#reminder to call and email your local reps!

[elegyofthemoon]

as per the global strike tomorrow, i will not be posting anything here and stopping my queue for the day.

however there are scheduled posts regarding the strike tomorrow that will come out as a reminder in case people have missed it

remember to do what you can during this time. participate in your local protest, call/email your reps, and boycott

for more information regarding the strike tomorrow on 2nd March

[laconicmoon]

🇵🇸low spoons, low income ways to support a free palestine🇵🇸

For many low-income and/or disabled activists, we can't always do the obvious things to support Palestine like donating money or going to protests. I'm compiling this list to remind myself what I *can* do, and I'm hoping it might help some other people too.

Disclaimer: you might not find all of these to be low spoons for you--maybe drawing is physically difficult, or phone calls are distressing. These are just ideas! Please ignore and adapt them to suit your needs and abilities <3

🍉Get creative with stickers, posters, zines, whatever!

Adhesive shipping labels from USPS ship to your house for free (if you live in the US). You can order up to 750 at a time! Draw a Palestinian flag or "Free Gaza" on there and stick them everywhere (it's actually quite easy to vandalize without getting caught).

If you want to go bigger, try a wheatpaste, and if you have access to a printer or copier, leave some zines around (tutorial, canva template). If you are housebound, you can give them to a friend to spread around for you.

You can also make signs and have someone else take them to a protest. If you're a sewist, make a puppet or wearable patches!

🍉Display a Palestinian flag or pro-Palestine sign in your window

If you live in an area where this isn't safe, or if you don't have your own space, assess the risk before you do this. You could also put up a more subtle symbol, such as a watermelon, if you are nervous about backlash.

🍉Contact your reps!

I know people say this all the time, but for my US-based friends, some pointers to make it take as few spoons as possible--

Democracy.io makes it super easy to email both your senators and your representative at the same time.

Faxzero.com allows you to send a fax straight to your reps' printers. Not all of their offices have this enabled, but I've heard faxes are more direct than emails.

If you don't know what to say, you can adapt this template (it's a bit outdated). Or just write "Free Palestine" or "Ceasefire Now." Something is better than nothing!

🍉Participate in phone zaps

Often times, organizations like USPCN or Jewish Voice for Peace will ask for people to call a person or organization to put pressure on them, such as demanding that a university drop charges against student protestors. Monitor those accounts and, if you're up for it, call or leave a message. Or, you could even text the group chat and conduct your own phone zap!

🍉Check out library books about Palestine

You also may be able to request that your library purchase certain titles, or request titles they don't have through interlibrary loan!

🍉Write a letter to the editor

You can write either to a local paper or a school paper, if you're a student or alum. This is a great way to break out of the echo chamber--local papers often have an intergenerational audience.

🍉Send in a public comment to a city council meeting

Many cities have the option to send in a public comment electronically! So if you can't make it to an in-person meeting, this is a good option, especially if your city is trying to pass a ceasefire resolution.

🍉Attend online Jewish Voice for Peace "Power Half-Hour for Gaza"

JVP's Power Half-Hours are a wonderful space to grieve, process, and build stamina for the fight to come. Monday through Friday, 3pm ET/ 12pm PT, 30 minutes of solidarity-building and reflection facilitated by Jewish leaders but open to all. You can pre-register to join on Zoom or stream on YouTube.

🍉Support friends who go to protests/actions

That can be as simple as texting them before and after and making sure they are safe, lending them a bandana or rain gear, or providing a place to decompress afterward! If you have an animal that does well in crowds, consider allowing a trusted friend to take them to a protest or encampment for a short time. Seeing dogs in keffiyehs always makes my day <3

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🍉Other Considerations and Reminders 🍉

Focus on the long haul. It's more important to create a pace of activism that's sustainable for you than it is to do everything all the time.

"Ought" implies "can." If you are unable to do something, or if it would be very difficult for you to do so, you are in no way obligated to do that thing!

