Organizing Asian America
ICE is planning to develop a deportation machine under the guise of an “Extreme Vetting Initiative” that will use social media monitoring to generate a minimum of 10,000 deportation leads per year. On Tuesday February 20th, 18MR’s Laura Li spoke on a panel on Capitol Hill with immigration and privacy…
Coalition of Asian American organizations opposes FBI request to exempt NGI biometrics database from Privacy Act requirements, cites civil rights concerns July 6, 2016 – A coalition of Asian American advocacy groups has come out in opposition to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) request to exempt its Next Generation…
Three days ago (May 20, 2014) during Gap Inc’s annual shareholder meeting, the AAPI online activist group 18MillionRising.org successfully launched a hoax campaign targeting Gap Inc. for failing to take responsibility for Bangladeshi factory worker safety. Utilizing a website (www.gapdoesmore.com) and Twitter account (@GapDoesMore, now defunct), 18MR posed as the…
