By Mohammad Abdollahi, DreamActivist.org
November 24, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving, however you may celebrate it. So we have one piece of good news for the day, Jonathan and Isaac were released very early in the morning today. They spent a total of 10 days in the Basile immigration detention center, the first five days they were in a New Orleans prison.
The action they took part in was an intentional action to get involved with immigration authorities. We know many of you think it’s crazy but why not? Immigration thinks it has some power over our communities, they think they can hold us hostage with the threat of detention. So why not take the power away from them and let them know we can go to detention on our own terms. If we take the fear card away from them then what do they have to hold over us? What would it look like the next time a bill like HB56 were proposed and the community was actually willing to stand up to the racist legislators? That is a future we want to see. We eliminate the fear. We empower the community to stand up for themselves. We then demand change, our own change.
If you organize you are safe.
More information:
http://www.dreamactivist.org/blog/2011/11/24/isaac-jonathan-released-knockout-1-undocumented-youth-2/
Raw footage from inside the Mobile, Alabama Border Patrol office:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA54ErBfZ8E&feature=youtu.be
Ways to support Isaac and Jonathan:
http://action.dreamactivist.org/alabama15/
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