ALERT: New Year's Eve Noise Demo & 60 Minutes CECOT piece

AMOR: New Year Eve’s Demo at the Wyatt Detention Facility

• Where: 950 High Street, Central Falls, RI 02863

• When: Wednesday, December 31, 4:30pm-6:00pm

• Join AMOR outside of the Wyatt to let folks inside know they are not forgotten! Demand an end to ICE detention at the Wyatt and across the country. Cancel the ICE Contract and Free Them All!

• Bring:

  • Posters/signs

  • Noise makers of any kind!

  • Water

  • Cough Drops

  • Hand warmers

  • Some friends!

• From AMOR’s post:

  • This past year we have watched members of our community torn from their families and thrown into the Wyatt Detention Facility to suffer the abuse and neglect of an institution that only cares about filling beds to pay its debts to its investors. We have met parents, siblings, children, partners, and family members who have had their entire worlds upturned in a moment due to the inhumane policy of indiscriminate ICE detention.

  • Detention facilities like the Wyatt are designed to create the conditions of suffering that incentivize folks in detention to sign voluntary deportation agreements simply to end their suffering sooner. At the Wyatt they use tactics like the deprivation of medicines, limited access to clean bottled water, limited access to clean blankets and clean clothing, and limited access to sanitary conditions of living. The Wyatt uses punitive responses to self-advocacy to suppress people from accessing care, like using solitary confinement in response to complaints and transferring folks who ask for their medications before they are able to receive them.

  • That is why we are gathering at the Wyatt to continue to demand its closure & an end to the unrelenting expansion of immigrant detention & prison infrastructure across the US.

  • We are mobilizing at the Wyatt Detention Center to demand an end to the ICE Contract! No more beds for ICE Detention! #FreeThemAll

  • While we gather together we will also continue our call for an end to the Occupation of Palestine and an end to the provision of US weapons and funding to a genocidal state! These issues are inextricably linked.

• Facebook post

Pulled 60 Minutes piece on CECOT accidentally airs on Global TV app in Canada; link below

As many of you have doubtless heard, a piece on the CECOT concentration camp set to air on 60 Minutes this weekend was pulled by Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief at CBS News. However, shortly after 4pm today, Jason Paris posted on Blue Sky that the segment was available on Global TV in Canada. The poster has since recorded the segment and uploaded it to iCloud, where it can be watched, downloaded, and shared. Please do so! Phil Lewis has also uploaded Jason’s video to YouTube:

If at any point the link is taken down by Apple or YouTube, feel free to email us at [email protected] and we will hook you up with a download. Alternatively, it appears that word is spreading online already; with any luck, multiple links to watch this piece will proliferate.