How's it going everybody! Today we're trying to something a little bit
different. Just a little podcast no script, nothing
I'm trying to collect my thoughts on DACA it's one of the things leftists
like to unify behind, right? The narrative of college students getting deported
getting taken out of their country is pretty compelling, you know, what ICE is
doing is pretty disgusting and there are a lot of ways we can help out dreamers
and undocumented people in general outside of just sharing news stories. And
here are four ways we can do that. So first things first is actually sharing
news stories! There's a lot of narratives that don't really get heard like say
anyone who isn't Mexican and unfortunately that's true there's a lot
of Central Americans and Latin American countries Nicaragua Honduras Argentina
Venezuela and you don't really hear anything from any undocumented people from
those countries and they definitely exist.
You know there's a lot of Central American immigrants in this country here
without papers and there's a lot of people from African countries and Asian countries,
buuut we only tend to think of our neighbors downstairs and that's an issue.
Representation matters and as citizens, as allies we should be doing everything
we can to make sure everybody's voice is heard. So second up is another way you
can help out materially and that is donating, you know, giving money DACA is
really expensive, I think it's like four hundred ninety five dollars for every
renewal which is a lot of money if you're poor [sad laugh] and I'm laughing but like
it's for real it really is and if you have the capacity if you have the money,
if you have the wealth, you should do everything in your power to help out. Uh
depending how big your Twitter, you know your social circle, Facebook just post
online be like, "Hey. I have four hundred ninety five dollars" or if you don't have
that money be like, "Hey I have ten dollars I have a hundred dollars I have
two cents if anyone needs help renewing their DACA hit me up!" You can also donate
to a lot of other organizations that do this for a living I can't think of any
off the top of my head but I'll have some in the description
maybe someone show up on screen on screen if I'm not lazy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
But yeah alleviating that financial burden is huge huge huge huge.
So third is creating programs that help out undocumented people. One of the
things we did here in my local community is we had a "Share the Vote" program which
is not something you really hear about especially not from, like, radical
organizations, but we'll get to that. So in our program what we did is we paired
up people who were citizens and weren't citizens and we basically got the
citizen to share their vote, uh what that that entailed is, I mean
legally speaking you have to vote for what you believe in so what we did is we made
these people be 'lobbied' so they would vote for what the undocumented person believed in.
Not [gibberish] not legally what they're what they're legally doing is being lobbied
but that's what it worked out to in essence and it was a really fun program
like it was a great day and you can really foster some civic engagement in
communities that are disenfranchised completely, right? Civic engagement
doesn't exist if you don't have papers because the state literally wants you to
not exist so yeah! And the way we did it was we went door-to-door in our
community, eh, specifically in parts of the community that had more undocumented
people and if you... so this is the hard part and so you know every every
community is different so you need to pair this to what you believe in, but
first things first is always getting that trust. If you're not trusted no
one's gonna sign up they're gonna see you and they're gonna be like, "What this
guy is trying to get me to leave my home what and like what's going on no I'm not
doing this goodbye." So they need to see you out there prior I mean undocumented
people are probably the most distrustful people of any institution of any higher
power there are, right? Because one, one bad encounter and dude you're out so
establishing that trust having other programs to facilitate your programming
for undocumented people is essential. So beyond that yeah we went
door to door and.... how'd it go.... yeah I mean we just talked to people we, uh
what you really need is people that speak ,you know, people's mother's tongue so Spanish
you know, Swahili and any variety. And we got them to sign up so our
biggest issue was we wanted them to meet up face to face for the lobbying which
turned out to not be a great idea. Most people have jobs you know they have
things to do they have kids they don't want to do this program but especially
they don't even care about voting, right? If you don't vote then you're
not really gonna care... it's hard! And... so what I would recommend for.... so what I
would recommend for everybody is to find a way to have the undocumented person
sign up, sign like a... sample ballot, basically. Make them fill out all of
their wants and then give that ballot to the citizen and I mean it depends again
on your state. Some states allow people to bring in with them campaign materials
and stuff to help them guide them through the vote so you would just
instruct the citizen to take that in with them in the voting booth but some
states don't allow that as far as I know so you you wanna you know get all that
figured out first. Yeah so you get there you get the vote
from the undocumented person and basically you get the citizen to vote for them and
you know you got to cover your bases it's logging that you really do make a
difference and, and you foster civic engagement it's a lot of good stuff. And
[laughs] and the thing is right a lot of Leftists get caught up on the fact that right the
state isn't gonna enact socialism nothing huge is gonna happen from a vote.
That's the thing that matters. Yeah, the state isn't gonna make socialism
happen but it still can change a lot of fuckin' lives, you know? And the
undocumented community is one of those people whose lives can be changed by the
state! So you know fostering voting and and
civic engagement in this community is really really important. Um, yeah, I mean, I
guess that's all I can say on that. A really good program if you have any more
questions if you need any help I can help y'all out in the comments below. I'm
tryna think of what else... I mean if you do vote for the face-to-face meetings I
mean honestly that's a lot more human it's a lot more... um, it feels a lot
nicer when you get to meet someone face-to-face and talk to them and go
through the ballot together, oh yeah cuz that's what we did, everyone sat down and
they went through the ballot together and we encouraged the citizen to just
kind of listen to what the undocumented person wanted but I mean they were they
were encouraged to talk through things in case they had disagreements because
that's that's a potential, right? We have Joe Schmo over here who wants to vote for
his girl Hillary Clinton and then hey you know maybe this guy just doesn't
like the Democrats and he'll vote for, I dunno, Jill Stein or like Trump I don't know it
didn't happen to us because our turnout wasn't super huge but it's a possibility
and it does happen with smaller things, right, you know Prop 465, it's like
"Legalize Weed" and then, "Oh but I'm really socially conservative" "Oh well I'm
socially liberal," that tends to happen. Ultimately, the way you get that fixed is
I mean definitely talk to the citizen participants early and... it's hard, it's
hard to convince them for sure. Right no one likes to feel disenfranchised nobody
nobody, but use that feeling and, and really instill in them that any feelings
of disenfranchisement, of powerlessness that they might feel, of not being able
to vote for what they want that's what someone who doesn't have status in this
country feels every day and if they can shave a little bit of their privilege
and hand that over to someone who doesn't have that privilege it they're
making a big difference. Yeah, and I mean I really hope that helps you get through
to them and also again if you do have them meet face to face consider having
some day care option some people to watch their
kids. We had it next to a park and there was a playground so yeah any kids have
somewhere to play definitely think of that.
