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If you can, please help. #wekeepussafe

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:egma5lwfzhfcx45hf6s6omqj/post/3miwkmgrmcc2s

Common Practice: Borrowed Tools Are the Point

https://adventureadjacent.com/2026/03/30/common-practice-borrowed-tools-are-the-point/

The tips in the reply are really spot-on! Not just #PaganCommunities, but any kind of event or protest where #ToxicMasculinity, #Egotistic "leaders", and #ActivistBros lurk -- waiting to manipulate their next victim!

Question on Reddit from 2021: How do you deal with a toxic pagan community?

Answer (by sidhe_elfakyn)

"Background

I don't have experience with organizing Pagan events, but I have several years of experience with organizing events in general. My main area of focus has been event safety and culture, especially related to abuse and harassment. I burned out after about 4 years or so and I disconnected from that for a few years, but I'm getting back into it, at least informally.

Introduction

Unfortunately, toxic, unsafe events are extremely common. I believe one of the factors that exacerbates the situation is the fact that religion and spirituality are one of those key areas of the self where people can find a sense of shared identity, meaning, and direction. Leaders can act as gatekeepers for someone's feeling of belonging and acceptance, and that's prime ground for abuse.

Regarding what you can do: one of the key aspects is ensuring that your events are safe. You've got your events, and you have other events and the community at large. The first one you have a great deal of influence over; for the most part you have only indirect influence over the second.

At your events

The key words for leading safe events are culture and values. Culture comes from the top down. You want to engender the culture at your events that matches your values (for instance, a value that attendee safety and comfort is paramount). Your community will self-select based on the culture of your events. So if you want to maximize women's feeling of safety, that needs to be baked into your events' culture.

The primary way to do that is through policies and processes.

- Have policies in place around #harassment and #ToxicBehavior, including #consequences for harassment. Publicize your policies, put them front and center. That right there will already select out a lot of toxic people and include people who feel unsafe at other events.

- Publicize a way to report harassment and other toxic behavior. Make it easy. It's already hard enough to come forth with reports of harassment.

- Have a process to investigate and handle such reports (offer both anonymous -- where the reporter doesn't share their identity -- and confidential -- where the reporter shares who they are but you keep it secret -- options). Be particularly mindful of the emotional burden and potential trauma of the person who reported it.

- Make sure your processes are capable of dealing with reports of leaders committing abuse.

- Remember that if you don't remove toxic people from your events, you'll drive away their victims instead.

Your events will thus differentiate themselves from others where there is toxicity. Your membership will form into people who will uphold your event's culture of safety. There's a lot to be said here, these are just some ideas.
Interacting with other leaders and events at large

There will hopefully be other organizations like yours, that pay particular attention to safety. Reach out to those leaders, establish communication, form a network.

Vet those organizations to make sure they are a right match for you. Create joint activities and events. This way your culture and values of safety will spread. You will lead by example and show that your events are safer, more comfortable, people are more engaged, participate more etc.

What about toxic leaders and events?

I've yet to find a way to influence other leaders into being less toxic. You can carve out a pocket of safety at your events but if a leader and event are toxic, it is very important to not affiliate yourself with them. Don't recommend people to their events, don't do joint activities etc.

Having been on both sides, both as an attendee who has been sexually harassed and abused, and as an event organizer, I can say that affiliating yourself with toxic leaders will simply send the message to the people at your events that you are OK with their behavior (even if you're actually not, that's unfortunately the message that is being sent!); people will pick up on that and your event's culture and the people who go at your events will reflect that.

There is no changing #ToxicLeaders' minds. The most important thing is to make sure your events are safe and to associate yourself with other safe leaders, and to disassociate yourself from toxic people. This will send the message that you are, in fact, not ok with that behavior and you will not associate with it.

What about events that aren't intentionally toxic?

I've seen plenty of leaders who want a safe community but inadvertently foster an unsafe one. This can happen for many many possible reasons, and it is an art and science in itself to figure out what's going on and address it. Keep an open channel of communications with these leaders. Lead by example. Show them how you do things and how your community is safe. If you do joint events, be very very careful; you don't want to expose your communities to toxic behavior, since people will be made uncomfortable or possibly even harmed and trust in your events' safety will be broken.

