1 Get Ready for This Bulls*** to Come to You Until the United States abolishes ICE, federal agents could come to your area next. Here’s how to prepare yourself and your neighbors for that possibility. Adapted from Naomi Kritzer's "How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota" with permission. 2 Start Building Networks Talk to your friends and neighbors. Talk to your gaming group. Talk to other parents if you have kids in school. To quickly make contact with a bunch of like-minded folks within a larger group, get a bunch of nice anti-ICE buttons or stickers or whistle kits, ask if anyone would like one, and see who says yes. Download and Learn to Use Signal Connect with a couple of friends on Signal, a secure messaging app, and get used to using it. 3 Read Information at Defendthe612 defend612.com/guides-toolkits/ has guides on How to Start a Rapid Response Network and How to Start a School Patrol. Get Rid of Your Ring Camera If you have a Ring camera, de-install it. Ring gives information to law enforcement without a warrant, including ICE. [Image of a common loon, the Minnesota state bird, in the shape of the Rebel Alliance logo] 4 Train as a Legal Observer Attend a legal observer training, also known as upstander training, constitutional observer training, and ICE Watch training. One place offering these virtually is statesatthecore.substack.com Call your local immigrant rights organizations to see if they are considering offering training like this, sign up if they’ve got anything, and express interest if they don’t currently have it. [clip art of a whistle] 5 Get a Whistle and Find Out Who to Call if You See ICE If someone spots ICE nearby, they can blow a whistle or a car horn to warn people nearby. Vulnerable people who hear the warning can get into their homes and lock the doors. Less-vulnerable people can come to blow whistles and record what ICE is doing. Learn more about how to use whistles at linktr.ee/mspwhistles. Note: the number you should call in your area for an ICE sighting is going to be different. 6 Think about How Your Groups Could Respond For example, in the Twin Cities, food shelves now deliver food, there’s a laundry service for people who can’t safely leave their houses, there’s pet-related mutual aid. What could your workplace, organization, or community offer? Also, look into making your workplace a 4th Amendment Worksite: 4thworkplace.org [Clipping of a recent political cartoon from the Onion showing a warm pan labeled "SUSPICIOUS HOTDISH"] 7 Make Your Own Preparations if Needed If you’re a US citizen from a targeted group, and you don’t have a passport, get both a passport and a passport card. Carry the card in your wallet and keep the passport book somewhere safe. If you’re not a citizen, especially if you’re undocumented, or if you have something like temporary protected status, reach out to trusted friends to talk about what help you need if your city becomes occupied by federal agents. Keep yourself safe. 8 Talk about How Immigration Is Good We are really goddamn lucky as a country that people want to move here. Immigrants are a gift, a completely undeserved gift. We should want them to come. Say it loud! Say it clear! Immigrants are welcome here!