{"id":104156,"date":"2019-07-16T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104156"},"modified":"2019-07-16T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:46:18","slug":"more-than-130-turn-out-for-vigil-to-end-concentration-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104156","title":{"rendered":"More than 130 turn out for vigil to end concentration camps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Members of Interfaith Matters, Indivisible Mohawk Valley, 1199\nSEIU Upstate and CNY Citizen Action gathered on Commercial Drive Friday night,\nJuly 12, for the local Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Concentration\nCamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event drew more than 130 participants from across the\nMohawk Valley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, lawyers and doctors toured facilities along the\nsouthern border holding migrant children, many separated from their families.\nThey found lack of basic nutrition and hygiene, serious violations of the law\nand asked a judge to order immediate inspections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In New Hartford on Friday, those attending carried posters\nin protest of the inhumanities being committed by the U.S. in addressing\nrefugees and immigration across the southern U.S. border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They then lighted candles in a silent vigil for all of those\nheld in U.S. detention camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe conditions of the border camps are as bad if not worse\nthan concentration camps.\u201d said local organizer Debbie Salema Lindon. \u201cThese\nare men, women, children, families who are seeking refuge. They deserve to be\ntreated better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The July 12 event was one of more than 700 events held\naround the nation and the world, covering five continents and bringing light to\nthe darkness of the Trump administration\u2019s horrific policies that violate basic\nhuman decency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local groups partner to support compassionate and caring\nresolutions to complex problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interfaith Matters, Indivisible Mohawk Valley, 1199 SEIU\nUpstate NY, and CNY Citizen Action partner to bring to light social injustices\nand to find solutions that reflect the shared value of honoring and protecting\nhuman rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interfaith Matters<\/strong>\nis an inclusive community in dialogue, covenantally bound by values and ethics\nof differing religious and spiritual traditions, committed to peaceful and\npeace-filled activities, service, and relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indivisible Mohawk\nValley<\/strong> is a group of concerned citizens who self-organize around events and\nprojects that strengthen their bonds and community with one another while\nstanding up peacefully and non-violently to the destructive, corrupt, and\nundemocratic ways of the current federal administration and its supporters in\nCongress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1199 SEIU United\nHealthcare<\/strong> is the largest healthcare union in the United States. With a\nmembership of 400,000 including retirees, its stated mission is to achieve\nquality healthcare, good jobs and social justice for all. 1999SEIU United\nHealthcare Workers East is the largest and fastest-growing healthcare union in\nAmerica. They represent over 400,000 nurses and caregivers throughout\nMassachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Florida. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNY Citizen Action<\/strong>.\nAn affiliate group of Citizen Action of New York and founded in Central New\nYork in 1997, CNY Citizen Action became an official chapter in 2018. Citizen\nAction is a grassroots membership organization that takes people power and\nturns it into electoral power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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