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Joining together under the shared umbrella of #EyesOnICE will strengthen our movement.
How to start an #EyesOnICE protest:
1. Find the spot
ICE Field Offices, detention centers, private prisons, and immigration courts are all over the country. And so are City Halls, sheriff's departments with 287(g) agreements, and sites of current and future concentration camps. Use the map on the right to find an ICE location nearest you. Join with your local organizing groups and schedule a regularly occurring protest. Daily. Weekly. Monthly. Whatever is sustainable to you and your group over a long period of time.
2. Hype your event locally
Use one of these poster templates or make your own. Call your protest #EyesOnICE, but make it representative of your community. Do you have members of your community who are in detention? Did ICE openly violate the rights of your community members? Is the headquarters of an ICE contractor, like Palantir, located in your community? Do you have a private for-profit detention center that is known for human rights abuses operating in your community? Is a concentration camp being planned for your community?
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3. Chants, posters, vigils, boycotts, rapid response
Meeting regularly gives you and your #EyesOnICE protest group an opportunity to organize boycotts, start petitions, or support rapid response teams for community defense. These efforts require sustained attention over time, but your weekly protest provides an opportunity to build relationships and community that will allow these ventures to take shape and flourish. If there is already an established Rapid Response network in your community, use your protest to support it. But if there's not, use your weekly protest as an opportunity to create a Rapid Response team that stands in solidarity with our immigrant communities.
4. Share. Inspire. Create solidarity.
We are strongest when we stand in solidarity with one another. You and your local community are standing in solidarity to protect people from the harm ICE is inflicting. But if we grow this movement, you'll be standing in solidarity with people and communities across this country. We will be most powerful when we take to the streets together in decentralized synchronicity. So share what your community is doing, and inspire others to join as well!
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