By David Futrelle
Just a quick post with list of things you can do to fight Trump’s horrific policy of separating children from their parents at the border.
CALL YOUR REPS: Call your Senators and Congressional representative. Go to 5calls here (they have several scripts you can use and all the phone numbers you need) or call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121; they’ll connect you to the right people.
PREPARE FOR THE NATIONWIDE MOBILIZATION ON JUNE 30! Big demonstration planned for DC and in cities across the country, sponsored by Families Belong Together. Go here to find a demonstration near you.
FIND GROUPS DOING OTHER THINGS TO HELP. Here’s list of relevant groups and other ideas for activism on Slate.
@ surplus
I’m seeing the image here; and I could also see all of your earlier post. Perhaps the issue is at your end?
What image?
Ah Scild posted a (rather excellent) picture. You can’t see it? Hmm, and you’ve had comments trimmed from posts. Memory problem perhaps? Although I’m no computron expert; but maybe someone cleverer than me has an idea.
ETA: I’ve sometimes had problems on websites generally where they only seem to show part of the content, and no images, until I’ve refreshed the page. Perhaps give that a go?
@Banananana
No, it’s not the kind of Christianity I was raised with either, but it unfortunately is the kind I see all too often on the Christian Right. It makes me want nothing to do with it.
@bluecat
That is really brilliant and explains why I didn’t feel any sense of real relief about that Executive Order. I don’t think the evil is done with this administration, on this front and many others. All of it scares me and makes me wonder just what is happening in this country. When did so many become so hateful?
@Skyla
Thank you. I will check out the video. The parents are traumatized too. Studies have been done showing high cortisol levels in Mother’s harvested of their newborns. This effect seems to last for the rest of their lives.
The entire thing is straight up human trafficking and the only way people aren’t horrified is because it is presented as a simultaneous punishment and “choice “ on the part of the victims. As bluecat explicated so clearly: ‘You made us do the bad thing to you.’ It is all unspeakably horrible and the damage spreads out and lasts for generations.
I will check and see if there is a demonstration near me. Seriously people, what has happened in this country? I hold hope because I know there are a lot of people who don’t want to live in a world filled with hatred and things are getting dire enough that we can’t ignore it.
@Surplus to Requirements,
If you haven’t gotten your computer to see the image yet, it’s a Time magazine cover – possibly a PhotoShop job – of Trump standing impassively in front of a crying 2-3 year-old girl, who looks vaguely Hispanic. The headline reads “Welcome to America.”
@Katiekitten420
Take a break from the News for a while. Enjoy media and life that is positive (upbeat music, comedies, idealistic movies, etc.). In the meantime….if you must consume news….
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
http://www.dailygood.org/
https://www.today.com/news/good-news
….Read up on news sources that specialize in GOOD NEWS.
Understand this; The regular news tends to focus on grim stuff and it creates a view of the world that’s worse than it is. Yes; There’s A LOT of bad stuff but there’s a lot more good stuff.
Humanity is flawed. Both Rousseau & Hobbes were right and wrong in their own way. I guess the “In the middle” Locke view is most accurate.
In a scale of 1 to 10….with 1 being “Joseph Stalin” and 10 being “Jesus of Nazareth”….most folks are somewhere between 5 to 8.
That said; Most people are mostly good and the horrors in the world are focused on BECAUSE they stand out!
Hope and a high morale are vital to good activism.
Please take a break and relax. Know that others out there are still fighting in The Resistance.
If Obama was “A New Hope” and Trump “The Empire Strikes Back” then Nov. 2018 & After can become “Return of the Jedi”.
We can do it! YES WE CAN!