About this campaign
We're a group of concerned neighbors ready to shut down the trailer prison in our Texas backyard.
What is Dilley?
Dilley is a concentration camp?a place where people are detained together (a "concentration" of people) for an unnamed time, most without a criminal record, due process, or access to quality of life basics available even in US prisons. Dilley is managed by a private company, Core Civic, which reports to its shareholders on how much it profits from each person held in captivity. Learn more about Dilley.
How will my purchase make a difference?
Proceeds will go toward an active coalition of organizations working to to Shut Down Dilley. Part of each purchase will also go to Each Step Home, which deposits money directly to detained moms' commissary accounts to purchase things like clean water and edible food. Please contact [email protected] for details and contact information for each organization.
Share our campaign:
#ShutDownDilley #ShutDownDilleyMerch #TXresistance #TXresistancebird
The resistance symbol:
Originally from the Star Wars show Andor, Minnesotans adapted the symbol to unite the state during the federal occupation, Operation Metro Surge. They used the loon, Minnesota's state bird. Wear the Texas Resistance Grackle to find others who aren't content to turn away from the targeting of our neighbors, families and communities.
Why the grackle?
Grackles are native to both Texas and Mexico. They seem to be in the background, but when they come together as a flock, people notice. Grackles are incredibly adaptive and their vocalizations are impossible to ignore. These are all qualities of scale and resilience Texas residents need in order to resist of authoritarianism and state violence.
A couple designs have been created using mockingbirds, but the image is the same for several other southern states. Texas deserves its own resistance symbol!
How can I help?
The first step for any of us must be to bring the situation at Dilley up in our everyday lives. "How are you doing?" "I'm good personally, but this situation at Dilley is weighing on me..."
Stay up to date with credible sources. If you don't see this news in your feed, like/share/comment sources until your algorithm improves. Create a social media account to share what you find out. Learn how to a witness and legal observer of ICE activity?simply recording from a distance (which is your right in the US) can change the dynamic of a situation. Get friends together for a fundraiser. Follow Blue Bunny Brigade for tangible actions anyone can join. You don't have to do everything. But we each have to do something.
Learn:
Connect to your local detention watch, anti-warehouse-prison movement, and mutual aid networks:
- Demand Congress pass the Ban Warehouse Detention Act, brought by Congresswoman Rashilda Tlaib on April 23
Understand the impact on kids:
Amplify Ms Rachel's campaign to get 1 million signatures to CLOSE DILLEY!
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