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Sign the petition to stop immigrant child detention today and help us get 100,000 signatures!

As I stood across the street from the Homestead detention center for immigrant children, I tried to imagine what it must be like for the Central American teenagers incarcerated in this “temporary” shelter on federal land near Miami.

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Let’s make visible the domestic war on terror and work to end it once and for all.

As an anti-war activist and mother, for many years I’ve been acutely aware that we have been at war my teenage daughter’s entire life. March 20 is the 16th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. We are now living in a time when an entire generation of young people — including new Marine recruits and newly registered voters — have grown up with war as a routine condition.

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  • Read more about Workers impacted by ICE raid at Zion Market voice their concerns
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