Fellow Kos researchers:
I so loved working with some of you all on the early aspects of PropaGannon. That sort of fast moving research and now the results is just so exciting.
Now I am working on another project that some of you may like to be involved with.
You may have heard about the 1700 shackled asylum seekers that, being law abiding people, are wrongfully under house arrest from 6 pm to 6 am, all across the US. (You have read about it here and heard about it on NPR). These people WANT to stay here and continue with the administrative hearings. They are not flight risks. They ARE guinea pigs for a pilot program that, if deemed successful by those with a vested interest (biased), will expand to 100,000s of people across the US.
I am putting together a "Days in the Lives" awareness raising project/website that will personalize this atrocity and focus activists who wish to mobilize on this issue.
See my blog for draft background work and drop your contact info. My blog
The project will live at ShackledHopes.com and ShackledHopes.org
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Some of the activies that will need to be engaged:
Liaisoning with: American Friends Service Committee, National Lawyers Guild, National Immigration Project, ACLU, and others.
Research to identify the 1700 shackled
Research to contact them and establish working relationships wiht them
Website development to deploy the following capabilities:
tracking of the 1700 shackled graphically, dynamic but passwd protected blogging for those who wish to participate, the usual "Contact your representative" and "Contact the media" capabilities, and other nifty services.
There are other things to do, this project needs You, please come on over and roll up your sleeves.
Nika
My blog
ShackledHopes.com