Advocacy Project Outline
–What SPECIFIC action step(s) are you asking your audience to take?
- Sign the Petition: Tell Congress to #DefundHate!
- https://defundhatenow.org/take-action/
- Meet/Call Your Members of Congress
- Share these graphics on social media using #DefundHate
–What will be your ATTENTION step (Monroe’s Motivated Sequence?
My attention step will be including images of detention centers in video format while sharing stories of those who have been detained in these disturbing conditions.
–WHO are your target audience(s)??
Young people will be the target audience. Since one step of that I will be asking of the audience will be to share graphics on social media to raise awareness on the issue and get more people who do not have access to information on the abuses of the CBP
–What OBSTACLES could deter your audience(s) from taking the action step(s)?
A possible obstacle that could deter my audience is thinking the steps to take action are too complicated, too difficult to carry through, or will take too much time.
–How can you make it as EASY as possible for your audience(s) to take the action step(s)?
Make the three steps very clear and easy to understand and show how simple the steps are. I think it
will also make it more likely the audience takes these steps, if I enforce how much this campaign has
already helped already and how taking these steps can really impact the funding of ICE and CBP.
–How can the action step(s) you propose make a DIFFERENCE (in as many ways as you can think of….)? And what evidence do you have to demonstrate any impact? Or how can you argue that small steps WILL add up to a cumulative impact – even symbolically??
The Defund Hate Campaign has blocked nearly $12 billion from ICE and CBP to date. Hold Members of Congress Accountable
Congress is the ultimate decision-maker about how to spend our tax dollars — both in terms of how much money to spend and how to divide it up.
Members of Congress can and should defund ICE and CBP based on their records of abuse and fiscal mismanagement. We educate elected officials and demand they stop blindly approving ICE and CBP’s budgets and, instead, cut their funding.
The Constitution granted Congress control of our tax dollars. ICE and CBP are undermining this power and manipulating the process to write their own blank check, subverting American democracy at its core.
–How can you use creative and INTERACTIVE forms of rhetoric (visuals, audio, video, social media, PPT, etc.) to motivate your audience to take ACTION?? :
Using visual and social media engagement in the action part of the task for the audience.