u/DadBodDorian

Hey friends. Some of you might be familiar with the deportation data project, a FOIA litigation project by faculty of UCB Law School and UCLA; and/or of coldCounter, a database built by the No Concentration Camps in CO coalition off of what has been acquired by that project.

We are in the process of expanding the types of analysis we can produce via GIS. By geocoding the addresses of all the individual facilities represented in the deportation data project's detention schema, we can produce geospacial visualizations like this map.

Legend:

• Symbols on the map represent facilities encountered in the data
  • clicking on a symbol will show you statistics for that facility from coldCounter's analysis.
• The transparency and bloom of the symbol is weighted by average daily population.
  • this allows you to visually see detention population density.
• Symbols representing local and state carceral facilities only show detainee data from ICE's detention records, not local or state law enforcement. From ICE's perspective they are treating them as their detainee.

Are there other visualizations like this that you or your org would like us to produce?

disclaimer: I'm aware that the lat/lon geocoding is not as precise as it could be for the addresses if you zoom in far enough, im 1 week into a 3 week bootcamp, i swear ill fix them. I'm also not 100% confident in the co springs address but it does correlate with other FOIA documentation.

Something we often see in various forms parroted in comment sections is how either all protest must remain safe, inclusive, and accessible; and in contrast, how protests with costumes and on overpasses is pointless liberal cope. That the only action is direct action.

This is not how NOCCC views activism in action. We recognize that this effort is great, the threat is real, and it’s already here. It requires all of us moving together in incredibly diverse ways.

Yesterday, visibility protesters from the Bridge Trolls in bright costumes grabbed the attention of vehicles urging them to take the next exit, where our coalition had identified to be the location of the FRDHOLD ICE hold room. A secret prison that has frequently violated numerous detention standards.

Meanwhile at the facility, activists engaged in direct action taunted the ICE employees working inside with megaphones and hung banners to draw further visibility to the site.

Both groups reported that the collaboration made the action stronger, with a number of individuals who work nearby relaying that they didn’t even know about the facility until the protests started happening and one local business telling the FRDHOLD hecklers “don’t stop until they’re out of here”

In the evening, we caravanned to Hudson to raise awareness of ICE and GEO’s plan to reopen the Hudson Correctional Facility as a for profit concentration camp.

Marshals and medics from PULSE kept the protest safe at every location.

Today IPT is speaking at the Centennial City Council to urge them to take the same steps Glenwood Springs has taken to enforce their zoning laws against ICE’s illegal use of their hold rooms.

Everyone has a part they can play. Things are happening, and it takes everyone.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk