Vigils To Protest Detention Camps July 12 In The Hudson Valley

CHAPPAQUA, NY — On Friday, Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Concentration Camps, will bring people to 10 locations in the Hudson Valley. They'll be part of a coordinated worldwide protest at hundreds of sites including immigrant detention camps across the United States.

The vigil was called for 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. local time July 12 by Lights for Liberty, a loose coalition dedicated to human rights.

There are currently 37 events planned in New York, including 10 in the Hudson Valley:

• BEACON
• CHAPPAQUA
• GOSHEN - ORANGE COUNTY JAIL
• HUDSON VALLEY (Rhinebeck)
• KATONAH
• KINGSTON
• ROCKLAND COUNTY (NANUET)
• PLEASANTVILLE
• WHITE PLAINS
• WOODSTOCK

Left of Main Street, an Indivisible Group based in Chappaqua, is one of the local sponsors. Their event will begin at the gazebo at 8 p.m.

“To be silent is to be complicit," said Cynthia Gray-Ware Metcalf, co-founder of Left of Main Street, in an announcement about their vigil. "We can no longer be complacent in the face of the cruelty this administration is inflicting on refugees and children at the border. This does not reflect American values.”