Join us in protest!
📢Protest: Stop GEO Group’s For-Profit ICE Prison in Our Backyard
📆Saturday, September 27 · Noon – 2pm
📍Traverse City Senior Center · 801 E. Front Street
*For any questions regarding event accessibility, please email comms@traverseindivisible.org.
60 miles south of Traverse City, the largest ICE detention facility in the Midwest is open for business. The North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan — run by the GEO Group, a private, for-profit corporation — holds up to 1,800 people behind barbed wire.
More than 85% have never been charged with a crime.
One person has already died in custody. Dozens more have gone on hunger strikes demanding basic medical care and humane treatment.
GEO Group signed a $1 billion, 15-year contract with ICE to detain our neighbors as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation machine, and GEO’s profits flow directly to administration officials who built that machine.
This is happening in our back yard, and most people in Northern Michigan still don’t know it exists. We’re working to change that.
Join Traverse Indivisible and the Immigrant Action Coalition (IAC) to raise awareness, and connect our community to the organizations doing the work on the ground right now.
IAC is visiting people inside, providing commissary support, offering legal help, and supporting neighbors when they are released. They will have representatives at the protest to answer your questions and show you exactly how you can help.
This is a stationary protest along public sidewalks on both sides of E. Front Street. Loaner signs will be available from the Good Trouble Assembly. Parking is available at the Senior Center or in the large lot on the north side of E. Front Street between the Senior Center and the Hagerty Center.
What to bring and know:
✊Bring your own sign, or borrow one from Good Trouble Assembly
🌦️Dress for the weather. Bring water.
🚶Stay on public sidewalks. Obey all traffic laws
🚫No tables or amplified audio
🚫No weapons of any kind, including legally permitted ones
Traverse Indivisible Peace & Safety volunteers will be on site, so look for the orange vests if you have questions, or need assistance.
As with all Traverse Indivisible events, this is a nonviolent, peaceful assembly. All participants are expected to act lawfully and de-escalate any confrontation.
For more information on the Good Trouble Assembly, visit https://traverseindivisible.org/good-trouble
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