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Done letting ICE terrorize your neighborhoods and communities? Looking for a way to start taking the initiative and going on the offense? Want to think about how we win, not just how we protect our neighbors? Maybe you’re just getting started, or maybe you are a seasoned organizer and your local ICE struggles have hit obstacles that feel insurmountable.
Around the country, we’ve seen local and regional victories—proposed detention centers getting shut down, ICE retreating from neighbors defending their communities, and a growing social consensus that ICE is an immoral entity that must not exist. We believe that we can win against ICE on a national level, but it will take new tactics and strategies, experimentation, and sharing what works across regional and national networks.
Please join us for a 3 hour training that gives people the political and relational tools to win by creating broad-based, popular struggle against ICE. These tools include relational and compositional skills, lessons in how to be effective in spaces with many different protagonists, and how to keep often very different groups together enough to be successful in our fights.
We’ll share these tools, as well as a full array of tactics gleaned from successful anti-ICE networks around the country. We will help participants understand the range of tactics and practice how to select and pivot depending on local contexts, and will discuss common obstacles to present struggles and how they can be concretely overcome. Most importantly, this training, led by experienced organizers who come from a variety of different political backgrounds, develops participants’ confidence in their own agency and ability to intervene. Remember: making people feel powerless is the first step of their plan—don’t let them take away your belief that we can still act!
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