Sorry, getting political....Kids should be kids. Close Dilley
Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action. readthemhome.org (in two parts due to time limits)
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Advocates gathered in Dilley, TX to read aloud for every child and family held inside the South Texas Family Residential Center.
For the next 30 days, the movement continues. Join the #ReadThemHome campaign and demand an end to ICE’s child detention policy. Join us and take action➡️ ReadThemHome.org
hree women stand together outside near a fence, with a detention facility visible in the background. The woman in the center holds a red "Read Them Home — End Family Detention" sign. A photographer with a long lens camera is visible behind them.
A woman in all black stands at the same fenced perimeter, her hair blown by wind, holding a red "Read Them Home — End Family Detention" sign. A detention facility with white structures is visible in the background behind the fence.
Six people pose together in a hotel lobby. Two wear Little Lobbyists t-shirts. One person wears a shirt reading "Immigrants Make America Great." The group is smiling and dressed in a mix of casual and colorful attire.
A woman in all black stands at a fenced perimeter under a stormy sky, holding a red "Read Them Home — End Family Detention" sign from ReadThemHome.org. A "No Trespassing" sign is visible on the fence post behind her. A detention facility is visible in the distance.
Photos from our time outside the Dilley Detention Center as part of the Read Them Home campaign — bit.ly/readthemhome
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The American Gateways team is so proud to have participated in the #ReadThemHome campaign yesterday. We thank @10stepscampaign, @staceyabrams.com, and all the other amazing collaborators and organizations who supported this cause! 🌟🙌🏽
A few feet away from the metal fencing surrounding Dilley ICE Detention Center are several stuffed teddy bears and books, everything one would need for story time. Only this story time is symbolic, and a call to action for the children just a few yards away being held in the Texas detention center.
What is being done to kids at the Dilley Detention Center and in other detention centers across this country is not only wrong, but it is immoral. Join the #ReadThemHome initiative, record yourself reading a children’s book, and post it online to raise awareness. Visit readthemhome.org for more.
Happy to have joined the #ReadThemHome crew in this effort — many thx to @staceyabrams.com, @domesticworkers.bsky.social, @aft.org, @seiu.org,
@neatoday.bsky.social, and all partners
Special s/o to @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social & all the volunteers
The work continues —> bit.ly/readthemhome
“What we're trying to do is help focus not only the mind, but the hearts. If Americans can't remember that children do not deserve to be incarcerated and tortured, then our democracy is already lost,” says Stacey Abrams on raising awareness of the ICE facility detaining children in Dilley, Texas.
The Trump Administration is continuing to terrorize our communities and kidnap children who’ve only ever known the United States.
It’s heartening to see Rep. Castro and other House Dems keep the pressure on. We must bring all these kids back home, to their friends and to their books.
Chicano author David Bowles poses next to former Georgia House Minority Leader and children’s book author Stacey Abrams, who is holding a copy of David’s book MY YWO BORDER TOWNS.
In #Dilley, fighting to #ReadThemHome with @staceyabrams.com
#EndFamilyDetention · #InternationalChildrensBookDay · #BringThemHome
A msg from @elenahung.bsky.social — who is outside the Dilley Detention Center as part of #ReadThemHome
The trauma children in detention carry doesn't disappear when the cell door opens. The anxiety, regression, loss of language — that damage is real and it is lasting.
END FAMILY DETENTION!
Kids should be kids.💔 That's why SEIUTX Sec-Treas Cathy Martinez & @seiuhcmnia.bsky.social member Carmen Phillips are with @staceyabrams.com today for a 12-hr vigil & children's book reading outside the Dilley detention center where children are being held indefinitely.
🔴 Watch: ReadThemHome.org
A woman wearing a blue Little Lobbyists t-shirt reads aloud from a book in front of a branded step-and-repeat backdrop featuring the Little Lobbyists logo. A large teddy bear wearing a "Read Them Home" vest sits behind her. A sign reading "End Family Detention" is visible on a bookshelf to her left. A sign language interpreter appears in a small inset window in the upper right corner. Captions at the bottom read: "to the bakers. She bought a loaf of brown bed and five"
HAPPENING NOW: @elenahung.bsky.social reads children's books as part of the #ReadThemHome campaign.
Reading aloud offers a powerful contrast between the horrors of the Dilley #Immigration Detention Center and the beauty of letting kids be kids.
LEARN MORE: bit.ly/readthemhome
Concerned community members are showing up today for a twelve-hour vigil in front of Dilley family detention center to raise awareness about the hell that is detention for our migrant neighbors.
To tune in, check out the livestream going on now 🔗 10stepscampaign.org/read-them-ho...
Today, SEIU members are joined with our partners in Dilley, TX where children & families are being held indefinitely.
We’re launching the #ReadThemHome campaign—reading children’s books aloud for kids in Dilley and across the country who aren’t allowed to just be kids. Tune in: www.readthemhome.org
HAPPENING NOW: A coalition of organizations, authors, and advocates are coming together for International Children's Book Day and the campaign "Read Them Home: End Family Detention." In addition to this livestream, there is a vigil happening in front of Dilley Detention Center.
Join us today via livestream from 8 AM to 8 PM. Our American Gateways team will be teaming up with SA Stands to read at 2:30 PM. 📖 Kids should be kids. Close Dilley now. Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action.
10stepscampaign.org/read-them-ho...
#ReadThemHome
I’m outside the Dilley detention center today reading my book out loud to help #EndFamilyDetention ❤️🩹 Do your part. Read aloud. Share your video. Tag #ReadThemHome. Help us bring these kids home. @domesticworkers.bsky.social @fwd.us @neatoday.bsky.social @seiu.org
🚨 Call To Action-APRIL 2
📍Live Stream Online
🛑 Stop Detaining Children & Families
⏰ 12 Hour Vigil- 8 a.m. CDT
Join the protest using reading of children’s books as an act of care, resistance, & demand for change
📕 #ReadThemHome
Join the live stream on
readthemhome.org
TUNE IN NATIONAL VIGIL TO END FAMILY DETENTION DILLEY, TEXAS WATCH THE LIVESTREAM READ THEM HOME END FAMILY DETENTION www.ReadThemHome.org HANDS HOLDING BOOK
Kids should be kids. Close Dilley ❤️🩹
Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action. readthemhome.org 📖🏡
13 people have died in ICE custody in just the first 3 months of this year. These are human beings. Family members. Workers.
They want us to scroll past this suffering like it is normal. I refuse to let this kind of cruelty become background noise.
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Last week, I joined Glory Edim, and @shaniquam.bsky.social, for a great conversation about the power of storytelling and creativity to spark civic engagement. Thank you to the National Museum of Women in the Arts for having us and thank you to everyone who attended.
Photo credit: Mariah Miranda
I was in New Mexico this weekend and had some time to ask my friend @debhaalandnm.bsky.social a few fun questions...
THANK YOU, Albuquerque, NM for having me at your #NoKings rally today. So much energy and so many people saying loud and clear: NO KINGS 🚫👑
Step Three in KF Senior Fellow @staceyabrams.com’s 10 Steps to Freedom and Power is a reminder that organizing doesn’t have to start big.
Ensuring an open and honest government can begin with a small circle of people who trust one another, share what they know, and decide to act together.
Stacey Abrams Let's Us Know Why DEI is Essential!
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