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 AgendaOctober 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 AlcatrazSeptember 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.