Great news! Celso should also join Progressive Exchange, where there is a lot of interest in this project.
Thanks, Yosem On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes < alps6...@gmail.com> wrote: > I contacted Celso Salinas-Mireles, an immigration rights activist and > coder, about this, and he told me he has an open-source project that > tries to do just that, but he needs help in getting it going. So it > sounds like this is a great opportunity to jumpstart this badly needed > app and get it into the hands of millions of vulnerable people > residing in the US ASAP. Talk about a sense of urgency! > > He should be joining this list shortly, in the meantime I cc him here > so that he can catch up to the initial bits of conversation about the > topic. > > Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, > > Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes > <a...@acm.org> > +1 (347) 766-5008 > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > <alps6...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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:privateemail248134@ > 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. 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