Trump’s Plan To Reopen Alcatraz Prison Is Inhumane
Morning Star Gali grew up going to Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Thanksgiving sunrise gatherings on Alcatraz Island to pay homage to the site as a symbol of Native American survival and resistance. Participants would board boats to the island, just offshore from San Francisco, as early as 4 a.m., form a circle of up to 5,000 people, open with land acknowledgment from Ohlone leaders, and celebrate with traditional songs, dancing, and solidarity statements from speakers around the world.
But from 1934 to 1963, Alcatraz was the site of a notorious federal maximum security prison known for isolation and punishment.