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"I’ve looked at mass civilian detention around the world. I’ve visited the facilities where people were held. I’ve talked to the people involved—those detained and tortured, those who supported camps, and those who stood idly by. It’s critical to recognize that each of the societies that has had camps underwent a lengthy process. This process is often easier to see happening in your own country if you first look at an example in another one.

My goal today is to warn you that the U.S. has already been seized by the same camp dynamic. It’s not that I’m trying to tell you that bad things are coming, and you have to look out for them. What I’m saying is that the camps have already taken root and are on a fast-track to get exponentially worse. We’re already deep inside the process.

Yet there is power in that knowledge, because in some big ways, we can know what will happen next. We have models for how other societies have moved out of our current perilous state. And we have a ton of tactics we can use to fight back against the expanding harm directed at all of us.

I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.

Today I’ll write about how a society comes to concentration camps, the process we’re already deep into, why the ways we’re talking about events in the U.S. may be unhelpful, and how we can undo it this mess." -Into the Abyss, Andrea Pitzer

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The hunger/labor strike has ended at Delaney Hall. They beat them, broke them up, and transferred them. Now they go back to business as usual with their slave labor & inhumane conditions. Will you let it continue? Or will you do something about it?

Caption copied from @sussexvisibilitybrigade on IG & FB.

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The retaliatory transfers out of Delaney Hall are not just logistical moves--they are calculated attempts to silence, isolate, and disappear human beings.

​ICE, DHS, and the GEO Group are scrambling to hide the evidence of their abuses, moving people across the country to strip them of their support systems, their legal counsel, and their connection to the outside world.

​Let’s be clear...

• This is not "voluntary" labor. When you are threatened with punishment for striking, that is not work--that is forced labor and modern-day enslavement for profit.

• The system is rigged. 90% of those detained have no criminal record. Regardless, everyone is entitled to due process and the presumption of innocence.

• These are concentration camps. They are operating in plain sight all over the U.S., profiting off human suffering while treating people like livestock.

​They are hoping you stay silent. They are banking on the idea that you won't care until it’s your own family being kidnapped. But we are all one race: human. The harm they are inflicting is meant to break spirits, but WE can help sustain those spirits.

​In New Jersey, advocates have been holding the line day and night to let those inside know they are not alone. It is time to replicate that urgency everywhere.

​Find a detention center near you. Show up. Make noise. Sing, play instruments, beat drums! Let them know we are there for them and that we are bearing witness to the injustice.

​We must locate those who were transferred, amplify their stories, and fight for their freedom. What are we waiting for?!

​FREE THEM ALL. CLOSE THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.