Amy Goodman
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700 Immigrants On Hunger Strike at For-Profit Prison to Protest Conditions & $1/Day Wages
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April 14, 2017
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7:40Now PlayingHundreds of undocumented immigrants are on hunger strike to protest the conditions and extremely low wages at the forprofit Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. We speak with Maru Mora Villalpando, an activist and undocumented immigrant with the group Northwest Detention Center Resistance and the group Mijente, and Alexis Erickson, the partner of hunger striker Cristian Lopez. Cristian was part of the hunger strike in the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, before he was transferred to a jail in New Mexico, where he is continuing the strike. He’s facing deportation to Mexico. Alexis and Cristian have three U.S.born children.
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