Perilous Chronicle

Documenting all acts of prisoner unrest across the US and Canada from 2010 through the present. Please contact us about events we've missed.

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We were lucky enough to get to talk to someone fresh off the front lines as they were heading home still exhausted from the battle with ICE agents desperate to maintain their fragile order. The following interview was a collaboration between Perilous and Living & Fighting.

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In response to a hunger and labor strike inside a detention center in Newark, NJ called Delaney Hall, hundreds have gathered outside the facility, providing material support to the resistance within by blocking ICE vehicles coming in and out of the jail.

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They reveal an immediately actionable abolitionist praxis in the face of ascendent fascism.

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“We’re not here for trouble… we’re just here to see our family members.”

Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a 10-year-old whose father is detained inside confronts masked guards, asking why they won’t show their faces.

WATCH @JordanChariton + @JonFarinaPhoto LIVE ⬇️

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🚨ICE arrests and drags protester outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ this morning on Day 5 of massive hunger & labor strike.

"These people are human beings! They're starving! This is America God damn it!" Via @JonFarinaPhoto. WATCH our livestream from last night 🔽

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On April 16, about 100 detainees went on hunger strike at the Moshannon Valley ICE Processing Center in solidarity with a detainee who had a medical emergency and did not receive adequate care. More information here:

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We are aggregating and archiving information on the hunger strike at North Lake Detention Center in Baldwin, Michigan here:

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"The food here is pitiful. I want the people outside to know, they’re treating us like animals. Everyone here has a family, a wife, a parent, a dad, a mom. Everyone here has people outside who care for them. We’re all humans.”

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“We have no answers to our questions, and everyone here has questions,” said Ahmad Alnajdawi, an immigrant from Jordan, incarcerated at North Lake, in a message shared on Tuesday afternoon.

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“I have a lot of people here who speak Arabic, and this is very hard for them. They cannot talk to the case managers they cannot talk to ICE officers; they cannot talk to anyone."

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The hunger strike at North Lake Detention Center in Baldwin, Michigan continues!

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“Today marks the third day without food,” said one participant, “...they are now also taking away our recreation time. We remain steadfast here; our unit has gone without eating for three days now, and we will continue to hold out.”

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Hunger strikes and work stoppages disrupt the operation of these facilities, making them unmanageable. Those who seek the abolition of immigrant detention and prisons more generally must support those disrupting these institutions from within.

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Outside demo in support of the hunger strike and work stoppage at Baldwin, Immigrant Detention Center in Michigan.

Supporters estimate that 200 people are now participating in the strike.

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Immigrant detainees in multiple units of the Baldwin Detention Center in MI began a hunger strike Monday, "citing dangerous conditions, a lack of adequate food and medical care, and cruel legal obstacles that have kept many in captivity with no end in sight" according to the PR.

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“We are being held prisoner arbitrarily. The majority of us meet all the requirements to be released, yet judges capriciously deny us bond and the basic rights to which we are entitled. We need to get out of here and to be treated like human beings.”