PROTESTORS DEMAND PRIVATE COMPANIES STOP PROFITING FROM CONCENTRATION CAMPS, IMMIGRANT RAIDS AND IMMIGRANT DETENTION
Coalition Gathers at the New York Public Library (NYPL), Disrupts Soon-to-be-Revealed Corporation for Profiting from Human Suffering
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — September 12, 2019
CONTACT: Andy Ratto, 678–561–7248, info@closethecampsnyc.com
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2269316383166464/
WHAT: More than 500 protestors will gather at the New York Public Library (NYPL) to take nonviolent direct action against a soon-to-be-disclosed American corporation that is powering ICE’s racist raids, arrests, detainments and deportations. This demonstration is being led by Close the Camps NYC, which halted traffic on the West Side Highway on August 10, 2019. That protest publicly shamed real estate company RXR Realty for allowing ICE to covertly operate in an RXR building, where other tenants’ clients have unknowingly been put at risk by ICE’s secret presence there. The New York Police Department arrested more than 100 peaceful protestors at the August 10th event.
The target of this September 14 action is a Fortune 50 business that is doing business with ICE to profit from ICE’s human rights abuses. The target and precise location for this action will be revealed as the event begins and protestors depart the NYPL. This protest is part of an ongoing nationwide effort to demand that corporations do #NoBusinessWithICE.
WHO: New Yorkers who will not remain silent while ICE terrorizes immigrants and asylum seekers. See endorsement list below.
WHEN: Saturday, September 14, 12pm
WHERE: New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, Manhattan
#DignityNotDetention #NoBusinessWithICE #AbolishICE #CloseTheCamps
Website: https://www.closethecampsnyc.com/
Email: info@closethecampsnyc.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CloseTheCampsNY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloseTheCampsNYC/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CloseTheCampsNYC/
About Close the Camps
Close the Camps NYC is a coalition of groups and organizers working to close concentration camps in the United States and abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to demilitarize immigration processes.
Supporters of this action includes
ACT UP
Adhikaar
Bay Ridge for Social Justice
Brooklyn Resisters
Cosecha NYC
Code PINK
Earth Strike NYC
Empire State Indivisible
Fight Back Bay Ridge
FIRE
Freedom Socialist Party
Housing Works
Indivisible BK (INBK)
Indivisible Harlem
IWW NYC
MACC — Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council-NYC
Movimiento Cosecha (National)
New Sanctuary Coalition
NYC DSA Immigration Justice Working Group
NYCD 16 Indivisible
Outlive Them NYC
People’s Power Assembly
Revolting Lesbians
Rise and Resist
South Asia Solidarity Initiative
South Asian Americans Leading Together
Stand With Kashmir
Take on Hate
Tech Workers Coalition
XR (Extinction Rebellion) NY
