{"id":43302,"date":"2019-07-17T23:58:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=43302"},"modified":"2019-07-18T23:09:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T03:09:07","slug":"never-again-is-now-we-locked-down-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/never-again-is-now-we-locked-down-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Again Is Now: We Locked Down ICE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I went to Washington, D.C., for the &#8220;Never Again Is Now&#8221; protest organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeverAgainActn\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#JewsAgainstIce<\/a> and immigrant-rights organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lahuelga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Movimiento Cosecha<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/neveragainphotowithsign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"664\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/neveragainphotowithsign.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/neveragainphotowithsign-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/neveragainphotowithsign-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of peaceful activists marched from the National Mall &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0CpvfRFjnE\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0CpvfRFjnE\/\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;\"><svg width=\"50px\" height=\"50px\" viewBox=\"0 0 60 60\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\"><g stroke=\"none\" stroke-width=\"1\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\"><g transform=\"translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)\" fill=\"#000000\"><g><path d=\"M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631\"><\/path><\/g><\/g><\/g><\/svg><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;\"> View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0CpvfRFjnE\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Yesterday\u2019s walk from the National Mall to the ICE building. #neveragainisnow #jewsagainstice #activate #protest #abolishice #closethecamps<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wendybrandes\/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Wendy Brandes<\/a> (@wendybrandes) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2019-07-18T02:32:44+00:00\">Jul 17, 2019 at 7:32pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and surrounded the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building with the goal of disrupting business as usual. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0CovoeF2rl\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0CovoeF2rl\/\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;\"><svg width=\"50px\" height=\"50px\" viewBox=\"0 0 60 60\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\"><g stroke=\"none\" stroke-width=\"1\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\"><g transform=\"translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)\" fill=\"#000000\"><g><path d=\"M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631\"><\/path><\/g><\/g><\/g><\/svg><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;\"> View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0CovoeF2rl\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">One of the leaders from yesterday\u2019s #neveragainisnow #iceshutdown protest in DC yesterday. Lizzy kept up this energy for the entire day in 90+ degree heat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wendybrandes\/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Wendy Brandes<\/a> (@wendybrandes) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2019-07-18T02:24:30+00:00\">Jul 17, 2019 at 7:24pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We succeeded! <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5d14f0695d00bf0001caac91\/t\/5d2faf73c126ea0001e4053a\/1563406195763\/D_sor10WwAARfqG.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An email from ICE&#8217;s Acting Director Matthew Albence<\/a> &#8212; leaked to <a href=\"https:\/\/tyt.com\/stories\/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA\/7FYIYXn2tPQdXeyhCVDBUg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Young Turks website<\/a> &#8212; confirmed the building was placed in a &#8220;lock down condition&#8221; as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/10-protesters-arrested-inside-ice-headquarters-in-washington\/2019\/07\/16\/f030bb8e-a7d9-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10 protestors were arrested in the lobby<\/a> while others linked arms to block the building entrances and stop traffic on streets. <\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_43308\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/linkedarms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/linkedarms.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/linkedarms-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/linkedarms-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The people with the linked arms were prepared to be arrested, but only the people inside the building were.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have participated in a lot of protests over the past couple of years, but this one spoke to the heart of my activism in a very personal way. Like many people who grew up in Jewish families, I was exposed early and often to Holocaust literature and the concept of saying &#8220;Never Again&#8221; to genocide. When my mother gave me a copy of Anne Frank&#8217;s diary, she pointed out that I was close to 13 years old &#8212; the age at which Anne got her first diary as a birthday gift. &#8220;If you had been there, this would have been you,&#8221; my mother said, referring to Anne&#8217;s death at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_43306\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/annefrankbook-e1563417483752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43306\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My original copy.