Dec. 9 Vigil at NW Detention Center in Tacoma, WA 2-4 PM   
 

12/04/2006


Lady Liberty Bends Under Pressure of Tragic Immigration Policy
This Saturday, Dec. 9 the Backbone Campaign will again join activists from around Washington State outside the NW Detention Facility in Tacoma. (Read story from last month's vigil.) We will bring the 21 foot tall Lady Liberty and vigil from 2-4 PM. Join us to express your solidarity with and concern for not only the 800 people interned inside, but for the millions of undocumented residents who live and work in America under constant fear of imprisonment and deportation.

The criminalization of people who often live in this country for decades, provide services crucial to our economy, pay taxes, and often Social Security that they will never be able to collect is unacceptable. The US simultaneously undermines living wage jobs at home and economies around the planet through corporate designed trade agreements such as NAFTA, CAFTA, and the OFTA that create ever more economic refugees. Our so-called leaders then manipulate the increasingly desperate working people of this country, appealing to Americans' xenophobia, fear and latent racism to doubly rob us while they enrich Halliburton with contracts to build a system of private prisons. All this in a "Nation of immigrants"? There must be a better way.
(For ideas listen to our recent Conversations with Baldemar Velasquez and Elena Herrada.
Location of the Northwest Detention Center is tricky to find so print a map:
1623 E. J Street - Tacoma, WA (Google Map)

Contact the vigil organizers at: (360)752-3344 - notinmycounty@qwest.net
WWW.NOTINMYCOUNTY.ORG