Hands Off NYC

Friends, meet Defrosty, who is originally from MN but traveled to NYC in the clouds.

He would like everyone to know that snow is cool, but a certain other kind of frozen water sucks.

#protestart #snowday #meltice

There are nearly 100 events across NYC this weekend hosted by neighbors, for neighbors, to protect each other from ICE and organize in our communities.

Art builds, ICE-out parties, park play dates, DJ events, town halls. You name it—there’s something for everyone. Find an event near you here:

Behind the scenes!

To protect our neighbors, we’re building anti-ICE signs and banners that community groups across NYC can use in their neighborhoods for tabling with whistles & KYR info, canvassing businesses, marching, etc. Here’s some behind the scenes at one of our art builds. Sign up at: HandsOffNYC.com/build.

Illustration of masked ICE agent getting sprayed fire hydrant with text “ICE OUT OF NEW YORK”

Come make anti-ICE signs and banners with us by signing up at HandsOffNYC.com/build.

Solidarity School Fundraiser for South Brooklyn · Hands Off NYC If you are inspired by the solidarity we have seen in Minneapolis in recent weeks, this is the event for you! Come eat delicious food and learn how to build solidarity with neighbors across South Broo...

This sounds incredible. Friends in NYC, please do check out this @bkindivisible.bsky.social / @handsoffnyc.bsky.social event this Saturday, 2/21 - a Solidarity School fundraiser for a new South Brooklyn Family Legal Fund to help people with families in detention!

www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/...

PROTECT YOUR NYC NEIGHBORS FRIDAY 2/20 TO SUNDAY 2/22 Host or attend a community event designed to protect your neighborhoods from ICE. Sign up at HandsOffNYC.com

NYC: Next weekend (2/20 - 2/22), Hands Off NYC is holding tons of community events across the city where you can help hand out resources (e.g., whistles, KYR info) and support mutual aid groups—all designed to protect your neighbors from ICE.

Sign up to host or attend at HandsOffNYC.com/community.

I am so happy that Liam is home!!!

@comixaction.com put out the call and @ethansacks.bsky.social gave me inspiration and the words — a good community is everything 💫 #Comics4Liam / comics4liam.com

FREE ALL THE CHILDREN caged in these horrifying detention centers… ABOLISH ICE!

When I saw pictures of Liam Ramos with his Spidey backpack and bunny hat, I felt an overwhelming responsibility as someone who works in superhero comics. Please do check out the art in #Comics4Liam and visit comics4liam.com to support Liam and groups helping other immigrants like him. ❤️💪🐇

Graphic by Trung Le Ngyuen featuring a drawing of Liam Ramos with his bunny hat and Spidey backpack and a small smile. Text reads: "Comics 4 Liam / WE're asking artists to draw pictures for Liam Ramos that you think might make this particular boy feel happy and cared for. / Maybe drawings of things he might love; maybe pictures of Liam himself as you think he might like to be seen. / Please post your art with the hashtag #Comics4Liam and a link to comics4liam.com, which lists fundraisers for Liam and others victimized by ICE and links to organizations that support immigrants.

A few other guidelines: 1. Please avoid images of Liam in danger or sad. 2. Please avoid images that include violence or would otherwise by inappropriate for a five year old. 3. Please NO "A.i." USE AT ALL. 4. Please DO NOT POST YOUR IMAGE ON X (Twitter). Thank you!

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

Nearly 1,000 people fill a large auditorium in NYC to get trained with Hands Off NYC.

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social held an at-capacity training today for nearly 1,000 New Yorkers, covering Know Your Rights, ICE Watch, and organizing & mobilizing strategies. Then, they connected everyone to local neighborhood groups so they can work together to protect their neighbors. We’re going to win.

Hands Off NYC training interest form Hands Off NYC is a coordinated effort supported by unions, faith leaders, and community groups, standing together in nonviolent resistance to federal attacks on our city. Just as people in cities acro...

ALL BOROUGHS
Sign up for our training waitlist. We’ll be hosting more training in the all boroughs in the weeks to come.

MANHATTAN BOROUGH-WIDE TRAINING · Hands Off NYC Date: THIS SATURDAY, January 31 | Time: 12 PM - 4 PM Location provided after registration Important: previous wait list members received first notice of this training. If this event is at capacity, ...

MANHATTAN:
We’ve just added a full Know Your Rights, ICE Watch, and neighborhood coordination training for people who live or work in Manhattan this Saturday, January 31st, from 12-4pm. All other boroughs, you can sign up for our waitlist — link in thread.

“In this moment, I know we are going to win. I also know it is going to hurt. Minneapolis has shown us how to grieve together and keep going. I leave behind love, and take with me a responsibility to keep their courage alive.”

“A piece of me stays behind at each of these memorials that will last far beyond when the flowers die and the candles are burnt through.

“I see my friends again in the flowers. I catch myself wondering what mine would look like.

“Children have left behind drawings and toys for the mother who no longer gets to play with her own children.

“Renee’s memorial is alive just blocks away. It sits close to Alex’s, and close to where George Floyd was killed just years ago. Stuffed animals like the ones she kept in her glovebox rest beside the flowers and poems.

“‘Free hot dogs,’ a man calls from a short distance away. ‘We can be angry and well fed!’ He is a veteran with a long beard, and reminds me of men I knew back home in Texas. He drove for hours to get here, just to make food for a community in grief, to bring some joy.

“Signs from across the country line the memorial. People have left their stories behind, speaking to him and his family. Flowers and poems. Candles lit and blown out again and again by those who come to mourn.

“The street is closed off where Alex Pretti was murdered. I stand at the barrier made of cones and homemade paper chains, and I see my friends back home in the flowers. The ones who I know would respond in the same way, with their hands up, sacrificing themselves to protect someone else.

“We get lunch, exchange stories about now and then, listen to organizers describe the incredible system they’ve built. A man sitting at the bar does not greet us, but when we stand to leave, we realize he has paid for our meal. He has already left.

“The patrollers tell me it was a busy morning. We gather at a local coffee shop. Volunteers have left free resources here: whistles, stickers, buttons, hand warmers. Gas masks, goggles, ear plugs, eye washes. As people come in and out, I see them lock eyes with each other knowingly across the room.

“There’s a kind of quiet on the streets of Minneapolis that I can’t quite describe. I know it isn’t quiet, though.

One of our lead organizers from Hands Off NYC is on the ground in Minneapolis.

The following is what she saw today, Wednesday, January 28th, in her words.

Starting in less than an hour, at 8 PM ET! Emergency national training, how to safely document ICE. Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

TONIGHT: Organizers in Minnesota are asking you to shine a light for their state.

Minneapolis says no to ICE.

Thousands rally in Union Square, NYC, standing in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis-St. Paul.

NYC standing in solidarity with MN.
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