Umi Hock
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jan
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Thanks for having me, and thanks for all your incredible coverage of this campaign.
It's just, yeah, it's a joy to be here.
Yeah, this campaign really did begin because people started noticing something that they definitely didn't want us to notice.
Deportation flights usually take place in the shadows.
They're hidden from anyone knowing about them.
But then some local organizers in Connecticut realized that Avello, which branded itself as a hometown brand, had signed a contract to actually take these flights.
And so they started some local organizing, and there was a handful of protests across the country, and they launched this incredible boycott petition and called on all of us to boycott with them as well.
And that caught attention of us at Siembro North Carolina and our defendant accrue brand.
A coalition started forming together of the groups called the Stop Avello Coalition.
Other groups started getting involved like Mahente.
And then we started digging into it more.
And it became really obvious that Avello was a public company that had a brand, customers, public funding, and they were on a quest for more funding.
And it wasn't only in the state of Connecticut where actual citizens and taxpayers
We're actually paying for these flights because of subsidies.
And so we realized that that made them an especially important and especially vulnerable target and started all working together to be able to leverage different strategies to be able to really affect this pillar of support on ISIS deportation regime and eventually win this outcome together.
Yeah, we know that ICE depends on pillars of support that make it possible for ICE to be able to do anything.
Being able to take passengers on an aircraft and kidnapping people and putting people on those flights is one of those ways of being able to do that.
And so noticing that this company was a public company that had signed on for these flights had said they had done it for financial reasons that they were doing it for the money.
And then also seeing that we would be able to not only could we could only not only affect this company, but also send a signal to any company or corporation that's thinking about doing business with ICE or doing business with ICE to show the resistance that's possible and that will be mobilized and organized if these contracts are taken.
um, allowed that it was, that's why we say it's especially important and especially vulnerable as well.
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