Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering what it is they can do. In this series, we'll be talking with experienced organizers, troublemakers and thinkers who have been doing the hard work of fighting for a long time. They'll be sharing their insights on what works, what doesn't, what’s changed and what is still the same.
Gloribell Mota: My name is Gloribell Mota. I am an organizer with Neighbors United for a Better East Boston and serving as the Boston coordinator for Cosecha’s May Day event.
Sarah Jaffe: You had a pretty dramatic action last Monday in Boston. Can you tell us about it?
Gloribell: Yes, on Monday we had an action at the Suffolk County corrections facility that is also held as a detention center. The detention had about 200 detainees at the time and we have seen a wave of kind of targeted, but it is just kind of a continuation of detaining immigrants for one reason or another where it was this time around were activists that were speaking out. Young activists that are part of organizing in Vermont, and Sully and Alex and Enrique who had been fighting for immigrant rights were detained. Two have been released, but one is still being detained.
This is part of a larger thing, that we just no longer can settle for more detainees and deportations in this manner at all and we want permanent protections for all. This action where 20 people got arrested, there were over 100 folks there over two hours just really wanting to send a message but even more, hoping that we could shut down the detention center and stop deportation and really do permanent protections and immigration reform for all.


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