The concentration camp in the Everglades is still going. So is the resistance.

Week after week after week, people of all ages and backgrounds have been showing up for a Sunday vigil deep within the Everglades, sending a message to the state and federal government that this outrageous affront to human decency will not be allowed to function unopposed. The coalition organizing these weekly vigils includes immigrant rights advocates, indigenous communities, civil rights activists, and people of all ages and backgrounds.

Arianne Betancourt’s father was detained during an immigration check-in appointment and is now languishing within the facility. Pastor Andy Oliver encourages locals from the area to join the vigil, and has even arranged bus transportation to get people there. John Reynolds is a Vietnam vet outraged by the violence within so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.” Lois Cohen is a 91 year old civil rights activist. Noelle Damico is the director of social justice at the Workers Circle, and helps organize the weekly event:

“One of the most rewarding parts of this ongoing resistance is that people are finding one another. They’re breaking their isolation. They’re coming out from their homes and their neighborhoods, and they’re saying, ‘I’m not alone in thinking this is wrong, and I’m not alone in wanting to do something about it,’” Damico said.

The incredible work of this weekly resistance event shows that our collective humanity is stronger than the inhumanity this administration seeks to force upon us.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)