Barbara & other members of Tsuru For Solidarity have been putting Min Yasui’s lessons into action outside NWDC, where they have been working alongside LaResistencia_NW to support hunger strikers’ demands for justice following the death of Charles Leo Daniel and #ShutDownNWDC .

Live now: Japanese Americans are joining immigrant rights activists in calling for the closure of the Northwest Detention Center, a Geo Group run for-profit detention center in WA.

Join us w/Maru Mora Villalpando + Tsuru For Solidarity Stan Shikuma.
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'Our fellow Americans largely turned their backs while Japanese Americans were rounded up for detention. We sorely needed friends to stand by us then & we fight to shut down NWDC now, bc we are determined to be the friends we wish we'd had in 1942.' -Stan Shikuma Tsuru For Solidarity

“Geo and ICE can laugh at us, but at the end of the day they are afraid of us.”

Event organized by: Tsuru For Solidarity LaResistencia_NW

#ShutDownNWDC

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Tsuru For Solidarity LaResistencia_NW Follow @tsuruforsolidarity and LaResistencia_NW for updates and how to support the hunger strikers’ demands!

Tsuru For Solidarity LaResistencia_NW 'We are carrying the fear and uncertainty surrounding the murder of James Wakasa in Topaz. Now we also carry the anger and grief of losing Charles Leo Daniel, who was kept in solitary confinement for nearly 4 years, we do know that ICE and Geo Group have blood on their hands.”

Tsuru For Solidarity has been on the ground with LaResistencia_NW:
“Our community knows the psychological violence of indefinite detention. We are carrying with us the Issei and Nisei that took their own lives while incarcerated at Tule Lake, Minidoka, and every site of shame. ”

Earlier this month, 61 year old Charles Leo Daniel died while imprisoned at Northwest Detention Center. He had been held in solitary confinement for more than 3 years — the 2nd longest stretch in solitary confinement of any detained immigrant since 2018.
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We observed this year's #DayOfRemembrance with a powerful two-part action led by Tsuru For Solidarity and LaResistencia_NW. Community photographer and Minidoka survivor Eugene Tagawa shares some snapshots from this day of remembrance and resistance: densho.org/catalyst/photo…

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To stand in solidarity with them, two people - LaResistencia_NW's founder Maru Villalpando and Tsuru For Solidarity's Becca Asaki are hunger striking outside the prison

See their demands below. For reference, GEO Group is the (brutal) private company that runs NWDC

🚨 Folks outside NWDC are on hunger strike in solidarity with those inside suffering life threatening conditions!
🆘 See slide 2 & 3 for call to action.

LaResistencia_NW University of Washington Center for Human Rights Angelina Godoy Physicians for Human Rights Harvard Law School The Seattle Times Nina Shapiro Live on Instagram, LaResistencia_NW's Maru Mora Villalpando describes reports from inside the Northwest Detention Center of ongoing security incidents including suicide attempts. Maru and activist Becca from Tsuru For Solidarity have joined detainees in a solidarity hunger strike.

📢New UWCHR Research Update📢

This NWDC Conditions Research Update shares context for the recent death at Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center.

Read the full update:
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ICYMI: McKenzie Funk 's article detailing the work of monitoring deportation flights in WA state, incl. hearing from LaResistencia_NW, Thcartwright from Witness At The Border, Tsuru For Solidarity, and more.

Learn more about UWCHR's research on ICE Air in WA state:
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'The observations can serve as 'a check on ICE in case they do put out numbers,' Shikuma [of Tsuru For Solidarity ] says. 'If they say, 'We've only deported 25 people in the last two months,' we can say, 'Well, we counted 85 in the last two weeks.'''

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Any anti-immigrant concession is unacceptable & a betrayal of our values as a country. Call your member of Congress to reject efforts that would gut asylum protections & expand use of rapid deportation proceedings for immigrants #SaveAsylum

Take action: wwdignity.org/NoTradeOffs

TODAY | Leaders of progressive orgs across the U.S. are going to DC to demand that Congress & President Biden #DemilitarizeTheBorder & #DivestFromDeath . 

Hear why Setareh Ghandehari (@setareh_june ), DWN’s advocacy director is going. #CeasefireNow

Learn more: PeopleDemand.org

Amazing news! .Governor Kathy Hochul is signing the reparations bill into law-- this new law will establish a commission to study Black reparations and the linger impact of slavery!

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📢 Right now, President Biden and members of Congress are negotiating away the right to seek asylum & giving billions of dollars to ICE and CBP to jail, surveil, & deport immigrant communities.⚡️Join us in a power hour on TODAY 12/14 at 3 PM ET!

➡️Take action: bit.ly/dhij23

Biden Adminstration is proposing the most restrictive US immigration laws since the 1920s in exchange for more war funding. A shameful new low.
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