CLERGY AND GRAMMY-AWARD WINNING ARTIST RALLY TO FREE JEAN Supporters Demand Release of Detained Immigrant Rights Leader on Hunger Strike
9:56 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|New York City
5 Jan 2010I know it’s cold outside people, pero if you are in the NYC area and are able to, please represent.
WHAT: On December 30th, ICE detained for deportation to Haiti Jean Montrevil, a green card-holding immigrant since 1986, father of four U.S. citizen children and renowned immigrant rights activist. Two days later, Montrevil, now held in Pennsylvania’s York County Prison, has begun a hunger fast to protest the deportation and detention system that tears families apart. At the rally, Montrevil’s children will demand from ICE that their father be released and clergy will join youth in vows of fasting and other forms of resistance until the government releases Montrevil and the immigration system is reformed.
WHO: Janiah Montrevil, Jean Montrevil’s 11-year-old daughter
Janay Montrevil, Jean Montrevil’s wife
Additional children of immigrants facing deportation or already deported
Rev. Robert B. Coleman, Chief Program Minister at The Riverside Church
Dan Zanes , Grammy Award winning Family Music Artist
Over 100 community supportersWHEN: Tuesday, January 5th, at 12:30pm
WHERE: Varick Street Detention Center
201 Varick Street (at Houston Street)
New York NY 10014
- Tags: ICE, Immigraction, immigrant detention, Jean Montrevil
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1 Response to CLERGY AND GRAMMY-AWARD WINNING ARTIST RALLY TO FREE JEAN Supporters Demand Release of Detained Immigrant Rights Leader on Hunger Strike
Department of Homeland Security Halts all Deportations to Haiti | VivirLatino
January 14th, 2010 at 9:58 am
[...] am not sure but I am assuming that this includes the case of activist Jean Montrevil, currently in an ICE detention center here in downtown NYC. I am however not assuming that Haitians [...]