Share your expertise, share your policies, offer mentorship and coaching, but don't overextend yourself. Your primary responsibility is towards your events and members.

Closing thoughts

I'm in the NYC area. Of the types of events that I used to lead, I can only think of a handful of safe ones. In New York Fucking City, only a small handful. However the community around these events is magnificent. New people seek out the safe events, word spreads, and these events are some of the most vibrant and alive, because people will return when they feel safe and welcome, when they feel their concerns are taken seriously and acted upon, and when leadership holds itself accountable, too.

There will always be toxicity around. However, if you carve safety at your events, others will take notice. Over time, a network will form of safe events and leaders. Toxic leaders will keep being toxic, but the leaders who are having trouble creating a safe event will take note, will follow your lead, and will come to you for mentorship and guidance.

Good luck! It will be difficult but extremely rewarding."

Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/paganism/comments/p2f4ik/how_do_you_deal_with_a_toxic_pagan_community/

#WeKeepUsSafe #EventSecurity #SafeEvents #Accountability #Leadership #EventSafety #BuildingCommunity #BelieveVictims

From Alex Zucker‬ on Bluesky:

Wed, March 18
6:00pm EST

#RuralOrganizing is holding a training on how to prepare your rural community for an #ICE surge.

Original post:
https://bsky.app/profile/alexzucker.bsky.social/post/3mhedsos7sc2s

#MovementOrganizing #organizing #fascism #authoritarianism #DHS #FuckICE #WeKeepUsSafe

I don't know who needs to hear this, but: don't download or use the #USgovernment owned-and-operated #VPN. #Trump #USA #freedomdotgov #privacy #security #wekeepussafe

GOOD! #DefundICE! #DefundDHS!

'An impossibility': Negotiations to reform ICE sputter as shutdown looms for DHS

Congress has two weeks to fund DHS as Democrats demand changes to rein in #ICE and #CBP. It's not going well. The top Senate Republican doubts they'll reach a deal in time.

Feb. 5, 2026, 8:01 PM EST
By Frank Thorp V, Sahil Kapur and Julie Tsirkin

Excerpt: "Another complication is that Republicans have demands of their own, most notably cutting off funds for 'sanctuary cities,' which refuse to turn in undocumented immigrants to federal authorities.

" 'We’re not going to do anything that kneecaps ICE’s ability to do their jobs and enforce the laws that both Republicans and Democrats have voted on and presidents of both parties have enforced,' said Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. [THEN WHY DON'T YOU IMPEACH THE CRIMINAL IN CHIEF!!!] 'If you want to have a real conversation, to me, it starts with ending #SanctuaryCities.' [Um, no!]

"Democrats firmly oppose that idea, saying cities are safer if residents can report crimes without fear of deportation."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-impossibility-negotiations-reform-ice-sputter-shutdown-looms-dhs-rcna257552?

#USPol #ICESucks #GOPSucks #WeKeepUsSafe #MurderPatrol #CBP #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

Gotta love #MaineDSA! Putting out quality information for #Mainers protecting #NewMainers (and everyone else)!

Did you see ICE?

Here's what to do next - a comradely reminder from your local Maine DSA chapter.

The Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition. and other community partners have set up a hotine to report potential CE sightings. Please use the SALUTE method when reporting ICE to the hotine, Unconfirmed sightings create panic and confusion. please save the number to your phone, or take a tab with the number to keep handy.

Size: How many agents/vehicles?
Activity: What are they doing?
Location: Where exactly is this happening? (exact address if possible)
Unit: what agency? (ICE, CBP. etc)
Time: When did you see this?
Equipment: Vehicle descriptions, clothing, badges, etc.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: All people living in the United States have rights regardless of your citizenship. Take a moment to learn about YOUR personal rights You shod learn about your rights beforehand so you can exercise them when needed:

Read about your rights: maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resource-hub/

This hotline needs volunteers! You can find the sign up link fo get trained and
become a volunteer at maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resource-hub/

Hotline number: (207) 544-9989.

