Tacoma SDS

On October 24th at 7 pm at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, WA, United For Peace of Pierce County will be sponsoring a benefit concert for UFPPC and the GI Coffeehouse in Lakewood featuring the 4 member family singing group, Wickline. Bob Wickline has written a series of songs in response to the war, debt, corruption, and blatant attacks on public education, the environment, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, etc. The CD album, “Wake up…America!

Mexico-born Jose J. Cervantes-Corona was 42 when he died at the Northwest Detention Center 21 months ago. We never heard about it, but his death at the Tacoma tideflats facility is now suspected of having been preventable.

Cervantes-Corona is named in recently released and published documents showing how many "detainees" have died in U.S. immigration prisons: The New York Times last week reported that 66 names are listed in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data from 2004 to 2007, while the Washington Post this week reported 83 have died between 2003 and 2008.