Tomorrow afternoon, the Alameda Jail Fight Coalition will be joining our friends and allies from AF3IRM SF Bay Area at a noise demonstration they are organizing outside the West County Detention Facility in Contra Costa County. Organized in honor of International Women’s Day, the noise demo is in solidarity with all immigrants, especially those who have been separated from their families and loved ones by imprisonment and deportation.
The West County Detention Facility is the largest I.C.E. detention facility in the Bay Area, big enough to cage over 1,100 people. Even so, Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston recently applied for state funds to pay for a jail expansion plan that would add 400 beds to the already bloated jail system. Despite mass opposition from community members, the Richmond Board of Supervisors decided to greenlight the Sheriff’s plan. As a coalition committed to stopping the violent expansion of the criminal punishment system, we look forward to joining with our neighbors in Contra Costa, both inside and out, and breaking the isolation and alienation of imprisonment with our voices, with our chants, with our songs. Join us tomorrow, and make some noise. No borders, no nations, no cages!
We are organizing carpools to the demonstration that will be leaving from Oakland and Berkeley. Send us an email at acjailfightcoalition@gmail.com to connect with us for transporation support! For more information about the event, check out AF3RIM’s facebook event.
In community,
Alameda County Jail Fight Coalition
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