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sheshe2

(83,637 posts)
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 04:52 PM Jun 2019

Lights for Liberty



https://www.lightsforliberty.org/

We are partnering with national, regional and local communities and organizations who believe that these fundamental rights are not negotiable and are willing to protect them.

👍 On Friday July 12th, 2019, Lights for Liberty:

A Vigil to End Human Detention

Camps, will bring thousands of Americans to detention camps across the country, into the streets and into their own front yards, to protest the inhumane conditions faced by refugees.
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List of US & global Events at above link. As well as info for creating & documenting your own Lights for Liberty Event.

"The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'.
That's what the candle is for."


-PETER BENENSON, FOUNDER OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL


Informative link:

https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/detention-statistics



Freedom for Immigrants

Detention by the numbers
Where are people detained in the United States?

'Freedom for Immigrants' maintains the most up-to-date map of the U.S. immigration detention system.

The map keeps track of the more than 200 immigrant prisons and jails in the U.S. as well as the programs in our visitation network.

Click on the map to learn more.
Maps/graphs, details & statistic.

Lots of info here.
You wont find out about it on MSM.

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Lights for Liberty (Original Post) sheshe2 Jun 2019 OP
K&R 2naSalit Jun 2019 #1
Thank you, sheshe. brer cat Jun 2019 #2
Mahalo, she! Cha Jun 2019 #3
I have one very close to me and will not make it. sheshe2 Jun 2019 #4
Aww.. we'll be Cha Jun 2019 #5
Yep. sheshe2 Jun 2019 #6
K&R. nt TexasTowelie Jun 2019 #7
thanks, TT. sheshe2 Jun 2019 #8

2naSalit

(86,322 posts)
1. K&R
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 04:56 PM
Jun 2019

We should be doing like they are in the Czech Republic, everybody into the streets demanding the PM step down.

sheshe2

(83,637 posts)
4. I have one very close to me and will not make it.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 09:43 PM
Jun 2019

I have to deal with mom for 10 days straight, solo.

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