gopiscrap
gopiscrap's JournalI am so pissed
I was supposed to go and serve for a month in a refugee camp in Greece. Right before we were supposed to go I was put on the no-fly list (second time for me) mainly for all the protesting I have done, pus in 1988 I was charged with inciting a riot when George Bush came to Tacoma to campaign for president) charges were dropped but the repubs hold grudges.
I lost a bunch of money because of flights etc...but the real thing that hurts is that I am not able to go.
The more serous part of this was that as this was happening the validity my US naturalization was being challenged. That not only enraged me, but scared the crap out of me. When I confronted ICE they not only had a listing of all 46 times I have entered and left the country, but also my alien registration card, my citizenship papers and the score on the test I took.
So folks, if you are naturalized and think you are safe, if you are a progressive activist think again.
On a side note, there were four others, who also didn 't get to go to a refugee camp that I know of this summer because of the same thing.
Tacoma Washington has the 1500 bed Northwest Detention Center
for Immigragtion and Deportation. Tonight we had a city cojncil meeting and of the 45 who spoke up not a single one suported the prison for immigrants. Outside there was a noise demonstration of banging pots and pans as in the tradition of Central and South American nations. The mayor and the city tried to shut the noise demonstrators down by locking the dors to city hall during a public meeting but the fire marsahll wouldn't let them.
It was a good evening in which we were to bring accross to the community the evil that is in our midst, shame the city for siccing the cops on us and wrecking our occupy settlement and also to hold officials who recive GEO prison campaign money accountable.
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Gender: MaleHometown: Frankfurt am Main
Home country: Germany
Current location: Tacoma, Washington
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