On May 1st, a 30-day hunger strike came to a conclusion. It had a prelude of 72 hours of fasting begun on March 27th.
The fortifications, the walls that attempted to contain our participation, have cracked, and with ever growing unity we will finish knocking them down; the voice they initially struggled to filter out is now heard with greater firmness and clarity. With dignity, with self-respect, we are honored to signal that we are also present and that we add ourselves to the work yet to come until we succeed in NOT ONE MORE person added to the deportation statistics, and NOT ONE MORE FAMILY destroyed, and NOT ONE MORE IMMIGRANT with their American dream cut short and treated like a second class citizen.
Our voice is added to the single voice that is part of the echo that is heard in the White House and on Capitol Hill.
To those who join forces with this struggle.
To those who cry out in different plazas and streets.
To those who have opened their hearts to a just cause.
To those who add their pen, their voice, their image, their untiring support, their now inseparable company.
To the girls, the boys, and the youths who exercise solidarity and love of their peers.
TO ALL OF YOU, THANK YOU FOR NOT LEAVING US ALONE.
We will not let you down and we will carry out our contribution so that we signal to history, as many millions of immigrants have done before, that we too added to the strength and greatness of this GREAT COUNTRY.
We reiterate to Mr. President Barack Obama that he be bold and honor his word.
We send a signal to Congress to rise to the challenge of what is justly and morally asked of them.
NOT ONE MORE! YES WE CAN!
Collective of NWDC-T Detainees Petition on behalf of Hunger Strikers and latest press releases available at:
www.notonemoredeportation.com/2014/03/10/detention-hunger-strike/
