Resources for Resisting ICE in Seattle / Washington / PNW

RISE UP!

The time is NOW to prepare and organize. Connect with the people and organizations in your area who are already doing the work. Check on your friends and neighbors. Get a whistle. Download the Signal app. Be as ready as you can be!

As you make more tangible preparations, please don’t forget to also prepare yourself mentally. Get yer mind right and whatnot. Picture what is to come. Imagine yourself acting bravely. Be ready for that unexpected moment when you find yourself in the thick of it.

It’s like they teach us on the baseball diamond — know what you’re going to do with the ball before it’s hit to you.

Get used to the idea that this is real. Remember that it is love that moves us to take action.

But whatever we feel, it’s hard to know what to actually do. Here are some starting points and resources. Feel free to let me know what I’m missing.

Sanctuary Schools

If you are a parent (or if you are looking for a good starting point to get involved in a meaningful way) consider joining or starting a Sanctuary School team at your neighborhood school. This idea has been developed and is being practiced in Chicago and Minneapolis.

Keeping watch over our children is a good place to start, and the Sanctuary School teams also serve as an entryway into hyper-local mutual aid.

Here is a Minneapolis-specific Guide to Starting a Sanctuary School Team. This wisdom and the clear to-do lists apply to your neighborhood, too.

Here is a School Patrols Guide for getting started.

Here are more related Mpls Sanctuary School Resources.

Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN)

Join WAISN’s Rapid Response Network! Seriously, if you’re in Washington, do it. (If you’re not in Washington, someone in your neck of the woods is doing this work. Find them! Help them!)

You’ll start by attending a rapid response training — the next one is online on Feb. 6. Register here.

WAISN also runs a Deportation Defense Line to report ICE sightings at 844.724.3737.

Donate to WAISN's Fair Fight Bond Fund here.

Courtesy of. WA Whistles

Get a Whistle

People nationwide are using whistles in a coordinated way to communicate in real-time about ICE in the streets.

Get one. Maybe donate some too.

In Seattle / Washington State, check out https://linktr.ee/wa.whistles for more.

Lots more info and resources related to WA Whistles here.

If you have a Ring camera, take it down and deactivate your service.

Ring, owned by Amazon, has a formal partnership with Flock Safety, a private surveillance company that works with law enforcement — including ICE. Reports have shown that ICE, Homeland Security Investigations and the US Secret Service all now have and use data accessible through Flock thanks to inter-agency data sharing.

I know this is annoying, but you should do it before ICE uses your home surveillance footage to steal away one of your neighbors instead of after.

As detailed by TechCrunch and San News, among many others.

Good luck out there.

I’ll update this as I’m able!