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March 6, 2026 · 12:47 pm

No Concentration Camps US

The administration is buying and retrofitting warehouses across the country for mass deportation.

No Concentration Camps US (NoCCUS.org).

No Concentration Camps US is a coalition of grassroots organizers and national groups fighting these sites. Sharing resources and strategy, we’re pushing back every day.

On Christmas eve, the Trump administration announced a plan to open seven huge warehouse facilities that would act as centers for final deportation out of the country. Set to house up to ten thousand people, these concentration camps would far outsize anything the federal government has ever run for detention. The largest detention facility at Fort Bliss (known as Camp East Montana) at its highest capacity only held three thousand people and it has been riddled with charges of human rights abuses and is now rumored to be closing. Also part of the mass deportation scheme are the additional sixteen smaller warehouse sites located throughout the country. They would hold about fifteen hundred people and act as feeder sites for the massive warehouses.

Communities throughout the US are fighting back recognizing that warehouses were never intended to house people. Some fight warehouses on moral grounds and some fight from practical perspectives over how they affect neighborhoods. Broad based coalitions have united to push back and have won some significant victories. Real estate owners have refused to sell and have walked away from selling to ICE. Communities have been energized to go before city councils and demand the use of zoning and permits. People have used their right of free speech to hold rallies and protests raising awareness and demanding their elected politicians act on their behalf. Political pressure has been used to cancel warehouses in at least two incidents. Now efforts are underway to target contractors and employers doing business with ICE. More victories may be on the way. But we recognize the fight will be long and hard won.

Your support to these affected communities and on the national level make a difference. Awareness and education are key. Everyone has seen the violence on the streets in Minneapolis and elsewhere. ICE is active throughout the country. As the administration ramps up mass deportation and demands that this deportation system with warehouses becomes a reality, ICE will be forced to become even more aggressive in achieving its quotas which translates into more and more risky and violent behavior on the streets. This is not the America we want.

Your voice, your presence is needed more than ever. No Kings 3 is March 28th. No doubt the midterms will be consequential but we need you now too.

For more information about ICE warehouses, please check out http://www.NoCCUS.org

No Concentration Camps US (NoCCUS)

Once Upon a Time in America

Every day I do the social media scroll through countless postings and comments. I pause on things I’m interested in. Viewpoints I resonate with. Helpful tips. Oddball claims. But like most of you I suspect, I scroll past the vast majority bypassing the most outrageous—or not, given the day and my mood. Very little sticks. In fact, hour for hour, I can’t recall much of what I’ve actually seen. Such is social media.

Except every once in a while…

I remember recently seeing someone comment that their appearance before a town council meeting was successful because they didn’t vomit.

And that has stayed with me.

It speaks in the most immediate way to the times we are living in. How many of us, because of circumstances, are being pushed out of our comfort zones? Being propelled into action. But not just doing things. These are activities far beyond what we ever thought we were capable of. Engaging with life in purposeful way crossing previously defined boundaries of who we thought we were and how we thought we’d behave. We believed that life was a certain way and we reacted to it. We expressed ourselves allowing that these parameters were fixed. Ah, but we learned that those constraints were artificial and as they began to tighten, we had to redefine ourselves. Not everyone did though. Uncomfortably for us, some liked the constriction and applauded it. Even as our souls cried out, they begged for more. Independence was never a core part of their identity but safety at any cost was something they could always get behind.

We were never alike but we lived together during better times.

But now, they are scooping up brown people and putting them in cages. It makes them feel safe. Of course, they don’t use those words…

Some of us are protesting in the streets (not nearly enough of us), appearing before city councils, writing letters to elected officials, recording ICE activities, and countless other things to push back. Because we have lived during better times. When we look back, we know America was never that great and when we look forward, we see the future in terms of what it could be. An unexpressed promise of a dream of better, never achieved but always dangled to move as toward an ideal.

This week I wrote, “No Kings 3, March 28th” in chalk in the park several times. An impermanent bulletin board for those scared and too afraid. I wish more Americans would rise up. The next day, one of the writings was obliterated but three remained. Once upon a time in America.

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July 15, 2025 · 2:30 pm

STAND UP! BE SEEN!

I spend a fair amount of time on social media and since the election, people have been asking, ‘what can we do?’ A lot of us acknowledge just how deeply we are into totalitarian rule and the undercurrents that flow on the socials often combine bewilderment with despair. In fact, if you aren’t feeling that from time to time, I’m wondering about you as a person.

To the extent that I can, I try to remind people to show up for the protests. Those non-violent protests where 3.5 percent of the population take to the streets ALWAYS leads to change.* But I always add— eventually. I recommend joining the ACLU and doing all their email campaigns. They make it easy, and they have had major wins. But what else???

Well, here’s the pitch— I want you to imagine a different world. One that takes courage. One where you put yourself on the line. One where you’re willing to stand out and stand up. Ready??

I’m asking you to fly the RESIST flag at your house. Why? Why will this make a difference?

Because we need to take the fight against fascism into every neighborhood in America. We need to empower all those sleepy individuals who up until now knew that what they were seeing was wrong but felt too alone or too scared to speak up. We must be that first wave to act to empower others. To do the next right thing. As we look out across America, the real patriots are the resistors, not the false flyers of American flags who hide behind a history that never existed. Can you also fly the American flag? Yes! But only if you pair it with the resistance flag or banner.

Imagine that world where all of us stand together. Imagine a world where we push back against totalitarian rule and all its trampling of American freedoms. You want to know what you can do today? Get your flag up! Become a role model for your community. Be the change.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

*https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HB7JTHM?

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