#WeKeepUsSafe #MaineResists #ResistICE #SALUTE #KYR #KnowYourRights

Today is our 4th anniversary! Since 2022, we’ve been sending free respirator masks 😷 on request to people across Canada 🇨🇦. Help us continue to protect your neighbours. 🩵 Donate today: https://donatemask.ca/donate

#WeKeepUsSafe #StillMasking #SoManyReasonsToMask #Anniversary

#PDX #Collage Friends,

Want to hang out, exchange handmade art, make collaborative 3D collage, and drop off some unloved art supplies/pick up new-to-you supplies?

It’s the 14th Annual Winter Social for the #MixedMediaCollageArtistsGuild

This Saturday, 12/13, from 10-noon at IPRC (the Independent Publishing Resource Center) in Inner SE Portland. As this is a #COVIDSafer space, masks are required and available if you don’t have one. #WeKeepUsSafe

- Handmade Art Exchange
- CommuniTREE 3D Collaborative Collage
- “No-Kill Art Supplies Shelter”

More details here: https://www.iprc.org/events-list/june-mixed-media-collage-artists-guild-meetup-57ndb-48zgk

#Art #CoCreate #MakeArtTogether #PortlandArtScene #pdxsocial

Bay Area, now is our time! Stand up against Trump's pathetic attempts to divide and intimidate our communities.

The Bay is uniting to protect our loved ones, our neighbors, and our friends.
This is a moment to come together to free the Bay and keep our families safe and whole — no exceptions.

Day 1 (in SF) is TOMORROW. Day 2 (at your local library) is Friday.

Details in flyers & at BIT.LY/FREETHEBAY
#democracy #WeKeepUsSafe #SomosCalifornia

This Monday, Firestorm is teaming up with scholar Zane McNeill for a conversation on the terrifying new wave of anti-transgender rhetoric and political persecution. Speaking with activists Eric King and Josh Davidson, co-editors of "Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners," we'll put this federal attack on trans rights in historical perspective—connecting it to repression during the Red Scare, the Lavender Scare, Black Liberation and Gay Rights Movements, the Green Scare, and solidarity with Palestine.

We'll also explore what we can learn from past struggles—how organizers not only survived but built movements under constant FBI surveillance—highlighting harm and risk reduction strategies that remain relevant today.

Find more and register to join this free event at https://firestorm.coop/events/3478-gender-terrorism-surviving-magas-war-on-trans-people.html. The recorded conversation will also be shared via our YouTube channel for folks who cannot join live!

#TransLiberation #TransRights #LavenderScare #NoTrumpNoKKKNoFascistUSA #WeKeepUsSafe #QueerSouth #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

Harriet’s Wildest Dreams's event, “Harriets Responders Orientation”

DC Safety Squad and Harriets Responders. #WeKeepUsSafe
#HarrietsDreams

Learn how to build community and reimagine safety. They are piloting a response team that will act as an alternative to calling the police. They advocate for harm reduction resources, providing community support, responding to emergencies, and engaging in civil disobedience.

https://www.mobilize.us/hwd/event/840971/

I'll be on the road from mid-November through mid-December and I am available to be booked for a #HamRadio for #MutualAid group training anywhere within a few hours drive of New Jersey. I can do a standalone introductory presentation or a full training series to get your group's members everything they need to know to take their first licensing test. We're also building an emergency preparedness and disaster relief network that you can plug into. The world is getting more and more dangerous and we need each other more than ever.

Email me at [email protected] to learn more.

#WeKeepUsSafe

🔥No Justice, No Peace — ALL OUT!🔥
Join us in the streets as we stand against fascism, police violence, and corporate rule.
This is a call to action. We don’t beg for change — we make it.
📍TBA | 🕒 August 3rd 2025
Bring your comrades, wear black, and don’t come alone.
Solidarity is our weapon.

#Antifa #AnarchistAction #SmashFascism #NoJusticeNoPeace #DirectAction #ACAB #BlackBloc #AntiAuthoritarian #FightThePower #AbolishThePolice #MutualAid #Revolt #DefendTheHood #Antifascist #AnarchyNow #FuckFascism #PowerToThePeople #FTP #CommunityDefense #ResistanceCulture #RadicalSolidarity #RedAndBlack #ClassWar #RevolutionNow #StreetSolidarity #WeKeepUsSafe #NashvilleAntifa #TorchNetwork #AtlantaAntifa #CrimethInc

🔥No Justice, No Peace — ALL OUT!🔥
Join us in the streets as we stand against fascism, police violence, and corporate rule.
This is a call to action. We don’t beg for change — we make it.
📍TBA | 🕒 August 3rd 2025
Bring your comrades, wear black, and don’t come alone.
Solidarity is our weapon.

