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Kerala followed a tradition of maintaining sacred groves (Kavu, SarpaKavu, കാവ്, സർപ്പക്കാവ് ) around their family homes and temples. These places were considered 'sacred', as Gods were supposed to bless them and the protection of this ecological haven was considered an obligation on the part of the society. Sacred groves have preserved many rare and endemic wild plant species, various endangered reptiles, animals, birds & numerous herbs having significance in the world of medicine, agriculture and industry. The ponds and streams adjoining the groves are perennial water sources too. In fact, every sacred grove is a perfect blend of fauna and flora which represents the ancient Indian way of conservation of bio-diversity. A place where Land, Religion, Myth, Culture and Civilization harmoniously blend together in a small space replete with greenery. There is an old saying “കാവു തീണ്ടിയാൽ കുളം വറ്റും”, meaning "The destruction of this greenery could lead to drought", which clearly shows the foresightedness of our ancestors. © www.gops.org, 2013, All rights reserved.
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The panel Margaret MacMillan, Warden, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Vice-President of the European Commission, Brussels, Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Brussels, Rob Wainwright, Director, Europol (European Police Office), The Hague, Witold Waszczykowski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, moderated by Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House, United Kingdom speaking during the session: Redefining Europe's Security Agenda, at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Witold Waszczykowski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, speaking during the session: Redefining Europe's Security Agenda, at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Margaret MacMillan, Warden, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, speaking during the session: Redefining Europe's Security Agenda, at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Students and alumni of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology pack Cook Stadium to cheer their Fightin' Engineers to victory over Hanover College on September 19, 2015 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Rose-Hulman has been ranked the top school in undergraduate engineering education since 1998 by US News & World Report.
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Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Chief Executive, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Switzerland, speaking at the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2018 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Paticipants during the session: Redefining Europe's Security Agenda, at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
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Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.
Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.
The panel Margaret MacMillan, Warden, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Vice-President of the European Commission, Brussels, Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Brussels, Rob Wainwright, Director, Europol (European Police Office), The Hague, Witold Waszczykowski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, moderated by Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House, United Kingdom speaking during the session: Redefining Europe's Security Agenda, at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Margaret MacMillan, Warden, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, speaking during the session: Redefining Europe's Security Agenda, at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.
Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.
Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.
Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.
Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.
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Writing Taken from the MTV RE:DEFINE SITE:
"After the overwhelming success of the inaugural RE:DEFINE event, we wanted to be able to offer more of you the chance to participate.
For 2012 we have commissioned one of the brightest emerging voices in print to create a stunning and extremely affordable editioned artwork exclusive to RE:DEFINE.
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Carved from a single sheet of linoleum, the process of creating the final artwork took almost 2 months. The edition is printed directly from the linocut block in collaboration with one of the world’s leading artisan printers, Pete Kosowicz from Thumbprint Editions, best know for their fine art etchings for artists including Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.
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Paths of Light, 2012
2-colour Linocut Print on Paper
109.22 x 99.06 cm (43 x 39 in)
Edition of 100
$250
Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.
Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.
Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.
Moderator Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House, United Kingdom, speaking during the session: Redefining Europe's Security Agenda, at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
A stone’s throw away from Angkor Var, the biggest temple in Cambodia listed as World Heritage by the UNESCO, not far from the quaint floating villages in the North of the country hides one of the few boutique hotels in Cambodia: the Alila Sothea.
Born out of the passionate love of a rich business man for his wife Sothea, the Alila Sothea has become the den of couples in search of an idyllic honeymoon. How could one not fall for the magnificent architecture of the hotel, the romantic pool, the both modern and traditional design and the spa introducing the pleasures of Asian massages?
For your stay, 39 rooms have been custom-made and equipped with a private balcony with an uninterrupted view on the central pool. For a memorable stay, Hoosta Magazine recommends the King Suite, inspired by the Khmer traditional houses: 140 square meters of high luxury, a private garden, a library, a spa fitted with a jacuzzi, those are the treasures this beautiful suite holds. Height of luxury: a personal butler is available to you 24/7 as soon as you arrive! There’s no doubt that the Alila Sothea gracefully redefines the notion of luxury.
A little extra: Nibbling on some tapas around the pool, taking a boat ride on lake Tonle Sap, admiring the sunset with your feet in the water.
Rates: From €95 for a Deluxe 1 King Bed to €260 for the Suite 1 King Bed.
