And how did you crawl out
through bent wide bars?
Baton at your bruised back
and holding the hands of your children?
In orange, ragged, not enough food?
No balls inside, no light for days
while our children sat hands
wrapped on chains to swing,
drinking sunshine
and grass stains?
Did your grief smell like desert dusted snot
inside that black sack as you touched
his hot forehead with the palms of your hands?
~ copyright DRG 2007
Thank you,
Mlle. Omnisciente
Behind bars
A new sun arises today, on one life the night moves on. This is when a child is put away, for a crimeless punishment. A child who is locked away, whose only crime is being someone else's race. Born out right, as a citizen of a nation that we think is so great, how can we call it great if we put a child in a prison and throw their parents away to a country they ran away from, for a life of pride and happiness too. It doesn't seem right to me, to have a child locked away like a criminal that they will never be. How can it be, to tell the horrors of live be hind bars, to a life that is innocent and the criminals we face are now sweeping into the government. We should put them in the place of those children who are locked away for a crimeless reason.
Free the Children of Texas' Hutto Prison 's Blurbs
About me: The Shameful Problem:
Until the ACLU fought for a settlement this past August, the children at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, 35 miles northeast of Austin, lived in cells; they wore uniforms and received inadequate medical and educational services, were often cold and hungry, and were separated from their parents as punishment, and received only one hour of schooling per day and rarely played outside. Conditions have improved due to the court order, but they still live in prison cells.
They are guilty of no crimes, and endanger no one. Their parents, who are incarcerated here because they are seeking asylum after fleeing such circumstances as war, torture, political persecution and rape, or are accused of violating civil immigration laws, have committed no crimes. Many of the children are US Citizens.
Teachers at the center are not required to be licensed in Texas, and the state’s family welfare agency exempted Hutto from child care licensing requirements. Along with one other, less prison-like facility in Pennsylvania, Hutto is operated without official regulations.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the arm of Homeland Security that runs the two centers, relies on custody rules designed for inmates
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a for profit company running the majority of privatized prisons in the US, is paid 2.8 million dollars a month (7k per child per month or 84k per child per year) to keep these children behind bars.
It would cost less to put them up at the Austin Hilton with room service.
In contrast, putting a monitoring bracelet/anklet on a parent costs $660 per month.
In past years CCA has made political contributions to key Texas politicians, 100k to Tom Delay and 100k to Governor Perry. Overall, for profit prison companies contributed roughly 519k to state level political campaigns in one year alone. Lt Governor Dewhurt's cut was 53k, while House Speaker Craddick received 34.9k.
Why free the children when keeping them locked up makes so much money?
Who We Are
Free The Children are loosely knit, but highly motivated grass roots volunteers who are working to bring attention to the incarceration of these children and ultimately close Hutto down.
How Can You Help?
Just by reading this myspace page and the blog posts, you are helping.
The more you know about this horrible situation, the better you'll be able to communicate your outrage to others.
And that is how you can truly help!
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
Help spread the word!
Please REPOST bulletins.
Please encourage your friends to check out the blog posts, subscribe to the blog and to add Free The Children of Texas's Hutto Prison to their friends lists.
The secrecy and media black out surrounding this facility help keep it open for business.
Please consider writing your elected representatives in the House and Senate. For those in Texas, that includes state officials.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services issued Corrections Corporation of America a waiver normally given to Sunday Schools to operate here in Texas. Tell your representatives and senators to stop ICE and CCA from stealing chilldhoods to create corporate profits!
Who I'd like to meet:
People who understand incarcerating children for money is fundamentally wrong and are willing to speak truth to power to close this evil in the heart of Texas.
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
Please join us in doing!!!
Free the Children of Texas' Hutto Prison 's Friend Space (Top 39)
Free the Children of Texas' Hutto Prison has 3168 friends.
...peeace,what..s good on ur end? I upped a snippet of the new album sampler plus some new beatz...leave some feedback when u have a second...be blessed,stay positive!!!
