In what looks like a weekend of outrage . . . Right now we check a community call-to-action from cowtown political operatives dutifully transcribed by the KC Defender . . .
The facility is set to open June 1, against a national backdrop of the largest federal deportation campaign in modern American history and an unprecedented expansion of federal policing power. In a political moment where ICE is operating with impunity and city police departments across the country are being conscripted into fascist machinery, community organizations in Kansas City have been sounding the alarm that the World Cup Jail is the local face of a national project.
Now, a coalition of more than two dozen community organizations is fighting back.
On Saturday, March 28, Decarcerate KC will lead a campaign launch rally at Van Brunt Park against the $25 million “temporary” detention facility on Front Street that community members have come to call the “World Cup Jail.”
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
The Company That Built Guantanamo Bay Is Now Building Kansas City's World Cup Jail. A Coalition of 25 Organizations Are Fighting Back - The Kansas City Defender
The contractor building Kansas City's World Cup jail has been sued for human trafficking, found liable for poisoning over 100,000 people, and built the detention camp where the U.S. tortured prisoners for two decades. Decarcerate KC and 24 partner organizations are launching a campaign to fight it.
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