#Antifa #AnarchistAction #SmashFascism #NoJusticeNoPeace #DirectAction #ACAB #BlackBloc #AntiAuthoritarian #FightThePower #AbolishThePolice #MutualAid #Revolt #DefendTheHood #Antifascist #AnarchyNow #FuckFascism #PowerToThePeople #FTP #CommunityDefense #ResistanceCulture #RadicalSolidarity #RedAndBlack #ClassWar #RevolutionNow #StreetSolidarity #WeKeepUsSafe #NashvilleAntifa #TorchNetwork #AtlantaAntifa #CrimethInc

🔥No Justice, No Peace — ALL OUT!🔥
Join us in the streets as we stand against fascism, police violence, and corporate rule.
This is a call to action. We don’t beg for change — we make it.
📍TBA | 🕒 August 3rd 2025
Bring your comrades, wear black, and don’t come alone.
Solidarity is our weapon.

#Antifa #AnarchistAction #SmashFascism #NoJusticeNoPeace #DirectAction #ACAB #BlackBloc #AntiAuthoritarian #FightThePower #AbolishThePolice #MutualAid #Revolt #DefendTheHood #Antifascist #AnarchyNow #FuckFascism #PowerToThePeople #FTP #CommunityDefense #ResistanceCulture #RadicalSolidarity #RedAndBlack #ClassWar #RevolutionNow #StreetSolidarity #WeKeepUsSafe #NashvilleAntifa #TorchNetwork #AtlantaAntifa #CrimethInc

🔥No Justice, No Peace — ALL OUT!🔥
Join us in the streets as we stand against fascism, police violence, and corporate rule.
This is a call to action. We don’t beg for change — we make it.
📍TBA | 🕒 August 3rd 2025
Bring your comrades, wear black, and don’t come alone.
Solidarity is our weapon.

#Antifa #AnarchistAction #SmashFascism #NoJusticeNoPeace #DirectAction #ACAB #BlackBloc #AntiAuthoritarian #FightThePower #AbolishThePolice #MutualAid #Revolt #DefendTheHood #Antifascist #AnarchyNow #FuckFascism #PowerToThePeople #FTP #CommunityDefense #ResistanceCulture #RadicalSolidarity #RedAndBlack #ClassWar #RevolutionNow #StreetSolidarity #WeKeepUsSafe #NashvilleAntifa #TorchNetwork #AtlantaAntifa #CrimethInc

#CommunityDefense Groups Take the Last Stand Against #ICE in #LA

Organizers argue that LA’s #sanctuary laws aren’t enough to keep their #immigrant neighbors safe.

By Claudia Villalona, June 21, 2025

"Across #LosAngeles County, ICE’s operations played out differently. When combat-ready federal agents gathered in large numbers at staging areas in Paramount and Compton on June 8, protesters swiftly mobilized collective resistance efforts and emergency patrols. Agents responded to large crowds with #TearGas, #FlashBangs, and so-called 'less-lethal' weapons.

"Organizers maintain that this grassroots mobilization sabotaged enforcement operations, putting agents on the defensive and preventing them from conducting raids for the rest of the day.

"As ICE raids escalated across Los Angeles in early June, sending #protesters into the streets and immigrant communities into hiding, the contrast between how the consequential weekend unfolded in different parts of the city was stark. Divergent outcomes in majority #Latino areas further east with a long history of organizing and those largely disconnected from grassroots support highlighted the crucial role of #CommunityLedDefense in the absence of meaningful government protection.

"Unlike Compton or Paramount, the airport-adjacent Westchester is geographically and socially isolated from more established community organizing networks. And while LA’s sanctuary laws prohibit local #police from working with ICE, organizers argue that the local law enforcement agencies can’t be trusted to keep immigrants safe.

