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@NeverAgainActn
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Before we kick off our action, several Rabbis here with us have invited protestors to do maariv together. #NeverAgainMeans
Our Jewish faith and practice is why we are here today. It’s what drives us to take action. #JewsAgainstICE #NeverAgainMeans
As we gather on a beautiful day in New Jersey, we know we're just minutes away from a detention center where immigrant families are trapped inside without access to outdoor space in dusty, maggot-infested conditions 😰

That's why we're here.

nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Con…
#NeverAgainMeans we're going to put our hearts and our souls and our bodies on the line. Because if we don't fight to #CloseTheCamps and end the current dehumanizing war on immigrants and refugees, it can absolutely happen again.
Hundreds of us just started our march to the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. We're going there as #JewsAgainstICE to stop them from continuing with their inhumane business as usual, because that's what #NeverAgainMeans.
🎵 When the world is sick
🎵 Can't no one be well
🎵 But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong

There is a deep sickness in our world right now. Thankfully, we *are* beautiful and strong, and so are you, and that's how we're all going to #CloseTheCamps.
We are reaching the Elizabeth Detention Center. We do not have the luxury of turning back, because the safety and dignity and the lives of our immigrant sibling are under attack, and all the signs are there: #NeverAgainMeans fighting now, before it's too late.
LIVE VIDEO: hundreds of #JewsAgainstICE are shutting down the detention center in Elizabeth, NJ. We were raised to see the warning signs, and we're here to say #NeverAgainMeans taking action now, before it's too late.

facebook.com/NeverAgainActi…
As we shut down the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey, #JewsAgainstICE are organizing across the country!

Join the campaign: bit.ly/NeverAgainCamp…

Help pay legal fees for those arrested blocking the detention center: bit.ly/neveragainfund
We refuse to be complicit!
We refuse to sit back and wait for change!

#NeverAgainMeans close the camps
#NeverAgainMeans now!

Lee from @CosechaMovement is telling us about how Democrats have failed to challenge the money-making ICE machine. We have to change that!
After telling us about her experiences at the border, Rabbi Salem Pearce leads us in the Jewish prayer of mourning and remembrance for those who have died in the desert trying to reach the US, and those who've died in ICE camps. #NeverAgainMeans never again FOR ANYONE!
Police just arrived to try to clear us, but we're not moving, because ABOVE ALL #NeverAgainMeans making sacrifices and doing what's right, no matter what.
Before cops arrived we were hearing from Amelia, a Jewish organizer of color who works with @CosechaMovement, about how ICE denies basic rights to immigrants.

Join #JewsAgainstICE organizing across the country: bit.ly/NeverAgainCamp…

Help w/ legal fees: bit.ly/NeverAgainFund
Police are using a loudspeaker, trying to get us to give up and get out of the way. That will NEVER happen, because #NeverAgainMeans never again for anyone!

JOIN #JewsAgainstICE: bit.ly/NeverAgainCamp…
WATCH LIVE: facebook.com/NeverAgainActi…
DONATE: bit.ly/NeverAgainFund
LIVE: 36 #JewsAgainstICE being arrested blocking the Detention Center in Elizabeth NJ. We put our bodies on the line because that's what #NeverAgainMeans. We won't stop until the war on immigrant families does.

WATCH: facebook.com/NeverAgainActi…

DONATE: bit.ly/NeverAgainFund
Activists from @CosechaMovement lead us in a chant of "Never Again", and then explain their current campaign to get driver's licenses for undocumented folks, so undocumented families aren't traveling our streets in fear. Please support the movement! lahuelga.com
As we block the gates to the detention center, we're sounding the Shofar, a sound our people have been using as a call to attention for thousands of years. It is time for us to wake up, to fight, to transform #NeverAgain from words into action.

WATCH: facebook.com/NeverAgainActi…
@CosechaMovement In case it wasn't clear before, when #JewsAgainstICE say Never Again we

really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really

really mean it.
@CosechaMovement BREAKING: 36 #JewsAgainstICE arrested blocking the detention center in Elizabeth, NJ. This is just the first of many actions across the country!

Join us: bit.ly/NeverAgainCamp…
Help with legal fees: bit.ly/NeverAgainFund
@CosechaMovement This is what it looks like when #JewsAgainstICE rise to the moment; will you be in the next photo?!

Join our campaign call TOMORROW NIGHT and learn more about actions in your area: bit.ly/NeverAgainCamp…

DONATE to help with legal fees: bit.ly/NeverAgainFund
@CosechaMovement We woke up this morning with our minds set on a goal: #CloseTheCamps. For an hour, we managed to close one of them, but with your help we can shut them all down!

Join our campaign call tomorrow at 9 EST: bit.ly/NeverAgainCamp…

Help cover legal fees: bit.ly/NeverAgainFund
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Thank you for amplifying our campaign! If anyone's wondering, every dollar that isn't needed to pay legal fees will go to @CosechaMovement, a group lead by immigrant organizers fighting for dignity and permanent protection for all 11 million undocumented Americans!
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(1/5) Our statement of purpose:

What the U.S. government is doing at the border and in immigrant communities all around the country is nothing short of a mass atrocity.
(2/5) As Jews, we were taught to never let anything like the Holocaust happen again.

We refuse to wait and see what happens here now.
(3/5) We are putting our bodies on the line because when we say never again, we mean never again for anyone.
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