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Dignity Not Detention Campaign

 

Take Action this Father's Day Weekend, June 14-16, 2013

  • Organize a teach-in or educational event about detention in your community
  • Organize a public action, vigil or march
  • Join an action in your community
  • Watch and share a video about detention

For more information and to add your Father's Day event to our calendar, e-mail Catalina Nieto at cnieto@detentionwatchnetwork.org

Stop Separating Families: End Detention and Deportation

Detention and deportation continue to tear our families and communities apart. In 2012, more than 400,000 immigrants were separated from their families and their communities by the detention and deportation system in the U.S. Meanwhile, Congress has appropriated $2 billion dollars for FY 2013 to continue to detain and deport immigrants. A great majority of those detained and deported are fathers, having a devastating impact on children and families.
 
But all across the U.S. people are standing up to say: Ya Basta! Communities are organizing to get people released from detention and hundreds are marching on the streets to demand for an immigration bill that doesn't leave anyone behind. As DWN, we want to make sure that we continue to be on the side of all of those in detention and stand alongside their families and communities, throughout the immigration reform debate and beyond.

Join a Father's Day Action in Your Community

TEXAS

Father's Day Caravan to Close the Polk County Detention Center

Saturday, June 15th, 2013

Facebook event page

GEORGIA

Father's Day Action at the North Georgia Detention Center

Sunday, June 16th, 2013

NEW YORK

Father's Day Vigil

TBD

ILLINOIS

Vigil at the Bradview Detention Center

Friday, June 14th, 2013 at 7:15 a.m.

Overview of Dignity Not Detention Campaign

In February 2010 the DWN launched its first organizing campaign, “Dignity, Not Detention: Preserving Human Rights and Restoring Justice,” which called for the restoration of fundamental human rights and due process in the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system. In its first year, the campaign supported organizing at local sites in Arizona, Texas and Georgia while engaging members in complementary education and advocacy efforts at the national level.

Today, the campaign has developed into a national organizing strategy focusing on the repeal of mandatory detention. For more information on the current campaign, our demands and how you can get involved, please contact: cnieto@detentionwatchnetwork.org