" 'Workers need to know their rights, whether it’s at the workplace or at their home, and they feel empowered to exercise those rights,' said Flor Melendrez, executive director of the labor advocacy group CLEAN #Carwash Worker Center. Car wash workers, street vendors, and day laborers working in high-visibility, outdoor spaces face heightened risk for arrests as 'easy targets' for ICE raids, while often lacking access to critical resources and workplace protections. Organizers said more than 26 car wash workers were arrested across at least six businesses in the set of raids began on June 6."

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/21/los-angeles-ice-raids-immigrants-organizing/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/YpyRV

#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #ACAB #WeProtectOurselves #WeKeepUsSafe #LAResists #SanctuaryCity #ICERaids #FuckICE

#CommunityDefense Groups Take the Last Stand Against #ICE in #LA

Organizers argue that LA’s #sanctuary laws aren’t enough to keep their #immigrant neighbors safe.

By Claudia Villalona, June 21, 2025

"Across #LosAngeles County, ICE’s operations played out differently. When combat-ready federal agents gathered in large numbers at staging areas in Paramount and Compton on June 8, protesters swiftly mobilized collective resistance efforts and emergency patrols. Agents responded to large crowds with #TearGas, #FlashBangs, and so-called 'less-lethal' weapons.

"Organizers maintain that this grassroots mobilization sabotaged enforcement operations, putting agents on the defensive and preventing them from conducting raids for the rest of the day.

"As ICE raids escalated across Los Angeles in early June, sending #protesters into the streets and immigrant communities into hiding, the contrast between how the consequential weekend unfolded in different parts of the city was stark. Divergent outcomes in majority #Latino areas further east with a long history of organizing and those largely disconnected from grassroots support highlighted the crucial role of #CommunityLedDefense in the absence of meaningful government protection.

"Unlike Compton or Paramount, the airport-adjacent Westchester is geographically and socially isolated from more established community organizing networks. And while LA’s sanctuary laws prohibit local #police from working with ICE, organizers argue that the local law enforcement agencies can’t be trusted to keep immigrants safe.

" 'Workers need to know their rights, whether it’s at the workplace or at their home, and they feel empowered to exercise those rights,' said Flor Melendrez, executive director of the labor advocacy group CLEAN #Carwash Worker Center. Car wash workers, street vendors, and day laborers working in high-visibility, outdoor spaces face heightened risk for arrests as 'easy targets' for ICE raids, while often lacking access to critical resources and workplace protections. Organizers said more than 26 car wash workers were arrested across at least six businesses in the set of raids began on June 6."

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/21/los-angeles-ice-raids-immigrants-organizing/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/YpyRV

#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #ACAB #WeProtectOurselves #WeKeepUsSafe #LAResists #SanctuaryCity #ICERaids #FuckICE

#CommunityDefense Groups Take the Last Stand Against #ICE in #LA

Organizers argue that LA’s #sanctuary laws aren’t enough to keep their #immigrant neighbors safe.

By Claudia Villalona, June 21, 2025

"Across #LosAngeles County, ICE’s operations played out differently. When combat-ready federal agents gathered in large numbers at staging areas in Paramount and Compton on June 8, protesters swiftly mobilized collective resistance efforts and emergency patrols. Agents responded to large crowds with #TearGas, #FlashBangs, and so-called 'less-lethal' weapons.

"Organizers maintain that this grassroots mobilization sabotaged enforcement operations, putting agents on the defensive and preventing them from conducting raids for the rest of the day.

"As ICE raids escalated across Los Angeles in early June, sending #protesters into the streets and immigrant communities into hiding, the contrast between how the consequential weekend unfolded in different parts of the city was stark. Divergent outcomes in majority #Latino areas further east with a long history of organizing and those largely disconnected from grassroots support highlighted the crucial role of #CommunityLedDefense in the absence of meaningful government protection.

"Unlike Compton or Paramount, the airport-adjacent Westchester is geographically and socially isolated from more established community organizing networks. And while LA’s sanctuary laws prohibit local #police from working with ICE, organizers argue that the local law enforcement agencies can’t be trusted to keep immigrants safe.

