Freedom Vigils: Press and Visuals

PRESS RELEASES:

• November 2, 2025
  Week 14 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: Disappeared in America - Hundreds to gather across from the entrance to denounce immoral and inhumane ICE operations, detentions, and disappearances.

• November 1, 2025
  This Weekend: “Disappeared In America” Actions Demand Justice and Due Process for Immigrant Families Thousands Across the Country will Hold Vigils, Protests, and Cultural Events to Stop Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda

• October 26, 2025

  Week 13 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: Government should uphold the law, not use shutdown to accelerate harm.

• October 19, 2025
  Week 12 of Vigils at Alligator Alcatraz: When the Constitutional rights of immigrants are undermined, they are undermined for us all.

• October 12, 2025
  Week 11 of Vigils: DOJ admits detainees do not all have deportation orders, leaders of faith and conscience say, stop the lies and free them all.

• October 9, 2025
  Week 10 of Vigils: Amid Government Shutdown leaders of faith and conscience say ICE operations are not essential, they are “cruelty in action.”

• September 28, 2025
  Week 9 Vigils Leaders of Faith and Conscience condemn the indefinite detention of immigrants and the disappearance of more than 800 people from Alligator Alcatraz

• September 21, 2025
  Week 8 Vigil outside Alligator Alcatraz: Desperate calls for help with medical emergencies, violations of attorney-client privilege, 800 detainees have fallen “off the grid”: Human rights leaders and clergy say enough! Shut it down!

• September 14, 2025
  Week 7: Alligator Alcatraz “open for business” as is Baker Correctional; Youth and Leaders of faith and conscience say “Close the Camps! Free them All!”

• September 7, 2025

  Week 6 Vigil: Appeals court ruling allows Alligator Alcatraz to continue operations; leaders of faith and conscience say shut it down! Free them all!

• August 31, 2025
  Week 5 Vigil: Alligator Alcatraz detainees brutally beaten by guards on Thursday; the Everglades detention center is a chilling blueprint for the rest of the US; leaders of faith and conscience demand its replication be stopped.

• August 24, 2025
  Week 4 Alligator Alcatraz: Hundreds expected to attend interfaith vigil, demand an end to inhumane treatment and closure of facilities.

• August 17, 2025
  Week 3 Alligator Alcatraz Vigil: Families of detainees and faith leaders warn of pending disease outbreak from inhumane conditions in detention camps.

• August 10, 2025

  Week 2 Alligator Alcatraz Vigil: Faith leaders, family of detained will convene outside facility for vigil.

• August 3, 2025

  Here’s a great story from week 1 from News 7 Miami.
  

ALL PHOTOS BELOW ARE COURTESY OF PHILIP CARDELLA, MORE OF HIS WORK CAN BE FOUND HERE.