CALL TO ACTION #718: Stop the Abuse, End Refugee Prison Camps (July 10, 2019)
STOP THE ABUSE, END REFUGEE PRISON CAMPS
What does $775.00 buy? It can pay for a night in a deluxe room at Trump’s DC hotel and three nice meals. Or it can go per day, per person, to a detention camp for refugees.
- For a few feet of space on a cement floor in unsanitary conditions
- With perhaps a blanket
- No bed
- No soap
- No clean clothes
- With inadequate food, clean water or medical care
- With guards who make brutally racist posts on Facebook, separate young children from adult family members, and leave them in the care of slightly older children
Running detention centers is very profitable. You and I have already paid the GEO Group, a for-profit prison corporation, $500 million for running refugee detention centers since Trump instituted “zero tolerance.” They, in turn, spent $2.8 million on campaign contributions and lobbying last year.
Children are still being separated from parents and family, who desperately want to care for them. They are being imprisoned in traumatic conditions that are not only physically but psychologically and developmentally damaging.
This abuse is deliberately encouraged by this administration as a deterrent to immigration, enabled by Republicans in Congress, and is an impeachable offense.
It must be investigated and stopped.
Call now.
PLAN TO ATTEND A “LIGHTS FOR LIBERTY” EVENT THIS FRIDAY, JULY 12.
For additional information about Lights for Liberty and to find an event near you (Grants Pass & Ashland, see below), please visit their website: https://lightsforliberty.org
**ACTION ONE: CALL OUR SENATORS**
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR SENATORS WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
“My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [town/city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because . . .
…I am asking the Senator to demand investigations into human rights abuses at the border and to call for an immediate impeachment inquiry over the illegal conditions in these concentration camps.
SENATOR RON WYDEN
Portland: (503) 326-7525, DC: (202) 224-5244
Salem: (503) 589-4555, Eugene: (541) 431-0229
Medford: (541) 858-5122, Bend: (541) 330-9142
La Grande: (541) 960-7691
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/contact/
SENATOR JEFF MERKLEY
Portland: (503) 326-3386, DC: (202) 224-3753
Salem: (503) 362-8102, Eugene: (541) 465-6750
Medford: (541) 608-9102, Bend: (541) 318-1298
Pendleton: (541) 278-1129
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/contact/
**ACTION TWO: CALL COMPLICIT GREG WALDEN**
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WALDEN:
“My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [town/city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because . . .
…I am asking the Representative to:
- demand investigations into human rights abuses at the border
- support HR 1069, the Shut Down Child Prison Camps Act
- call for an immediate impeachment inquiry over the illegal conditions in these concentration camps
Thank you.”
COMPLICIT GREG WALDENDC (202) 225-6730, Medford: (541) 776-4646
Bend (541) 389-4408, La Grande (541) 624-2400
https://walden.house.gov/contact-greg/email-me
**ACTION THREE: BE AN ACTIVIST**
Visit the ORD2 Indivisible Event Calendar on a regular basis to keep updated on our local activities. Participate with us as often as you can.
July 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
https://ord2indivisible.org/event/non-ord2-indivisible-sponsored-event-rally-for-human-rights-close-the-camps-grants-pass/
Lights for Liberty: A Candlelight Vigil to End Human Detention Camps – Ashland
July 12 @ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
https://ord2indivisible.org/event/lights-for-liberty-a-candlelight-vigil-to-end-human-detention-camps-ashland/
Letters to the Editor Writing Session – Medford
July 19 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
SUBMIT EVENTS TO BE ADDED TO THE ORD2 INDIVISIBLE EVENT CALENDAR
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