Block words on social media if you need to. In a similar vein, you do not need to force yourself to constantly watch graphic videos or read upsetting posts. Yes, Gaza has asked us to bear witness to the atrocities there--"All Eyes on Gaza Now" is a common chant for a reason. But that doesn't mean you, specifically, must doomscroll forever.

Please reblog with your own favorite ways to advocate for Palestine when you're broke and spoonless 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

[turtleneckshiv]

so fucking tired of people around me acknowledging that what israel is doing is genocide and not doing a fucking thing about it. if you live in & benefit from the “western world” you are MORALLY OBLIGED to do something whether it’s civil disobedience, boycotting, educating, protecting marginalized people who are more at risk when speaking up. if you’re able to talk on the phone the Minimum you need to do is call your reps if you can write an email the minimum you need to do is write emails if you can read over and send pre-written letters or sign petitions you need to do that i don’t know how much it does but if the journalists in gaza can show up every day knowing most of us will ignore their videos we can send some letters. here is a sample email that can be adjusted to your country to start out and a quick search of your local activist groups socials will give you more specific stuff, you can dm me if you wanna figure stuff out together the icj case starts tomorrow and israel is counting on many of our countries’ governments to be complicit remind them you’ll never vote for them again

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Genuinely feel like one of the reasons Ford won is because hes so much more well known than the other candidates AND the fact that tories actually reach out to voters. Ive gotten texts and calls from these people and they were the first ones to put their signs back up in our riding after the storm destroyed everything. (For the federal election I even got a letter adressed to me from Otoole telling me how much he cares about protecting my rights as a woman??? Which was very random because im the only one in my family who has never voted conservative, also i'm not a woman but go off clown)

Ive gotten NOTHING from NDP, the liberal MP has sent us a pamphlet a few weeks ago but nothing from our local provincial guy. Wait no, I did get something from NDP, a phonecall in the evening that i missed because i was out. But by that point more than half the day has passed and yes im bitter because this felt like a panicked afterthought, where were you literally any day BEFORE 5pm on election day?

Im also beyond tired of parties releasing adverts where they tell you why not to vote for the opposition. I KNOW why I dont want to vote for Ford, i dont need you to tell me, all youre doing is making me not want to vote for you.

Its like going to a restaurant to eat and instead of a menu they give you a list of health violations their competitors have accrued. Thats not why im here.

Tell me why i should be voting for YOU. Tell me who YOU are, and what YOURE going to do for ME. And if youre so intent on smearing the opposition tell me why your plan is better than theirs.

I know the solution to this is going out and doing your own research, but the problem is most voters dont do that. Ive been reached to out to by tories more than any other party and thats a big problem.

My parents decided against voting (despite my best attempts to convince them otherwise) because they felt disgusted by all the candidates and didnt want to vote for anyone. Well guess what assholes, we're stuck here now. Hope youre happy.

Anyway, violent reminder to harass your reps about OHIP and everything else. Please please please dont let it get worse than it already has. Email, call, do whatever you gotta do. Get your friends and family and coworkers to do it, create email templates and have people fill them out and send them. Just do SOMETHING!!!

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[lurkiestvoid]

While there are tools already that will automatically form-fill emails to your representatives, it's good practice to be aware of who your elected officials are and how to contact them.

This site will show you ALL your current elected representatives based on your address, and if available also includes links to their social media, website(s), and contact information. For House and Senate reps you should also be able to find a list of all bills they've sponsored and co-sponsored.

https://myreps.datamade.us/

If your state hasn't primaried yet, you can use Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot tool to view a sample ballot for your specific address, and any available information on ALL your candidates. After the primaries are over you can use the same tool to view your ballot for the general election in November.

https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot_Lookup

If it helps you, make a spreadsheet or list of all your elected officials and keep it on or near your computer or wherever you spend a lot of your time. Set aside some time each week or day to contact your senators and representatives about issues you care about, or specific actions they're doing (or not doing) that you'd like them to focus on, or local issues you'd like to call their attention to and get support for like community organizing, mutual aid, and other projects.

