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DONATE to your local jail support / rapid response / mutual aid group:
- For next 36 hours (as of 6/11/2025, 4:15pm): Send Funds to NLG LA: www.nlg.org/los-angeles/...
- Check for updates: Venmo @JailSupportLA (no symbols - note fake accounts)

BE A BUDDY for someone (from @jailsupportla):
1. Set a check in time for them to call or meet up
2. Make sure you have your buddy's full name, date of birth, gender on ID, and an extra emergency contact number
3. If your buddy misses their check-in, call local rapid response / jail support line

More Rapid Response numbers in other states mydocumentedlife.org/2025/06/11/l...

ORDER and/or PRINT and DISTRIBUTE know your rights cards to your local businesses and community members from: www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...

Report what you see using SALUTE (salute.kyr.digital/en/) to the Stop Ice Raids Alert Network (stopice.net) or your local rapid response / mutual aid group.

It's hard to feel like you have to be on the front lines or else you're not doing anything, but as the disabled and chronically ill community has taught us - there are always multiple ways to support and respond even if you can't be on the ground. (a thread of actions and resources) #stopiceraids

Resource: Palestine solidarity zines in the Sinosphere - Lausan An archive of Sinophone resources for building Palestine solidarity and countering pro-Zionist propaganda.

"These zines have become a key avenue through which Sinophone communities have educated and organized each other about Palestine. They're also an important historical record of international solidarity, anti-war, and anti-imperialist activism in the Sinosphere."
lausancollective.com/2025/palesti...

Been trying to think of reliable and ethical independent media platforms that I can reference (and support) as I have conversations with folks. Which platforms do folks support and what's one reason why?

OGA by using pepper spray or other self-defense spray is a class D felony

(I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice)

Also, giving false information to law enforcement, misleading public officials, or creating a diversion to delay an investigation can be considered obstruction. legalclarity.org/nys-pl-obstr...

This can manifest as attempting to pull someone away from an officer, blocking an officer’s path, or shielding another person from detention, or also intentionally releasing a "dangerous animal"

Obstructing governmental administration (OGA) in the second degree is also a class A misdemeanor. Includes, intimidation, physical force or interference, or with a radio, telephone,
television or other telecommunications systems with or without physical force.

According to LegalClarity, a class A misdemeanor is the highest level of misdemeanors but less severe than felonies. NY law does not distinguish between active and passive resistance (e.g. going limp), but it does consider intentional vs reflexive movements. legalclarity.org/resisting-ar...

NYS Law FYI:
Resisting Arrest is Considered a class A misdemeanor (www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...)

they have a pretty helpful FAQ section as well

The Federal Defenders of New York are a local org that deal with Federal level cases including cases involving ICE and Civil Rights specifically for individual clients - it looks like they can help if you can't afford a criminal defense attorney. www.federaldefendersny.org

NYCLU or ACLU of New York seems like a good place to contact for any local civil issues (including TLBGQ+ and disability justice): www.nyclu.org

it seems like they'd be able to at least advise on where I should go

Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) provides free legal rep and KYR workshops: www.cunyclear.org/services including folks who may be experiencing travel difficulties and delays. They are based in NYC and I think this would be the place I reach out to first as a local.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (along with CLEAR, the ACLU, ACLU of New Jersey, NYCLU, Van Der Hout LLP, and Dratel + Lewis) are working on Mahmoud Khalil's case:
ccrjustice.org/home/who-we-...

ASAP is a membership org of asylum seekers - they have resources (in English and en Español) help.asylumadvocacy.org

Additionally, they have reports on facilities which can help folks advocate to end detention in their district: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/end-detentio...
#abolishICE #abolishprisons #abolition

Resources for Immigrants — Freedom for Immigrants

Freedom for Immigrants has a free National Hotline available M-F from 6am to 8pm PDT (11am-11pm ET) at 9233#. They also have a lot of helpful resources including how to find someone in ICE detention and attorneys: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/resources

The Free Migration Project provides legal services for low-income folks. They are based in Philly and support open borders and abolishing ICE: freemigrationproject.org/our-work/leg...

Most folks probably already know their local chapter of National Lawyers Guild: www.nlg.org/about/contac...

They can provide trainings for lawyers and support for protests via Legal Observers - they are also in network w/ the National Immigration Project

National database of probono legal service providers (note: this is just probono via US DOJ, not necessarily politically aligned in any way): www.justice.gov/eoir/list-pr...

This place can provide consultations for folks in Chicago and Indiana: immigrantjustice.org/immigration-...
They sued ICE in 2019: immigrantjustice.org/court_cases/...

This is a directory of immigration attorneys who can help with ICE cases:
nipnlg.org/work/find-at...

They sued ICE in Aug 2024 in Rodriguez Guerra et al. v. Perry et al. nipnlg.org/work/litigat...

There are plenty of folks who have directly experienced and already been through violent situations out of necessity/proximity - I'm just compiling resources as a US Citizen, POC, child of naturalized citizens, to share a bit of how I'm processing the emboldening of fascistic violence (a thread).