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Anne Frank and her older sister Margot both died of typhus, a lice-borne disease &#8212; a fact that&#8217;s gnawed at me as people (including some Jews) have quibbled over the use of the words &#8220;concentration camps&#8221; to describe the places where the U.S. is imprisoning immigrants. <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/bergen-belsen\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As I&#8217;ve explained before<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a27813648\/concentration-camps-southern-border-migrant-detention-facilities-trump\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not all Nazi concentration camps were extermination camps<\/a> like Auschwitz, with gas chambers for efficient mass murder. Other camps, like Bergen-Belsen, were designed to kill through starvation and diseases caused by poor sanitation and overcrowding. Approximately 50,000 people died from those causes in Bergen-Belsen, with 13,000 people dying <em>after<\/em> the British liberated the camp because they were too ill to survive. When the British evacuated the camp, <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/bergen-belsen\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they burned it down to the ground to control the typhus contagion<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_43309\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/annesign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"386\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/annesign.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/annesign-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign from yesterday&#8217;s protest depicting Anne Frank.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent decades mulling over Anne Frank&#8217;s story &#8212; and all the other stories &#8212; wondering what I would do if it happened here. Would I even recognize the moment that democracy slipped away? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/thoughts-on-holocaust-memorial-day-and-auschwitz\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Would I be like the wealthy B\u00e9atrice de Camondo, who was deported from France to Auschwitz<\/a> because she was &#8220;fatally convinced&#8221; that she was accepted as a full citizen of the only country she&#8217;d ever known? Would I know that it was time to act? Turns out I did. Immediately after the presidential election of 2016, I said to myself, &#8220;Never Again is now.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fascism doesn\u2019t arrive in jackboots. It\u2019s men in suits looking calmly over overcrowded cages full of people, and deciding to turn their backs on human suffering. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rhyJcWTqlH\">pic.twitter.com\/rhyJcWTqlH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AyoCaesar\/status\/1150006574523572225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/center> <\/p>\n<p>The reality is that in our own country, in 2019, the <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/07\/the-inhumane-conditions-at-migrant-detention-camps.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">overcrowding, squalor, and disease<\/a> at the camps where people are being detained for an indefinite amount of time &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/900076349\/migrant-children-describe-neglect-at-texas-border-facility.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including children separated from their parents<\/a> &#8212; have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/inside-a-texas-building-where-the-government-is-holding-immigrant-children\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">witnessed and documented<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2019\/07\/16\/migrants-us-mexico-border-face-mumps-tuberculosis-and-dehydration\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Six children have died in U.S. custody that we know of<\/a>. &#8220;Sickness and filth everywhere&#8221; was what one Border Patrol agent wrote in a journal entry that he shared with ProPublica&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/what-wendy-wore-columbia-spectator-slow-fashion\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ginger Thompson<\/a>. In a story published yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/a-border-patrol-agent-reveals-what-its-really-like-to-guard-migrant-children\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the agent described<\/a> becoming numb to the &#8220;zombie-apocalypse-movie&#8221; environment, with individuals blurring together. Among those who stood out were &#8220;a teenage mother who\u2019d swaddled her baby in a filthy sweatshirt that she\u2019d borrowed from another detainee because she\u2019d been forced to throw away the clothes she brought.&#8221; A California attorney who saw that baby girl wiped rings of black dirt from around her neck. <\/p>\n<p>If we use another term for the camps, does that make any of this more acceptable? Fuck that! Some of us Jews &#8212; including 85-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RabbiArthur\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rabbi Arthur Waskow<\/a>, who spoke at the protest &#8212; aren&#8217;t going to let anyone use our history to deflect blame from or minimize our country&#8217;s abuse of people here and now. While we&#8217;re at it, we&#8217;re going to call <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsteadWesley\/status\/1151639067001597953?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a racist president who is openly inciting physical violence against lawmakers a &#8220;racist&#8221; <\/a>and not fucking &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/07\/its-just-sparkling-racism-internet-mocks-the-hell-out-of-the-new-york-times-for-describing-trumps-comments-as-racially-infused\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">racially infused<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On a follow-up call tonight, Never Again Action organizers pointed out that there are detention centers all over the country, not just at the border. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/never-again-means-close-camps-jews-protest-ice-across-country-n1029386\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">They&#8217;ve already done actions in other locations<\/a>, and they&#8217;re encouraging more people to develop local protest plans to make communities aware that they&#8217;re closer to the issue than they know. If you&#8217;re interested, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neveragainaction.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you can get a toolkit and coaching to help you do this<\/a>. If you&#8217;re thinking about it at all, don&#8217;t look, just leap! I was impressed by people on tonight&#8217;s call who were brand-new to activism, but took on big roles in D.C. or had created local events, thanks to the superb support from the network. One woman who hadn&#8217;t been to a protest before &#8212; and hadn&#8217;t planned to go yesterday until other plans fell through &#8212; not only stuck out the entire action during the 90-plus-degree heat and high humidity, but stayed until night when the people who were arrested were released. She described how a team was there to clap and cheer for the people who had volunteered to put their bodies on the line.  