Alila Sothea
National Road No.6,
Khum Svay Dangkum 17252
Siem Reap, Cambodia
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Had a wonderful interaction with Communications and Information Technology Minister of India Ravi Shankar Prasad and BJP IT cell. Led by Narendra Modi our party has redefined communications. Digital India - Power to Empower.
#DigitalIndia #RaviShankarPrasad #India #JaeyGajera #BJP #NarendraModi — in Mumbai, India.
Vintage photo. Marcello Mastroianni in La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960).
Film actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was Italy's favourite leading man since the 1950s, as well as one of the finest actors of European cinema. In his long and prolific career, Mastroianni almost singlehandedly defined the contemporary type of Latin lover, then proceeded to redefine it a dozen times and finally parodied it and played it against type.
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, in 1924. He was the son of Ida (née Irolle) and Ottone Mastroianni, who ran a carpentry shop. Marcello grew up in Turin and Rome. He appeared as an uncredited extra in Marionette (Carmine Gallone, 1939) and later appeared as an extra in Una storia d'amore/Love Story (Mario Camerini, 1942) and I bambini ci guardano/The Children Are Watching Us (Vittorio De Sica, 1944). He worked in his father's carpentry shop, but during World War II, he was put to work by the Germans drawing maps. During 1943–1944, he was imprisoned in a forced-labour camp, but he escaped and hid in Venice. In 1944, Mastroianni started working as a cashier for the film company Eagle Lion (Rank) in Rome. He began taking acting lessons and acted with the University of Rome dramatic group. In the university's production of Angelica (1948), he appeared with Giulietta Masina. His first real film credit was in I Miserabili/Les misérables (Riccardo Freda, 1948) with Gino Cervi. That year, Mastroianni joined Luchino Visconti's repertory company, which brought to Italy a new kind of theatre and novel staging ideas. The young actor played Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire, Happy in Death of a Salesman, Stanley Kowalski in Visconti's second staging of Streetcar, and roles in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya. He also acted in radio plays and had his first substantial film role in the comedy Una domenica d'agosto/Sunday in August (Luciano Emmer, 1949). In 1955 Mastroianni co-starred with Vittorio De Sica and Sophia Loren - an actress with whom he would frequently be paired in the years to come - in the screwball comedy Peccato che Sia una Canaglia/Too Bad She's Bad (Alessandro Blasetti, 1955) and later worked with De Sica again on the comedy Padri e Figli/Like Father, Like Son (Mario Monicelli, 1957). His roles gradually increased in importance, but for the most part, both the casts and crews of his projects were undistinguished, and he remained an unknown outside of Italy. Mastroianni permanently sealed his stardom in Italy, playing a timid clerk whose love is not reciprocated by Maria Schell in Le notti bianche/White Nights (Luchino Visconti, 1957). He soon became a major international star, appearing in films like I soliti ignoti/Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, 1958) with Vittorio Gassman. In this classic crime caper, he displayed a light touch for comedy, playing the exasperated member of an inept group of burglars. In 1960, he played his most famous role as a disillusioned and world-weary tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita/The Sweet Life (1960) with Anita Ekberg. La dolce vita changed the look and direction of Italian cinema. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "Throughout his adventures, Marcello's dreams, fantasies, and nightmares are mirrored by the hedonism around him. With a shrug, he concludes that, while his lifestyle is shallow and ultimately pointless, there's nothing he can do to change it, and so he might as well enjoy it. Fellini's hallucinatory, circus-like depictions of modern life first earned the adjective 'Felliniesque' in this celebrated movie, which also traded on the idea of Rome as a hotbed of sex and decadence. A huge worldwide success, La Dolce Vita won several awards, including a New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Foreign Film and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival."
