If you are embarrassed and ashamed (and if you are at all human you ought to be) over Florida’s hasty assembly of an immigrant concentration camp in the Everglades, then you’ll have a chance to express your outrage on Aug. 9 at 10 a.m. at Depot Circle.
On that day, for the space of one hour, local activists will put on display a chain-link “detention center” replete with volunteer inmates.
The Cage Project “will be a silent testimony to the cruelty our country is inflicting on our immigrant population,” says Glenn Terry, event organizer. “As Florida’s governor is planning to build a “Alligator Alcatraz”-type prison near Gainesville -at Camp Blanding, a former army base- we are calling our facility, ‘Camp Cruelty.’”…