Transforming Justicia en La Florida

Peace and blessings to all on this page. I want to thank you all for your support while I shared posts as a staff of the national civil rights org. I am no longer with them and prioritizing growing the Florida Junta of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Simultaneously, I will continue the criminal justice campaigns in Florida and the south. Inshallah!

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Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico - Junta de La Florida The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party – Florida Junta (Movimiento Libertador) was founded to continue the historic struggle for Puerto Rico’s independence, dignity, and national consciousness through education, community organizing, and cultural work.

📽️ Film Screening & Discussion 🎶

Join Las Semillas + Black Men Build Orlando + Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Florida Junta - for Soundtrack to a Coup d’État - a Sundance award-winning doc on jazz, colonialism, espionage, and the CIA-backed coup that led to Patrice Lumumba’s assassination.

🌍 A riveting story with lessons for today’s struggles against imperialism + state violence.

📅Sunday, August 24th | 5PM–9PM

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Solitary images!

Peace & Blessings Mi Pueblo. I wanted to share some portion of a campaign in development that is just a continuation of the labor or love I've embarked on in Florida and the south to end the torture of solitary confinement. Looking forward to the next five years working with other solitary survivors, advocates, and loved ones to end the torture of extreme isolation. إن شاء الله

🏛️ Solitary Confinement in Florida: Overview:

State Prisons & Local Jails:
Florida ranks among the most aggressive users of solitary confinement in the U.S., with about 10% of inmates, roughly 10,000 people, in restrictive housing at any time, often for minor infractions.
Cells are frequently as small as parking spots, and lack air conditioning; estimates suggest three-quarters of units have no cooling - a critical hazard.
A 2023 federal lawsuit challenging the Florida Department of Corrections’ (FDC) solitary practices was dismissed.
Juvenile facilities and adult prisons use “close management” protocols (legal term for solitary) to isolate children, sometimes for extended durations; legal groups are now challenging these practices.

Federal Facilities in Florida:
At FCI Tallahassee, a low‑security federal prison for women—and its adjacent male detention unit—a 2023 DOJ inspection uncovered spoiled food, rodent infestations, and significant staffing shortages.
ICE Detention Centers in Florida (Outside Alligator Alcatraz)
Facilities like Glades County Detention Center (Moore Haven) house a majority of the people detained by ICE in the region (up to 90%) under contracts with the Sheriff’s Office.
Complaints there include retaliation, medical neglect, chemical exposure, discriminatory treatment, and use of solitary confinement in retaliation for complaints or religious observance.

🐊 Alligator Alcatraz (Florida ICE “Internment Camp”):

Located in the Everglades, the Dade‑Collier Training facility near Ochopee, Florida, designed to house up to 5,000 people.
Built rapidly under Governor DeSantis’ "state of emergency", opening in early July 2025, with oversight by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and DHS/ICE. Intended to serve as a deterrent: surrounded by swamps, torturous heat, and wildlife (“best natural perimeter”) and promoted as a model for future incarceration.

🔹 Reported Conditions & Abuses:

Those incarcerated there describe overcrowded tent‑style cages holding up to 32 people, chronic unsanitary conditions, lack of water pressure and toilets, rampant insect infestations, inadequate food, and denial of legal access.
Cases include a 15‑year‑old Mexican boy wrongfully detained among adults until he disclosed his age, raising concerns about facilities' policies and oversight.
Human rights commentators and officials have compared the camp to concentration camps, psychological torture, or internment-style conditions.

🔹 Hunger Strike & Legal Fallout:

Led by Cuban national Pedro Lorenzo Concepción, folks have been on hunger strike for nine to fourteen days (as of early August 2025), protesting indefinite detention and inhumane conditions such as unsanitary food, limited water, poor legal access.
DHS denies that a hunger strike occurred at Alligator Alcatraz, attributing reports to media misinformation; authorities used the detainee’s transfer to another facility (Krome) to assert there was no such protest at Alligator Alcatraz.








https://www.nrcat.org/
https://unlocktheboxcampaign.org/
https://www.floridarestorativejustice.com/

https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-alligator-alcatraz-27fbae217427be730f589323df7cf656

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/18/immigrants-alligator-alcatraz-ice-trump/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/14/alligator-alcatraz-lawsuits?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The Torture of solitary confinement gets worse here in the "sunshine state." Its not enough to have over 10,000 people in isolation in prisons and local jails. To add ICE Detention, federal institutions, children's prisons, and build a NEW concentration camp-style prison called "Allegator Alcatraz?!" THE SHAME!!
The justice-impacted peoples and advocates, solitary survivors, our Latinx and other targeted immigrant families say NO!!!
NO ALLEGATOR ALCATRAZ!!!
NO MORE ICE KIDNAPPINGS, DETENTIONS, AND DEPORTATIONS!!!

Nos reunimos hoy aquí en unidad con las comunidades de todo el país, bajo el lema "Los buenos problemas perduran". Y no se equivoquen, nuestra lucha actual está directamente ligada al movimiento histórico por los Derechos Civiles, a la lucha por los derechos humanos y al legado del congresista John Lewis, un hombre que nos instó a alzar la voz, a alzar la voz y a meternos en "buenos problemas, problemas necesarios" cuando vemos injusticia.
Y vemos injusticia, ¿no?
En nuestras comunidades, especialmente entre nuestros hermanos y hermanas inmigrantes, muchos de los cuales son latinos, hemos visto con horror cómo agentes enmascarados llegan como ladrones en la noche, arrebatando a madres de los brazos de sus hijos que lloran, separando familias, aterrorizando barrios enteros.
Seamos claros: causar problemas significa mantener una postura moral alta. Significa poner nuestro cuerpo y nuestra voz entre la injusticia y las personas que amamos. Significa decir: No permitiremos que nuestras familias sean destrozadas.
He estado en jaulas. He sobrevivido al aislamiento. He visto a un sistema hacer todo lo posible por destrozarme, y estoy aquí porque alguien me causó problemas. Y ahora nos toca a nosotros.
Así que hoy, desde Kissimmee hasta California, desde Alabama hasta Albany, declaramos: ¡Los problemas persisten!
Y seguiremos luchando por nuestra gente, por nuestra dignidad y por nuestro futuro.
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We gather here today in unity with communities across this country, under the banner of “Good Trouble Lives On.” And make no mistake our struggle right now is tied directly to the historic movement for Civil Rights… to the fight for human rights... and to the legacy of Congressman John Lewis, a man who told us to stand up, speak out, and get in “good trouble, necessary trouble” when we see injustice.
And we see injustice, don’t we?
In our communities, especially among our immigrant brothers and sisters, many of whom are Latinx, we’ve watched in horror as masked officers come like thieves in the night… snatching mothers from the arms of their crying children… separating families… terrorizing entire neighborhoods.
Let me be clear: making good trouble means standing on "moral high ground." It means putting our bodies and our voices between injustice and the people we love. It means saying: We will not let our families be ripped apart.
I’ve been in cages. I’ve survived solitary. I’ve watched a system do their best to break me AND I’m here because someone caused good trouble for me. And now, it’s our turn.
So today, from Kissimmee to California, from Alabama to Albany, we declare: Good Trouble Lives On!
And we will keep showing up for our people, for our dignity, and for our future.

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