Tacoma, WA – The organizers of the action that stopped a bus and two vans from leaving the detention facility less than two weeks ago report that a hunger strike involving 1200 people is underway within the Tacoma detention facility to address the deplorable conditions in the Geo-run immigration jail and to call on the President to end deportations.
Earlier today radio station KDNA received a call on air from someone identifying themselves as a relative of one of the organizers of the hunger strike. It was later verified by people within the facility.
The group has obtained a photo of the strikers’ handwritten demands. It reads:
“Please contact the news.
There’s 1200 people not eating.
-Better food
-Better treatment
-Better pay
-Lower commissary
-Fairness
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