Alissa Escarce

Fighting for human rights, social justice and an end to racial profiling.

[NDLON @NDLON]

While LA protest continues, DC area blockaders are released from jail: #Not1more #ShutDownICE

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

Miami Area Police Chief Resigns Amid Racial Profiling Charges http://t.co/pok82QnLhq

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

"I am an exception because I was offered exceptional opportunities" @glennEmartin @USHRN #advancingrights

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

"All human beings deserve _________" Inspiring talk by Glenn E. Martin @USHRN #advancingrights

[Madhuri Singh Grewal @MadhuGrewal]

"If you care about #humanrights then #prisons are really the belly of the beast." -Glenn E. Martin @USHRN Conf fab keynote #advancingrights

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

Read "Prisoners of Profit" by @ashahshahahani at ACLU of GA to learn more about #dignitynotdetention #advancingrights

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

@JenniferInParis calls 4 changes in detention to protect immigrant detainees from sexual assault #dignitynotdetention #advancingrights @NIJC

[Catherine Tactaquin @ctactaquin]

Wasting tax money and violating rights: $1.84 b ask for fy2014 immigrant detention #advancingrights @NNIRRnetwork #dignitynotdetention

[The Center for Cultural Power @CultureStrike]

"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails..." - #NelsonMandela. #stopice #advancingrights http://t.co/CoYWnup3dn

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

The vast majority of immigration detainees have no history of violent crime @NIJC #dignitynotdetention #advancingrights

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

Language justice is crucial to upholding immigrants' rights #dignitynotdetention #advancingrights @USHRN

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

.@ashahshahahani on organizing GA against anti-immigrant laws, #racialprofiling & detention #advancingrights

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

Private corporations run 50% of immigrant detention beds, and they lobby a lot! @DetentionWatch @USHRN #advancingrights

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

Catalina from @DetentionWatch talks immigration detention and deportation @USHRN #advancingrights

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

In the Presence of Rocks: Border Patrol's Shoot-to-Kill Policy | North American Congress on Latin America http://t.co/sMAvzNRyYs via @@nacla

[Rich Stolz @rstolz11]

King County: No more immigration holds for low-level offenders http://t.co/xDx2q8WhTB @weareoneamerica

[Josh Breisblatt @jbreisblatt]

RT @fast4families: We are delighted to welcome @VP Joe Biden to the fasters' tent on the Mall #Fast4Families

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

Some jurisdictions have made private prisons illegal--why not DC? #racialprofiling #prisondivest #dccriminaljustice

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

Black DC residents arrested 8x more than Whites for weed--tho residents in white NW use weed at highest rate in the US #dccriminaljustice

[Alissa Escarce @Alissa_RWG]

"You need to have the citizens controlling the police" #dccriminaljustice