Join This Important New Project!

Happy Thursday, Activists! 

We hope you're having a good week and getting ready for the storm this weekend. 

We have a new project to announce today!  We told you about it preliminarily a few months ago.  Now, after the research team has been hard at work, we are ready to launch.  We hope you'll join in to push back in a new way against the regime's cruel and corrupt immigration system.  

The genesis of this new project sprung from a post by Timothy Snyder a few months ago.  He gave the history of countries that had concentration camps and how they invited companies in to use and abuse the labor of the people in the camps.  Professor Snyder spoke at our meeting a few months ago and here is the link to the video.  

Now, we have detention camps springing up all over the country, increasing their numbers as a result of the pile of ICE funding from the Trump regime.  But there is a big difference between prison labor and the labor of immigration camp detainees.  Prison labor is permitted under the 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted . . ."   

However, many of the immigrant detainees abducted from our communities have had no such due process, if any at all.  So they do not fall within the slavery exception in the 13th Amendment.  To be very clear, our project is not centered on prison labor.  Changing the 13th Amendment is an entirely different matter.  We want to prevent detainee labor now to head off companies getting any ideas about using it. 

Here is the core part of this project:  Professor Snyder strongly recommends that we write to companies and ask them to pledge not to use ICE detainee labor, as it is often very abusive and cruel.  

We're asking you to sign up to write the letters to the companies we've researched.  But it's only two letters per week - a letter to each of two companies!  We are asking them to make the pledge.  In short, we'll be giving you the pertinent information on the companies, template language for your letters, and two new companies each week.

We're going to hold a few training sessions just to make sure everyone understands how it will work and that your questions are answered.  So sign up for a training and let's meet on zoom!  It'll be great to see you!

Please sign up here to join this project.   Sign up here for one of the training sessions.

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