I'm very close to the immigrant rights community, and I haven't seen anything like these mobile apps pop up. So far it's been hotlines and stuff..
This reminds me of the comments of a journalist friend of Amy Goodman on election night: "Welcome to the rest of the world!" and here we go, apparently we need to adopt and adapt human rights defense mobile apps from the Iran resistance! ;-) I don't know if other people involved in immigrant rights are in this list, but an app along the lines of what's being talked about here is well overdue.. I started thinking of adapting the Ushua.. platform to track ICE once I paid a couple of week-long visits to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, seeing ICE-TX State Trooper roadblocks and cooperation, and even TX National Guard tanks right at the border! Putting 2+2>4 together with the recent thread about doing something more with liberation tech than email DL, this is an opportunity to spin off an emergency project to come up with ideas and working prototypes of mobile apps to track ICE roadblocks and disseminate that info. I heard this morning from an authoritative source that these roadblocks are in effect in Austin TX whereby they stop motorists with the initial " tried-and-true" Arpaio style question: " your license!" Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <a...@acm.org> +1 (347) 766-5008 On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Lina Srivastava <l...@linasrivastava.com> wrote: > This discussion is something that really should be vetted privately with > immigration groups working on this. There is a lot of fear stoking migrants' > anxieties right now, and misinformation swirling about what's happening. I > suggest connecting with United We Dream, Make the Road NY, or DRUM, for > example, before going too far down the road with thoughts of design or > development. > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> From: Nithin Coca <privateemail2...@progressiveexchange.org> >> >> This is one case where we should look abroad for examples, as these types >> of situations are not abnormal globally. >> >> I know that in Iran, there is a tool that is used for avoiding morality >> police - something that should be easily adaptable to this case (and I >> believe is open source) >> >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gerd.app.gershad >> >> https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2016/02/gershad-app/ >> >>> From: Craig A. Bowman <privateemail253...@progressiveexchange.org >>> >>> A few of us are also talking about using the ushahidi >>> (https://www.ushahidi.com) platform to do this. In conversations with them >>> now about how it might work best. >>> >>> 11, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Ms. Andrea Morales >>> < >>> >>> privateemail248...@progressiveexchange.org<mailto:privateemail248...@progressiveexchange.org>> >>> wrote: >>> > One easy way >>> of doing this would be to use Waze and add "police" check >>> > points >>> but add "ICE" in the description of the checkpoint itself. >>> > >>> > > On >>> Feb 11, 2017, at 9:11 AM, Mr. Dan Sisken >>> <privateemail191...@progressiveexchange.org> wrote: >>> > > >>> > > An idea based on this week's >>> news about increasingly aggressive ICE >>> > actions targeting immigrant >>> communities. >>> > > >>> > > Does anyone know of any examples of a mobile, >>> crowd-sourced app that >>> > could be used to pinpoint ICE checkpoints. >>> Such an app could be used to >>> > avoid ICE and for spontaneous >>> demonstrations. >>> > > >>> > > I don't have any connection to activists; >>> just putting the idea out >>> > there. >> >> >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations >> of list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >> compa...@stanford.edu. > > > > > -- > > -- > Lina Srivastava > -- > twitter | linkedin | facebook | instagram > www.cielab.in > > > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
