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From Harm to Liberation: A Faith-Led Action to Stop ICE Expansion 

Details:

📍 Location: the Gates of FCI Dublin Women’s Prison (corner of 8th St. and Arnold), Dublin 94568

*Accessible by BART ( 35 min walk / 5-7 drive away from Dublin/Pleasanton Station) 

📅 Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025

⏰ Time: 5:30 pm – 7 pm 

* Parking across the street at Santa Rita Jail.

*Accessible via BART (1.5 mile walk) A car shuttle will be available from Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station) Please request in RSVP form.

* Participants are invited to bring lawn chairs or something to sit on to ease prolonged standing.

*Restroom and vending machines available in the lobby of Santa Rita Jail.

As we move towards liberation and renewal in this holy season of Ramadan, Passover and Easter, join us in prayerful action to reject ICE’s plans, uplift women survivors, and demand a world without detention.

Love Demands We:

• Honor and uplift survivors of FCI Dublin
• Demolish and Permanently Close the facility 
• Reject all ICE Detention in Dublin 
• End the terror against immigrant communities
• Transform the land to meet community needs

This action will be a sacred gathering of faith and resistance, featuring: Interfaith solidarity with Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Buddhist leaders offering blessings and reflections with live music and prayer.

🎨 ART BUILD – Monday, April 14 | 4–7 PM

Join us to co-create beautiful visuals to Keep ICE out of Dublin- for the vigil and other actions coming up!

📍 Location: Climate Justice Arts Project Studio
Bridge Art & Storage, 23 Maine Ave, Richmond, CA 94703

🅿️ Street and accessibility parking available

🎭 We’ll create banners, signs, and art to use at our interfaith vigil on April 16

☀️ Dress for outdoors and painting (aprons provided)

🍎 Snacks and refreshments available – bring something to share!

We need your support to keep the momentum going! YOUR financial support can help make this event possible and sustain the campaign to keep FCI Dublin closed!

Together, we will make sure that FCI Dublin remains closed for good!

Previous Action on March 1:

On Saturday, March 1st, over 500 individuals of community and interfaith leaders gathered in Dublin, CA, to stand firmly against ICE’s plans to reopen the notorious FCI Dublin federal prison as a detention center. The rally, held at the corner of Dublin Blvd. & Arnold Rd., was an unforgettable display of solidarity, as the community came together to say NO to ICE detention and demand the safety and dignity of all people.

Survivors of FCI Dublin and ICE detention and their loved ones shared powerful testimonies, exposing the horrific abuses inside detention centers: sexual abuse, medical neglect, retaliation, solitary confinement, and family separation. The message was clear—we will not allow FCI Dublin to be turned into an ICE detention center!

The rally gained significant media attention, including coverage from SF Chronicle, CBS, ABC 7, KTVU, KPFA (19:48 – 23:23) , and NewsWeek. We waved banners, held homemade signs, chanted, exchanged flyers, and committed ourselves to continuing this fight because the fight is far from over!

Download the flyer in English and Spanish:

Summer Celebration: Honoring Leadership & Embracing Transition 

Date: Saturday, June 21

Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM

Location: St. John’s Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
2727 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705

Join us in ritual to mark this co-executive director transition as we also celebrate YOU & all of the leaders who bring your gifts and power to the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. 

This gathering is an opportunity to honor the past, embrace the future, and uplift the collective wisdom to reimagine new ways moving forward. 

This event is also a fundraising opportunity to sustain and strengthen our work. Your support helps us continue building a more just and liberated future.

🔗 RSVP by June 18th: bit.ly/IM4HIsummercelebration

 This event is also a fundraising opportunity to sustain and grow our work. Your generous contribution will help fuel this next chapter of transformative, faith-rooted organizing. Will you help us reach our $25,000 goal? Every gift makes a difference.

September 25th – September 29th, 2024

FLYERS:

• Take Action, one doc in both languages
• Bakersfield/McFarland, in English and Spanish 
• Adelanto, in English and Spanish
• Calexico, in English and Spanish
• San Diego, in English and Spanish
• Honoring those who have died, in English and Spanish
• Set of all flyers

The 2024 Pilgrimage to End Detention: A Journey toward Freedom,  is an interfaith, spiritual pilgrimage as part of a multi-year effort to close the six remaining immigrant detention centers in California. On September 25th, we will launch this pilgrimage in Bakersfield and then travel to  Adelanto, Calexico, and end in San Diego. As we work with our host communities, we will support their local efforts to divest from cages and invest in community well-being and life-sustaining economies.   Our journey, led by directly impacted people,  will bring the stories of formerly incarcerated and detained people to immigrants, impacted families, and the broader community as we build our base for freedom and justice. 

During this pilgrimage we will bear witness to the sacredness of the land, the ancestors, and the preventable harm and suffering caused by immigrant detention in California. We will gather in reflection, prayer and action at six immigrant detention centers,  other carceral institutions and meet with local organizers along the way.  We will reflect on the impacts of settler colonialism on Indigenous peoples, the land, and the waters of California, and how this has paved the way for a carceral state that can and must be transformed.

The Pilgrimage is organized by the Interfaith Movement For Human Integrity, the Dignity Not Detention coalition, local community organizations, and the co-collaboration of each participant who joins us. We are inviting directly impacted community members, faith leaders, and organizational partners to gather together to undertake this journey. 

Questions?  Contact Matthew at mattleber75@gmail.com

Event flyers (PDF) in both Spanish and English can be downloaded here:

• September 25, 2024 – McFarland
• September 26th – Bakersfield
• September 27th – Adelanto
• September 27th – Norco
• September 28th – Calexico
• September 29th – San Diego