I wanted to share a few resources on how we can stop ICE. Here’s my interview with Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay on how to block ICE in your city and my article on how to build a real general strike in the US.
And tomorrow night, Sunday February 15th, hope you can make it to this call (info below) on how colleges can kick ICE’s corporate collaborators of campus. See you there!
Solidarity,
Eric
Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call
Sunday February 15, 7pm ET/4pm PT— RSVP here
Hosted by AFT, AAUP, HELU, UE, the Sunrise Movement, YDSA, and WjL
This administration’s deportation machine depends on private corporations for places to sleep, cars to drive, planes to fly, technology to track, and parking lots to stage.
Colleges have real leverage over the companies providing these services to ICE through purchasing, partnerships, and public legitimacy. The fastest way to shrink ICE’s capacity is to cut off its corporate support: push our schools to stop funding and normalizing ICE collaborators.
On this call, you’ll hear how organizers in Minneapolis and beyond moved from defense to offense—picking a few winnable targets and escalating sustained, nonviolent pressure that hits brands and bottom lines. You’ll leave with concrete tools to map your university’s ties, link up with others on your campus, and run an escalating campaign that obliges decision-makers to drop ICE’s billionaire partners.
Sunday’s call — and the campaign it is launching nationwide — is open not only to faculty, students, and staff, but to any community member or community organization looking to stop ICE.