And, as always, there is Resist.Bot to help automatically contact your reps, as well as receive voting reminders and create new letter/contact campaigns or even submit editorials to newspapers:

https://resist.bot/

[vellichordragon]

See if your state is on the page above. If it is, you can help with the tips below. If it's not or you're not from the USA, read on anyway. Something will be relevant regardless.

Show up to hearings. These bills don't exist in a vacuum, but it feels that way when the only people showing up tp hearings and meetings are circle-jerking sharing their anti-trans commentary. Show up, call out the flaws in the bill. Make your demands and encourage others to do the same.

Calling your state representatives - House and Senate - Regardless of Party Affiliation. You can email or write a letter if you must but calls are more urgent in these offices and will be taken more seriously. Bonus points if you physically show up and schedule an appointment one-on-one. Your reps also host town halls, in multiple locations in your state and in DC. Check their respective websites for addresses and dates. They will open the floor for questions after delivering a statement. Remind them what the constituents REALLY want - Trans Rights.

Donate. Trans-run organizations, trans crowdfunding requests, trans content creators, trans friends.

Protest. Use the same protester safety tips you used with the black lives matter movement and stick to them religiously. Educate yourself on the red flags in a protest environment and how to stay safe.

More under the cut - this is long.

You can also do any of the following, though it's generally recommended that you do them along with the above items - these should be treated as supplemental to one or more of the above:

Support your trans friends. We're not okay. Genuinely. So, remind us you're there. Silence is deafening and sometimes we need to know we're not alone. Take a moment to hear us - our stories, our ideas. Practice listening.

Watch where your money goes. It's hard to avoid everything that sucks. All consumption hurts someone and a lot of basic needs are monopolized by one company with a hundred names. But there are still places where you can make a difference and it can't hurt to try. Restaurant hates homos? Go to the one next door and recommend accordingly. Author is known for being a TERF? Cut off their cash flow. To these companies a dollar is endorsement, so endorse someone else with your dollar. If it's not a need, maybe skip it.

If your state is NOT above, or you're out of the USA, make a plan anyway. Keep a book of contacts, resources and actions you can take. Call, write and email your representatives anyway as a preventative measure. Make sure they see that their jobs will be on the line if they don't hear you. Check for bills in your area that are relevant, spread the word about them.

If you are not from the USA, see what your nation is facing. Take similar steps but adjust them to your local systems. Who can you contact locally to make your voice heard? What can you attend to share it? Who can you help nearby?

Follow trans activists and reporters. Online trans figures can give you a heads-up on bills, news and other activist info. Erin Reed is someone I recommend highly for this, and her reach extends out of the USA sometimes.

We're running out of time to fix shit. Let's get moving.

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[phoenixyfriend]

What can I do to limit Amazon’s* negative impacts without harming vulnerable communities who rely on their services?

* or any similar company that people are forced to use to survive if they are poor, disabled, elderly, rurally isolated, or any combination of the above

My post on Amazon has been circulating pretty far these past few weeks, and a lot of people keep trying to argue about what can be done right now. 

1. Contact your representatives

If you live in the US, there are several sites you can use to figure out your senators (you have two) and your representative (you have one). Call them if there’s a phone number. Email them if there isn’t. They’re obligated to have SOME form of contact. If your rep is already on your side, they can use your email as evidence for how citizens feel about the issue when Congress is in session to argue. If your rep is NOT on your side, they will see the email as evidence that a portion of their constituency is NOT willing to reelect them if they don’t play nice, and that scares them a lot. Either way, make yourself heard. Harass them if you have to.

(For more local issues, especially things like minimum wage and labor laws, you can find your representatives for your state or city government, like your mayor or governor or county rep, and contact them as well. Make yourself heard.)

Write emails in your own words about one of the following subjects:

Supporting the USPS. It’s the backbone of the US shipping industry, and major shipping companies like UPS, FedEx, and Amazon use it for overflow.

