Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps

[FuzzyRabbit]

https://www.lightsforliberty.org/

On Friday July 12th, 2019, 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.

As of today, Lights for Liberty vigils are scheduled in seventy-five locations around the United States and the world, with new locations being added daily.

I will be there.

[Hekate]

1. I've looked it up. The nearest to me is an ICE office 14 miles away. There are events all over Calif

From Adelanto to Watsonville, from Livermore Labs to Huntington Beach, Castro Valley, and Fresno -- dozens of spots on the list, some named as detention centers, some county jails, some offices, and some just public spaces often used for protests, like Santa Barbara County Courthouse.

If I don't have a ride to the ICE office in Camarillo, I'll swing by the Ventura County Govt Center -- it's only a few miles from my home and the large campus occupies a busy corner, making it a favorite place for protests. There might or might not be something going on there. If there is, I'll join them.

I'm sick of the usual suspects at DU claiming "no one is doing anything" and "why aren't there people protesting right at the detention centers?" I just want to tell them: "Open your eyes Jack, and join the fck up."

[BigmanPigman]

5. I just checked it out...

Tons of sponsors and locations already. CA has tons!

[Midnightwalk]

2. I'll be there too nt

[sheshe2]

3. Thanks for this.

"The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'.
That's what the candle is for."

-PETER BENENSON, FOUNDER OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

I posted about this back in June. Few read it.

Kick and highly recommended.

I have one so close to me, yet can't make it. I am doing elder care, mom, solo this week.

I will light a candle.

[alwaysinasnit]

4. K&R

[ancianita]

6. Where is LFL's map of detention centers? I couldn't find it on their site.

They should provide an interactive one.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I believe the vigils will be in outdoor places to gather together.

https://www.lightsforliberty.org/localevents

I just checked out many of the places where vigils are planned and at least half are not near actual detention centers. I even saw a couple to be held in the daytime, like there is in Phila at 11:30 AM on Fri.

[ancianita]

10. Interesting. Thanks. I guess their locations are to raise public awareness more than to confront.

[Hekate]

8. I saw a long list, alphabetical by state & country; then alpha by location....

I did not go to their FB site, but just that much gave me what I needed to go on. My own state, and a town near me. I looked at the maps in my cell phone; pre-cell phone I would have used Google maps on my computer; before that I would have hauled out a phone book and a folding map.

You want a map of all the detention centers? Somehow I get the feeling Homeland Security and the private for-profit corporations involved don't want you to know and don't make that information easy to get. A network of journalists and volunteers have no doubt gotten us this far...

[ancianita]

9. Thanks for the search tips outside their site. I kinda figured the resisters would have a map, even

DHL doesn't want to make one public.