During the 1960s, Marcello Mastroianni played in many great films and regularly worked with top Italian and French filmmakers. He appeared as the title character in Il bell'Antonio/Bell' Antonio (Mauro Bolognini, 1960) and starred in Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterpiece La notte/The Night (1961), where again his distanced, expressionless demeanour fit perfectly into the film's air of alienation and remote emotionality. He appeared in interesting films like L'assassino/The Assassin (1961, Elio Petri), La Vie Privée/A Very Private Affair (1962, Louis Malle) with Brigitte Bardot, and Cronaca familiare/Family Diary (Valerio Zurlini, 1962) with Jacques Perrin. Mastroianni followed La dolce vita with another signature role for Fellini, that of Fellini’s alter ego, a film director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a creative block while making a film in Otto e Mezzo/8½ (Federico Fellini, 1962). The film won two Academy Awards. Mastroianni won the British BAFTA award twice for his roles in the black comedy Divorzio all'Italiana/Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1963) and the deliciously funny three-part sex farce Ieri, oggi, domani/Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica, 1963), costarring with Sophia Loren. He and Loren starred together again in the equally amusing sex comedy Matrimonio all'italiana/Marriage Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica, 1964). According to Elaine Mancini on Film Reference, “Mastroianni's masculinity blends perfectly with Loren's exuberant earthy personality” in both these films. While he was to become known for playing Latin lover roles (which he spoofed in Casanova 70 (Mario Monicelli, 1965), his characters often were far more complexly drawn. They were not one-dimensional pretty boys; rather, beneath their handsome exteriors, they were lazy, world-weary, and doubt-ridden. Other films were La decima vittima/The Tenth Victim (Elio Petri, 1965) with Ursula Andress and the Albert Camus adaptation Lo Straniero/The Stranger (Luchino Visconti, 1967) with Anna Karina. Mastroianni won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for Dramma della gelosia - tutti i particolari in cronaca/Drama of Jealousy (Ettore Scola, 1970). In 1987, he would win the award again for Oci ciornie/Dark Eyes (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1987). Mastroianni, Dean Stockwell and Jack Lemmon are the only actors to have won the award twice. During the 1970s, Mastroianni continued to work in interesting films by prolific directors like Leo the Last (John Boorman, 1970), Permette? Rocco Papaleo/My Name Is Rocco Papaleo (Ettore Scola, 1971) with Lauren Hutton, Che?/What? (Roman Polanski, 1972) with Sydne Rome and La donna della domenica/The Sunday Woman (Luigi Comencini, 1975) with Jacqueline Bisset. He often worked with controversial director Marco Ferreri at Liza (Marco Ferreri, 1972) with Catherine Deneuve, La Grande Bouffe/Blow Out (Marco Ferreri, 1973), Touche pas à la femme blanche/ Don't Touch the White Woman! (Marco Ferreri, 1974), and Ciao maschio/Bye Bye Monkey (Marco Ferreri, 1978) with Gérard Depardieu. Other interesting films are Così come sei/Stay as You Are (Alberto Lattuada, 1978) with Nastassja Kinski, L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile/Traffic Jam (Luigi Comencini, 1979) with Annie Girardot, and La terrazza/The Terrace (Ettore Scola, 1980) with Vittorio Gassman. He played against his Latin lover image in Scola’s Una giornata particolare/A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977), in which Mastroianni's homosexual and Sophia Loren's oppressed housewife come together on the day in 1938 when Adolph Hitler was cheered on the streets of Rome during his visit to Benito Mussolini. His seemingly detached air was perfectly suited to satire as well, as he demonstrated in films as diverse as the historical drama Allonsanfàn (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1974), and La città delle donne/City of Women (Federico Fellini, 1980).
In the latter stages of his career, Marcello Mastroianni continued to take serious dramatic roles. For instance, he played the senior citizen who simply looks back on his past. In Stanno tutti bene/Everybody's Fine (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1990), he is an elderly man who is absorbed in his memories and who travels through Italy to call on his five adult children. In Oci ciornie/Dark Eyes (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1987), he gives a tour-de-force performance as a once young and idealistic aspiring architect who married a banker's daughter, fell into a lifestyle of afternoon snoozes and philandering, and proved incapable of holding onto what was important to him. His on-screen presence has also been directly linked to his earlier screen characterisations. In Prêt-à-Porter/Ready to Wear (Robert Altman, 1994), he was reunited with Sophia Loren, and at one point in the scenario, she recreated her famous steamy striptease sequence from Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Loren was as beguiling as she had been 30 years earlier, but Mastroianni was no longer the attentive young lover, so Sophia's seductive moves only put him to sleep. Mastroianni's appearance in two of Fellini's final features is especially sentimental. Ginger e Fred/Ginger and Fred (Federico Fellini, 1996) is sweetly nostalgic for its union of Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina, two of the maestro's then-aging but still vibrant stars of the past. In Intervista (Federico Fellini, 1987), he appears as himself with Anita Ekberg, with whom he had starred decades