How to Resist ICE: Tactics and Organizing with Eric Blanc

Community Resistance Tactics Against ICE

• 📱 Recording ICE agents with phones has become a widespread tactic to document their actions and provide a sense of security to undocumented communities.
• 🍎 Delivering food to immigrants who are unable to leave their homes safely is another crucial support method.
• 📢 The use of whistles serves as an immediate alert system for community members when ICE agents are present, prompting a collective response.
• 💬 Signal chats function as decentralized, community-based alert systems, similar to ICE alert apps but more community-driven and opt-in.

Organizing and Community Solidarity

• 🤝 Minneapolis has become a hub for effective, large-scale implementation of these resistance tactics, fostering unprecedented human solidarity and courage.
• 🌐 These community-led efforts are described as a bottom-up dynamic, with tens of thousands of people actively watching out for their undocumented neighbors.
• 📈 Over 4% of neighborhoods are reportedly in signal chats, indicating a significant level of active community involvement, far beyond passive support.

Disrupting ICE Logistics and Corporate Support

• 🏨 Tactics are expanding beyond defense to disrupting ICE's operational logistics by targeting their corporate pillars of support.
• 🚗 ICE relies heavily on private sector services, including hotels for lodging (e.g., Hilton) and car rentals (e.g., Enterprise).
• 📣 "Wide awakes" protests at hotels, involving loud disruptions in the middle of the night, pressure hotels to refuse service to ICE.
• ⭐ Review bombing on booking platforms and direct action like sit-ins at hotels aim to economically and reputationally harm companies collaborating with ICE.
• 🛍️ Actions like returning salt at Target, where ICE stages in parking lots, are also used to slow down ICE operations.

National Organizing and Future Strategies

• ✊ Individuals and groups are encouraged to organize nationally against companies profiting from ICE, even if ICE is not currently active in their specific town.
• 🌐 The Sunrise Movement is highlighted as a key organization leading national campaigns, particularly against Hilton.
• 🔗 Resources like the Labor Politics Newsletter provide lists of implicated companies and information on how to get involved in organizing efforts.