Speakers included representatives of Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere (FIRE), Houston Socialist Movement, the Brown Berets de Houston, Code Pink, Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS), the S.H.A.P.E. (Self-Help for African People through Education) Community Center, Familias Inmigrantes y Estudiantes en Lucha (FIEL), Refuse Fascism and Democratic Socialists of America.
Kofi Taharka, national chair of the National Black United Front, spoke loudly as he said, “A slave quarters on Emancipation Avenue? Hell no! Our community fought to get the city to rename this street from one honoring a Confederate general to one our ancestors would recognize: Emancipation Avenue.
“Emancipation Park on the south end of this street was founded by the Rev. Jack Yates and other newly freed slaves in 1872. We will not allow a prison to be on the north end of Emancipation Avenue. Black Panther Carl Hampton was assassinated by Houston cops on this street.
“Yes, immigration is a Black issue. Anytime the government talks about prisons, they are speaking about Black people. We are here today in solidarity with everyone who wants to stop this prison,” Taharka asserted.
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