We Closed Alligator Alcatraz. Now, We’ll Shut them all down!
Nearly fifty weeks ago, The Workers Circle came to the Florida Everglades to hold a vigil outside a detention facility where people were being held 32 to a cage, cut off from their families, disappeared into the swamp. We didn't know how long we'd be there. We only knew we couldn't be silent.
Week after week – through heat, rain, holidays, and heartbreak – we showed up. We brought families to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. We kept Alligator Alcatraz in the news until it became too morally costly, too politically toxic to survive. More than 5,000 people stood on that stretch of Route 41. Freedom vigils spread to 18 locations across the country. And this week, Governor DeSantis confirmed what we've been fighting for: it's closed. Permanently.
This is what sustained, visible, week-after-week organizing can accomplish. And we're not done. This administration sees Alligator Alcatraz as a blueprint and they're already replicating it. We won't stop until every inhumane detention camp goes the same way.
Please chip in $18, $36, or $72 today to keep the Freedom Vigils movement going and make sure this victory is just the beginning >>
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