Tacoma SDS

This weekend a Wells Fargo real estate office had its windows broken in solidarity with recent migrant detentions in Washington. There have also been other attacks against Wells Fargo and other profiteers in the immigrant detention industry along the West Coast. Santa Cruz, CA to name just one.

This Saturday also saw a protest against condo developer Mike Cohen in Tacoma, who fired and threatened workers with deportation when they raised concerns about unhealthy working conditions.

Here is the communique from Seattle.Indymedia.org:

An immigration mix-up puts a Lakewood man and U.S. citizen behind bars for seven months and almost gets him deported.

Rennison Castillo broke the law. He was punished for it. And he thought he had served his time. Instead, the last day of an eight-month jail sentence was the start of a seven-month nightmare that almost ended two years ago with Castillo – a Lakewood resident, Army veteran and American citizen – deported to Belize, a country he left as a child.

He spoke publicly about the incident for the first time earlier this month.

April 24 4 pm. Media Teach-In on Immigration Facility.

Join Tacoma Smash ICE with a media teach-in on Tacoma's own I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility located on the tide flats and the upcoming rally and march. On April 26th, at People's Park (9th and MLK Way), there will be a rally from 12 - 1 pm. Following this will be a march against the Northwest Detention Center and I.C.E.

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In 1907, more than two hundred South Asian migrant workers in Bellingham were attacked by a mob of white workers. In the course of one night, an entire community was driven from the town - in the approving words of a local paper, "wiped off the map". One hundred years later in 2007, hostility toward immigrants of color in Bellingham continues. Raids and detentions by government immigration agents are ongoing: so are surveillance and harassment from both government agents and groups like the minutemen. How have the events of 1907 shaped Bellingham as we know it in 2007?

November 9th & 10th-Shut Down Downtown Tacoma

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