🚨 BREAKING: Yesterday, the Free Them All VA Coalition, represented by @Public_Citizen, filed a motion to block a search warrant requesting access to the Coalition’s Facebook digital records. 1/6
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This is the second incident this month of Virginia police targeting migrant justice organizers — last week, @VietLEAD's executive director was arrested for protesting at the ICE director’s house in Henrico County. 2/6
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The people detained in VA detention centers have been demanding their release since March in response to the threat of a COVID outbreak.
Their organizing has repeatedly been met with retaliation, including being put into solitary, shot at, brutalized, & pepper sprayed. 3/6
Their organizing has repeatedly been met with retaliation, including being put into solitary, shot at, brutalized, & pepper sprayed. 3/6
Rather than focus on freeing the people detained in these abusive facilities, the State of Virginia has decided instead to target organizers and community members working to #FreeThemAll! 4/6
At the request of the Leesburg police, a Virginia court has issued a search warrant to access the Free Them All VA Facebook account in order to identify and intimidate organizers and discourage them from further organizing. 5/6
This form of state repression and surveillance follows a pattern of targeting of organizers and community members across the country, and parallels the deeper retaliation faced by detained protestors.
We will not stay silent. Free Them All.
We will not stay silent. Free Them All.
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