We’re Just Getting Started
It struck me late one afternoon: Are you an uncontested citizen in a country with widening social polarization? Is that country making an entire class of people illegal? Are those people being persecuted or denied basic human rights? Is there a way you can call attention to this every day?
A great myth has been perpatrated about the Danish King Christian X. It has been conveyed, often as fact, that he wore a yellow Star of David during World War II. Sadly, this is not true, but we can write this into our own history. We have that chance right now, but hopefully not forever.
We can show solidarity with your persecuted brethren by identifying with them. Show the people around you how important these people are to a society, and how desperately they should be permitted to gain recognized legal status. Wear a shirt to show your community how many of the people they see every day could be undocumented. They are our family, friends, coworkers, and neighbors.
United Sates Code 1907, Title 8, Section 1324 defines some of the offenses that undocumented migrants are being charged with in the United States prior to being hunted, abducted, and deported without the Due Process promised to all People who find themselves in the United States.
Loosely speaking, I want to sell these shirts and do two things with the money: Fund a consistent set of organizations whose values stand for freedom of press, speech, religion, expression of love, and existence. A second set of organizations will be gathered from the Community, vetted, and then placed to ballot for the Community to decide where those funds go, using a ranked-choice ballot system.
As things stand, I am a one-man mission. I need help, but I can only offer you the satisfaction of building something amazing, as I have no money, no donors, no marketing; just a couple dozen shirts and a strong will to fight like hell against the rising tide of authoritarianism and anti-egalitarianism.
Please, email me at kostakezios (at) undocd.org if youre interested in lending a hand.
