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Hands Off NYC events focus on building community connections with your neighbors, getting organized, learning how to stand in solidarity with one another, and finding joy in resistance.
Community Art Builds with Hands Off NYC
Join Hands Off NYC for community art builds!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/899606/
The Many Hands space in Chelsea will be opening soon, and we’re inviting community members and groups to come together to create banners for tabling and string flags to bring back to your neighborhoods. No prior art experience is required: come ready to plug into the assembly line, and make visuals for your neighbors. Wear clothes you can get paint on!
Art build shifts are scheduled in two-hour blocks, though participants are welcome to stay longer as space is available. As the workshop continues, we’ll offer a variety of art projects for neighborhood groups, friends, organizations, and anyone interested in making art that stands up to fascism.
NYC Singing Resistance
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/907069/
Foley Square, 1pm-3pm on Saturday, February 28th
Join Singing Resistance NYC and Hands Off as we sing in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors and kin who experience violence at the hands of ICE and the federal government here in NYC.
We also act as part of a national day of action in solidarity with those fighting against family and child detention at facilities like the Dilley Detention Center in Texas.
Meet us at Foley Square where we’ll hold a vigil and then sing as we make our way over to Federal Plaza to bear witness at one of the hotspots of family separation in New York. Together, we’ll continue to resist authoritarianism and build a movement for liberation through song.
FAMILY Art Builds with Hands Off NYC
Join Hands Off NYC for community art builds!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/899606/
The Many Hands space in Chelsea is open, and we’re inviting community members and groups to come together to create banners for tabling and string flags to bring back to your neighborhoods. This event is specifically for families and kids!
Know Your Rights Zine Making in Bushwick
Join us for a Hands Off NYC Weekend of Action! Come join us for joyful resistance, meet your neighbors, and help us grow our movement.
RSVP for location: https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/904972/
Events hosted by neighbors, for neighbors as part of our community weekend of action.
Know Your Rights Day of Action with Hands Off NYC and the Hell’s Kitchen Community Cupboard
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/898259/
645 10th Ave, New York, NY 10036, March 1st, 12:00pm
Join us for a Day of Action with Hands Off NYC and the Hell’s Kitchen Community Cupboard! Let’s protect our community from ICE by educating our neighbors on their rights, distributing rapid response resources, and building a culture of care and resistance right here in Hell’s Kitchen.
Family ICE-Out Sing In
Join us for an all-ages sing-in where voices come together in song, community, and hope.
We'll learn songs that have long helped communities stand strong, tell the truth, and care for one another - across cultures, generations, and traditions.
Community Art Builds with Hands Off NYC
Join Hands Off NYC for community art builds!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/899606/
The Many Hands space in Chelsea will be opening soon, and we’re inviting community members and groups to come together to create banners for tabling and string flags to bring back to your neighborhoods. No prior art experience is required: come ready to plug into the assembly line, and make visuals for your neighbors. Wear clothes you can get paint on!
Art build shifts are scheduled in two-hour blocks, though participants are welcome to stay longer as space is available. As the workshop continues, we’ll offer a variety of art projects for neighborhood groups, friends, organizations, and anyone interested in making art that stands up to fascism.
Resistance Lab: Presented by Brooklyn Resisters
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/900227/
Our event, which we are calling Resistance Lab, is open to everyone! We would love it if you joined us, even if you’ve never joined before. Come meet your neighbors, participate in some community building, and learn more about all the different ways you can fight back.
We will have music from our own Oscar Owens and dance courtesy of the Cynthia King dance company, a reading from Saul Austerlitz, and then an opportunity to fold zines, put together whistle kits, make craft projects, and more.
We have 2,000 whistles to give away, so you can also take some home with you to give out to your friends, neighbors, and colleagues. I’ve tested the new whistles, and they are loud!
Please come, and bring the people in your life who have been telling you that they really want to do more, but don’t quite know how.
ICE Preparedness Town Hall - Manhattan Valley
Sunday, March 1st at 5:30PM, 225 West 99th Street
Learning from Minneapolis, Preparing New York City
All Together: Benefitting Hands Off NYC w/Eli Escobar, Bridge, Bea Trinidad
Get tickets: https://ra.co/events/2372555
On Sunday, March 1, we gather at Gabriela for a night of deep grooves, classic house, and disco warmth — in community and in support. $10 suggested cover. All proceeds from the door will benefit Hands Off NYC, a grassroots network providing rapid response support and resource coordination for immigrant communities across New York City. Advance tickets for guaranteed entry available on RA. 50% of RA ticket fees will be donated to Hands Off NYC.
Community Art Builds with Hands Off NYC
Join Hands Off NYC for community art builds! **The March 1 shift is specifically for families!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/899606/
The Many Hands space in Chelsea will be opening soon, and we’re inviting community members and groups to come together to create banners for tabling and string flags to bring back to your neighborhoods. No prior art experience is required: come ready to plug into the assembly line, and make visuals for your neighbors. Wear clothes you can get paint on!
Art build shifts are scheduled in two-hour blocks, though participants are welcome to stay longer as space is available. As the workshop continues, we’ll offer a variety of art projects for neighborhood groups, friends, organizations, and anyone interested in making art that stands up to fascism.
MultiFaith Mondays
Since March 3, 2025, the Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and multifaith community-building in a time of deep division and threat to democratic values.
Every Monday, 5:30 – 6:00 pm
Columbus Circle, 59th Street and Central Park West.
Weekly Vigil at Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center
Our partners at Indivisible Brooklyn and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge are holding a weekly vigil outside the MDC to call for the release of ICE detainees, and to stand against the inhumane treatment of our neighbors. Supporters are invited to bring signs, to sing or play music, and to solemnly bear witness in solidarity. Together we will build and strengthen the vital community connections.
Weekly silent Vigil at Federal Plaza (Copy)
Every Thursday at 12pm, Rise and Resist holds a silent vigil for those who have been murdered and abducted by I.C.E.
We will be out in front of the Federal Worker's entrance at 26 Federal Plaza which houses many DHS and ICE offices as well as immigration courts.
No Kings 3
We the people say: NO KINGS IN NYC!
**Note: final march route and timing are in development. Sign up here to receive important updates and information!
We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
Go to NoKingsNYC.com for more details, and ways to get involved.
Weekly silent Vigil at Federal Plaza
Every Thursday at 12pm, Rise and Resist holds a silent vigil for those who have been murdered and abducted by I.C.E.
We will be out in front of the Federal Worker's entrance at 26 Federal Plaza which houses many DHS and ICE offices as well as immigration courts.
Community Art Builds with Hands Off NYC
Join Hands Off NYC for community art builds!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/899606/
The Many Hands space in Chelsea will be opening soon, and we’re inviting community members and groups to come together to create banners for tabling and string flags to bring back to your neighborhoods. No prior art experience is required: come ready to plug into the assembly line, and make visuals for your neighbors. Wear clothes you can get paint on!
Art build shifts are scheduled in two-hour blocks, though participants are welcome to stay longer as space is available. As the workshop continues, we’ll offer a variety of art projects for neighborhood groups, friends, organizations, and anyone interested in making art that stands up to fascism.