Never Again Action on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Never Again Action is a Jewish political action organization in the United States that uses civil disobedience and nonviolent methods to protest
Official site
Never Again Action is a Jewish political action organization in the United States that uses civil disobedience and nonviolent methods to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE's stated mission is to protect the United States from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration th ...
(ICE). The organization derives its name from the slogan 'never again
"Never again" is a phrase or slogan which is associated with the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides. The phrase may originate from a 1927 poem by Yitzhak Lamdan which stated "Never again shall Masada fall!" In the context of geno ...
' which is often used in reference to the Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
.
History
On June 24, 2019, Serena Adlerstein made an informal statement onFacebook
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin ...
about organizing Jews to protest immigrant detention centers in the U.S. Her Facebook network was politically active and soon afterward protests were organized. On June 30, 2019, around 200 people protested at the Elizabeth Contract Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey where police arrested 36 people for blocking exits. In Boston, On July 2, 2019, around 1000 people protested at the Suffolk County House of Corrections after marching from the New England Holocaust Memorial
The New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, is dedicated to the Jewish people who were murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
Description
Founded by Stephan Ross, a Holocaust survivor, and erected in 1995, the memori ...
, 18 arrests were made and the state declined to prosecute. On the 4th of July parade in Philadelphia, 33 were arrested for protesting. In July 2019, the organization blocked the doors of the ICE headquarters in Washington, D.C. On July 15, around 100 protested outside the ICE office in Atlanta, Georgia resulting in two arrests. On the 2019 Tisha B'Av
Tisha B'Av ( he, תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב ''Tīšʿā Bəʾāv''; , ) is an annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Em ...
holiday, protests were held in more than 50 locations in cities including Washington, D.C., New York, Houston, Salt Lake City, Boston and Baltimore. In New York city, 40 protesters were arrested at an Amazon store for protesting the company's business ties with ICE.
Actions
August 2019 truck attack
On August 14, 2019, several hundred protesters were organized outside of a parking lot by theDonald W. Wyatt Detention Facility
The Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility was established in 1993 as the nation’s first publicly owned and privately operated adult secure correctional facility and is currently operated by the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation. This spe ...
in Central Falls, Rhode Island, when an ICE employee drove his pickup truck into the protesters. The incident broke the leg and caused internal bleeding of a 64 year old protester. Immediately afterwards, ICE guards pepper sprayed the protesters and the guard who drove the truck was not detained. On August 15, 2019, the driver of the truck was placed on leave and he resigned the next day. The incident prompted an investigation by the Rhode Island Attorney General.
External links
Official site
References
Anti-fascist organizations in the United States Immigrant rights organizations in the United States Jewish political organizations Political organizations based in the United States Articles containing video clips {{Jewish-org-stub