And yeah, translator's, and shit. So yeah. Also not every undocumented person is
the same. My homie he was doing it with me. He he was totally [laughs] so we had this idea
we made his ballot box where people would put their ballots in and then we
would take that ballot and then to give it to the citizen afterwards. Some people
were down with the with the little like role play ballot box and then other
people were just like, Nah dude." You know it was like too playful for them for
something that was really serious and important and I mean some people
sensibilities were like "[laughs] Yeah yeah!" and then other people were just like
"Mmm do we have to?" Als, pictures! Um be mindful, everyone has different levels of
security, right? No not everyone wants to take a picture with you and respect that
YEAH JUST RESPECT MAN. And finally we've got: protect them with your body. One of
the big things that was happening a lot in the 1960s and onward was Church
Refuge and that's something Leftist should really really look into
especially if you're religious considering starting a program where you
allow and documented people into the church if they have nowhere else to go.
So through the church donations and stuff people would gather enough money
to provide housing and food for these people and it was pretty successful for
some time during the 60s and 80s I believe, I'll link some article down in
the description below with more on this it's super interesting.
Yeah that's a really really good option. Another thing is there's a lot of
organizations that are doing like ICE alert networks if you text this number
they'll text you if ever ICE is having a raid in your area and I mean if you have
an organization you need to be tapped into that and send bodies if you find
out that there's like a work raid or a raid on a home
I mean if there's like three ICE raids- if there's three ICE officials and there's
a hundred people showing up to protest around them, like are you kidding me? If you
for even like a second, you allow someone to- someone that was being stopped by ice to
escape... but that's huge! I mean also I don't know if that's like illegal don't
do anything illegal. I'm not advocating for anyone to do anything illegal. But I
mean definitely look into it for sure. But... god damn is that, is that uh like
obstruction of justice I don't even fucking know, but do you like, honestly we
have to do everything we can to protect our communities right?
And if we can send people to protest and not, not, not obstruct justice right
we're not getting in the way of the laws, legally, YouTube do not fuckin de-
monetize me I don't have enough people to be de-monetize, but you know what I mean, we need
to do everything we can. And we don't have as much to lose as undocumented
people do right? I we get, if we get arrested if we get thrown in jail
slapped with like a... I dunno like a bullshit arresting arrest (whoops) resisting arrest charge
you know we can fight that we can cause a shit show in the police department and
get those charges dropped they usually do when it comes to protest. Now
an undocumented person does not have that option, it's, it's, caught and your way of
life gets completely destroyed right? ICE is a terrorist organization. It's a
fascist organization and it's trying to scare people into leaving this country
by force right? That that is not okay and we need to do everything in our power to
stop that. So ideally we would want to help people before they get arrested
right? Before they start their deportation proceedings, but if we can't,
if ICE gets there before we do then we needa cause a ruckus, man. We need to do
everything we can and if helping someone get away right if that's
if that is illegal if that is obstruction of justice then, hey don't do
that. We can be creative, we can get legally creative and use the loopholes
that we have to our advantage and help undocumented people out man. Whether
that's flooding the scene of an ICE arrest, standing behind an ICE van to
make sure it can't, you know, cross the street or whatever there's just there's
a load of ways, there's a load of options for civil disobedience that don't, you
know, get you thrown in federal prison and are within legal means you know! It's
about getting creative it's about finding new solutions to fight this
fascist organization dude because ICE is out there destroying lives tearing apart
families and actively trying to destroy communities that are the life and blood
of this country and a lot of the times ICE is sending up people out there to die.
Right, the drug war in Mexico, which I mean it's a Mexican American drug war
right this the United States is just as responsible as the Mexican government
under PRI was and now PAN again... but yeah. There was a story that ran back a
few weeks ago about a boy who was an MS 13 member and he lived in a
rural town and his family was poor so he joined up with MS 13 and
they wanted him to join the gang for real which meant like an initiation and his
I think his initiation was to murder somebody and he didn't want to
but when you're a part of those dangerous gangs, the
option is do what we say or we kill you and your entire family and probably
torture you before we kill you. So, right, alright this was not a choice this was not
a choice at all. And so he did it right so he escaped to
the United States without papers and he served as an informant to the case
against MS 13 members in his comm- in his community I think it was
in Florida or something I dunno it'll be in the description and guess
what happened... right... of course, despite him being an informant and despite him
being promised protection, ICE came, ICE took him, and despite people's protests
ICE sent him back to Mexico where he was then killed.
This is ICE. This is the terrorist fascist organization that is not only
ruining lives, but actively getting people murdered. We cannot stand for this
and we need to be doing everything in our power no matter how small with it
whether it's giving money, whether it's having teaching-in, education sessions, you
know, citizenship info out there, the food drives, anything, we need to be doing
everything in our power to fight back against ICE. We can't afford not to.
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