It&#8217;s a big thing to go face-to-face with the police. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeverAgainActn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NeverAgainActn<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CosechaMovement?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CosechaMovement<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShutDownICE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShutDownICE<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Police shoved and dragged peaceful protesters who were blocking DC ICE entrance <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SY1Sxq7Yun\">pic.twitter.com\/SY1Sxq7Yun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marie DeLuca (@mdtetra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mdtetra\/status\/1151653543251718144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>That woman mentioned that the greeting committee for the arrestees had special treats ready; the volunteers had filled out forms ahead of time with requests for favorite foods. That&#8217;s how well organized this Never Again movement is! I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve been to an action quite like it. The moment I got to the meeting place, a sign was placed in my hand. There were people distributing water, Gatorade, and snacks to prevent others from fainting from the heat. There were incredibly poised song leaders who kept our energy up for hours on end. People acting as protest marshals dealt with crowd control and the police. A New York-based organizer found me a carpool ride &#8212; big thanks to Aaron, a real mensch, who drove me and two other women to D.C. and back in one day! The environment was welcoming to everyone from Orthodox Jews to the completely secular (like me). And most importantly, great care had been taken to make ensure Jewish and immigrant communities prioritized the concerns of the people most affected without co-opting any of their longstanding activism work. As one of the chants went, &#8220;Never Again is now! Never Again para nadie! Never Again for anyone!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To get involved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neveragainaction.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NeverAgainAction.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/closethecamps.us\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Use this site to find the camps closest to you<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related reading\/vieweing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/never-again-action-1000-protesters-with-jewish-group-block-entrance-to-ice-headquarters\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Beast protest coverage <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marissa_Jae\/status\/1151234786217857028\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stellar live tweeting of the protest by Marissa J. Lang for the Washington Post, with photos and video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeverAgainActn\/status\/1151851639243968512?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The protest on Rachel Maddow&#8217;s show<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_43315\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marissa_Jae\/status\/1151234786217857028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1151234786217857028&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitter.com%252FMarissa_Jae%252Fstatus%252F1151234786217857028%26widget%3DTweet\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rabbi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rabbi.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rabbi-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rabbi-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rabbi-300x302.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rabbi Arthur Waskow in his &#8220;Resisting Tyrants Since Pharoah&#8221; t-shirt.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/jewish-protests-trump-border-camps-never-again-action-holocaust-20190716.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Inquirer coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/10-protesters-arrested-inside-ice-headquarters-in-washington\/2019\/07\/16\/f030bb8e-a7d9-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GQ&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/anti-semitism-political-shield\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as a Political Shield.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/katz.substack.com\/p\/the-president-is-a-white-supremacist\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On the Struggle to Call Trump What He Is&#8221;<\/a> by Jonathan M. Katz.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/04\/06\/the-system-books-kirsch\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker looks at books about how the Nazi concentration camp system worked.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The New Yorker&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/04\/30\/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How American Racism Influenced Hitler<\/a>&#8221; from 2018.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a whole book written about IBM&#8217;s role in the Holocaust, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you can start with this article from HuffPost<\/a> and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/15\/technology\/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read about how Facebook was used to incite genocide in Myanmar<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I went to Washington, D.C., for the &#8220;Never Again Is Now&#8221; protest organized by #JewsAgainstIce and immigrant-rights organization Movimiento Cosecha. Hundreds of peaceful activists marched from the National Mall &#8230; View this post on Instagram Yesterday\u2019s walk from the National Mall to the ICE building. #neveragainisnow #jewsagainstice #activate #protest #abolishice #closethecamps A post shared&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/never-again-is-now-we-locked-down-ice\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2092,49,143,1409],"tags":[1034],"class_list":{"0":"post-43302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-activism","8":"category-in-the-news","9":"category-politics","10":"category-racism-in-the-news","11":"tag-activism","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43302"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43334,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43302\/revisions\/43334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}