before in La dolce vita. Mastroianni's entrance is especially magical; the sequence in which he and Ekberg (who, he remarks, he has not seen since making La dolce vita) observe their younger selves in some famous clips from that film is wonderfully nostalgic. In 1988, Mastroianni was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the European Film Awards. He kept appearing in critically acclaimed films like To meteoro vima tou pelargou/The Suspended Step of the Stork (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1991), in which he was quietly poignant as an obscure man who may have once been an important Greek politician who had disappeared years earlier. Other films were Al di là delle nuvole/Beyond the Clouds (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1995) and Trois vies et une seule mort/Three Lives and Only One Death (Raúl Ruiz, 1996) with Anna Galiena. His final film was Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo/Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Manoel de Oliveira, 1997). Marcello Mastroianni was married to Italian actress Flora Carabella (1926-1999) from 1948 until his death. They had one child together, Barbara. Mastroianni also had a daughter, actress Chiara Mastroianni, with French film star Catherine Deneuve, his longtime lover during the 1970s. Both Flora and Catherine were at his bedside in Paris when he died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72, as was his partner at the time, author and filmmaker Anna Maria Tatò. According to Christopher Wiegand and Paul Duncan in their book Federico Fellini, when Mastroianni died in 1996, the Fontana di Trevi (Trevi Fountain), which is so famously associated with him due to his role in Fellini's La dolce vita, was symbolically turned off and draped in black as a tribute. His brother Ruggero Mastroianni (1929-1996) was a highly regarded film editor who edited several of Marcello's films directed by Federico Fellini, and appeared alongside Marcello in Scipione detto anche l'Africano/Scipio the African (Luigi Magni, 1971), a comedic take on the once popular Peplum, the sword and sandal film genre. Marcello Mastroianni has held starring roles in about 120 films throughout his long career.
Sources: Elaine Mancini (Film Reference; updated by Rob Edelman), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Jason Ankeny (AllMovie), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & March
October 9th 1:30 pm
Beginning at Peter Francisco ParkNewark, NJ
RIGHT NEXT TO NEWARK PENN STATION
Marching to and from:
Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall
356 Doremus Ave, Newark, NJ
Can't join us in Newark on Oct 9th? Sign the Petition www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 October 2011
CONTACTS:
Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ, 973-610-1684, kolearypcnj@gmail.com
Jackie Mahendra, Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights, Change.org, 202-222-8699, jackie@change.org
Cynthia Mellon, (Spanish & Portugese) Community & Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp., 862-755-9577 cmellon@ironboundcc.org
***PRESS RELEASE***
NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS AND FAITH LEADERS HOLDING EVENT TO OPPOSE EXPANSION OF IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT JAIL ACCUSED OF INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Residents of New Jersey To March to the Essex County Jail to protest freeholders decision to Put Revenue Before Human Rights in approving a contract to house immigrant detainees at controversial Essex County Correctional Facility and Neighboring Delaney Hall .
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Concerned New Jersey residents including members of Pax Christi NJ and more than 20 immigrant rights and religious organizations from New York and New Jersey will march from Peter Francisco Park in Newark, NJ, to the Essex County Correctional Facility on Sunday in opposition to a new contract with Essex County that would expand immigration detention at the jail and the neighboring privately run Delaney Hall to house up to 1,250 immigrant detainees. The jail has been accused of inhumane conditions including proximity to active polluters and toxic waste sites; restrictions on visits from family, lawyers, and clergy; concerns about adequate food and general safety; and a denial to access of medical services.
WHAT: March and Rally in Opposition to Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Detention Center in Toxic Waste Corridor
WHERE: Beginning at Peter Francisco Park (Adjacent to Newark Penn Station) in Newark, NJ, and marching to Essex County Correctional Facility & Delaney Hall, 356 Doremus Ave., Newark, NJ
WHEN: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Sunday, October 9, 2011
“The Essex County Executive and the Freeholders want us to believe that they can spin the misery of the immigrants in their custody into gold for the rest of the residents of Essex County, but they are perpetuating an environment in which profit is the primary motivator while shirking their responsibility for oversight,” said faith leader Kathy O’Leary, who launched an online campaign on Change.org. She and Pax Christi NJ, the organization she represents, are a part of a statewide coalition of organizations which has been engaging the chosen freeholders in private and public meetings since January, consistently asking that the no new contract with ICE be approved prior to completing a thorough investigation of allegations of human rights abuses and violations of NJ law at the jail and instituting a community review board to ensure facilities comply with all applicable standards.
