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nicolayoon:

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.

Las Americas Immigration Advocacy Center

http://las-americas.org

Annunciation House

https://annunciationhouse.org

Border Network for Human Rights

http://bnhr.org

Tagged by @vardasvapors, thank you 🙂 (I’m finally going to do this instead of leaving a half-finished post in my drafts)

• Favorite smell: rain, cherries, cinnamon, coffee
• First job: handing out newspapers/advertisements (I
  only

  did it for a year)

• Zodiac: Libra
• Favorite pizza: Does Flammkuchen count? if not, anything with a lot of cheese
• Favorite dog: my family’s (deceased) dog Nika, a black Spaniel hybrid, I think. Also Huskys, German Shepherds and Labradors.
• Favorite foot attire: comfortable yet elegant black boots
• Favorite roller coaster: Sadly, I haven’t been to any park with actual roller coasters recently.
• Favorite candy: milk chocolate
• Favorite ice cream: cookies and cream
• Pet peeves: So many. To name just one:

  people walking slowly, 
  especially while smoking, when there’s no way to get past them.

• What are you listening to right now: nothing
• Color of your vehicle: I don’t have one. Unless my bike counts (it’s black)
• Color of your eyes: hazel
• Favorite holiday: the Christmas & New Year combination
• Night owl or day person: day person
• Favorite day of the week: Saturday

• Tattoos: none
• Like to cook: Very much, and baking is even better 🙂
• Beer or wine or neither: wine or cocktails

• Favorite color: green (all the shades of plant leaves)
• Do you like vegetables: some of them, most if they’re part of a dish I like
• Do you wear glasses: unfortunately yes
• Favorite season:

  spring

Tagging @preciousreyofsunshine, @lordnelson100, @keepingmyfandoms, @coco-little-rose, @djemso, @radioactive-earthshine, @starspray and whoever else would like to do this!

spectralarchers:

yuunhow:

The EU Copyright Reform Proposal including the controversial article 11 and 13 has been approved today. Here’s what we can do to prevent this law from actually being passed.

So first of all, now that it has been approved I’m seeing a lot of confusion about what the proposal actually does. You can read all of it here, but here’s a short summary of the proposal:

– The proposal was first published around two years ago. The two most problematic things about it are Article 11 and Article 13, Article 11 wanting to prevent people from using snippets of text from news articles, possibly also affecting links that contain the headline of the article; Article 13 is about using upload filters on websites with lots of user uploads to prevent copyrighted material from being posted online. This would not only affect screenshots and gifs, but also memes, music used in remixes and similar content. That’s right, if this law passes we won’t be able to post memes and similar content online anymore. (Note: Don’t worry about your fanart and fanfiction. Those won’t be taken down.) It’s not clear what kinds of websites will have to make use of those filters yet; while some sources state it will only affect big platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Flickr etc. others say it could also affect start-ups and forums who aren’t able to pay for those filters and might have to close down.
(Please note that I’m no expert, so if you have anything to add/correct about my summary, feel free to do so.)

– Today, on June 20th, a parliamentary committee approved of the proposal.
However, it’s not over yet. The Internet won’t suddenly “die” today.  There are a few more steps to be made before this passes as an actual law. Presumably on 3rd-5th July, there’ll be a Parliament Negotiating Mandate Vote. Finally, there’ll be a final Parliamentary Vote in December.
The proposal has to pass both of those votes before becoming an actual law.

Long story short: Keep contacting your MEPs. Just because the proposal has been approved, you shouldn’t stop fighting against this shit being passed. It’s not over yet.
Here are some useful links:

https://saveyourinternet.eu – Call and tweet your MEPs or write them (pre-written) emails

https://act.openmedia.org/savethelink-call – Call your MEPs

https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet  – Sign this petition against upload filters

Lastly: No, this is not alt-right propaganda.
I know many of you were confused when this issue first blew up, as there were barely any reliable sources and most articles about it seemed to come from alt-right websites who used the issue to bash the EU. I fell for the rumor about the issue being faked too and was surprised to read in my local newspaper a few days ago that it is an actual issue, and now I just regret to not have done anything before the proposal passed. But as I said: It’s not over yet. We can still fight against this.

Please share this post, no matter if you’re from the EU or not. If you are from the EU, please contact your MEPs or sign the petition. Remind them on the upcoming elections May 2019 and let them know you and many, many more people care about the internet as it is right now.

The website allows you to sign according to your country just by searching. All you need is an email and to enter a country in the allotted slot.

Do it. Save the internet.