Monopolies and antitrust acts. Reference past antitrust acts leveled against oil, railroad, and telecom monopolies.

Raising the minimum wage. Reference inflation.

Enacting a marginal tax rate on high earners (re: the 1%, but phrased in a way that they’ll take seriously). Reference the marginal tax rates of the fifties.

Increasing disability benefits. Try to work something in about how stringent the requirements to qualify are, and how benefits don’t cover enough for medical care, transportation, assistive technology, and so on.

Increasing social security benefits for retirees. People pay into this fund all their lives as part of their income tax; it’s supposed to benefit them right back! (You can circle back to marginal tax rates and how the rich usually have savings and don’t need social security, but the poor often don’t have savings and rely on it.)

Enforcing corporate taxation. Find some statistics on who paid corporate  taxes in the past few years and who didn’t. Make sure to find a few big names and what their tax rate SHOULD have been. Emphasize how much extra money the government would be making.

Nationalizing the health care industry. Reference how well it works for countries like Canada, Korea, or Sweden, and how often hard-working Americans are bankrupted by unexpected medical emergencies.

Enacting or enforcing higher standards of employee rights. Did you know that minimum wage employees in Indiana don’t have the right to a lunch break unless they’ve been working at least twelve hours?

Legal repercussions for predatory pricing practices. Walmart is the best-known for this, but Amazon does it too, and they’re a fair bit sneakier about it.

Capping rent prices. Housing costs are among the highest financial pressures Americans face right now, and the fact that housing costs have risen SO much faster than the minimum wage is why it’s impossible to rent a one-bedroom apartment on a minimum wage anywhere in the US right now.

Capping upper management incomes. A CEO should not be earning several thousand, or several million, times as much money as their employees. It’s a long stretch (so argue the more achievable things first), but imagine if we could convince the government to say “actually, you can only make up to twenty times as much per hour as your lowest-paid employee.”

Banning police as threats against unions. UNIONS ARE GOOD THINGS. SUPPORT THEM.

Anything else that comes to mind! There are lots of subjects. This list is not an exhaustive one.

2. Vote

Pretty self-explanatory, I think. Vote in every election. Sometimes you won’t be able to vote for your top choice, and that sucks, but remember that our system is fucked and you have to go for the lesser evil that’s still capable of winning. So vote Blue (because ambivalence to our desires is better than glee at our suffering), and then send as many emails and make as many calls as you can to force them to recognize that, since you helped them get into office, they have to honor the deal to actually represent you now.

3. Support small businesses

Okay, so supporting local businesses probably isn’t too easy in a pandemic. You can’t just walk to your nearest mom and pop store to see if there’s an affordable option. That said, if you can afford to do so, try to see if there are small businesses in your area that are doing delivery or curbside-pickup.

If you live in a more rural area, see about ordering from small online businesses for non-essentials. If you’re thinking “hey, I’d like a new scarf” or something, check Instagram or Etsy first. All faults aside, Etsy is only a marketplace, not a seller themselves, so they rely on the vendors using their site to remain in business. (Whereas Amazon tries to drive their vendors out of business to take over their market share.) You can also use Google Shopping, eBay, or Craigslist.

4. Don’t Use Amazon (or similar), but don’t shame people for using it either

Some people rely on loss leaders to survive. That’s a fault of the American economy being a horrifying mess, and I listed a whole litany of the causes above. Money talks, so avoid using Amazon unless there is NO other way to get your product, but if someone you know uses Amazon, and you know they’re struggling, keep your mouth shut. If they’re not struggling, mention your distaste for Amazon but don’t push the issue; they’re more likely to come around if they feel like you’re not passing a moral judgement on them for it.

