Grass-roots, frontline network of mixed-status border abolitionist organizers in Chicago fighting to stop new detention centers in the region, developing popular education campaigns on the politics of so-called Immigration Reform, and rethinking migrant resistance from below, beyond and against the Immigration Lobby NGO complex. Building relationships with indigenous struggles, MDC organized conferences, info-sessions and active solidarity around rethinking the Southwest border as indigenous lands and border enforcement as militarized colonial occupation. MDC also authored several analyses of the expansion and normalization of detention and the ways “migration crisis” is produced and managed by the colonial state.
ANALYSES – TEXTS
The Border is the Problem – Resisting the “humanitarian” solution to Child Migration in Truth-Out
America’s “New” Border Crisis – in It’s Going Down – an extensive analysis of hoe repressive policies from both corporate parties and the NGO complex have manufactured the current detention crisis and the “lost” children at the border, as well as an overview of the Unaccompanied Alien Children program, the detention system that specializes in migrant children. Also PDF version here
Whose Immigration Reform? Cooptation and Resistance in the Wake of a Dream turned nightmare – text by David Feldman
FIGHTS
Stopping the Crete detention center – grassroots campaign to stop a new detention center proposed for Crete, IL – extensive campaign archive and press coverage
Hunger Strike for our Lives – a long-term organizing effort in solidarity with undocumented patients suffering from organ failure who are deemed “uninsurable” by the medical industry. Solidarity work around the hunger strike of patients on dialysis and family members of critically-ill patients denied medical attention or a screening for possible inclusion on transplant lists. https://moratoriumondeportations.org/call-for-solidarity/
- Organizing archive https://moratoriumondeportations.org/call-for-solidarity/
- Article in Al Jazeera
- Press coverage of campaign
Deferring the Bullshit – exposing the political interests and rhetoric of so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – archive
- Deferred Action 101– video publication for popular education campaigns, English/Spanish
- Press Coverage of our efforts
Whose Immigration Reform? -mobilizing abolitionist grassroots resistance to cooptation of migrant liberation movements by corporate bi-partisan legislation
- archive of campaign and campaign website with materials, links and background here
- Immigration Reform 101 – video for popular education , English video here