" 'Workers need to know their rights, whether it’s at the workplace or at their home, and they feel empowered to exercise those rights,' said Flor Melendrez, executive director of the labor advocacy group CLEAN #Carwash Worker Center. Car wash workers, street vendors, and day laborers working in high-visibility, outdoor spaces face heightened risk for arrests as 'easy targets' for ICE raids, while often lacking access to critical resources and workplace protections. Organizers said more than 26 car wash workers were arrested across at least six businesses in the set of raids began on June 6."

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/21/los-angeles-ice-raids-immigrants-organizing/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/YpyRV

#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #ACAB #WeProtectOurselves #WeKeepUsSafe #LAResists #SanctuaryCity #ICERaids #FuckICE

#CommunityDefense Groups Take the Last Stand Against #ICE in #LA

Organizers argue that LA’s #sanctuary laws aren’t enough to keep their #immigrant neighbors safe.

By Claudia Villalona, June 21, 2025

"Across #LosAngeles County, ICE’s operations played out differently. When combat-ready federal agents gathered in large numbers at staging areas in Paramount and Compton on June 8, protesters swiftly mobilized collective resistance efforts and emergency patrols. Agents responded to large crowds with #TearGas, #FlashBangs, and so-called 'less-lethal' weapons.

"Organizers maintain that this grassroots mobilization sabotaged enforcement operations, putting agents on the defensive and preventing them from conducting raids for the rest of the day.

"As ICE raids escalated across Los Angeles in early June, sending #protesters into the streets and immigrant communities into hiding, the contrast between how the consequential weekend unfolded in different parts of the city was stark. Divergent outcomes in majority #Latino areas further east with a long history of organizing and those largely disconnected from grassroots support highlighted the crucial role of #CommunityLedDefense in the absence of meaningful government protection.

"Unlike Compton or Paramount, the airport-adjacent Westchester is geographically and socially isolated from more established community organizing networks. And while LA’s sanctuary laws prohibit local #police from working with ICE, organizers argue that the local law enforcement agencies can’t be trusted to keep immigrants safe.

" 'Workers need to know their rights, whether it’s at the workplace or at their home, and they feel empowered to exercise those rights,' said Flor Melendrez, executive director of the labor advocacy group CLEAN #Carwash Worker Center. Car wash workers, street vendors, and day laborers working in high-visibility, outdoor spaces face heightened risk for arrests as 'easy targets' for ICE raids, while often lacking access to critical resources and workplace protections. Organizers said more than 26 car wash workers were arrested across at least six businesses in the set of raids began on June 6."

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/21/los-angeles-ice-raids-immigrants-organizing/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/YpyRV

#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #ACAB #WeProtectOurselves #WeKeepUsSafe #LAResists #SanctuaryCity #ICERaids #FuckICE

#CommunityDefense Groups Take the Last Stand Against #ICE in #LA

Organizers argue that LA’s #sanctuary laws aren’t enough to keep their #immigrant neighbors safe.

By Claudia Villalona, June 21, 2025

"Across #LosAngeles County, ICE’s operations played out differently. When combat-ready federal agents gathered in large numbers at staging areas in Paramount and Compton on June 8, protesters swiftly mobilized collective resistance efforts and emergency patrols. Agents responded to large crowds with #TearGas, #FlashBangs, and so-called 'less-lethal' weapons.

"Organizers maintain that this grassroots mobilization sabotaged enforcement operations, putting agents on the defensive and preventing them from conducting raids for the rest of the day.

"As ICE raids escalated across Los Angeles in early June, sending #protesters into the streets and immigrant communities into hiding, the contrast between how the consequential weekend unfolded in different parts of the city was stark. Divergent outcomes in majority #Latino areas further east with a long history of organizing and those largely disconnected from grassroots support highlighted the crucial role of #CommunityLedDefense in the absence of meaningful government protection.

"Unlike Compton or Paramount, the airport-adjacent Westchester is geographically and socially isolated from more established community organizing networks. And while LA’s sanctuary laws prohibit local #police from working with ICE, organizers argue that the local law enforcement agencies can’t be trusted to keep immigrants safe.