5. Recognize that many fairly-priced products are more expensive than you’re used to

The example I usually use is fashion. We’re used to a shirt costing ten or twenty dollars, even at places other than Walmart or Target. This price is what we’re led to believe is reasonable, but it’s really a factor of incredibly underpaid workers, usually overseas. If you can’t afford it, feel free to blame the low minimum wage (I certainly do), but remember to take a step back and remind yourself that it’s not that the piece is expensive, it’s that you are underpaid, and the current system is trying to teach you to expect cheaper items as the norm so they can get away with paying even more people less than they deserve.

6. DONATE

Yeah! There are a whole lot of nonprofit agencies that focus on issues that relate to this topic. I prefer to donate to organizations that focus on enacting systemic change through legal or institutional channels, like the ACLU and AAPD, but there are a lot of options, some of which focus on more direct help, or on specific parts of the country. Figure out one that speaks to you, check it against a trusted charity rating system like Charity Navigator, and set up a monthly donation if you can afford to. Constant support can cause compassion fatigue, but consistent support is how you Get Shit Done.

7. March

Join an activist group and march. Sometimes there are other major events going on (hijacking one of the current marches against racism and police brutality in favor of one about monopolies would be in bad taste AT BEST), but there will come an opportunity to make your voice heard by showing up on the street and just yelling with a sign.

Now go forth and unleash hell.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

The categories we think of as discrete, bounded entities are most often continua, with broadly coherent centers and hairy, noisy edges that defy categorization.

Computers operate on binary states, but the actual electronics that represent these ones and zeroes are quite noisy, and only average out to "off" and "on." It's quite ironic, because computerization so often forces us to incinerate the edge-cases.

Prior to computerization, the fuzziness of analog record-keeping and the potential for official forebearance allowed us to maintain the pretence of neat categories while (sometimes) accommodating the infinite complexity of the edges.

My grandparents had given names, Russian names, Hebrew names, Yiddish names, anglicized names AND English nicknames, jumbled across their official forms and paperwork.

My grandfather Avram (Abe, Abraham, William, Bill) Doctorow (Doctorowicz, Doktorowicz, Doctorovitch, Doctorov, Doktorov) would sometimes have to explain this to officials, and they could accept it or even note it in the margins in ink.

Computerization doesn't necessarily allow this. A "name" field of 64 characters allows names up to 64 chars, period. If your name is longer than that, tough shit.

Computerization is often undertaken by isolated, wealthy execs from the global north, directing technologists.

In that sense, it is hegemonic, a way for an elite coterie to project its will over millions, even billions of people who lack even a means of registering their discontent.

Remember when Facebook and Google waged cruel warfare against their users with their "Real Names" policy that unilaterally declared what a name was (and was not)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars

They were carrying on the work of the Global War on Terror. After 9/11, the world saw waves of official name-change requests.

The requesters weren't changing their names: they were preserving them.

The names they'd used all their lives were suddenly cause for suspicion, due to discrepancies between their real names and their official names. In the world of unchecked GWOT power and paranoia, that discrepancy could cost you a job or a border-crossing or your liberty.

Ambiguous categories are the rule, not the exception. It's a commonplace that the idea of "race" within humanity is incoherent, but so is the idea of "species" in biology, where often animals of different species can still produce fertile offspring.

Computerization resolves ambiguity by steamrollering it, not by accepting it. I spent years as EFF's rep to a DRM standards committee, DVB-CPCM, whose project was to computationally define a valid "family" (so you could share video with your family).

The committee - overwhelmingly white, male, wealthy and Anglo - ensured that bizarre, rarely seen "families" fit the definition. If you had a summer home in France, a houseboat, and a lux SUV with seatback videos, they had you covered.

But if you were migrant-worker parents in Manila whose son was a construction worker in Qatar and whose daughter was an RN in Dallas, you were fucked. This was an "edge-case" they couldn't accommodate without opening up the possibility of "piracy."

All of that to introduce a highly amusing list called "Falsehoods programmers believe about time," which demonstrates that even the most objective, quantitative constructions are riddled with irreducible complexity resulting from qualitative factors.

https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca

The list includes obvious ones like "February is always 28 days long" but also "The system clock will never be set to a time that is in the distant past or the far future" and "There is only one calendar system in use at one time" and "Time always goes forwards."

