[Sunday Meeting} Resist the Crete Detention Center- Immigrants Walk to Crete:::El pueblo inmigrante en Chicago camina rumbo a Crete Illinois

[José G. Herrera]

Resist the Crete Detention Center- Immigrants Walk to Crete El pueblo inmigrante en Chicago camina rumbo a Crete Illinois March 30th -April 1st Public meeting/Reunion Abierta Sunday, March 18, 5-7 PM Domingo, Marzo 18, 5-7PM The Justice Mission/Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission 3442 W 26th St, Chicago Public meeting and call to action: ICE is negotiating with the village of Crete and Corrections Corporation of America to build a new Immigrant Prison just south of Chicago. The contract has not yet been signed – and until it is, this new prison can still be stopped. We are intensifying our resistance with a series of actions culminating in a 3-day walk to Crete on March 30-April 1.  Join us for a public meeting to discuss the campaign - our political principles, the specific logistics of the walk and how different community groups and organizations can join us. We are updating our website every day, please visit us at www.moratoriumondeportations.org for further information and the many ways you and/or your organization can endorse and participate.   Points of unity - why we are walking:     •    We walk together as a family, we refuse to be separated.      •    no detention of immigrants – not in any back yard !     •    no profit out of the criminalization, illegality or incarceration of human beings     •    borders and cages do not create just and safe communities     •    the walk is an expression of the experiences of communities who have been criminalized  -  we have a total and unwaivering commitment for immigrant justice and for the full rights of all immigrants. we do not accept the division of good immigrants vs criminals, we walk for full human rights, full dignity     •    Detention is about dividing society into prisoners and their jailers – walk with us to state that the creation of a incarceration nation will devastate all our communities -- we refuse to be the  captives, and we refuse to be the captors, so we walk together     •    detention is about an open market in the business of selling human lives – Dention centers are a new prison experiment, an old product re-packaged in new ways. Concentration camps, interment camps, prisons they all serve the same repressive function. Un llamado a una Reunión Abierta:  En contra de la nueva cárcel para inmigrantes justo al sur de Chicago! Inmigración y Aduanas (I.C.E.) está negociando con la ciudad de Crete Illinois y la compañía Corporación de Correcciones de América (CCA) para construir un nuevo centro de detención para inmigrantes. El contrato no se ha firmado todavía - y hasta que eso suceda, esta nueva cárcel aún puede ser detenida. Venga a la junta-- nuestra respuesta es marchar a Crete y decir: Nuestras vidas no estan en venta!

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José G. Herrera

(773) 632-9992