The undocumented immigrant is a power to be reckoned with in the U.S. But we, as an undocumented community, have yet to realize this truth.
First of all, the simple act of existing affords us 'unalienable rights' as human beings. Unfortunately, and by design, the United States greets us with oppression as we seek liberation from US caused oppression in our home countries.
We know the worth we bring to this country, and it goes beyond a marked dollar bill.
We know we are the base of labor that sustains the United States. We are the hard work manifested into sweat from labor and thought.
We may know this as individuals. But in order to make real change, we need to know this collectively. That is what #undocumoney strives to do.
Exactly how much money do we contribute to this system? How much to we give to this country that dehumanizes us?
We can only find out together.
Let's reclaim our power. Let's reclaim our property that is our economic power. Let's reclaim the money that claims to own us.
The first step is to let ourselves and the world know how much money goes through undocumented hands. Mark every bill with the hashtag #Undocumoney. Post it to Social Media.
This is not to put a price on our value as people, but so that everyone knows how interwoven, and unextractable we are in the country. Without needing to assimilate, speak English, or want to be American, our money flows all around. We are here to stay.
We are indispensable to the future and success of this country.
Whether future and success of this capitalist system that oppresses us is something we want, we can decide later, once every undocumented immigrant realizes her/his power.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
Inspired by the wheresgeorge.com site and merged with the #undocumoney campaign idea.
The idea of #undocumoney is to highlight the U.S. economy's dependence on money that undocumented immigrants. Our money flows fluidly throughout economies.
The goal of this website is to show case that by:
- Showing people how to participate
- Highlighting stories
- Allowing people to participate in active data crowdsourcing by registering undocumoney and reporting found bills through the account portal.
Considering this is a Meteor project, it is pretty easy to start tweaking the code. But first, you need to have the following installed:
- Node and NPM
- MongoDB
- Meteor
Once you have your machine ready, pull the repository or download. On the terminal move into the project root directory and run
meteor
That's it! You should now be able to see the site at localhost:3000.
NOTE: You may get some errors in the console indicating that the Kadira, Analytics and Twit packages are not set up. Those details are kept confidential (not in the repo) and you can set up your own accounts for testing purposes.
If you want to help with the development of this website email celso@pocholabs.com. There may be some specifc features in the pipeline that you can help out with. Or you can just fork, clean up my code and send a pull request. :-)
- Make site bilingual (English & Spanish)
- Include Email verification into the user accounts
- Email triggers on every action taken
- Present the #undocumoney location history through interactive map
- Allow people to upload media to go along with tweet
- Create a tweet throttler
- Celso Mireles, Developer: celso@pocholabs.com
- Marisol Soto, Creator, Catalyst, Spokeswoman: marisolsoto11@yahoo.com
- Irvin Camacho, Script Writer: Irvincamacho16@hotmail.com
- Andrew Johnson, Videographer: venturestudios.ar@gmail.com