Each of these is the epitaph from some programmer's postmortem of a ghastly error. Each is a reminder that time can be weaponized.

Think of Chinese time, a nation that is notionally many timezones wide, all yoked to a single zone based on Beijing's sunrise and sunset.

People in outlying territories start their workdays in the dark, or with the sun high in the sky, all so a bureaucrat in the capital need not trifle with subtracting or adding a few hours before phoning a local administrator to bark orders at them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_China

"Falsehoods programmers believe about..." is a whole genre unto itself:

Music

Online shopping

Email addresses

Gender

Language

Addresses

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

These falsehoods cover a wide range of cases, but so many can be reduced to a longstanding and important exception that was quietly made in the analog recordkeeping world that can't be easily adapted to a database schema.

There are many ways to handle another person's exception to your experience, "Computer says no" is surely the worst.

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WU List of Actions and Resource on Immigration Justice

The last few weeks of families being detained at the border, children being imprisoned without their parents, and inhumane deportation has been intense. We know that this imprisonment, detainment, and deportation brutally and violently separates families, as did slavery and Native American boarding schools. These actions are only the tip of the iceberg of attacks against immigrants and people of color in a long history of racism, xenophobia, white supremacy, and more.

We’ve compiled some resources below for taking action for immigrant justice as well as reminders for self care for when the photos and trauma are too triggering. Feel free to send us additional resources if you come across anything.

Training Resources

Rapid Response Guide for Muslim, Arab, South Asian Orgs/Advocates: End Family Separation Policy

Immigration Justice in the Time of Trump: training curriculum for non-immigrants designed by Catalyst Project, an activist organization that trains, mentors, and organizes white activists and majority white organizations, in collaboration with immigration justice groups & individuals such as National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Puente Arizona, Paul Kivel, and Phil Hutchings, formerly of Black Alliance for Just Immigration; National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR), the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Dismantling Racism Works, the Center For Community Change’s “Crossing Borders” and Jes Kelley, Hilary Moore and Joshua Kahn Russell.

Family Separation Webinar on 6/20 at 1pm EST

ACLU: Fact Checking Family Separation

Vox: The Trump administration’s separation of families at the border, explained

Donations/Orgs

Slate has a good list of orgs to support

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)

RAICES Texas: Family Reunification and Bond Fund

On Facebook

Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project

ActBlue: Support Kids at the Border

L4GG Foundation

Petitions to Sign

The ACLU, MomsRising, MoveOn, and CREDO have petitions to Sec. Nielsen.

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and Change.org also have a new petition out to the Department of Homeland Security.

The Women’s March has a petition to Ivanka Trump.

Define American has a petition to Attorney General Sessions.

The National Domestic Workers Alliance has a petition to President Trump.

The Women’s Refugee Commission also has a petition that is easy to sign and share.

Upcoming Events

Go to familiesbelong.org to find a protest near you

Join a march on Washington and Families Belong Together rally led by MoveOn and others. Distributed actions will be planned across the country. The date is June 30th and more details can be found here.

Mobilizations at the Border

Thursday, June 21st - Faith mission to the Ursula processing center in TX, led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Please email Jordyn Bussey at  bussey@civilrights.org to join the delegation of rabbis, ministers, bishops, and other faith leaders who will be ministering to children and holding a vigil outside of Ursula.

Saturday, June 23rd - Families Belong Together March in San Diego, CA, led by San Diego Indivisible. See additional details on Facebook.

Sunday, June 24th - Action in Tornillo, TX, led by Voto Latino. Visit www.stopseparation.org to sign up and learn more.

Thursday, June 28th – Mass mobilization at the Brownsville Federal County in TX, led by the ACLU. Join the #FamiliesBelongTogether rally in Linear Park at 11 a.m. RSVP here or on Facebook and contact Natalie Montelongo at nmontelongo@aclu.org with questions.

