Pangea Legal Services

Policy Advocacy: In 2024, we continue to support the hunger strikers in Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex detention centers by coordinating monthly solidarity actions outside ICE's San Francisco field office. These efforts were made to uplift the hunger strikers' demands such as: ending the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex ICE detention contracts, reviewing cases for release, end solitary confinement, ensure adequate medical care, mental health care, food, end retaliation, and stop charging detainees to call family members, lawyers, and communities. Over five sessions, the FREE SF coalition trained a cohort of eight immigrant community members on narrative and advocacy tools to build collective safety that do not rely on punishment, such as policing and imprisonment. Sustained advocacy throughout 2024 to pressure District Attorney Jenkins to end their office's collusion with federal task forces that fast-track our immigrant neighbors to deportation. This occurred through a demand letter, speaking at community education events and press conferences, educating SF leaders, and supporting with messaging for partners to amplify this demand. Provided narrative training to statewide and local partners on how to defend against immigrant scapegoating for the fentanyl overdose crisis.