EPISODE 16: I'm Going to the Border and I Need Your Help

This week we have a special guest; our VERVE USA Operative Claire Ryder. Claire is a regular blogger for VERVE, and this week we are focussing on her blog entitled ‘I’m Going to the Border and I Need Your Help’. Based in Philadelphia, Claire is travelling to Texas to volunteer for CARA Pro Bono Project who ‘are committed to ensuring that detained children and their mothers receive competent, pro bono representation, and developing aggressive, effective advocacy and litigation strategies to end the practice of family detention.’ After Claire has read her blog, she talks with Anna Quick- Palmer (Chief Feminist Operative and VERVE Founder) and Erin Whiteley (Chief Managing Feminist at VERVE), about the dire situation regarding children immigrants being taken away from their parents at the border in the USA. Although a heavy topic, we talk about the previous volunteering trips that enriched us, and how we (and you!) can continue to bring peace and justice into our world. Claire will be going to the border at the beginning of October - due to the CARA being pro bono, no volunteers receive any funding. We would really appreciate ANY help you could give to Claire’s Go Fund Me page (link below) to assist her costs during her trip.

Blog ‘I’m Going to the Border and I Need Your Help’ by American based VERVE Operative Claire Ryder: https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/im-going-to-the-border-and-i-need-your-help

Please donate to Claire’s Go Fund Me page here!: https://www.gofundme.com/cara-pro-bono-project

More on CARA Pro Bono Project who Claire is volunteering for: http://caraprobono.org

More information on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement

Donate here:

https://secure.everyaction.com/BS6Q9eElpEuRBxDyh9WxiA2

http://www.refugeewomen.co.uk

https://www.unicef.org.uk/donate/child-refugees/?sisearchengine=284&siproduct=Campaign_**Refugee-Crisis-Donation-Exact&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjsCGx-zY3QIVwoXVCh1TTQonEAAYASAAEgKwLvD_BwE

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies?cid=pse-gpcef_A17044001-crc_001-7E33384YW&ppc=true&matchtype=e&s_keyword=donate%2520to%2520refugees&adposition=1t3&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjsCGx-zY3QIVwoXVCh1TTQonEAAYAyAAEgL6DvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

https://helprefugees.org/volunteer/calais/
More on ‘This is not a game game’ by Samantha Bee: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/samantha-bee-full-frontal-civic-engagement-trivia-app-723633/

Good places to keep updated:

https://www.theroot.com

https://www.them.us

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/

More blogs by Claire here: https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/?author=59550bfdb11be173fb853cef

If you have anything you want to discuss with us: contact@verveup.com

VERVE links:

https://www.verveup.com

https://www.instagram.com/verve_up/

https://twitter.com/verve_up

https://www.facebook.com/verveup/

Speaking:

Anna Quick-Palmer - VERVE Chief Feminist Operative

Erin Whiteley - VERVE Chief Managing Feminist

Claire Ryder - USA VERVE Operative

Helena Burton- Jones - VERVE Podcast Manager & Editor

Music Intro & Outro:

Jamie Masterson - Freelance Music Producer (insta: jaytmasterson)

Speaking over Intro & Outro music:

Anna Quick- Palmer - VERVE Founder & Chief Feminist Operative