Law makers, law breakers is a citizen led project that aims to objectively document field evidence of democratic protest against the state and the state’s response to it.
Genuine submissions of unedited videos, photos and objective reporting documenting the protests in India and the world against the CAA & NRC are solicited from the public and curated as per the content policy.
Volunteers are invited to contribute to any of the following tasks:
- Content curation and fact checking
- Site UX and design
- Web development
Get in touch on twitter @mycountryawake or email anticaanrcdata@gmail.com or directly report an issue
The app is built using create-react-app, has a firebase database and deployed on Heroku. See the project wall for issues to work on.
Clone and run the following to start the express server:
git clone https://github.com/kshivanku/CAAProtests.git
cd CAAProtests
npm install
npm run
Start the client server in a new terminal tab
cd client
npm install
npm run
All content submissions go into a firebase database and fact checked for authenticity by volunteers in a google spreadsheet.
The sheet is queried via tapletop and made available to the app as a JSON API: http://caaprotests.info/getVideoData
The previewed content is copyrighted by the original authors. No other copyright is claimed on any other content of the website.
The project code is released under MIT license.