Friday, November 29, 2013
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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And you can encourage us to make more of these videos by following us on our social media sites:
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SOAW Vigil at Stewart County Detention Center (11-22-13) : Orientation
Sister Alison McCrary, Esq., of the National Lawyers Guild's Legal Observer program leads an introductory legal orientation, preceded & accompanied by Anton Flores as a translator.
More about Alison McCrary may be found here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/05/alison-mccrary-lawyer-nun_n_1253702.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqyf_Pag94k
More about Bill Quigley may be found here:
http://billquigley.wordpress.com/
More information about the NLG's Legal Observer program may be found here:
http://www.nlg.org/legal-observer%C2%AE-program
http://www.nlg.org/
https://www.facebook.com/NLGNational
https://twitter.com/NLGnews
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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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More information about El Refugio at Stewart County Detention Center may be found here:
http://elrefugiostewart.org/
https://www.facebook.com/elrefugiostewart
El Refugio is a hospitality house located at 655 Main Street in Lumpkin, GA -- right outside the gates of Stewart Detention Center. Its purpose is to serve the family and friends of men detained and, thus, separated from their loved ones.
Volunteers not only support families by offering hospitality on the weekends, but also by facilitating humanitarian visits with immigrants detained at Stewart Detention Center whose families or friends cannot visit; conducting outreach activities to increase awareness of immigration detention; & advocating for justice for immigrants.
El Refugio partners with several other organizations to fulfill our ministry; learn more about or get involved with immigration detention by visiting their sites:
ACLU of Georgia: http://www.acluga.org
Alterna: http://www.alternacommunity.com
Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC): http://www.endisolation.org
GA Detention Watch: http://www.georgiadetentionwatch.com
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR): http://glahr.org
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (http://lirs.org) and Lutheran Services of GA's Volunteer, Congregation and Community Engagement program coordinates monthly visits to El Refugio and detainees at Stewart Detention Center.
Café Campesino (http://www.cafecampesino.com) provides fair trade coffee beans for El Refugio to offer guests at the house.
Partners from Koinonia Farm (http://www.koinoniapartners.org) offer hospitality for family members needing a place to stay overnight during the week. Please call (229) 924-0391 and ask for hospitality.
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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/
_______________________________________________
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
_____________________________________________________________
And you can encourage us to make more of these videos by following us on our social media sites:
http://www.facebook.com/casaesperanzanj
http://www.facebook.com/groups/casaesperanzanj/
http://www.tumblr.com/blog/casaesperanza
http://www.linkedin.com/in/casaesperanza
https://twitter.com/casaesperanzanj
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110331423146816267627/posts
http://www.flickr.com/people/casaesperanza/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/casaesperanza
http://www.myspace.com/552664030
http://casaesperanza.newsvine.com/
http://digg.com/casaesperanzanj
And subscribe to our blogspots:
http://casaesperanzanj.blogspot.com/
http://immigrantdetainees.blogspot.com/
http://s-comm-nj.blogspot.com/
http://njaid.blogspot.com/
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Thursday, November 28, 2013
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