Date TBD (Possibly July 1st) - Moms march from El Paso to Tornillo, TX, led by Paola Mendoza. Email pmendoza44@gmail.com for more details and to join.

L4GG set up this Facebook group to help event organizers find one another, and to help interested activists connect with event organizers.

US Citizens wishing to take meaningful action at the border may consider reaching out to organizations working on both sides of the southern border to arrange acting as an observer and documenter of the procedures used at ports of entry to turn lawful asylum seekers away. Email jharbury@gmail.com if you can come help out. Please include potential dates and skills/tasks you're interested in helping with. Probably should know Spanish (not so sure how non-Spanish speakers might help - let us know if you have something in mind). Folks MUST be able to withstand being outdoors in the high heat for hours on end.

People to Call

Call your Members of Congress to use Congress’ oversight authority to stop separating families and to VOTE DOWN the two anti-immigrant bills moving through the House this week. The House is expected to vote on two anti-immigrant bills on Thursday, June 21st: one proposed by Rep. Goodlatte and another proposed by Speaker Ryan. Neither bill addresses the administration’s policy of separating families, and neither bill fixes the administration’s decision to end DACA.

On family separation: The ACLU has a call tool specifically for Senators; the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has a call tool that directs calls, tweets, facebook posts, and emails to all Members of Congress.

Ask MoCs to urge the administration to end the policy of forcibly separating families, particularly by weighing in on social media.

Ask MoCs to also push for President Trump, DHS Secretary Nielsen, and Attorney General Sessions to end the practice of separating and jailing families via letters, appropriations requirements, and Congressional hearings.

Ask MoCs to cosponsor family separation legislation and take other actions listed in the Hill briefing document developed by the Immigration Hub and the Women’s Refugee Commission.

List of contractors working/coordinating child immigrant detention centers

Your local immigration attorney or nonprofit and thank them. Post positive things on their FB page. This feels like war to many and they could use the moral support.

For Lawyers

Lawyers 4 Good Government

sign up to volunteer remotely or in-person.

Register for the family separation webinar on Wednesday (6/20) at 1pm Eastern. If you can't attend in person, you will be able to view a recording afterwards.

Self Care

Talk to your loved ones and others about this

Take time to recharge

Know your capacity for what you can do right now and don’t overtax yourself.

Remember that you can take action without needing to overshare the photos of the immigrant children, which can help reduce trauma and numbing.

Advice on Direct Action (Post on Facebook)

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Why You Should Use a Professional Registered Agent Provider

A registered agent is a rep you call for getting service of a procedure or other documents served upon a company. The registered agent consultation is a requirement whenever you are filing company documents (or posts) to form a company, LLC, LP, LLP, or similar type entities.

Each time your business is carrying out business in a state that calls for business to 'certify' (file a paper that gives them the right to carry out the company as an arranged company entity) a registered agent must be appointed.

We all have visions of the process-server from flicks and also television programs, so we will certainly dispense with the dramatics and also go over much more generally the kinds of documents that the process-server might 'serve' your firm. Papers that can be offered via a process-server are extensively defined as any type of legal proceeding, legal notification, or main federal government communication provided to the business within the territory of a state. The regulation normally needs that any kind of company entity conducting business within a state be signed up to do organization because of state. This act of registering your corporation from one state to another is called certifying or filing a certificate of authority. Within these files, it is called for that business to designate a registered agent or signed up the workplace.

Frequently a local business owner will certainly assign a staff member or family member in the state to act as their registered agent. Although this might save you someplace between $100-$ 300 dollars a year depending on the firm that you utilize, the dangers to you, your friends as well company can be much more significant. So why should you think about paying the yearly charge that registered agent company fees?

