Working in Unity at the grassroots level to Free the Children

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Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 04:24:31 -0400
Subject: Working in Unity at the grassroots level to Free the Children


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Subject: Working in Unity to Free the Children

	When you see a baby crib inside the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, it is inside a small room, and before, there was no privacy. Now, instead of closing the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, the prison administration has made adjustments and changes physically due to demands to close Hutto. I know that I want a tour today of the facility so that I can write my opinion and maybe spend like a week inside to see how the immigrants are treated. I want to be able to not have privacy, eat what they eat, and write a journal into what I see everyday. To be contained in the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, I would have to ask permission by the prison administration. I noticed that they had a mailbox outside, and maybe I will write to them to see if they would let me stay inside for a week. Maybe I'm crazy, but how else are we to find out what we're protesting inside. Interviewing as many people and creating a Report! A report to question homeland security's procedures. When September Eleven happened, a report was made into the investigation of the events that led to that tragic day. The 9-11 Commission Report was made and the Department of Homeland Security was created. The Patriot Act took away our privacy and monitored everyone. We would rather fear terrorism and put innocent children in prisons for the cost of War. As long as the War is against Al-queda in Iraq, America will continue with its ICE raids, separation of families, and Guantanamo Bay prisons. A terrible rumor I heard this week is that Blackwater will be taking over security forces along the U.S.A./ Mexico border. Someone tell me it was just a rumor! Blackwater has a reputation in Iraq and soon the U.S. Border Patrol will be obsolete. Tell me it isn't true and just a rumor. We must end the War in Iraq and bring peace to the world if we are to ever free the children. Peace and War, such opposites, but feed on each other to find the balance that we try to live in harmony. I created this poster on May 24th 2008 at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center. It was one of my signs I carried at the demonstration that hot spring day. I hope many more signs will be made to combat homeland security's ICE and CCA. I hope that National LULAC will join me in solidarity to protest CCA and give back all the money to them. National Lulac Plan of Action to help liberate the Children by bringing a proposal at the Lulac National Convention and having a vote to have a nationwide protest at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center. Imagine that, an enormous protest by Lulac to fight CCA, and hand delivering their money back to them. A dream come true that only Jaime Martinez and Rosa Rosales can make it happen if they wanted to, since San Anto has a high number of Lulac members, and Austin, Houston, Corpus Christi, Arlington, Dallas, Ft. Worth. Imagine Texas strong, and finally leading the campaign against CCA and fighting for human rights. What is holding back National Lulac? These activists who marched from Heritage Park to the T. Don Hutto Residential Center on May 24th 2008 came from all over Texas. Many organizations participated as we awaited their arrival to the rally in front of the T. Don Hutto Residential Center. People from Taylor, Austin, San Anto, Houston, and Dallas showed up. I did notice the organizations present, Free the Children Coalition, M.E.Ch.A. de UT-Austin, Code Pink, Lulac Council #?, and many supporters like me and my family. I believe that whoever is organizing the demonstrations is doing a great job with public relations, the press, shade, bands, water and munchies. An awesome job to the organizers that day. I'm still writing about it after 4 days. Keep up the great work! This student from UTSA said that when the minuteman Chris Simcox arrived last year to the UTSA campus, Simcox was not welcomed. This speaker on May 24th 2008 seemed very proud that the racist minutemen were heard by people such as him and others at UTSA. The speaker's platform was set on a trailer where bands played from a generator to run off electricity for the amplified sounds. Very Organized! Especially from across the street, and shaking the walls of the T. Don Hutto Residential Center as bands rocked and rapped. Sounds of Liberation echoed the town of Taylor, Texas, that day. I hear that when Lulac from San Anto organizes a day to protest at the T. Don Hutto Residential, they let it be known that they are the only organizers of their protests. They get a huge bus with lots of people and pride themselves with only their date, and reject all other dates to protest. Why stop there? Why not work in unity and learn from the grassroots movement? ¡Sí Se Puede! Tlazocamati- Ollin Q