Resources

    • Verify that what you’re seeing is ICE.

      • Look for acronyms such as ICE, DHS, or HSI. Sometimes, officers may be in plain clothes. Look to vehicles and other materials to see if you can identify them.

    • Film the interaction.

      • Stay at a distance from ICE officers, and comply with requests to back up.

    • Take note of details.

      • Try to document things such as badge number, license plates, tactics, and whether ot not the ICE agents identified themselves as police. Ask to see a warrant, or document if they present one.

    • Get the information to the right people.

      • If possible, send the footage to the detained individual’s loved ones or attorney. If that is not possible, contact organizations such as Make the Road NY or the Immigration Defense Project. Avoid sharing on social media without the detained person’s consent.

    For more information, check out Make the Road NY’s Guide here.

    Print these flyers or these zines and distribute in your neighborhood.

  • This guide has been developed for all aspiring and current immigrant entrepreneurs, regardless of immigration status, to help you understand your options for starting and operating your own business in New York State. This guide is provided as an overview and includes information to help you decide which type of business structure is right for you, what the requirements are for forming your business and some of the fees and taxes to expect so that you can stay open for business.

    The business guide is available in 9 languages: 

    Download them here.

  • LINK: Get infographics, flyers, and booklets in 17 languages.

  • LINK: Report Federal Activity in New York

    Use this form from the NY Attorney General’s office to share information regarding federal government action in New York state

  • Learn about the kinds of actions you can take from the Beautiful Trouble toolkit: An interconnected web of the key strategies and tactics that have inspired people-powered victories & upended the status quo. Start anywhere and explore…

    Explore the toolkit here.

  • Protest isn’t the only way to make a change. Authoritarianism requires compliance, and a large number of individuals participating in carrying out orders.

    When systems slow down, when the mechanisms of control are no longer working properly, they cannot control the people.

    Use this link to explore powerful tools of collective noncompliance and mass noncooperation based on tried and true tactics used by movements from around the world fighting against authoritarianism.

  • See the toolkit here

    Join the Multifaith Monday Vigil for Democracy, every Monday from 5:30 - 6:00 pm at Columbus Circle. Cosponsored by ICNY, Jewish Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary, Riverside Church, and other partners.

    Join or create a Shine the Light Vigil, every Thursday afternoon or evening in local communities throughout New York and beyond. Sponsored by The Beacon for Democracy.

    Also click here for learning opportunities from The Beacon.

    Download ICNY’s General Sanctuary Guidelines to learn how you and your congregation can protect the newest New Yorkers.

    Protect Democracy, The Faithful Fight: Toolkits for Countering Authoritarianism (toolkits specifically for faith leaders and communities)

    Interfaith Alliance, Join a Campaign or Event (campaigns nationwide to support religious freedom, protect public libraries, defend immigrants, and more)

    10 Steps Campaign, 10 Steps to Autocracy and Authoritarianism / 10 Steps to Freedom and Power (national campaign led by Stacey Abrams)

    Essential Reading for Our Times

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat (ed.), Lucid Substack Newsletter

    Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

    The Commons Social Change Library, Democracy Resource Hub

    Lisa Fithian, Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance

    Horizons Project, Collected Readings on Global Struggles Against Authoritarianism

    Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy

    Stephan Haggard, “14 Books on Authoritarian Rule” (review essay)

    Karrie Koesel and Ani Sarkissian, “Religion and the Authoritarian Toolkit: Are Carrots Substitutes for Sticks?”

    Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die

    Othering & Belonging Institute, Understanding Authoritarianism Resources

    Maria Stephan, “Faith and the Authoritarian Playbook”

    Maria Stephan, “6 Superpowers that Faith Leaders Bring to Nonviolent Struggles”

    Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

    Randi Weingarten, Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy

    And a Few Timeless Classics

    The Constitution of the United States (1787)

    Henry David Thoreau, “Essay on Civil Disobedience” (1848)

    Mohandas K. Gandhi, Non-Violent Resistance (published posthumously in English, 1951)

    Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963)