The Rev. Deborah Lee, executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity in Oakland and an immigrant rights leader, said Thursday evening that a proposal to “use people as political pawns is really loathsome.”
“But anything that would support getting people out of immigration detention and back into communities and into livable and humane situations — we would actually encourage that,” Lee said. “We would welcome their release, and we would welcome them here.”
Author: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Interfaith Immigration Vigil
“Compassion Has No Walls”
Passover Prayer Vigil by Congregation Beth El
This Friday April 12, 2019
11:30 am -12:30 pm
630 Sansome St. San Francisco
10 minute walk from Embarcadero BART and close to Montgomery BART too.
Join us as Congregation Beth El of Berkeley leads us with ritual and songs that reflect on the Jewish festival of Passover,a holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and our contemporary context where so many people in the world are refugees and migrants fleeing from violence, traveling vast distances and being denied entry.
Other speakers include:
Lewis Cohen of the National Center for Youth Law who will give an update about the sickening situation of immigrant children in detention centers. Their firm currently represents the class of over 10,000 immigrant children in federal custody, including children separated from their families
Also testimony from the Root Causes Pilgrimage to Honduras
On April 7, 2019 Rev. Dr. Larry Foy was recognized by AGAPE and Common Peace Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence “for being a place of Peace and standing for the principles of Nonviolence in our community.”
Words of Reflection from Dr. Foy
“I am personally invested in this work because I have a brother serving a life sentence without parole, commonly referred to as the “other death sentence.”
Life Without Parole, in a broader, sense is tantamount to imputing death to a web of relationships.
It is death to redemption and atonement.
Personally, I have died a thousand deaths, in the wake of my brother’s incarceration and in view of a penal system that extols cruelty and the dehumanization of persons under criminal conviction.
The faith-rooted community must join forces with directly impacted persons in helping to create a new paradigm and new alternatives to incarceration and the building of new jails and prisons.
The faith community must take concrete steps to atone for the tolerance and perpetuation of White supremacy.”
Congratulations, Dr. Foy on this recognition!