A few days ago I shared the story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman from Macon Georgia who was a whistleblower against the atrocities committed in ICE detention facilities.

She’s currently being detained again, likely due to retaliation for speaking out.

I also spoke of Rodney Taylor, a double amputee who was taken by ICE two days before he was set to get new prosthetics. The medical neglect he’s enduring at the hands of ICE is unfathomable.

We must tell their stories.

Disabled people are at higher risk of dying in these awful facilities, and the conditions within the detention centres will also lead to more people becoming disabled.

No one deserves to be treated this way.

Let’s speak up. Say their names. Help get them released.

And remember, don’t shame disabled people who are unable to protest. For many of us it’s not safe and we lack the physical ability to be boots on the ground. We can still contribute in our own way, and every voice matters.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/disabled-people-are-being-mistreated

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A disabled woman named Alma Bowman spent 30 months, nearly three years, in ICE custody during the first Trump regime.

The daughter of an American veteran, they revoked her status because she wrote $1200 in bad cheques twenty years ago. Which she paid back.

When she finally got out of the camps, she worked with the US government as a whistleblower to prosecute detention centre employees who were sterilizing immigrants without consent.

Who were performing unnecessary hysterectomies and tubal ligations.

She used her real name. She stood up for injustice. She tried to protect others.

Now ICE has taken her again, and the media have been largely silent.

The MAGA crowds are cheering because they have no compassion.

No one should be treated this way.

I’m going to keep saying her name until she gets the attention she deserves. She needs to be released.

Justice for Alma.

https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org/news/aaaja-almabowman

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The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, just keeps getting worse.

She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications and threw her in a detention facility in Georgia.

Her case is getting a decent amount of media attention, with petitions circulating to get her released.

But did you know it’s not the first time she’s very nearly faced deportation?

In 2020, she was a key witness in a legal battle against Irwin County Detention Centre.

She helped blow the whistle about a doctor performing unnecessary hysterectomies and sterilizations on immigrant women detained in the facility.

This is Nazi level eugenics.

They’re grabbing people off the streets. They’re disappearing them. Many die in custody and/or are never seen again.

Sterilization of ‘undesirables’ is sadly nothing new. It’s a way to push white supremacy.

It takes a lot of courage to speak out against such practices, and it’s horrifying that she’s again sitting in a detention centre without due process.

https://fightbacknews.org/articles/free-alma-bowman

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