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Today marks 10 years since #OccupyWallSt. Iāll be on this thread talking about my experience, what went down and spilling some tea. And yes I will do it in chronological order. Starting w/ the summer of 2011. A thread ā¦
So I met @msmaryclinton in the summer as she told me that there was going to be a revolution that fall that we were going to occupy and asked if I wanted to go to General Assemblies every Friday and I kindly responded no thanks.
On 9/17 which was a Saturday I woke up hungover, I missed the march but wanted to see what happened next. Could you tell I was skeptical? I really didnāt think anyone was going to sleep out. So I made my way down to where the action landed Zuccotti Parkā¦ #OccupyWallStreet
Hoping someone On Here might still have the video of John Lewis at an immigrantsā rights rally in Atlanta sometime between 2011-12 where heās telling undocumented organizers and allies that if police are going to them, theyāll have to arrest him, and the jails canāt hold us all.
I remember live-streaming that rally in my office as a young attorney and just breaking down crying at how beautiful it was to have someone so important in the civil rights movement embrace the immigrantsā rights movement in a time when our Friends were deporting record numbers.
Last night I posted video of his interview prior to being arrested at a protest in DC to call for comprehensive immigration reform. Lewis took the maximalist position: None of the 11 million people who live here without papers should be deported. No family torn apart. #Not1More
STOP ALL DEPORTATIONS TO CENTRAL AMERICA
We'll never know, but this number has to be an underestimate.
#Asylum is death penalty defense, and there is not a day since mid-2006 that I haven't felt the weight of that. I'll save the rest for my counselor.
washingtonpost.com/world/the_amerā¦
We'll never know, but this number has to be an underestimate.
#Asylum is death penalty defense, and there is not a day since mid-2006 that I haven't felt the weight of that. I'll save the rest for my counselor.
washingtonpost.com/world/the_amerā¦
Deportees are vulnerable to gang violence due to the social visibility caused by reappearing in their communities (often w/o family/friends) as well as perceived wealth after living in the U.S. Much of the responsibility for this violence is on us; it's past time we accepted it.
As noted here, the Obama administration was responsible for most of these cases in which deportees are *known* to have been killed. (The real # has to be many times more.) The Trump-era stories will come soon enough, but be sure that the liberals in your life know this history.
"Persecuted minorities, having been historically traumatized, feel the future before the rest of us do. They feel it in dread, anxiety, despair, shock. They feel it deep down in their bones. They donāt need statistics & charts to tell them whatās coming."
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What this piece leaves out: we follow in the footsteps of decades of resistance by immigrant communities, in the face of harsh repression. For example, even our primary tactic of using non-violent direct action to shut down ICE facilities was pioneered in 2010 by #Not1More. 
And we are far from the only historically or currently persecuted group sounding the alarm and taking action! Just take a look at the coalition of Latinx, Japanese-American, Black, Indigenous, & Jewish groups who stopped the re-opening of the Japanese internment camp at Ft. Sill
Just finished #SCOTUS decision in #Preap. Most impt: it says _nothing_ re whether incarceration of these immigrants w/o bond hearings is constitutional. So we live to fight another day, just as in Jennings v. Rodriguez. We're already planning! @ACLU @ACLU_SoCal #not1more
A few more thoughts in the weeds: 1. As @WangCecillia (who brilliantly argued the case) @matt_cam & others have noted, the opinion departs dramatically from the plain meaning of the word "when," which it reads to mean "any time after" rather than, well, "when." slip. op at 12.
2. It also reads the critical "when ... released" language to not apply _at all_ to the whole clause immediately preceding it - subsection D - because if it did apply, the Court's reading would make no sense. Slip. op at 24.
Heading into this massive jail in San Diego where ICE incarcerates immigrants and asylum seekers. Met last night with three moms whoāve been held here going on two months, their children torn from them at the border. We cried together. Their bravery astounds.
One mom has only been able to talk to her 12 year old son once since he was taken from her. She has a number to call for the government shelter where heās held but she calls over and over and thereās no answer. She puts slips of paper in a complaint box for ICE and hears nothing.
She has problems sleeping because she spends the nights crying. She remembers her son crying when they were separated, how the officers didnāt even let her explain to him what was happening.
While DSA is doing incredible migrant justice work around the country we are NOT the only ones. Hereās a short thread of other great organizations to check out and support
@NoMoreDeaths has been fighting to stop the killing of migrants. Their principals include
-Direct aid that extends the right to provide humanitarian assistance
-Witnessing and responding
-Consciousness raising
-Global movement building
-Encouraging humane immigration policy
-Direct aid that extends the right to provide humanitarian assistance
-Witnessing and responding
-Consciousness raising
-Global movement building
-Encouraging humane immigration policy
Fronterizo Fianza Fund to help people get out of detention. Donate here ->>> fianzafund.org/home.html
This is a member of the @DetentionWatch network and set up by the El Paso Detention solidarity committee facebook.com/DetainedMigranā¦
This is a member of the @DetentionWatch network and set up by the El Paso Detention solidarity committee facebook.com/DetainedMigranā¦
Must read piece from detained immigrant released at Rodriguez bond hearing, which SCOTUS will consider shortly: cnn.it/2ePSMwC
"I was born in Mexico. My roots are there. But roots can be transplanted. I have lived more than half my life here..." #not1more
"A piece of paper cannot prevent me from claiming the country where I raised my children, where I have worked for decades" #not1more
