New info page for event #5. Their posting is not on the list of “Lights for Liberty” events nor on Indybay.
Am including the resources from 2600 Magazine below!
Concentration Camps in the U.S. (Map)
https://concentrationcamps.us/
2600 Magazine has compiled a full listing of Customs and Border Patrol stations, a number of which are being used to imprison migrants, immigrants, and/or refugees, many of whom are children. In the interests of openness, we are sharing that info here. Please note that not every facility in this list is being used for this purpose, but many existing camps are either at one of these addresses or are being managed there. And the potential for expansion is ever present. This is also only a partial list of the total number of camps, as others are operated by different branches of the government, as well as by private companies. We will be updating it as we receive and compile more data. If you have additional info to add, please write towebmaster@2600.com or visit our SecureDrop page at www.2600.com/securedrop where you can find out how to anonymously submit info to us.
(For a listing of ICE detention facilities, click here.)
(For a listing of organizations running facilities for profit, click here.)
Friday, July 12 & Saturday, July 13
Monday, July15
“Lights for Liberty”
List of Events: https://www.lightsforliberty.org/localevents
A few local events:
1. Friday, 11:30am – 12:30am, Compassion Has No Walls: Mend the Past, Transform the Future
ICE
630 Sansome St.
SF
Join us in front of the ICE building for our monthly interfaith vigil! We will nourish our spirit and call for the dismantling of ALL forms of detention and incarceration. Let us turn our collective energy to mend the past, heal the present, and transform the future!
We resist the detention of immigrant children in concentration camps, like what was done in the past to Jewish communities, indigenous communities, and Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. We stand with members of the Japanese American community who are calling for the closing of all detention centers: “Never Again Is Now.”
Join us on Friday to hear powerful testimonies from:
** Ben Stern, 97-year-old Holocaust survivor (see below for article in KQED)
** Chizu Omori, 89-year-old World War II incarceration survivor
** Sindy Flores, mother who recently arrived from Honduras and experienced family separation
This vigil is a part of the national “Lights for Liberty” campaign happening across the country demanding an end to detention: https://www.lightsforliberty.org/
Sponsor: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
co-sponsored by: Bend the Arc, Tsuru for Solidarity, and Japanese American Religious Federation.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/437933363708869/
2. Friday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm, STOP ICE
ICE
630 Sansome St.
SF
Responding to the call for a week of action against ICE from July 8th to 12th, we choose to rally outside their SF office.
WHAT DO WE WANT? The camps closed, the families reunited, and immigrants left alone!
Sponsor: RISE UP JULY 12Th
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/349774258983604/
3. Friday, 4:30pm, Close the Concentration Camps: Bay Area Event
555 High St.
Palo Alto
On July 12, activist organizations, migrant rights groups, and community members will mobilize at Palantir’s HQ in Palo Alto. Palantir’s contracts w/ ICE make our mass detention of migrants in concentration camps possible. We demand justice NOW!#CloseTheCamps #AbolishICE #LetThemAllIn
If you or your group agrees with the call to #CloseTheConcentrationCamps, let us know. DM for questions or to join the coalition.
Sponsors: Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps – Bay Area + 15 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/671633279931276/
4. Friday, 5:30pm, Lights for Liberty – Oakland & East Bay Families
2301 Telegraph
Oakland
At 5:30 on Friday July 12, during Oakland First Fridays Art Walk, we will hold a family-friendly, educational, engaging, and empowering community building event against immigration detention camps. Kids and families will learn in an age appropriate way what is happening, connect to what’s happened in history like this before, and what they can do to take action in solidarity. Activities include paper airplane letters to families in camps, glass jar intention setting, and lemonade stand fundraiser planning.
at 7:00, at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater, please join us for a vigil to stand in solidarity with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and in protest of detention and family separations, followed by speakers. Together let’s be the change and stand up for compassion and human rights.
Partners: Alphabet Rockers and Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe
Organized by Solidarity Sundays, Bay Area Breadwinning Mamas, Teachers Take Action Against Gun Violence, & many others.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2196239710473300/
5. Friday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Close the Camps FREE the CHILDREN (Event page added on Facebook)
Meet at:
24th & Mission
SF
Join us for the National Day of Action to DEMAND that the United States of America’s Government FREE the CHILDREN and CLOSE the Concentration Camps. We ask that you bring a candle.
If you have any questions, please feel free to message us or call us; 415-206-0577.
Sponsor: A Day With Out Immigrants
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/350661735624572/
6. Friday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Bernal Hill Lights for Liberty
Location:
Bernal Hill
meeting the top if the hill by the swing and bench.
