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Toolkit: Make ICE Accountable to Us
Currently, Trump is sending ICE into our communities, and we need to make ICE accountable to us. Depending on where you live, there's lots you can do - pass local policy, ensure local immigration funds, fight corporations enabling ICE, and organize to shift landscapes into the future.
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
We only had a few day's notice when Border Patrol announced it would be coming to North Carolina. So, we organized. Thousands attended safety trainings; hundreds led Safe to Work, Safe to School patrols. This toolkit (part of our new, updated playbook) shares how we dealt with Border Patrol in NC.
Get our Playbook
Get our 2026 playbook, built on our 2016 learnings, 2025 release, and a community of thousands sharing ideas, strategies, tactics, and what we'll do next to defend our communities and build real power.
Municipal Organizing Strategies
The federal government is horrific, but there are local resolutions, ordinances, and other types of legislation we can pass at a city or county level to protect our people. Organize to win them. In our updated playbook, we've included ideas on municipal strategies and campaigns.
Resources from our community
These are compiled resources that have been shared from our community. Have others to share? Email them to us!
Recordings of Defend & Recruit Trainings
Watch recordings of our trainings on How to Build an ICE Watch, How to Recruit, How to Fight Avelo, and more!
Organizing toolkit: how to build a local group
Learn how to build a group in your community.
Fourth Amendment Workplaces: Workplace Organizing Toolkit (for employers)
Manage or own a business? Make sure you know your constitutional rights.
Fourth Amendment Workplaces: National Organizing Toolkit (for community groups)
Help build workplaces that defend immigrants and uphold the law.
Stop Avelo Airlines: Local Organizing Toolkit
Avelo is the only known commercial carrier taking ICE deportation flights. Together, we can force them to drop the contract.
Campus Defense Toolkit: build power on campus
Written with our friends at Campus Climate Network, learn campus defense strategies to keep your school safe.
Community Defense Hub: editable, tools, templates and graphics for you to remix for your community
Editable, tools, templates and graphics you can adapt for your community