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I am so embarrassed for USC. First, it was put on probation for unethical actions in their sports department.
Now this:
"Two years ago, Maria de Lourdes Gonzalez didn't own a cellphone. Now the 62-year-old housekeeper carries a tape recorder and a video camera and regularly snaps photos and sends text messages.
Her interviews end up on her blog on vozmob, a new site launched by USC and the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California, which works to organize and educate immigrant communities.
The idea is to give immigrants, mainly day laborers, an online space to speak their minds and share their stories. They are also encouraged to document their work as a form of self-protection.
Organizers rolled out the program last month with a mix of grants from various foundations, including $40,000 worth of cellphones to train laborers. They fanned out to local job centers to teach workers how to upload text, photos and videos. So far about half a dozen laborers have launched their own blogs. Others are experimenting, transferring bits of broken audio and blurry images onto the Web."
USC is teaching criminals, who should be deported how to use a cell phone, make a video and audio record of other people.
Wonder if the donors to USC know that the school is violating Federal law? How about a call to ICE? Would you respond to an illegal alien using a phone?
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Now this:
"Two years ago, Maria de Lourdes Gonzalez didn't own a cellphone. Now the 62-year-old housekeeper carries a tape recorder and a video camera and regularly snaps photos and sends text messages.
Her interviews end up on her blog on vozmob, a new site launched by USC and the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California, which works to organize and educate immigrant communities.
The idea is to give immigrants, mainly day laborers, an online space to speak their minds and share their stories. They are also encouraged to document their work as a form of self-protection.
Organizers rolled out the program last month with a mix of grants from various foundations, including $40,000 worth of cellphones to train laborers. They fanned out to local job centers to teach workers how to upload text, photos and videos. So far about half a dozen laborers have launched their own blogs. Others are experimenting, transferring bits of broken audio and blurry images onto the Web."
USC is teaching criminals, who should be deported how to use a cell phone, make a video and audio record of other people.
Wonder if the donors to USC know that the school is violating Federal law? How about a call to ICE? Would you respond to an illegal alien using a phone?
More...