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Shut Down The NWDC Workshop | GenFest CO Track
October 26, 2019 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
La Resistencia’s Workshop on Shut Down The NWDC!
October 26th
3:40 pm – 5:10PM
TAF Bethaday Community Learning Space
605 SW 108th St, Seattle, WA 98146
“We believe in ending immigration detention. As such, we call for the shutdown of the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington. Immigration detention has no place in Washington State, or anywhere else. We believe that immigrants belong with their families and communities.”
The City of Tacoma has the power and responsibility to declare the Northwest Detention Center a chronic public nuisance and close the facility down. Since Tacoma’s immigration cage opened in 2004, GEO Group has repeatedly called the police on peaceful protestors, wasting taxpayer money. More importantly, GEO employees have repeatedly had to call on Tacoma emergency medical services to save the lives of detained immigrants after the lack of medical care has led to preventable emergencies, of both mental and physical health. The center has also seen multiple outbreaks of varicella and the mumps. Tacoma has shut down other businesses in recent history as public nuisances. It is time to shut down the detention center.
La Ciudad de Tacoma tiene el poder y la responsabilidad de declarar el Centro de Detención del Noroeste una alteración crónica al orden público y cerrar la instalación. Desde que esta jaula de Tacoma abrió en el 2004, el Grupo GEO ha repetidamente llamado a la policía cuando gente pacifica se demuestra en contra de la detención, gastando así dinero de lxs contribuyentes. Aún más, empleados de GEO han repetidamente llamado a los servicios de emergencia medica para salvar las vidas de las personas inmigrantes ahí detenidas, después de que la falta de cuidado médico ha llevado a emergencias que podían haber sido prevenidas, tanto de salud física como mental. El centro ha visto también múltiples brotes de paperas y varicela. Tacoma ha cerrado otros negocios recientemente por ser una alteración al orden público. Es hora de cerrar el centro de detención
This workshop will be a part of Community Organizing Track of our 2nd Annual Generations Festival.
Generations Fest is a space for people of all ages to share skills and stories to celebrate and strengthen our ancestral wisdom. Through this gathering of workshops, activities, and cultural offerings, we hope to grow inter-generational intimacy by centering leadership of elders and young people, providing opportunities to connect with each other, and increasing our skills and knowledge to have the relationships we want
More information about Generations Festival here: https://www.facebook.com/events/734181877003894/
Have you signed this petition yet? It just takes a second! https://action.mijente.net/petitions/shut-down-the-nwdc. Want to learn more? Check out this graphic, laying out the ins-and-outs of the detention system in Tacoma. Read a description of all the moving parts here: http://laresistencianw.org/understanding-the-system/
More details coming soon.
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