Day 5 of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence @16dayscampaign

Women held in detention are subjected to all forms of abuse. At the Irwin County Detention Center the medical abuse reported by a whistleblower is horrifying.

Day 4 of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Against Women

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Longtime witness, Maryellen Dunn, reminds us that "We Are All Interconnected" as she relates her experiences along the Texas-Mexico border with asylum seeking women forced to await their "day in court" in very dangerous border cities and a woman who has dedicated her time and talents to providing shelter and compassion. She recalls the woman that implored, "Please don't forget us."

Day 3 of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence @16dayscampaign

Femicide is a major issue in Mexico.

Witness: Thanksgiving

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I like to think of it as a harvest feast. Because thinking about Europeans arriving on the shores of a continent settled millennia earlier by earlier migrants—well, that flavors the food with the spice of conquest, subjugation, and genocide. Not an appealing recipe for turkey, or anything else.

Day 2 of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence:

"Availability of data on violence against women and girls has increased significantly in recent years, and data on the prevalence of intimate partner violence is now available for at least 106 countries." Learn more below and take action with "10 ways you can help end violence against women, even during a pandemic."

Day 1 of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence @16dayscampaign

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DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 16 November – please share for transparency

FINALLY, AT LEAST 2 BACK TO BACK HURRICANES SLOW ICE AIR (photo is Deportation Destination Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras)

Ø 17 DEPORTATION FLIGHTS. 4-5 FEWER BECAUSE THERE WERE NO FLIGHTS TO HONDURAS AND 1-2 FEWER BECAUSE ONLY 1 TO EL SALVADOR BECAUSE OF HURRICANE “Eta” AND “Iota.”

Ø 5 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

Ø 76 TOTAL FLIGHTS – FEWEST WEEKLY SINCE WEEK OF 31 MAY

Trump & Co step up deportations of Cameroonian and other African asylum seekers in flights operated by ICE contractor, Omni Air International.

Image: North Texas Dream Team

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 9 November – please share for transparency

HURRICANE AND HATE COLLIDE

Ø 25 DEPORTATION FLIGHTS IN SPITE OF 4-5 FEWER BECAUSE THERE WERE NO FLIGHTS TO HONDURAS AS IT WAS DEVASTATED BY HURRICANE “Eta” AND “Iota” MAY BE ON THE WAY.

Ø 9 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. 3 IN AFRICA: CAMEROON, DR CONGO AND ANGOLA

Ø 99 TOTAL FLIGHTS

Image: North Texas Dream Team

Time ticks on, making me ache with awareness of time’s limit for me. And ache with the larceny against us, the theft of our time and our lives, as we, starved for oxygen, await the end we are being denied. The end of this frozen grimace of an era, an era that hammered home the lesson that we never knew, that we thought we knew, but that we never knew: that tragedy is as human as hope, and that each breath delivers both.

Photo: @Allan Mestel

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 2 November – please share for transparency

Ø 21 DEPORTATION FLIGHTS IN SPITE OF 4-5 FEWER BECAUSE THERE WERE NO FLIGHTS TO HONDURAS AS IT WAS DEVASTATED BY “ETA” STORM AND FLOODING (see picture)

Ø 7 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

Ø 89 TOTAL FLIGHTS – ALMOST ½ DOMESTIC SHUFFLE FLIGHTS MOVING PEOPLE AROUND AS 3RD COVID WAVE RAGES

New Report: ICE Air Flights, October and October 2020 Year-to-Date

And here we are, beaten and bruised by a struggle we either were born into, or somehow got tangled up in, and now long too late to make our way out of. Some rely on hope, or faith. Some, like me, just pointing ourselves in the direction of a flimsy compass needle that trembles and flutters inside, feeling very much like heart palpitations. When there is comfort, it comes from the others that are also snarled and snagged so badly that they know any efforts to get out will only tighten the knots.

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 26 October – please share for transparency

Ø TIED FOR THE 2nd HIGHEST DEPORTATION WEEK OF THE YEAR AT 31

Ø 10 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

Ø We continue to believe the ICE Air ramp up over the last 5 weeks reflects more T-42 (CDC order) expulsions by air.

Ø 127 TOTAL FLIGHTS – 5TH week in a row over 100 per week.

All of humanity suffers. At times, intensely. And even in those moments we do not, suffering is always available to us, because we have that lamentably human propensity to share the suffering of others.

The border wall, no matter how high they build it, will not stop the suffering.

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 19 October – please share for transparency

Ø We continue to believe the ICE Air ramp up over the last 4 weeks reflects more T-42 (CDC order) expulsions by air.

Ø 27 DEPORTATIONS - brings the 6 week to average to 25, up from 18 for the prior 6 week average. (note: includes people expelled under T-42)

Ø 7 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

Ø 106 TOTAL FLIGHTS – 4TH week in a row over 100 per week.

WE ARE ASKING THE WORLD FOR MORAL HELP AND LEADERSHIP. THIS IS WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION'S TERROR HAS BROUGHT US. PERHAPS THIS WILL HELP.

How do they justify it? To each other. Sometimes they just say it out loud. And you can get an idea about the shape it takes in their minds. Here’s one thing we just heard: only low-IQ people would be stupid enough to show up for their immigration court hearings.

Why is that considered a stupid thing to do?

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 12 October

Ø RECORD BREAKING WEEK OF DEATH FLIGHTS

Ø 34 DEPORTATIONS - THE MOST DEPORTATIONS IN ANY WEEK IN 2020, EVEN PRE-PANDEMIC (these include expulsions under Title 42 (CDC Order) - to 10 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

Ø 125 TOTAL FLIGHTS – 4TH HIGHEST WEEK IN 2020.

Image: “Crying for Freedom” by Laurie Cooper

It is tempting to imagine that we are living in end times. Those of us who are older and confined to quarters as the pandemic spikes might conflate our own fates with the fate of the world. The dead end in front of me could indeed be for me alone, or it might be for everyone. Those who speak of end times look for signs, and there are signs everywhere. Fires burning out of control, great storms, the pandemic itself. For me, the disappointments with the eruptions of age, flareups in body and mind, are signs as well.