Participants and the coalition members are hoping to send the message that New Jersey residents are upset with the Freeholders’ decision. A large coalition of faith groups is asking that the Freeholders ensure visiting hours that include evenings and weekends; contact visits for family members; no restrictions on visits, phone calls, and other contact with lawyers and clergy; adequate mental and physical health care; healthy food that complies with dietary restrictions and religious observances; unrestricted access to communal religious services; and regular outdoor recreation free from exposure to hazardous environmental conditions. The online petition on Change.org has already garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
Sunday’s event is the third major protest outside the Essex County Correctional Facility and Delaney Hall since Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its intention to partner with Essex County. The event is also the 13th annual protest against immigration detention by the immigrant rights group IRATE & First Friends, traditionally held outside the Elizabeth Detention Center. However, the protest is moving to Newark this year along with the detainees. The event is to take place just days after ICE completes transferring hundreds of immigrant detainees from the Elizabeth Detention Center to Delaney Hall and two years since ICE issued a report that was supposed to transform immigration detention from an unfairly penal system to one of humane civil detention.
ICE is saying the move to Essex is an attempt to improve conditions, but advocates disagree. “The policy of mandatory immigration detention is bad enough, but what ICE is holding up as the model of immigration detention for the entire country is a jail and a hastily partitioned penal facility next to active polluters and toxic waste in the middle of what is known as ‘chemical corridor.’ How is that an improvement? How can anyone call that more humane?” said Cynthia Mellon Environmental Justice & Community Organizer for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
The campaign is catching on and it is attracting the attention of national groups. “Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign to demand more humane conditions for immigrant detainees is impressive,” said Jackie Mahendra, Change.org’s Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights. “Change.org is about empowering anyone, anywhere to demand action on the issues that matter to them, and it’s been really incredible to see this campaign take off.”
Live signature totals from the Kathy O’Leary and Pax Christi NJ’s campaign:
www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
Featured Speakers:
· Carol Fouke-Mpoyo –Chairperson, Sojourners Immigration Detention Center Visitors Program
· Cynthia Mellon –Environmental Justice & Community Organizer, Ironbound Community Corp.
· Daniel Cummings – Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights
· Ed Martone –Executive Director NJ Association on Correction
· Maristela Freiberg & Moacir Weirich – St. Stephan's Grace Lutheran Community Church
· Anabela Moura Silva – Wilson Avenue School parents group
· Sally Pillay – Coordinator Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends
Live music performed by the Catholic Worker Band and spoken word/hip-hop ballads performed by The Peace Poets
The event is co-sponsored by: Action 21; Action for Justice Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist; American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program-Newark; Bergen County Branch/People's Organization for Progress; Casa Esperanza; Casa Freehold; CEUS; Community of Friends in Action, Inc.; Immigration Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey; Felician Sisters of Lodi; Ironbound Community Corporation; Middlesex County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Monmouth County Coalition for Immigrant Rights; NJ DREAM Act Coalition; Pax Christi NJ; Riverside Sojourners Immigration Detention Visitor Project; St. Stephan's Grace Community – ELCA; Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Justice Office; Social Responsibility Council of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood; Unidad Latina en Accion- NJ; Wind of the Spirit
Whether or not you can join us, please sign the petition demanding that the Essex County Freeholders revoke the ICE contract www.change.org/petitions/oppose-expansion-of-immigration-...
About Peter Francisco Park – It is a pocket park on the east side of Newark Penn Station. It is a triangular shaped piece of land that is bounded by Edison Place, Ferry St. and Raymond Plaza East.
Directions using Mass Transit From NJ and NY – take Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH or Hudson/Bergen Light Rail to Newark Penn Station.
Parking for the Rally & Walking to Peter Francisco Park – There is paid parking at the Edison Park Fast at 986 Raymond Blvd. The lot is about 2 blocks north east of Peter Francisco Park. Exit the parking lot and walk along Raymond Plaza East in the direction of Market St. Pass Mother Cabrini Park and the Ironbound Station Plaza, cross Market Street and you will be right next to Peter Francisco Park.
The March is 2.4 miles each way. We will head south east on Ferry St. We will walk about a ½ mile until we reach what is called “5 points” where Ferry St. Merchant & Wilson Ave all intersect. We will bear right onto Wilson Ave. Before the next intersection, we will stop in front of Wilson Ave. school (19 Wilson Ave.) to hear from member(s) of the parents group at Wilson School. We will then continue to walk south east on Wilson Ave. We will stay on Wilson until it ends at Doremus Ave. We will turn left on Doremus and end in front of the Essex County Correctional Facility at 365 Doremus Ave.