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November 9th & 10th-Shut Down Downtown Tacoma

author: Smash Tacoma ICE
Oct 30, 2007 19:48

Tacoma W.A has the biggest Homeland Security Detention Center in the North West! They have been tearing apart families, separating children born here from parents and loved ones that were not. Sixty-four people have died in these detention centers since 2004, and just recently about three hundred people were made ill from the food given in the Tacoma Detention Center. We want to show solidarity with those at the No Borders Camp down south who will be resisting the wall, detentions, capitalism and the institutions as well as trade agreements that are responsible for displacing millions of people around the world. We have had enough of this in our communities! Enough of these secret raids! We want this facility OUT of Tacoma!

Plan on being at S.17th and Pacific at around 11 o'clock am on Friday November 9th and Saturday November 10th. This will be the 'Green Zone'. Other forms of protest and resistance can start whenever and where ever those who plan them decide.

Downtown Will NOT have business as usual! We plan on shutting down the downtown area of Tacoma to send a very clear message that will be heard by all that we do not want this detention facility anywhere near us and our communities.

There will be a designated 'Green Zone' at S. 17th and Pacific on the corner and in the grassy park across from the art museum. In this area only 100% LEGAL forms of protest will be taking place! Bring puppets, musical instruments, signs, banners, creativity and passion. The rest of Downtown will be open to diverse and creative tactics!

But remember the 'Green Zone' is 100% legal and those in it should not feel obligated to join or participate in anything going on out side of that park and corner. But if you feel comfortable, fed up, and ready, feel free to join in or plan your own actions or marches with your organizations and/or friends and loved ones! Affinity groups welcome! Peaceful Protest Welcome! Street Theater Welcome! Direct Action Welcome!

Community members, immigrants, students, workers, radicals, every one of us! We all want to show Tacoma some thing diverse, effective and creative. None of us want this place in Tacoma or in our communities. And we all have different ways of protesting and resisting these institutions and laws that effect the lives us all. Lets support one another, show solidarity, and make this place that we cant stand disappear.


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