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ICE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD - REPORT OUT and TAKE AWAY’S FROM JANUARY 31 TRAINING The room was packed to capacity. People were eager to be there and learn how better to help our neighbors if ICE is in our neighborhood. This collaboration was with Wake UP Sonoma, North Bay Rapid Response (NBRRN) and their Legal Observer Program Coordinator. All information presented was fully vetted by all vested local organizations. The information shared at this training had a few goals, which by all accounts, were achieved beautifully:
1. Uplift community to face this fight. In the words of Rev. Curran Reichert who delivered the grounding opening - “to continue to be empowered to stand up to ICE’s violence while preserving, what wise spiritualist/activist Rob Breszey calls “OUR GORGEOUS SOUL POWER.”* It is a huge challenge to face the escalating brutality without becoming brutalized ourselves. To resist the fascist creep without letting it colonize our inner landscape. Here’s the invitation: Buddhism teaches a fierce concept called wrathful compassion, where love becomes so intense it manifests as holy rage against those who harm the vulnerable. Not hatred, which damages the hater, but a righteous anger that’s an expression of care extended so far it won’t tolerate cruelty. This is the alchemy we need now. ICE’s violence against immigrants (and non-immigrants) demands our intervention because we love what they’re destroying: human dignity, a sense of belonging, sanctuary, and community. We stay sane by taking vigorous action. Helplessness is the real psychological poison. Every practical thing we do is an antidote to the corrosive feeling of complicity through inaction. We preserve joy by defending it collectively. The authoritarian gangsters want to steal our capacity for delight, to make us so despairing and exhausted that we forfeit our imagination. But we refuse.
2. Know and share with your neighbors how to:
Make your neighbors safer, Act from an informed cultural perspective, know yours, and immigrant’s constitutional rights, recognize ICE and when to call the hotline, stay safe when observing a detention, and what to do next. Each of these areas were extensively discussed with Q&A sessions after each section. These strategies are in alignment with trainings that are going on throughout the nation as Rapid Responder trainings through a collaboration with NBRRN. 3. Discussion of Mutual Aid and building Neighborhood PODS and how to get one going in YOUR neighborhood. A pilot project for Neighborhood Pods was initiated at this training with Point Persons identified in 8 neighborhoods. If you are interested in this concept as well, you can visit our BLOG PAGE
Neighborhood Pods to review the Mutual Aid tool Kit here:
NO-LOGOS-Mutual-Aid-101_-Toolkit.pdf and learn more about Neighborhood Pods. Here is a quickie overview:
Pod Training
Also, if you want to sign up to be a point person, you can submit the form here:
NEIGHBORHOOD PILOT POINT PERSON SIGN UP — Wake UP Sonoma
We are also interested in identifying community Partners to join in the building of these Pods, so please reach out with interest, connections and ideas. Wakeupsonoma@gmail.com We will be holding a Pod training in the near future to provide more guidance and expand on the program. More discussion and information coming.
This was a popular training and we are looking at bandwidth to provide a future additional training, so please keep reviewing our events page for updated information.
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