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How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood (www.teenvogue.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Not to further shit on their good intentions, but this really pisses me off too:

We have listed some tips for anyone who wants to start a hotline, neighborhood watch, or cash-assistance program in our organizing playbook.

But if you actually intend on viewing that "organizing playbook" they have a mandatory form asking for:

First and last name
Mobile phone number
Opt-in for email and/or phone updates

And requiring:

Email address
Zip code
Latino YES/NO?

For someone interested in wanting to help, but not wanting to be consolidated into another helpful list of combatants or targets a subpoena away, this seems needlessly restrictive.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The playbook is in the inbox of [email protected], feel free to login and download.

Collecting your name, email, number, etc is how they build the network that has given them some successes so far. I get where you're coming from, though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Thats a consideration I hadn't thought of, but yeah that seems like a potential oversight on their part

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As long as you use an email that's not tied to you and provide fake info, there's no/minimal risk. Stupid as shit that we have to go to these lengths, but here wa are...