" 'Workers need to know their rights, whether it’s at the workplace or at their home, and they feel empowered to exercise those rights,' said Flor Melendrez, executive director of the labor advocacy group CLEAN #Carwash Worker Center. Car wash workers, street vendors, and day laborers working in high-visibility, outdoor spaces face heightened risk for arrests as 'easy targets' for ICE raids, while often lacking access to critical resources and workplace protections. Organizers said more than 26 car wash workers were arrested across at least six businesses in the set of raids began on June 6."

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/21/los-angeles-ice-raids-immigrants-organizing/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/YpyRV

#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #ACAB #WeProtectOurselves #WeKeepUsSafe #LAResists #SanctuaryCity #ICERaids #FuckICE

Get #armed, get #trained, get #organized. No one is coming.

#2A4All #SecondAmendment #SelfDefense #Autodefensa #WeKeepUsSafe #nooneiscomingtosaveus

A win for the workers!
My employer is a non-profit org that assists developmentally disabled folks lead a productive, independent life in both a residential setting, as well as with in the community.
Recently, due to exhausting and poorly organized schedules, 2 residential LPNs put in their notice. Management decided it would be best (for financial reasons) to have the regular workers, like myself, take on training to distribute medications to the residents. This would also mean there would be one less person on hand to assist with daily duties, including ensuring the safety of the residents. I refused when told the pay would be the same but the responsibility and liability would be greater for me and other workers.
I saw this as exploiting the workers to take on more work and liability for the same pay by way of not hiring more LPNs, thus "taking a job" from an LPN that would be willing to take the job.

The other workers (including the LPNs) had a few unofficial meetings and discussions stating we would all resist. Two other workers were ready to put in notice along with the LPNs.
Yesterday management, after realizing that 3/4 of our residential staff might be gone by the 2nd week of January, held a meeting for the workers to explain their side and express their concerns.

By the end of the meeting they offered one of the LPNs everything that they wanted to keep them on staff. They listened to all of the issues the staff had with liability, responsibility and safety.
I didn't make the last minute impromptu Zoom meeting, but my fellow workers kept me abreast of what went on.

So, here we are, the workers, including the LPN, getting the fair treatment with no extra workload and management bending to the needs of the workers and residents.

I've been putting a bug in the ears of fellow workers about these issues and I'm proud to say my fellow workers spoke up with all those concerns and more. I'm expecting a call from management today to hear of I have any additional grievances or concerns.

I consider this a BIG win for myself and my fellow workers.
Remember, that workers not only control the means of production but also ensure the safety and quality of life for ourselves as well as our residence and the community.

Never give up. Never back down.

#nevergiveup #neverbackdown #workersunite #collectivebargaining #iww #sticktogether #wewon #fightforyourrights #wekeepussafe #workers #controlthemeansofproduction

A win for the workers!
My employer is a non-profit org that assists developmentally disabled folks lead a productive, independent life in both a residential setting, as well as with in the community.
Recently, due to exhausting and poorly organized schedules, 2 residential LPNs put in their notice. Management decided it would be best (for financial reasons) to have the regular workers, like myself, take on training to distribute medications to the residents. This would also mean there would be one less person on hand to assist with daily duties, including ensuring the safety of the residents. I refused when told the pay would be the same but the responsibility and liability would be greater for me and other workers.
I saw this as exploiting the workers to take on more work and liability for the same pay by way of not hiring more LPNs, thus "taking a job" from an LPN that would be willing to take the job.

The other workers (including the LPNs) had a few unofficial meetings and discussions stating we would all resist. Two other workers were ready to put in notice along with the LPNs.
Yesterday management, after realizing that 3/4 of our residential staff might be gone by the 2nd week of January, held a meeting for the workers to explain their side and express their concerns.

By the end of the meeting they offered one of the LPNs everything that they wanted to keep them on staff. They listened to all of the issues the staff had with liability, responsibility and safety.
I didn't make the last minute impromptu Zoom meeting, but my fellow workers kept me abreast of what went on.

So, here we are, the workers, including the LPN, getting the fair treatment with no extra workload and management bending to the needs of the workers and residents.

I've been putting a bug in the ears of fellow workers about these issues and I'm proud to say my fellow workers spoke up with all those concerns and more. I'm expecting a call from management today to hear of I have any additional grievances or concerns.

