ALL FUCKING HAIL, THIS IS BRILLIANT
Author: hearseeno
Kennedy is retiring. SCOTUS is about to get even worse.
Fuck, fuck, fuck
Yeah. I’m feeling a bit bruised after this past week.
My foot is healed… time to join in the marching, I think. Though right now watching The Post and then All the President’s Men in succession sounds in order.
It’s the 21st century and I just screwed an iSocket into a 19th century cider press that my grandfather repurposed into a lamp in the 20th century.
*tap* “ON” *tap-slide* “on” *tap* “ON” *tap* “off”
Supreme Court Upholds President Trump’s Travel Ban
I have been beside myself about the emergence of child concentration camps so I want to give a shout out to all the immigration attorneys doing your respective deity’s work right now
How can the rest of us best support you? I know of RAICES and KIND, and am trying to find the best local legal services groups to donate to
Update, friends–
My law school just emailed alums a bunch of information if we’re interested in helping immigrant families who have been separated at the border.
Here’s the gist.
Opportunities to assist with family separation:
- Immigration Justice Campaign (**for attorneys only** powered by the American Immigration Council and American Immigration Lawyers Association)
- https://actionnetwork.org/forms/we-stand-with-immigrants-their-families-sign-up-to-volunteer
- If you are able to go to Texas: http://caraprobono.org/volunteer/
Other volunteer opportunities to help immigrants generally:
- Serve as a child advocate for an unaccompanied minor:https://www.theyoungcenter.org/volunteer-at-the-young-center/
- Find local legal and non-legal opportunities: https://www.standwithimmigrants.org
Donate to organizations that have hosted Pro Bono Caravans and/or In-House Pro Bono Projects and are assisting immigrant families and unaccompanied minors:
- KIND – Kids in Need of Defense https://supportkind.org/ They are supporting kids directly at the border and beyond through legal and social services.
- Aldea supports families at the Berks family detention center: https://aldeapjc.org/
- RAICES is a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children, families and refugees in Texas. Donate generally or specifically to the RAICES bond fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/bondfund
- Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas: http://las-americas.org/
- Urban Justice Center Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project:https://asylumadvocacy.org/get-involved/
Other lists/drives/charitable efforts:
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/how-you-can-fight-family-separation-at-the-border.html
- https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/18/heres-list-organizations-are-mobilizing-help-separated-immigrant-child/
- In NYC: http://www.marklevine.nyc/childrefugees
Let’s all do what we can!
We’re heading into dark times.
My heart breaks for the United States of America. It breaks for those who think they are my enemies as much as it does for my friends. You still have your freedom, so use it. There are many groups organizing for both resistance and subsistence, but we are heading into dark times, and you need to be your own light. Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave – and it is often hard to be brave – be kind.
But most of all, never lose sight of who you are and what you value. If you find yourself doing something that feels questionable or wrong a few months or years from now, find that essay you wrote on who you are and read it. Ask if that version of yourself would have done the same thing.
As humans say, third time’s the charm. Shirt’s going down for our 1-HOUR premiere Thursday, September 27 at 8/7c on NBC!
AAAAAAAAAGH
Hearseeno 