FW: Saturday, June 20th: Bring REVOLUTION to the Protest at the Hutto Detention Cente

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Subject: Saturday, June 20th: Bring REVOLUTION to the Protest at the Hutto Detention Cente
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:16:03
From: dorinda moreno <fuerzamundial@gmail.com>
To: jina gaytan <jina_gaytan@yahoo.com>,texasindigenouscouncil@yahoo.com <texasindigenouscouncil@yahoo.com>,Pedro Ruiz <pedro_ruiz21@yahoo.com>

compas, no doubt this will shake things up in texas.... i think i know
sofia, mentioned in the article below, met her way back when she was
in high school in los angeles. she's still with the paper, revolution,
i think i will call her and do a phone interview. let me know if there
is anything you wish me to ask. also, emilio is related to movement
family from way back with the chileno community.
allende lives!
dorinda

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From: emiliobateman@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:03:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Saturday, June 20th: Bring REVOLUTION to the Protest at the
Hutto Detention Cente
To: emilio bateman <emiliobateman@yahoo.com>

Friends y camaradas,
Join us in getting out the latest issue of REVOLUTION newspaper at the
Texas-wide protest against the concentration camp for immigrants in
Taylor, TX.
We need to spread the emerging revolutionary movement in this country
with this kind of uncompromising truth and analysis at the core. We
need growing networks of readers, writers, distributors, study groups
& work-shops training new revolutionary leaders & organizers.
Get in touch (Sofia / 832-215-8567) so we can make plans -- to get
there, and to get the paper into the hands of all who dream of a
different world...

World Refugee Day Protest at T. Don Hutto Detention Center Calls for
End to Immigrant Family Detention (See Web Site)

Organizers from across Texas joined by Amnesty International, LULAC
TAYLOR, TX – On Saturday, June 20th, organizations from across Texas
will be joined
by Amnesty International and National LULAC in a vigil honoring World
Refugee Day
in front of the T. Don Hutto family detention center in Taylor, Texas.
The day begins
with a noon rally and 1pm walk from Heritage Park in Taylor.
Protestors will hold a
vigil at the Hutto detention center at 1001 Welch from 2-4pm.

The vigil will draw attention to the plight of the immigrant families
from over 40
countries that have been incarcerated in the facility. Many are
refugees from Central
America, Africa, or Iraq fleeing religious or political persecution.
The T. Don Hutto prison is a for-profit private prison operated by Corrections
Corporation of America. In 2007, after a year of protests, the ACLU
and University of
Texas Immigration Law Clinic won a lawsuit settlement from Immigration
and Customs
Enforcement that improved conditions at the facility. However, that
settlement expires in
August 2009, and advocates are concerned that pre-settlement
conditions may return. ICE
has also proposed three new family detention centers across the
country, an effort that
family advocates and human rights organizations have decried as a step
backwards.

Activists are advocating for more-humane, less-costly alternatives to
detention programs
that keep families together and out of prison-like detention centers.
A study by the Vera
Institute found that more than 90% of immigrants on a supervised release program
attended their immigration hearings. The average cost of a supervision
program is $12 a
day compared to reportedly over $200 a day to detain a person at Hutto.
Advocates will call on the Obama administration, specifically Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE special inspector Dora Schriro, to
close Hutto and
end the practice of family detention. Advocates will also call on the
new administration
to uphold to international standards as they relate to immigrant an d
children's rights,
including ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Protestors are expected to join caravans from Austin, Houston, San
Antonio, Dallas,
College Station, the Rio Grande Valley, and Del Rio to join the World
Refugee Day
protest. A full list of endorsers, more vigil details, and caravan
information will be
posted at TDonHutto.blogspot.com.
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Press Release
For Immediate Release: June 20, 2009
Contact: Jay Johnson-Castro - (830) 734-8636
Jose Orta – (512) 365-2143
Bob Libal – (512) 971-0487

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Dorinda Moreno
Elders of 4 Colors 4 Directions
Hitec Aztec Collaborations/FM Global
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For!
<fuerzamundial@gmail.net>