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Artists United
to End Immigrant Family Detention

Grassroots Leadership invites artists, musicians, and poets to help spread the word about immigrant family detention. For copies of logos, sample announcements, etc. visit the e-toolkit.

What YOU can do:

• Publicly endorse the Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention

• Make a brief announcement about the Campaign at your concerts and where appropriate, pass the hat and send contributions to the Campaign

• Write and/or record a song about immigrant family detention

• Put information about the Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention on your website and in your newsletters

• Include a link to Grassroots Leadership on your e-newsletters asking your fans to support the Campaign by joining the Action Team

• Mention the Campaign when you are interviewed on the radio or in other media

• Help create a multi-artist CD to be distributed to DJs internationally

• Include a note about the Campaign on your next CD asking folks to sign up and contribute at the Grassroots Leadership website

• Distribute or display campaign materials at your merchandise table

• Included logos, text, and tools from the e-Toolkit in your newsletters, website, and other materials


 

Immigrant Family Detention FAQ

Grassroots Leadership invites artists, poets and musicians to help end immigrant family detention. Send us your songs and poems.

Hutto by Si Kahn, lyrics (revised after recording)

People Once Were Welcome Here by Stephen Deasy, lyrics

The Razor-Wire Around the Golden Door
By Stephen Lee Rich, lyrics

View a slideshow of Guatemalan perfomance artist and poet Regina José Galindo’s America’s Family Prison. The artist and her family spent 24 hours in a T.Don Hutto cell replica.

 

Hutto Prison Blues

- Rebecca Write

an explosion of people come into this land

hungry for the milk and the honey

food, housing and schools fall into the hands

of those eager to work hard for money

it all seems so easy, it all seems so cool

then late in the night a whole family is gone

they work even harder and we pay for their prison

so we work even harder for the bilderberg group

to pay income taxes to the bilderberg group

for don hutto prison by the railroad tracks

 

 

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