SF
Bring a candle and as many friends as possible.
Our Mission: FREEDOM
We are a coalition of people, many of whom are mothers, dedicated to human rights, and the fundamental principle behind democracy that all human beings have a right to life, liberty and dignity.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/421232188723264/?active_tab=about
7. Friday, 7:00pm – 10:00pm, Lights for Liberty San Francisco
Powell Street Cable Car Turnaround
SF
Our Mission: FREEDOM.
Lights for Liberty: https://www.lightsforliberty.org/
We are a coalition of people, many of whom are mothers, dedicated to human rights, and the fundamental principle behind democracy that all human beings have a right to life, liberty and dignity.
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.
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.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2321405664768515/
8. Friday, 7:30pm – 9:00pm, Lights for Liberty: Lake Merritt, Oakland CA
Lake Merritt Amphitheater
South side of Lake Merritt
Lake Merritt Boulevard between 12th Street and 1st Avenue (across the street from the convention center).
Oakland
join us for a silent vigil to stand in solidarity with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and in protest of detention and family separations, followed by speakers. Please bring signs and electric candles or flashlights for the vigil.
For families, earlier in the evening, at 5:30, we will hold a family-friendly, educational, engaging, and powerful protest against immigration detention camps at a separate location. Kids and families will learn in an age appropriate way what is happening, what’s happened in history like this before, how others have ended practices like this, and what they can do to stand up for everyone. Activities include paper airplane letters to families in camps, glass jar intention setting, and lemonade stand fundraiser planning.
Organized by Solidarity Sundays, Bay Area Breadwinning Mamas, Teachers Take Action Against Gun Violence, with support from many others.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/478734486196691/
9. Friday, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, Lights for Liberty: Marysville, CA
Yuba County Jail
200 – 216 6th Street
Marysville
In an effort of helping those who need rides. We want to encourage all of those who either need a ride, or can provide a ride to the event to please fill out the following form:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgeCneHAP_7qnaxcJ0PWIVh1Sl-2Iebdds0BwSZn-7D69IcA/viewform
Gathering around the country to say no to migrant detention. Please join us at the Yuba County Jail, which is contracted with ICE to detain approximately 170 immigrants, and is the last remaining detention center in Northern California.
Bring a sign or an electric candle, and come meet advocates and organizers from a number of local organizations engaged in the fight for migrants rights.
Sponsors: NorCal Resist + 11 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/358753358169130/
10. Friday, 8:00pm – 9:00pm, Lights for Liberty: Berkeley CA pedestrian bridge
University Avenue Pedestrian Bridge
Over Interstate 80
Berkeley
NOTE: The vigil will occur on the pedestrian crossing over I-80 (Not on University Ave.)
Indivisible East Bay is proud to join the wide coalition of groups presenting Lights for Liberty events! We will co-host an event on the evening of Friday July 12 with Together We Will-Albany Berkeley and El Cerrito Progressives.
We will gather on the University Avenue pedestrian bridge in Berkeley, over I-80. Please bring a candle for the vigil. (We have a few.) Large signs are preferred so cars on the freeway can read them until it gets dark. Signs should reflect the inhumane conditions of refugees, detentions, and camps. After dark, we will light our candles against this darkness in our count
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2924594807764801/
Saturday, July 13
11. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Lights for Liberty Rally for Kids at Migrant Detention Centers
Civic Center Park
2150 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley
The reports of torturous conditions for children at migrant detention centers demand our urgent action and attention.
Let’s come together as a Berkeley community – and in solidarity with the https://www.lightsforliberty.org/ National Day of Action – to demand that children are cared for in humane, sanitary conditions.
No human being is illegal and families belong together. Let’s turn out and send a message to Close the Camps Now!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2364561867164921/
Monday, July 15
12. Monday, 12 Noon – 1:30pm, Amazon: Cut All Ties to ICE! Amazon: Corten todos lazos con ICE
525 Market St.
SF
While Amazon launches “Prime Day,” offering discounts to its millions of customers on July 15th, we demand Amazon end its relationship with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and CBP (Customs and Border Protection)! Amazon has promoted it’s facial recognition technology “Rekognition,” to local law enforcement agencies and ICE nationwide, facilitating the use of the technology to target undocumented immigrants in a largely unregulated industry.
Join us for an action at 525 Market Street outside Amazon’s office downtown. bring your noisemakers, bullhorns, and signs for a protest of Amazon’s profits while thousands of children and families suffer in isolation in one of the hundreds of detention centers across the country.
Sponsors: Bay Resistance + 2 Other groups