I consider this a BIG win for myself and my fellow workers.
Remember, that workers not only control the means of production but also ensure the safety and quality of life for ourselves as well as our residence and the community.

Never give up. Never back down.

#nevergiveup #neverbackdown #workersunite #collectivebargaining #iww #sticktogether #wewon #fightforyourrights #wekeepussafe #workers #controlthemeansofproduction

A win for the workers!
My employer is a non-profit org that assists developmentally disabled folks lead a productive, independent life in both a residential setting, as well as with in the community.
Recently, due to exhausting and poorly organized schedules, 2 residential LPNs put in their notice. Management decided it would be best (for financial reasons) to have the regular workers, like myself, take on training to distribute medications to the residents. This would also mean there would be one less person on hand to assist with daily duties, including ensuring the safety of the residents. I refused when told the pay would be the same but the responsibility and liability would be greater for me and other workers.
I saw this as exploiting the workers to take on more work and liability for the same pay by way of not hiring more LPNs, thus "taking a job" from an LPN that would be willing to take the job.

The other workers (including the LPNs) had a few unofficial meetings and discussions stating we would all resist. Two other workers were ready to put in notice along with the LPNs.
Yesterday management, after realizing that 3/4 of our residential staff might be gone by the 2nd week of January, held a meeting for the workers to explain their side and express their concerns.

By the end of the meeting they offered one of the LPNs everything that they wanted to keep them on staff. They listened to all of the issues the staff had with liability, responsibility and safety.
I didn't make the last minute impromptu Zoom meeting, but my fellow workers kept me abreast of what went on.

So, here we are, the workers, including the LPN, getting the fair treatment with no extra workload and management bending to the needs of the workers and residents.

I've been putting a bug in the ears of fellow workers about these issues and I'm proud to say my fellow workers spoke up with all those concerns and more. I'm expecting a call from management today to hear of I have any additional grievances or concerns.

I consider this a BIG win for myself and my fellow workers.
Remember, that workers not only control the means of production but also ensure the safety and quality of life for ourselves as well as our residence and the community.

Never give up. Never back down.

#nevergiveup #neverbackdown #workersunite #collectivebargaining #iww #sticktogether #wewon #fightforyourrights #wekeepussafe #workers #controlthemeansofproduction

A win for the workers!
My employer is a non-profit org that assists developmentally disabled folks lead a productive, independent life in both a residential setting, as well as with in the community.
Recently, due to exhausting and poorly organized schedules, 2 residential LPNs put in their notice. Management decided it would be best (for financial reasons) to have the regular workers, like myself, take on training to distribute medications to the residents. This would also mean there would be one less person on hand to assist with daily duties, including ensuring the safety of the residents. I refused when told the pay would be the same but the responsibility and liability would be greater for me and other workers.
I saw this as exploiting the workers to take on more work and liability for the same pay by way of not hiring more LPNs, thus "taking a job" from an LPN that would be willing to take the job.

The other workers (including the LPNs) had a few unofficial meetings and discussions stating we would all resist. Two other workers were ready to put in notice along with the LPNs.
Yesterday management, after realizing that 3/4 of our residential staff might be gone by the 2nd week of January, held a meeting for the workers to explain their side and express their concerns.

By the end of the meeting they offered one of the LPNs everything that they wanted to keep them on staff. They listened to all of the issues the staff had with liability, responsibility and safety.
I didn't make the last minute impromptu Zoom meeting, but my fellow workers kept me abreast of what went on.

So, here we are, the workers, including the LPN, getting the fair treatment with no extra workload and management bending to the needs of the workers and residents.

I've been putting a bug in the ears of fellow workers about these issues and I'm proud to say my fellow workers spoke up with all those concerns and more. I'm expecting a call from management today to hear of I have any additional grievances or concerns.

I consider this a BIG win for myself and my fellow workers.
Remember, that workers not only control the means of production but also ensure the safety and quality of life for ourselves as well as our residence and the community.

Never give up. Never back down.

#nevergiveup #neverbackdown #workersunite #collectivebargaining #iww #sticktogether #wewon #fightforyourrights #wekeepussafe #workers #controlthemeansofproduction