![]() ![]() Mike Mullberry at Great Falls, the Lights for Liberty Rally will be the following day, Saturday July 13 at 11:30 a.m. Event organizers include Billings First Church and Billings Sanctuary Rising and the Montana Human Rights Network For more information, please contact Rev. For more information, please contact Michelle Grabbe at Lights for Liberty Vigil begins at 7 p.m. Event organizers include PFLAG Bozeman and the Montana Human Rights Network. at the Gallatin County Courthouse, 205 E Main St. For more information, please contact Rachel Carroll Rivas at Lights for Liberty Vigil begins at 7 p.m. The event is organized by the Montana Human Rights Network. in Constitution Park (6 th and Last Chance Gulch) in downtown Helena and will feature songs, immigrant stories and voices of solidarity from the Indigenous and Jewish community. For more information, please contact Erin Erickson at Vigil to End Human Detention Camps begins at 7 p.m. Event organizers include Montanans for Immigrant Justice, Missoula Rises, Soft Landing Missoula, Montana Human Rights Network, and Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Missoula’s hour-long Lights for Liberty Vigil begins at 7:30 p.m. We demand our members of Congress and government stand up for what is right and fix this now.” Family separation is shockingly cruel and we refuse to accept that caging and abusing people is the solution. “We are gathering to shine a light on these human rights abuses, protest the continued family separations, and call for both transparency and accountability about conditions at the border camps. “Our current government policies for the treatment of immigrants and asylum seekers are inhumane and often illegal,” said Helena Lovick, co-organizer for the Great Falls Community Action Team. Five main events will be held in El Paso, San Diego, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Miami. The vigil is part of a national event on the same day called “Lights for Liberty,” a mass mobilization across the country bringing thousands of Americans to detention camps, into the streets and into their own front yards, to protest the inhumane conditions faced by refugees. Family to family, we encourage others to gather, write and call our senators now,” Montana matters, our senators control the purse strings keeping these children in detention camps. “We can’t just sit at home, trying not to look at the image of another child drowned from struggling to reach safety. Folks are horrified, sad and angry all at once” said Rachel Carroll Rivas of the Montana Human Rights Network, which is helping to coordinate events around the state. “The calls just keep coming in to our office. We also gather to demonstrate to our immigrant friends and neighbors, especially families already separated or fearful of separation, that we will not allow immigrant family separation to continue.” We refuse to accept that caging and abusing children is a solution to any problem in our country or on our southern border. “The traumatic consequences for these children will be long lasting. “Separating children from their parents or guardians at the US/Mexico border is a moral outrage,” said Laura Folkwein, Associate Pastor at University Congregational Church, Missoula, and acting chair of Montanans for Immigrant Justice (MIJ). detention and separation of families fleeing violence in Central America and elsewhere. In candlelight vigils on Friday, July 12, Montanans in seven cities across the state will protest cruel and inhumane U.S. ‘Lights for Liberty’ Candlelight Vigil Will Shine Light on Inhumane Detention CampsĬontact: for statewide information and to be routed to a local contact ![]()
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