[From Laurie Husted]
Friends:
Sleepless with heartache and rage over what’s happening at the border, I am trying to do something productive in these wee hours. Here’s what I know so far about what any of us can do (on top of the usual calls to representatives . . .):
WRITE TO VENAL PROFITEERS:
(Info gathered and posted by Sleeping Giants –the people who drove advertisers away from Breitbart — and Shannon Coulter of GrabYourWallet.org)
Two companies with lucrative contracts with the Office of Refugee Resettlement and/or ICE. (See this Daily Beast story.)
1) MVM Inc. — An intelligence contractor, MVM, Inc. won an $8 million contract to “provide assistance in emergency shelter operations for unaccompanied children [that] extends through September 2022,” and has made $42.9 million in less than a year, transporting minors to centers in Texas.
CEO: Kevin Marquez
marquezk@mvminc.com.
2) General Dynamics –defense contractor (WTF!)
CEO: Phebe Novakovic
pnovakovic@generaldynamics.com.
Here are the emails for General Dynamics’ PR team:
lryan@generaldynamics.com
Carol.Smith@gd-ms.com,
DDuBard@nassco.com
david.hench@gdbiw.com
Mark.Meudt@gdit.com
porterr@gdls.com
rafael.moreno@gdels.com
heidi.fedak@gulfstream.com
heinz.aebi@jetaviation.ch
laurie.vanbrocklin@gd-ots.com
dbarrett@gdeb.com
3) The bus company transporting the kids (in caged buses):
TRAILBOSS INC.
http://trailbossinc.com
907-338-8243
trailboss@trailbossinc.com
(All email addresses from companies’ own public sources.)
SOME MODEL CALLS (these are social media posts from people I’m acquainted with)
“I just called the Customs & Border Protection field office in Tornillo, TX, where a tent city is being erected to warehouse children our government has ripped away from their parents.
The number is: 915-765-2800
I asked the woman who answered to please implore CBP agents to STOP enforcing this illegal, brutal, immoral policy.
Flood their phone lines.”“I filed a complaint against ICE with The Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties within the Dept. of Homeland Security. Spoke with a very nice man who said they’ve been flooded w calls.
Here’s the # for anyone else who’d like to do the same.
202-401-1474.”
SUPPORT ORGS DOING GREAT WORK
Excellent list here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/how-you-can-fight-family-separation-at-the-border.html
DEMOS
I don’t see anything concrete yet about new plans — though there have been powerful ones around the country the last few days –but I saw some calls for a national march.
I heard the Raging Grannies are planning a protest caravan to Texas late in July, but haven’t been able to find out anything about it yet.
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