My topic is on human rights.
Human rights can range from police violence in Brazil to innocent people being
murdered in Syria. What I am going to put a focus on and raise awareness for is
the rights of immigrants here in the United States. There has been a lot of
discrimination in the U.S towards immigrants, now more than ever. One issue
that really got me and a lot of other people angry was the incarceration of
migrant kids at some warehouse/”tent city” that very much resembles a cage.
These little kids were taken from their families for weeks and were kept
secluded in cages like if they were animals. Other activities, such as people
being stopped on the streets simply because of the way they look is extremely
discriminatory and inhumane.
With most public attention around
immigration focused on Trump’s administration efforts to crack down on illegal
immigration, the scope of a series of actions restricting legal entry to the
country has gone unnoticed for the most part. Without need for congressional
approval, the administration has initiated several actions through regulations,
administrative guidelines, and immigration application processing changes.
Taken together, these steps have dramatically slowed down family and
employment-based immigration, decreased refugee admissions to their lowest
numbers in decades, tightened who can receive the most common temporary work
visa, and restricted naturalization for immigrants serving in the U.S.
military.
My plan is to run my podcast once or twice a
week. I will be keeping up with current immigration events, new laws, inhumane
ICE acts, and things of that matter. I also plan on interviewing people,
whether they have stories of friends/family who have been discriminated
against, or personal discriminatory experiences. I am going to try really hard
to get an interview with some of the “inspirational people” that I have listed.
My first podcast will take place next
Saturday. I will be introducing who I am, talk a little about myself, my
family, and our background. I will also be talking about current events, for
example just this week we heard some more ignorance come out of our president’s
mouth. Trump announced his plan to circumvent Congress to revoke the
150-year-old birthright law in an interview with Axios on HBO that is slated to
air Sunday 11/04/18. https://youtu.be/H0d21nQBY8o
The goal of my podcast is to raise
awareness. I am working towards change. I want people to get inspired; I want
people to pick up their phones and call the lawmakers because of the facts that
I’m preaching. I want people to take action, not take their headphones off and
continue working their 9-5 job after they listen to my podcast.
I have also created a twitter account, where
I will be trying to raise awareness but at the same time promote my podcast. I
will use many hashtags, such as #AbolishICE and #EndFamilyDetention, etc., which
should bring attention to my page from the right people. I will be retweeting
many tweets of other activists and people who care for this topic. I think Twitter is a great platform, where I
can reach a pretty large audience. A lot of the people who’s work I’ve looked
into are huge on twitter. They use twitter to express how they feel, to send
messages out to the community, to promote protests, to retweet important
current events, and overall to keep their audience in the loop.
The first person who’s worked I’ve looked
into is Erika Andiola, she has a huge twitter presence. “Proud, undocumented
and unafraid” is her bio, Andiola is that of a woman who knows what it means to
speak truth to power. In addition to sharing important updates on organizing
taking place across the nation, Adiola is a passionate advocate for abolishing
of ICE.
Another is Juan Escalante. Escalante is
communications director for the immigrant rights group America's Voice. In
addition to providing his twitter followers with major news updates, Escalante
shares personal stories about his life as an undocumented immigrant in the
United States. His tweets shed light on the mental health consequences of
living in a country where you’re told you’re not wanted. (I HAVE A PENDING INTERVIEW WITH JUAN IN THE UPCOMING WEEKS)
Cristina Jimenez Cofounder and
executive director of United We Dream, Jimenez is a veteran community organizer
based in New York City and originally from Ecuador. In addition to running the
immigrant youth network, Jimenez tweets frequently about upcoming
protests.
Gaby Pacheco is a nationally recognized
immigrant rights activist. She is the author of the New York Times op-ed
"What the Dreamers Can Teach the Parkland Kids" and tweets frequently
about the experiences of undocumented families
living in the U.S.
Also, A podcast that I’ve been looking
into and using as a guideline is- The Hum// A human rights podcast. This
podcast talks about human rights, but more specific, it talks about racism. The
young lady, Syrus Marcus talks about current issues, her own experiences, and
interviews many people.
LINK TO MY POWERPOINT- Immigration
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