Tacoma, WA: Hunger Strike Inside the Northwest Detention Center

Report on hunger strike at the North West Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington.

La Resistencia  (formerly Northwest Detention Center Resistance), long-term organizers working in solidarity with undocumented people, have been rallying outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in cars with horns and drums for two days now in a show of solidarity with detainees on hunger strike.

Share this video of the #DerrumbandoFronteras #BreakdownBorders #hungerstrikers at the @NWDC! #ShutDownNWDC #FreeThemAll @GovInslee Act now! #ReleaseThemNow pic.twitter.com/kn1vOgy0Pa

— LaResistencia_NW (@ResistenciaNW) March 31, 2020

Over 80 people currently detained at the Northwest Detention Center are hunger-strike with 3 demands:

#HUNGERSTRIKE @ Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma!
"We want to be released because in here there's no protection from the virus…We are on hunger strike because we know it's not true that we will receive medical care here in NWDC”. #ChingaLaMigra #FreeThemAll #AbolishICE pic.twitter.com/KjZXwQkAIX

— LaResistencia_NW (@ResistenciaNW) March 29, 2020

La Resistencia is asking for people to call the Governor, state officials and the City of Tacoma to urge them to order the release of everyone detained at the NWDC and immediate halt of new transfers and deportations.

Happening now! Reports that bags of people’s property are already outside. This means ICE and GEO are preparing to load people onto the deportation buses #FreeThemAll #ShutdownNWDC #DerrumbandoFronteras #BreakingDownBorders pic.twitter.com/YBGpCvtCNg

— LaResistencia_NW (@ResistenciaNW) March 31, 2020