A loose coalition of social media activists is pushing to help lawyers camped out at airports around the country by providing them with everything from pizza to storage bins to child care to sustain the nascent legal campaign for detainees’ rights.
Started on Sunday by a law school graduate in Michigan who’s about to take the bar, the hashtag campaign #helpthelawyers had been stamped on over a thousand tweets by midday local time Monday. People were using it to ask for spare laptops, to offer translation services, or to request relief lawyers to tap-in after long weekends spent holed up at the airport.
We need replacement lawyers overnight 9 pm to 6 am at JFK Terminal 4. #Helpthelawyers
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