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Deportation Preparation Manual For Families
Make a Plan to Protect Your Kids and Finances in the Face of Deportation. Includes comprehensive checklists, templates, and educational content. By The Appleseed Network.
ICE Free Zone Toolkit For your Neighborhood
Tools for organizing with your neighbors: a guide to canvassing and talking to neighbors, non-cooperation pledge templates, Know Your Rights flyers, and posters and graphics. By Great For All CID.
The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security
Whether you take your smartphone or a secondary device with you, this guide covers how to maximize device security, protect against surveillance, and minimize risks to your privacy. By Privacy Guides.
Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us
Movement Memos host, Kelly Hayes, interviews strategist Aaron Goggans about trauma, dysregulation, burnout, and the myth that we can just push through.
Toolkit: No Housing for ICE
Strategies and resources for advocates seeking to persuade Hotel franchise owners to refuse lodging to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and contractors. By Unknown.
Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities
Report that explores the details of the Twin Cities' evolving Rapid Response system for the benefit of others around the country who may soon be facing similar pressures. By CrimethInc.
Lessons Learned from Parents During ICE/CBP Occupation
Guide includes info on school patrols, rapid response near schools, supporting community needs, how allies can prepare, and talking with kids about ICE/CBP. By anonymous parents in Chicago.
Resilience and Community Care
Practical toolkit from the UndocuHealth program offering community care and resilience practices for immigrant justice organizers, with wellness tools, mindful exercises, and support resources to sustain health and collective healing. By United We Dream.
Manual Sobre Seguridad
Manual práctico para defensores de derechos humanos en riesgo que ayuda a evaluar amenazas, identificar vulnerabilidades y crear planes de seguridad personal y organizacional, con estrategias, ejercicios y consejos para distintos contextos. Por Front Line Defenders.
Guía Básica de Acción Directa No Violenta
Explica cómo la acción directa no violenta puede detener injusticias sociales o políticas, defender derechos, aumentar la voz comunitaria y promover valores como la solidaridad e inclusión, ofreciendo métodos pacíficos para el cambio social. Por The Ruckus Society.
Make ICE Accountable Toolkit
Comprehensive guide to a broad range of actions and tactics for holding ICE accountable: from ICE watch to vigils, strikes, labor organizing, legal and legislative actions, and more. By Siembra NC.
NonCooperation Library
Training materials on how to use strategic non-cooperation to undermine the regime's "pillars of support." By Freedom Trainers.
The Authoritarian Playbook
Report outlines seven fundamental tactics used by aspiring authoritarians, describes examples from in and outside the United States. By Protect Democracy.
We Will Defend and Resist: Toolkit For Organizers and Advocates on Workplace and Audits
Resources and guidance for labor and community organizers, advocates, and law practitioners on how to prepare for, resist, and respond to a workplace immigration raid or audit. By AFL-CIO.
“We the People”: Whose Rights Does the Constitution Protect?
Free lesson plan designed to help students consider not just what the Constitution says, but what it leaves out. By Zinn Education Project.
Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook
Workbook with exercises to build collective self-awareness and conflict resilience within community-building and social movement groups. By the Movement Strategy Center.
Countering Nationalist Oligarchy
2019 article argues that the real threat to liberal democracy isn’t authoritarianism—it’s nationalist oligarchy. By the journal Democracy.
Did You Know? Deploying the National Guard
FAQs about the role and function of the National Guard when deployed in American communities; to help people know their rights, act appropriately, and stay safe. By the NAACP.
What is Fascism?
2- page handout with reputable sources that examine fascism within a historical and global context. By the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association.
The Bigger We report
Insights from 65+ grassroots leaders and 25 funders in 28 states, outlining six key practices that strengthen connection, belonging, and collective agency. By Freedom Together Foundation.