US Detention Centers & Environmental Justice

This episode draws connections between the prison industrial complex and environmental justice- Brown Girl Green sits down with Amanda Diaz from Freedom for Immigrants @migrantfreedom on instagram.

Here’s a petition from the Shut Down Glades Coalition to take action today:https://action.aclu.org/send-message/fl-tell-dhs-shut-down-glades-now

The list of books Amanda mentioned plus more if folks are interested: 

• “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis (PDFs can be found here on "The Anarchist Library" and here for a more book like version.)
• We Do This Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
• Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown 
• "Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement” Edited by Ejeris Dixon and LEah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• “Color of Violence” The INCITE! Anthology edited by INCITE! WOmen of Color Against Violence
• “Prison By Any Other Name” by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law
• "Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect” A Truthout Collection (PDF can be found here on "The Anarchist Library.")
• Abolition Feminism Now by Angela Davis

**Other Resources: ** 

• Let’s Talk About Abolition 15 week self-guided community course by Nikita Oliver
• Short history of immigration detention" infographic (Freedom for Immigrants)
• Interactive Immigration Detention Timeline (Freedom for Immigrants)
• Detention 101 (Detention Watch Network
• Why Abolition? (Freedom for Immigrants)
• The State of Black Immigrants (Black Alliance for Just Immigration)
• Detained: How the U.S. Built the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System (The Marshall Project)
• Immigration Detention Syllabus (Freedom for Immigrants)
• History of Criminalization Webinars (ICE out of CA)
• Immigrant Justice Now! Curriculum (Catalyst Project)
• Dismantling Detention webinar (Immigrant Legal Resource Center)
• Immigration Detention in the United States by agency (American Immigration Council)

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