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⚡️THIS WEEK ⚡️ Join this 90-minute training from States at the Core and Protect RP on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions. Please Note: Due to security and safety concerns, we do not record these trainings.

Register on our website! defend612.com/events/

⚡ TOMORROW ⚡ As ICE ramps up its terror in the Twin Cities, community defense is more important than ever. Join this training tomorrow and on 1/28 on Zoom. Register for both trainings at: defend612.com/events/

Yes, on the 22 and the 28! We’ll be posting information on our website and social media soon.

⚡ TOMORROW ⚡ Join this 90-minute training from States at the Core and Protect RP on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions. Please Note: Due to security and safety concerns, we do not record these trainings.

Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Happy to help! Have you signed up on the front page of our website? After that, you’ll be sent an email with detailed instructions on how to find community defense & rapid response groups near you

⚡️TOMORROW⚡️Join this 90-minute training from States at the Core and Protect RP on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

BREAKING NEWS: the New York Times reports that Governor Tim Walz activated the states National Guard and more than 100 additional ICE agents will be deployed.

Artists wanted! Last month, we started a public access collection of Community Defense & Anti ICE Art for free distribution. Check out the collection so far at defend612.com/art, along with more details and submission guidelines. Art below by @hilarygreensteinart

Defend612 is hosting a training on 1/8 at 7pm to share skills for documenting ICE activity & supporting neighbors. Practicing ICE Watch keeps everyone safer by ensuring people know their rights, have a plan, & know how to act in the event of targeting by ICE.

Register online: defend612.com/events

There is an emergency vigil TODAY at 5pm on 34th and Portland.

We will continue to share updates as we continue to learn more.

Minneapolis witnessed a horrific attack on our community today and the murder of a beloved neighbor. We are sending love to her family, friends, and loved ones, and will continue to fight for her and everyone protecting our communities.

3. If threatened with arrest! ICE may try to intimidate and threaten you and say you are interfering. Remain as calm and grounded as possible. Driving on public streets and observing in your community is not a crime. Film the entire interaction without pausing.

Thank you and be safe!

2. If pulled over or confronted! Agents may lie. Keep doors locked and windows up! Notify others of your location. Record their behavior.

And if you CAN do IC3 Watch, we need you. Here are some safety reminders:
1. Try to be out in pairs when you can! One person can be in role of a communications person and link, and one can record video of any interactions

If you can't do IC3 Watch, there are so many other ways to plug in: Providing rides & groceries for impacted families; fundraising; making hot drinks & food for rapid responders; providing somatic support; interpreting; & so much more.

The toll this occupation is taking on our communities is beyond words. And in these grim times, our safety lies in numbers. So, please, do your best to help your friends, family, coworkers, & neighbors plug in, through defend612.com or elsewhere. And take good care.

We need each other now more than ever as Minnesota faces the most devastation we've had since IC3 invaded on December 1st. If you or someone you know wants to plug in, they can fill out the form at defend612.com to be connected to neighborhood + school-based organizing.

ICE Watch Training TONIGHT, Jan 5, 6-7:30 pm

2,000 federal agents deploying to Minneapolis in immigration crackdown, fraud probe The Trump administration has begun a massive deployment of hundreds of Department of Homeland Security agents to the Twin Cities area, officials tells CBS News.

BREAKING: CBS reports that 2,000 federal agents are deploying to Minneapolis for a 30-day surge. In light of this news, please invite as many friends, family and neighbors as you can into community defense & rapid response work. We need everyone & we need each other. www.cbsnews.com/news/minneap...

Monday night at 6pm on Zoom! Invite your friends and neighbors who want to get more involved in protecting their community to an ICE Watch Welcome and Orientation.

In Minneapolis we love winter: de-icing, winter tracking, snowball fights, and spinning out! Video taken by a dispatcher.

One month in and we begin 2026 under occupation. Stand up for our neighbors and community by organizing ICE Watch on your block, joining patrol in your neighborhoods, showing up when a need comes up, and having deliberate conversations with your friends to get them involved!

In 2025 our city came under federal occupation and thousands of neighbors got involved in ICE Watch, Rapid Response, and Mutual Aid efforts across the city. Resolve to begin this year by getting involved!

Read the full newsletter - written by rapid responders across the 612. defend612.com/blog

Call 612-348-3954 for a direct office line!

CALL TO ACTION: Call, text & email Hennepin County Sherrif Dawanna Witt to demand she stop using public resources to enable ICE terror, by unlawfully targeting ICE Watchers and rapid responders who are keeping our community safe from abductions! bit.ly/stopwitt

And people around the country continue to print and send the Twin Cities thousands of whistles! (4/4) bsky.app/profile/most...

More uplifting news: With horns and whistles, the people of Minneapolis keep letting ICE know they aren’t welcome in this city! (3/4) bsky.app/profile/anim...

Full newsletter at defend612.com/blog (2/4)

On 12/26, Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt - embracing her role as a willing partner to federal agencies terrorizing immigrant communities - chose to arrest an ICE Watcher for alleged “Harassment” of someone who is abducting our neighbors.

Full newsletter at defend612.com/blog (1/4)