Eyewitness Delaney Hall: Revolutionary Rehearsals

Rania Hatab of the Lower Hudson Valley DSA and Rockland Coalition to End the New Jim Crow and Jasmine Moody of the Liberation Center tell us first-hand about the battle to dismantle Delaney Hall.

Both Hatab and Moody were about an hour away finishing a screening and panel of the new documentary, "Across Enemy Lines: Shaka A. Shakur," when Hatab got word the main organizer inside Delaney Hall was potentially being moved. Working with those who had been on the ground since the illegal detention facility opened, both everyday supporters and organizations, the group hightailed it to defend those on the outside and amplify the demands of those on the inside. Those demands are:

1. Meeting with Gov. Mikie Sherrill
2. Release of the young, elderly, pregnant, and medically vulnerable
3. Allow doctors to examine everyone in unit 2A/2B
4. Freedom and an end to practices designed to coerce detainees from "voluntarily" signing self-deportation papers.

The mainstream media is focusing on the "violence" outside, perpetuated by the cops and the state, and we need to amplify the demands of those fighting the real violence on the inside.

You can read the letters to which Rania Hatab refers here.