Shutdown Stewart County Detention Center (11-22-13) : Christina Mansfiel...

Christina Mansfield is an activist for social justice, a scholar, and the granddaughter of immigrants. She is a 2013 Rockwood Fellow for a New California, and her community-based and academic work is focused on immigrant rights and alliance building. Prior to starting CIVIC, Christina co-founded Detention Dialogues, a volunteer-run immigration detention visitation and community awareness organization in California. Her vision for Detention Dialogues and CIVIC is shaped by her academic research on the criminalization of immigrant communities and her desire to apply this knowledge to social justice initiatives.

http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellows/christina-mansfield

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More information about CIVIC may be found here:

http://www.endisolation.org/
https://www.facebook.com/endisolation
http://www.youtube.com/endisolation
https://twitter.com/endisolation

http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/visitation

Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) is a national nonprofit working to end the isolation and abuse of people in U.S. civil immigration detention through structured visitation combined with nationwide detention monitoring and advocacy. CIVIC was founded on the belief that true immigration detention reform can only be achieved through broad civic engagement. CIVIC is composed of an extremely diverse and experienced coalition of local community members, religious leaders, university students, and grassroots supporters. In 2012, CIVIC's co-founders Christina Fialho and Christina Mansfield were awarded the prestigious Echoing Green Fellowship, which is given to the world's top emerging social entrepreneurs. We invite you to explore our website, get to know us, and then join us to end isolation!

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More information about Anton Flores & the amazing work which he is doing with ALTERNA may be found here:

http://www.alternacommunity.com/
https://www.facebook.com/alternacommunity
http://www.youtube.com/user/AlternaMedia

https://www.facebook.com/antonfloresmaisonet

https://twitter.com/ANTONofALTERNA

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More about Georgia Detention Watch may be found here:

http://www.georgiadetentionwatch.com/
https://www.facebook.com/GeorgiaDetentionWatch
https://twitter.com/GaDetWatch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjHbjaHy2ZY

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CIVIC & ALTERNA are among a group of organizations which help support El Refugio at Stewart County Detention Center (a hospitality house part way between the town of Lumpkin and the detention center), the others being ACLU of Georgia (http://www.acluga.org), GA Detention Watch (http://www.georgiadetentionwatch.com), Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR: http://glahr.org) along with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (http://lirs.org) and Lutheran Services of GA's Volunteer, Congregation and Community Engagement program, Café Campesino (http://www.cafecampesino.com), & Koinonia Farm (http://www.koinoniapartners.org).

More information about El Refugio at Stewart County Detention Center may be found here:

http://elrefugiostewart.org/
https://www.facebook.com/elrefugiostewart

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The facebook events for this vigil/rally may be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/639727109382361/
https://www.facebook.com/events/216808995157834/

The SOAW stub for the event may be found here:

http://soaw.org/november/schedule/stewartdetention/

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Press coverage of the event may be found here:

http://www.wrbl.com/story/24048377/georgia-detention-watch-protests-stewart-detention-center

http://mundohispanico.com/news/2013/nov/27/piden-cierre-de-carcel-de-inmigracion/

An absolute must-see video about the detention center produced by Cuentame for Brave New Foundation should be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faaMM3zpuoY

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