. …
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 …
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 …
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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