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1st Solidarity Rally at Northwest Detention Center to Highlight
On-Going Struggle; Two Hunger Strikers Transferred to Out-of-state
Facility in Retaliation for Peaceful Protest<br>
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Detention Center 1623 E J St</big>, <big>Tacoma</big></span></big></big></font></big></big></big></big><br>
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style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tacoma,
WA -- This Thursday, from 12 - 1 p.m., a crowd will rally outside the
Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma in support of the peaceful
protesters held inside. May 1st will mark 56 days since detainees began
a series of hunger strikes in protest of their conditions and of the
record levels of deportations under President Obama. Ramon Mendoza
Pascual and J. Cipriano Rios Alegria, who continue fasting after having
been released from solitary confinement this past week, will address
the crowd through audio messages. Audio will be made available to media.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
rally will also highlight the family of Bernarda Pineda of Everett,
Washington. Ms. Pineda’s husband has been held at the Northwest
Detention Center since December 27 2013 following a minor traffic
violation, leaving Ms. Pineda to care for the couple’s four children on
her own. A phone call she made last week to local police to report her
car stolen nearly led to her own detention when police questioned her
immigration status, and handcuffed her in front of her four children.
Ms. Pineda will speak at the rally about the devastation immigration
enforcement has created in her family’s life. </span></p>
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style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As
supporters continue to rally support, new abuses continue to come to
light. </span><span
style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Miguel
Armenta Olabarria, a detainee living with HIV, Hepatitis C, and cancer,
remains detained and continues to receive inadequate medical care.
Instead of responding to hunger striker demands, which include improved
medical care, ICE has continued their retaliation against hunger
strikers. This week, upon completion of their solitary confinement
sentences (which were imposed for “participating in a group
demonstration”), Paulino Ruiz and Juan Negrete Mendoza expected to be
returned to the general population at the NWDC. Instead, the men were
taken from the facility and transferred to two different prison
facilities in Oregon that contract to hold immigrant detainees. The two
have re-established contact with their supporters in Washington State
and Oregon. Th</span><span
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rally on Thursday will highlight these and other stories of continued
struggle. </span></p>
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Rally in support of immigrants detained at NWDC</span></p>
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Thursday May 1st 12PM</span></p>
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Northwest Detention Center 1623 E J St, Tacoma</span></p>
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Immigrant families, supporters and allies</span></p>
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on behalf of Hunger Strikers and latest releases available at: </span><a
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style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.notonemoredeportation.com/2014/03/10/detention-hunger-strike/</span></a></p>
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to support the families of human rights hunger strikers:</span><a
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