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Addiction
I take in a deep breath. I can do this, I tell myself. I shouldn’t give in, I won’t give in. I have restrained myself for weeks now, even the withdrawal symptoms have faded. I have moved on. Or so I thought. It takes just one look, one look and I am back right where I had started. Everything has been for nothing – the self control, the discipline. There is right, there is wrong and then there is…
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Resources to help child immigrants & fight family separation
via Today.com (How to Help Immigrant Children)
Together Rising Love Flash Mob. Organized by best-selling author and blogger Glennon Doyle through her non-profit organization, the fundraising effort will go to provide bilingual legal and advocacy assistance for 60 children, aged 12 months to 10 years, currently separated from their parents in an Arizona detention center. Their first priority will be to establish and maintain contact between children and their parents, with the ultimate goal of reunification and safety and rehabilitation for the children.
The Florence Project and Refugee Rights Project. This organization provides legal assistance and social services to detained immigrants in Arizona.
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. This organization works for the rights of children in immigration proceedings.
Kids In Need Of Defense (KIND). This organization works to ensure that no child appears in immigration court alone without representation.
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project. They work to prevent the deportation of asylum-seeking families fleeing violence.
via slate.com (How you can fight family separation)
• The ACLU is litigating this policy in California.
• If you’re an immigration lawyer, the American Immigration Lawyers Association will be sending around a volunteer list for you to help represent the women and men with their asylum screening, bond hearings, ongoing asylum representation, etc. Please sign up.
• Al Otro Lado is a binational organization that works to offer legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S.
• CARA—a consortium of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the American Immigration Council, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association—provides legal services at family detention centers.
• The Florence Project is an Arizona project offering free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody.
• Human Rights First is a national organization with roots in Houston that needs help from lawyers too.
• Kids in Need of Defense works to ensure that kids do not appear in immigration court without representation, and to lobby for policies that advocate for children’s legal interests. Donate here.
• The Legal Aid Justice Center is a Virginia-based center providing unaccompanied minors legal services and representation.
• Pueblo Sin Fronteras is an organization that provides humanitarian aid and shelter to migrants on their way to the U.S.
• RAICES is the largest immigration nonprofit in Texas offering free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families. Donate here and sign up as a volunteer here.
• The Texas Civil Rights Project is seeking “volunteers who speak Spanish, Mam, Q’eqchi’ or K’iche’ and have paralegal or legal assistant experience.”
• Together Rising is another Virginia-based organization that’s helping provide legal assistance for 60 migrant children who were separated from their parents and are currently detained in Arizona.
• The Urban Justice Center’s Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project is working to keep families together.
• Women’s Refugee Commission advocates for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution.
• Finally, ActBlue has aggregated many of these groups under a single button.
This list isn’t comprehensive, so let us know what else is happening. And please call your elected officials, stay tuned for demonstrations, hug your children, and be grateful if you are not currently dependent on the basic humanity of U.S. policy.
Oil painting of Wonder Woman for an illustration assignment. The prompt was to illustrate the portrait of a famous figure or character as if they were on a TIME magazine cover.
Happy International Women’s day!
Oil painting of Wonder Woman for an illustration assignment. The prompt was to illustrate the portrait of a famous figure or character as if they were on a TIME magazine cover.
So, Now the United Kingdom wants to extradite a citizen of a foreign country if they criticise the Government of the United Kingdom's behaviour. Yes, this is exactly what free speech is all about. Are you awake yet?
This is disgraceful! Arresting someone because they allow freedom of speech. We have been lied to. The West isn't the paragon of freedom and free speech they claim to be.
This is literally a threat to democracy! Silence any opposing view!
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has penned a letter to major social media and “AI” companies. And Bonta’s not urging them to “do better” on innovation, competition, and the like.
No – the letter is all about “election misinformation.”
It’s becoming almost pathological at this point, but the entire ruling apparatus in the US (and that includes not only officials but also politically and ideologically affiliated media outlets) is hammering in the message of that being an actual “threat to democracy.”
As if the largest companies in the said industries didn’t hear all this already dozens of times, Bonta goes out of his way to repeat the message to Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Open AI, Reddit, TikTok, X, and YouTube – (wouldn’t that one fall under the Alphabet category? But Bonta lists the video platform separately).
