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HOW TO: CREATE A RAPID RESPONSE WORKING GROUP IN YOUR DEPARTMENT FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

This guide provides flexible suggestions for creating a rapid response network in your department. It's not a fixed formula—adapt it to fit your specific context.

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CREATE DEPARTMENT RAPID RESPONSE PDF: https://tinyurl.com/2t97t45s

STEP 1: Send an e-mail to the department notifying them of the community working group. The person who sends an email should be a US-born American citizen.

Example Template

Subject: Rapid Response Support Group for International Students | Legal Aid Intakes

EXAMPLE TEMPLATE FIRST OUTREACH TEMPLATE

We are starting a support group for international students in our department. Our first session is [DATE], with hybrid attendance options on Zoom and In Person. Please email me to RSVP for in-person location and zoom link. This session is for potentially impacted and impacted graduate students only!*

We will go through the recently released Duke Rapid Response Carekit. This kit was created through a collaboration between student activists, immigration lawyers, and cybersecurity specialists.

What you can expect from our first session:

• Receive a copy of the Duke Rapid Response Care Kit (if you'd like it in advance, please email me) - kit includes legal aid intakes for rapid response law groups, emergency protocols, safety and media response plans, a digital security checklist, a breakdown of legal procedures with diagrams, and more.
• Create a version of the Emergency Protocol and Safety Plan for your records.
• A space for students to express thoughts, plans, and center our values as we move forward during times that call for our highest selves.
• Impacted students outside of our department can come, but through personal invitation from a dept. grad student in attendance. Dept Grad must RSVP for them.
• The definition of ‘impacted’ is vague, but ultimately prioritizes students who are experiencing chilling effects given recent events and may face political repression via immigration status.

If interested in joining our group for upcoming announcements and events, please respond to this email.

Best wishes,

STEP 2:

• Create 2 signal chats, one for directly impacted students and others

STEP 3: Narrow down content in DDC Rapid Response Carekit for the first meeting.

1. Explain what’s happening
2. Why it’s actually happening
3. Who we know it’s happening to thus far
4. What’s legally being used to justify what’s happening
5. Independent Work Time on: Digital Security; Legal Aid Intake; Emergency Contact Protocol

Give Three Options for Independent Work Based on Immediate Need:

1. Digital Security: private social media and google search for doxxing websites
2. Legal Aid Intake: Non-Urgent Legal Intake:
   1. CWS Durham: (415) 861-7444
   2. PalLegal: palestinelegal.org/intake
3. Emergency Contact Protocol: Fill out Emergency Protocol and Safety Plan Form

• FAQ: Why is protocol and plan important?
  • Answer: In the event that you cannot communicate with anyone except your primary contact, the emergency protocol and safety plan allows your primary contact to reach others rapidly based on your previous established consent.
• FAQ: Who’s my legal support contact?
  • Answer: Reach out to legal intakes in Carekit to get a G28 set up with an attorney. If an attorney offers legal advice, but cannot represent you, notify Duke Rapid Response.
    • **FORM G-28** Informs the U.S. Department Of Homeland Security (DHS) of your legal representation and allows the DHS to communicate with your attorney regarding any immigration matter involving you*.***
    • **ICE FORM 60-001** Gives consent to ICE to disclose information to 3rd Party (usually elected representative). For advocacy purposes only - DO NOT SIGN BEFORE SPEAKING TO AN ATTORNEY.
  • Answer: Having representation in advance allows for briefs to be written beforehand to block detention transfers to the border in the event of a situation.
• FAQ: Who is Campus Legal?
  • Answer: Email From UAW - “In the event that you are experiencing an unexpected change in immigration status or any other immigration-related emergency, please call this number: 888-416-2110.”
  • For general information regarding immigration at Duke, please contact the Duke Immigrant Rights Clinic
• FAQ: My advisor is not Palestine-friendly, nor have we spoken about political issues - What should I do?
  • Answer: If you don’t feel comfortable with your current advisor, consider seeking out a faculty member you trust or who has shown support for students in similar situations. You may want to explore the possibility of switching advisors, or at least establishing an additional point of contact. It can also be helpful to ask trusted faculty or staff for a direct phone number so they can be easily reached in case of an urgent situation.
• FAQ: My Chair and DGS/DUS are spineless worms - what now?
  • Switch to faculty you trust who can notify the department and advocate for you. Faculty must give personal phone numbers to ensure they are easily reachable for your primary contacts in the event of a situationship.

STEP 4:

After 1st Meeting

• Use Signal for students to communicate their experiences with different resources, updates, and troubleshoots. I.e.
  • How many have a G28 with an attorney
  • How many had consultations
  • How many are currently abroad and worried about coming back
  • How many cannot travel
  • Who needs summer accommodations
  • Who needs a walking buddy etc.
• Recommendation: In a separate Signal chat, coordinate with 1–3 trusted individuals in your department who are dependable, aligned with pro-Palestine values, and collaborative in nature to help plan and organize future working group meetings.
  • Example of WG meetings:
    • Scheduling KYR Role-Plays w/ Primary and Secondary Contacts + Allied Faculty teams
    • Plans to Liaison with Duke Rapid Response to escalate student needs in faculty-admin discussions
    • Scheduling Wellness Plan Work Hour w/ Primary Contacts
    • Decide what to communicate with Duke Rapid Response on how things are going.
    • Pull personal networks and power map

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ICE Watch: Siembra NC hotline (877)-395-3094

Non-Urgent Legal Intake:

• CWS Durham: (415) 861-7444
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