PRIVACY

The registered agent that you select becomes a public record. The name, as well as the address of the registered agent, is quickly acquired online. This means that their individual information ends up being conveniently offered to any kind of having access to an Internet link. Countless miles where your business is signed up, someone telephone call pull the information the name and address of your agent right from their living room! This is not the only place such info can be obtained. A simple search of the documents of the filing office is readily available to any individual strolling right into the firm. As a result, calling a person as a representative publishes their name and address in an online forum that is quickly accessed.

Documents that are offered are served either by a law enforcer or paid process server. Also, huge multi-national companies pick professional registered agent companies to prevent the discomfort that occurs when staff members or clients are witnesses to a lawful summons being offered. Lots of people deal with the presumption that the registered agent does not matter, as they do not plan on obtaining offered. Although this might be true, we reside in a litigious culture where lawsuits are common. Although most of us presume that we will certainly never belong to a lawsuit, it is extremely common to find yourself talking with a process server.

HUMILIATION

Exactly how Would certainly you feel if your staff members, clients, or suppliers were in your workplace when a process-server went into. Keep in mind that even if a lawsuit is unwarranted or has not been merited, documents must be served. If your customers and employees exist when these papers are delivered what image or understanding will they form when they see a uniformed police officer or delivering lawful records upon your business.

ACCESSIBLE

Is your registered agent available throughout "typical workplace hrs"? A registered agent should be readily available at the address listed every business day from around 9 AM - 5 PM to accept lawful records. The individual designated as your rep has to be readily available currently. This can not be an agent of this person, for the legal process to occur. Will the appointment influence the capability of your registered agent to travel or take time off? If your agent is a relative that goes to job throughout these hrs will the policeman need to serve them at various other areas such as their work?

TIME

Your signed up might need to go to the post office to sign for certified letters and authorized mail if they are not able to do so when the postman tries to supply files when it comes to service by mail. Can your rep make these inconvenient, time-consuming trips to the post office belong to their responsibility as your agent?

EXPERIENCE

Your registered agent must decline records that are not properly offered. Would your agent know what to do if the name noted on the files is not the name of your company, however instead a similarly named business? Your acceptance of such records puts you in legal danger.

PRICE

Failure to act rapidly on offered documents can influence be expensive. If records are lost or otherwise sent out to you promptly you can miss crucial legal days that could cause civil or criminal permissions, impact your certificate or standing within the state, as well as summary judgment (when you fail to show up as well as the court immediately guidelines versus you.).

VALUE INCLUDED SOLUTIONS.

Some registered agent companies provide extra services to help you in managing your firm, preserving conformity, as well as record safekeeping. These are just a few of the many services that various firms use:

An online calendaring system that emails you to remind you around important declaring dates.

Annual report due dates.

Possible tax obligations that you might go through in a state.

Needed permits and refiling due days.

Type Libraries to Assist you with lawful files you might require saving your legal fees.

An online archive of records gotten in your place with additional information such as day and time served and real copies of the paper received.

The name that is indicated on your business organization files is even more essential than just a call for the area to be finished. Not selecting a registered agent service can cost you time, money, shame, and also privacy. Before you finish the registered agent box consider this. Is a regular monthly price of $8 to $25 worth the added advantages of the person registered agent in Nevada provider?

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Just a quick note from someone licensed with property insurance in all 50 states:

We have to submit policies and premiums to each states’ Department of Insurance.

If your policy doesn’t cover or assist with things like AEDS (my sister has a heart condition and was denied assistance with this life saving medical equipment), the state approved that.

Just your friendly reminder that it’s not only the corporations that are against you, it’s the local and federal government *allowing* them to be against you.

I work in pet insurance, which legally has to be written in the same frame as property insurance (such as car/renters/homeowners insurance). And we deny vaccines, castrations, and checkups. Why? The government tells us to. And we’re all pet owners at this company. It pisses us all off. But the industry and the government made the rules, the customer service reps on the bottom did not.

So don’t chew out *just* the rep on the other side of the phone for denying you access to healthcare or assistance. Go up the chain, send emails to the higher ups and call your local representatives. They approved this shitty ass system.