No Business With Fascism: Florida Valkyries Lead Charge to Drop ICE Contracts
- Graham E. Whitaker
- Jul 5
- 5 min read
Updated: Jul 8
Drop the ICE Contract Challenge: A Social Media Reckoning Against Fascism, Founded by the Florida Valkyries
Something fierce is rising from the Everglades—and it’s not just the gators.
A viral social media campaign is sweeping across Florida and beyond, calling out companies complicit in the construction and operation of a newly built ICE detention center on sacred Everglades land—known to the public as Alligator Alcatraz. This movement, dubbed the Drop the ICE Contract Challenge, is part of a growing anti-fascism campaign founded by a grassroots resistance group called the Florida Valkyries.
It’s not just a hashtag. It’s a day-by-day, name-by-name call to action targeting vendors who are enabling what advocates describe as a modern concentration camp—right in the middle of an ecologically fragile and spiritually significant landscape.
To accept a contract from ICE in this context is to betray human rights, environmental protections, and Indigenous sovereignty all at once. And to do it for profit? That’s complicity. The Florida Valkyries are here to say: No more.
What This Campaign Is About
The Florida Valkyries are not your typical advocacy group. They are fierce, unapologetic, and relentless in their demand for accountability. They understand that fascism doesn’t arrive all at once—it builds slowly, with the quiet cooperation of those who sign contracts, deliver tents, or set up pest control systems.
This campaign is about calling those people—and companies—out.
It’s about refusing to let them hide behind the excuse of neutrality.
“Neutrality in the face of injustice is itself injustice. There is no neutrality when there are children in cages and people imprisoned on sacred ground.” — Florida Valkyries statement
What You Can Do
📞 Call these vendors.
📩 Email them respectfully.
💬 Leave reviews—truthfully and publicly.
📱 Post and tag them on social media.
🚫 Refuse to give your money or business to collaborators.
Let’s remind these companies: You don’t get to profit from suffering without consequences.
❌ DAY 1: U.S. Tent Rental
📍 7600 Matoaka Road, Sarasota, FL 34243
📞 (941) 727-3311
📷 Instagram: @ustentrental
📢 Related business: Linens By The Sea | 📞 800-588-8235
📝 Reviews: Google
❌ DAY 2: Mosquito Joe of Naples
📍 2636 Orange Grove Trail, Naples, FL 34120
📞 239-441-2155 / 239-309-0870
🔗 Website
📸 Social:
Facebook |
👤 Exec: Ted Fitzpatrick (LinkedIn)
❌ DAY 3: IRG Global Emergency Management
📍 2200 NW 50th St, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
📞 1-800-500-3213
🔗 Website
📸 Social:
YouTube |
👤 Execs: Robbie Meek (President), Guiseppe & Domenico Gagliano (CEO/Director), Scott Jacobi (VP)
❌ DAY 4: CDR Health
📍 11740 SW 80th St Suite #102, Miami, FL 33183
📞 (786) 235-8534
📸 Social:
📢 Reviews: Google
👤 Execs:
Carlos A. Duart (CEO)
Marjorie Paez (Secretary)
H. Daniel Cessna (Director)
William R. Wages (President)
Laura Farinas (COO)
Stay Updated, Stay Loud
This article will be updated daily with new vendors, social media handles, and contact information as part of the ongoing Drop the ICE Contract Challenge. We’re tracking every company complicit in supporting Alligator Alcatraz—and we need your help to keep the pressure on. Share widely, check back often, and send tips or updates to Big Mouth Media or the Florida Valkyries directly. The more we expose, the harder it becomes for these companies to hide behind silence.
Update from Florida Valkyries:
❌ DAY 5: 📞 (850) 296-0777
📞 (850) 413-9969
📍Florida Division of Emergency Management
2555 Shumard Oak Boulevard
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
X/Twitter:
LinkedIn:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FDEM/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flsert/
Google reviews: https://g.co/kgs/98nZ1GY
Meet your new propaganda arms: Stephanie Hartman and Mike Jachles
Meet Stephanie Hartman, who has somehow found herself at the center of one of the most Orwellian PR stunts in recent history. Under her watch, the Florida government has attempted to spin its Alligator Auschwitz — sorry, "emergency migrant relocation site" — as a noble endeavor in the name of disaster response and safety. But let's call a spade a spade: this isn’t emergency management. It’s a taxpayer-funded exercise in cruelty, deception, and environmental destruction.
Hartman’s role in defending this atrocity raises serious questions about her integrity, empathy, and ability to serve the public. Can we trust someone who so brazenly participates in distorting reality for political gain? How much does she truly care about the vulnerable communities she is meant to build public trust with if she can defend what amounts to a makeshift internment camp on sacred Indigenous land?
This isn’t just about policy — this is about ethics. Hartman has taken on the job of selling this narrative to the public, wrapping it in flags of "resilience" and "safety" while glossing over the dehumanization at its core. In doing so, she has become an active participant in a system designed to harm, displace, and mistreat vulnerable migrants. Does this reflect the values we want in public servants? Does it speak to any level of compassion or true leadership?
So let’s ask the uncomfortable question: What do companies like NextDoor, who Hartman has affiliations with, have to say about her role in defending this grotesque project? If they truly care about their values and the integrity of their brands, will they stand behind someone defending the Florida Division of Emergency Management’s operation that echoes internment camps, environmental damage, and systemic cruelty?
It’s time for them to take a stand. Let’s see if these companies, where she’s publicly affiliated, will denounce Hartman’s involvement in this PR disaster. If they won’t, it’s on them too. And if they’re silent, it’s on all of us to hold them accountable.
Enough is enough. Let’s demand real accountability from every agency and spokesperson complicit in this narrative — including Hartman, and those who profit from keeping her in this position.
Mike Jachles has truly perfected the art of job-hopping, and now, somehow, he’s been contracted to serve as spokesperson for a deathcamp masquerading as a “relocation site.”
Let’s call it what it is: a PR stunt disguised as public safety. How does someone who can’t hold onto a job for more than a few years get a pass for leading Public Information Officers who are supposed to manage delicate, high-stakes, public-facing work?
If he’s truly leading with integrity, how does he justify passing out emails and phone numbers to offices that have no ability to solve the crisis in the Everglades? How does he defend political photo ops in a taxpayer-funded deathcamp with a straight face? Is it possible to lead ethically while participating in political theater that endangers lives, destroys the environment, and dehumanizes those in need? It seems more like opportunism disguised as principle.
The reality is simple: A man who can’t stay in a position long enough to be held accountable isn’t someone you can trust to manage crisis communication, let alone lead a team of professionals. His track record speaks louder than his empty attempts at 'integrity.'
It’s time to call out the systemic failures Mike Jachles represents.
We urge the West Palm Beach Police Department, FEMA, and the Florida Fire Chiefs to publicly denounce Mike Jachles for his role in defending this abhorrent operation and the dangerous political theater surrounding it. His failure to lead with competence, empathy, or integrity is a direct disservice to the people of Florida. It's time for these agencies to take a stand and demand accountability — for the sake of public trust and the well-being of those they are sworn to protect.
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