Introducing our fantastic conference keynote speakers--Rosa Clemente and Charles
Cobb! Charles is one of the architects of the 1964 Freedom Schools in
Mississippi and has worked as a journalist for more than 30 years, co-founding
the National Association of Black Journalists. Rosa is a hip hop activist and
journalist and the Vice Presidential candidate for the Green Party in the 2008
elections. We are honored to have them speak at Free Minds, Free People. Please
note that we've made a small change in the schedule. Charles will be speaking
Friday morning and Rosa on Saturday morning.
On Saturday evening please join us for a Youth Poetry Slam featuring teams from Houston
and Austin. We are also inviting other youth conference participants to
sign up to be a part of a pick up team that will compete as part of the slam.
We will have a sign up for the slam at the conference.
osiyo my friend,
may your day be touched with
sunshine, your heart overflow with love, and your soul sing with
hope, may everything in your life sparkle with a radiance that comes
only from happiness..
Peace! Please help us spread the word about the FREE MINDS, FREE PEOPLE conference in Houston this summer! You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and here on Myspace!
Come support Liberatory Education! Rosa Clemente will be delivering the keynote address!
Just got a call from God, He said he lost an angel.. Shhh, I didn't tell him where you were, because I wanted to keep you forever :) Send this to all of your True Friends including me if I am one. I sent an angel to watch over you last night, but it came back. I asked, "Why?"... The angel said: "Angels don't watch over angels!" If one day you feel like crying, call me. I don't promise that I will make you laugh, but I can cry with you. If one day you want to run away, don't be afraid to call me. I don't promise to ask you to stop, but I can run with you. If one day you don't want to listen to anyone, call me. I promise to be there for you but also promise to remain quiet. But one day if you call and there is no answer, come fast to see me. Perhaps I need you. Send this to all your friends, no matter how often you talk or how close you are and send it to the person who sent it to you. Let old friends know you haven't forgotten them, and tell new friends you never will. Remember, everyone needs a friend. Twenty angels are IN Your World. Ten of them are sleeping.
www.HOPE-CARE.org From Stanford U and UC Berkeley: Anthropology, Dr. Tim White: “Anthony Marr's synthesis is formidable.” Paleontology, Dr. Carole Hickman: “…an extraordinary intellectual undertaking… a bold and eclectic piece of scholarship…” Geology, Dr. W.R. Evitt: “... an immensely logical construct… majestic in scope but intrinsically simple, satisfying and optimistic… important ideas with great potential for lessening the conflicts in a troubled world..” Zoology, Dr. Richard C. Strohman: “... original… thoroughly logical… might indeed fill a large gap in the way we think...” Institute of Human Origins, Dr. William Kimbel: “... a profound contribution... implications of great depth and breadth for the future course of human actions... too important to ignore..” Astrophysics, Dr. Vahe Petrosian: “… fascinated... very ambitious task…a beautiful synthesis… captivating... should be of interest not only to experts but to all thinking people of the world.” Philosophy, Dr. John Dupre: “... a highly intelligent, thoughtful man... incomparably more edifying...”
Did you know that your civil rights are hanging by a thread? What can we do to protect ourselves and our freedoms? theN3TWORK would like to announce the completion of Constitutional Rights, the latest episode in the yourTruth series.
Watch our show to find out if you still have all the rights your mama gave you! A must-see for EVERY American citizen!
Young Conservatives of Texas have invited Rush Limbaugh to Austin for their "Free Green Cards" rally.
Young Conservatives of Texas have invited Rush Limbaugh to Austin for their "Free Green Cards" rally. These idiots wil be protesting immigration policy. First they'll start be "tea-bagging Obama". They will have a large poster of Obama set up where people can throw tea bags at him. The second stage will involve passing out free sweet tea to anyone who would like some. They will have fliers folded up and attached to the cups via a rubber band as our form of marketing Young Conservatives of Texas. Last they'll build a replica of the U.S. Border. When people "cross the border" they'll get a "Free Green Card" and "Free Government Entitlements". The "Green Cards" will immigration statistics and facts about government entitlements. Event started around 11am on Tuesday and keep going until around 3pm, or until we run out of Tea.
Online Now!
Love and Light to you my friend have a great weekend<3
