resist ice
In ordinary times, we might be concentrating on climate defense, the support and rights of women and queer people, native Americans and people of color, or pressing the city on development and land use issues.
These are not ordinary times.
what other places are doing
Here we'll show what activists and neighbors are doing already in other cities. For example:
On Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, New York activists heard that ICE was planning a raid in Chinatown on street vendors, and hundreds of neighbors and allies showed up to block them from even leaving their fort. Only activists were arrested by NYPD; ICE 0.
The story on the Time website
what we're doing (or considering)
Here we'll talk about present and future campaigns.
Know your rights
Anytime you are confronted by police, you have the right to remain silent; assert this right verbally. You can refuse a search of yourself or your belongings. You do not have to answer questions about where you were born, whether you are a U.S. citizen, or how you entered the country.
Say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't give any explanations or excuses. Don't say anything else, sign anything, or make any decisions without a lawyer. If you have been arrested by police, you have the right to make a local phone call, and the police cannot listen if you call a lawyer. They can and often do listen if you call anyone else.
Write down everything you remember, including officers’ badges and patrol car numbers, which agency the officers were from, and any other details. Get contact information for witnesses. Police officers may not confiscate or demand to view photos or video without a warrant, and they may not delete your photos or video under any circumstances. If an officer orders you to stop recording or orders you to hand over your phone, you should politely but firmly tell the officer that you do not consent to doing so, and remind the officer that taking photos or video is your right under the First Amendment.
Say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't give any explanations or excuses. Don't say anything else, sign anything, or make any decisions without a lawyer. If you have been arrested by police, you have the right to make a local phone call, and the police cannot listen if you call a lawyer. They can and often do listen if you call anyone else.
Write down everything you remember, including officers’ badges and patrol car numbers, which agency the officers were from, and any other details. Get contact information for witnesses. Police officers may not confiscate or demand to view photos or video without a warrant, and they may not delete your photos or video under any circumstances. If an officer orders you to stop recording or orders you to hand over your phone, you should politely but firmly tell the officer that you do not consent to doing so, and remind the officer that taking photos or video is your right under the First Amendment.
Are you on the scene when ICE or Border Patrol are arresting someone?
Write down everything you remember, including officers’ badges and patrol car numbers, which agency the officers were from, and any other details. Get contact information for witnesses.
You have the right to ask the officers why they have detained the person(s), and if they are alleging that the person has committed a crime. You have the right to ask officers to identify themselves and their agency. Write down anything they say.
Police officers may not confiscate or demand to view photos or video without a warrant, and they may not delete your photos or video under any circumstances. If an officer orders you to stop recording or orders you to hand over your phone, you should politely but firmly tell the officer that you do not consent to doing so, and remind the officer that taking photos or video is your right under the First Amendment.
Do not interfere with their activities and do not get between them and the person they are detaining. If they say "You are interfering!" or order you away, calmly but loudly say "I AM TAKING TWO STEPS BACK," and if you are filming at the time, actually point your camera down to your feet as you step back. Then focus the camera back on the officer.
If you report the incident to a hotline or an organization like ACLU, say only what information made you show up at the scene, but do not report anything that you yourself did not witness.
When reporting, give specific information about the number of agents, how they are dressed/equipped, what they are doing, their vehicles, their identifying insignia (for example, ICE or FEDERAL AGENT).
Report the number of people detained, and if any of them were clearly minors. Report whether the detainee stated they are a US citizen.
You can follow the SALUTE method to remind yourself what you need to remember and report about an incident.
Example
I saw a report on Instagram that ICE was making arrests at a nearby Home Depot. At the Home Depot on 1400 Steamboat Parkway, I saw between 5 and 7 white and grey SUVs, some with strobe lights. I saw about 14 agents, all masked, dressed in brown or green tactical vests. Some of the vests said ICE and others said something else I couldn't read. I saw them take away at least four men as well as another male who appeared to be a minor of high school age. They roughly tackled or seized these men, zip-tied their hands, and shoved them into the SUVs. I heard one of the men say he had a green card.
Note the use of active sentence structure. Avoid passive sentences; say who did what: "I saw two agents tackle a man and force him to the ground, then push him into a car before they drove away with him" is better than "A man was detained and taken away."