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There are several GoFundMe campaigns providing direct aid to families that are sheltering in place. I’m sharing some vetted by folks I trust. Here’s one from @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social
gofund.me/10252d6e0
gofund.me/10252d6e0
Donate to Urgent Aid for New Orleans Area Families, organized by First UU New Orleans
First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans is partnering with a … First UU New Orleans needs your support for Urgent Aid for New Orleans Area Families
gofund.me
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
There are several GoFundMe campaigns providing direct aid to families that are sheltering in place. I’m sharing some vetted by folks I trust. Here’s one from @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social
gofund.me/10252d6e0
gofund.me/10252d6e0
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This is a thread of ways to support New Orleans folks impacted by ICE right now. Share it, add to it, etc!
First, some fundraisers. Tuesday evening the 16th, Wit’s End is playing at St. Roch Tavern to raise funds for emergency groceries, show at 7:30pm
#AbolishICE #ICEoutofNOLA #NOLAsky
First, some fundraisers. Tuesday evening the 16th, Wit’s End is playing at St. Roch Tavern to raise funds for emergency groceries, show at 7:30pm
#AbolishICE #ICEoutofNOLA #NOLAsky
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is a thread of ways to support New Orleans folks impacted by ICE right now. Share it, add to it, etc!
First, some fundraisers. Tuesday evening the 16th, Wit’s End is playing at St. Roch Tavern to raise funds for emergency groceries, show at 7:30pm
#AbolishICE #ICEoutofNOLA #NOLAsky
First, some fundraisers. Tuesday evening the 16th, Wit’s End is playing at St. Roch Tavern to raise funds for emergency groceries, show at 7:30pm
#AbolishICE #ICEoutofNOLA #NOLAsky
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#TheLensNola🔍 A survey in photo and text, of what New Orleanians are thinking about the local immigrants threatened by Catahoula Crunch.
✍ Gus Bennett
Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/Y1XGHVt
#ICE #immigrantsheltering #neworleans
✍ Gus Bennett
Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/Y1XGHVt
#ICE #immigrantsheltering #neworleans
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#TheLensNola🔍 A survey in photo and text, of what New Orleanians are thinking about the local immigrants threatened by Catahoula Crunch.
✍ Gus Bennett
Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/Y1XGHVt
#ICE #immigrantsheltering #neworleans
✍ Gus Bennett
Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/Y1XGHVt
#ICE #immigrantsheltering #neworleans
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this is today!! pop-up art porch sale/open studio 600 block of north olympia in midcity near city park. if you're headed to the arts market in city park, pass by on your way there or after! we'll be out there 10:30-4pm.
a few friends are joining me selling their wares so it should be a fun time. weather is supposed to be awesome saturday. swing by and say hello and do some holiday shopping! oh, and i'll have whistle kits for all who stop by and i can answer any questions you have about our community resistance. 2/2
December 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
this is today!! pop-up art porch sale/open studio 600 block of north olympia in midcity near city park. if you're headed to the arts market in city park, pass by on your way there or after! we'll be out there 10:30-4pm.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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(cont'd) another training, tonight (Friday). This is a continuation of the one I went to last week which was tremendously informative. That was the second in the series but you didn't have to go to the first so I assume you'd one can stand alone as well
December 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
(cont'd) another training, tonight (Friday). This is a continuation of the one I went to last week which was tremendously informative. That was the second in the series but you didn't have to go to the first so I assume you'd one can stand alone as well
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Possible Ice activity off Hayne Blvd. Reported Drone activity in City Park. Note, Border Patrol was flyong drones earlier this week in City Park. #IceAlerts
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Possible Ice activity off Hayne Blvd. Reported Drone activity in City Park. Note, Border Patrol was flyong drones earlier this week in City Park. #IceAlerts
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An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
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2. Similarly, DO NOT share any posts about sightings that do not have time/date/exact location - not even like, "I cannot verify but passing this along." Also only share info straight from the eye witness/reporter. No sharing a post from someone said "just heard ICE is at Claiborne and Carrollton"
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
2. Similarly, DO NOT share any posts about sightings that do not have time/date/exact location - not even like, "I cannot verify but passing this along." Also only share info straight from the eye witness/reporter. No sharing a post from someone said "just heard ICE is at Claiborne and Carrollton"
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I went to an "ojos" training tonight hosted by New Orleans DSA and Union Migrante and thought I'd pass on new things I learned:
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I went to an "ojos" training tonight hosted by New Orleans DSA and Union Migrante and thought I'd pass on new things I learned:
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
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The moon peeks through ‘Second line in the sky’, a temporary art installation commemorating the victims of the January 1 attack, Bourbon Street, New Orleans
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The moon peeks through ‘Second line in the sky’, a temporary art installation commemorating the victims of the January 1 attack, Bourbon Street, New Orleans
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free ICE watch training tomorrow at the broadside, 6pm, presented by chicago indivisible organizers who just lived through this hell we are about to experience. come get prepared and get a whistle kit!
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
free ICE watch training tomorrow at the broadside, 6pm, presented by chicago indivisible organizers who just lived through this hell we are about to experience. come get prepared and get a whistle kit!
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“We learned from Los Angeles and D.C. and it’s our turn to share what we learned with the cities facing it now,” said González, co-founder of Protect Rogers Park."
Chicago activists share blueprint for resisting Border Patrol: ‘Chicago clearly is front and center’
As President Donald Trump’s ramped up Border Patrol action hits city after city, Chicago’s immigration-focused community organizers are following.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“We learned from Los Angeles and D.C. and it’s our turn to share what we learned with the cities facing it now,” said González, co-founder of Protect Rogers Park."
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Aaaall riiiiiiighhhht! I loved taking home jigsaw puzzles from my town library when I was a kid! I will definitely be using the #NOLALibrary puzzle exchanges. You don't even need a library card—just take one home, and return it when you're done.
nolalibrary.org/location-spe...
nolalibrary.org/location-spe...
Community Puzzle Exchange
The New Orleans Public Library hosts community puzzle exchanges. Drop off your old puzzles and take new ones for free.
nolalibrary.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Aaaall riiiiiiighhhht! I loved taking home jigsaw puzzles from my town library when I was a kid! I will definitely be using the #NOLALibrary puzzle exchanges. You don't even need a library card—just take one home, and return it when you're done.
nolalibrary.org/location-spe...
nolalibrary.org/location-spe...
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Speakers also urge for people to keep donating to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund. Alejandra Oliva, a volunteer with the bond fund, says the amount of money they are trying to raise is "unprecedented" as they try to get hundreds of people out of ICE detention, $1500 per person.
secure.givelively.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Speakers also urge for people to keep donating to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund. Alejandra Oliva, a volunteer with the bond fund, says the amount of money they are trying to raise is "unprecedented" as they try to get hundreds of people out of ICE detention, $1500 per person.
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I keep thinking of those people coerced into signing deportation papers at Broadview and never had a chance to potentially come home.
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I keep thinking of those people coerced into signing deportation papers at Broadview and never had a chance to potentially come home.
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The New Orleans Rapid Response hotline # for ICE/CBP/HSI/DHS sightings is: 504-221-1499. Please RIGHT NOW put it into your phone's contacts so you have it if/when you need it. Link to the whistle kit zines here: drive.google.com/drive/u/2/fo...
504 whistle kit zines - Google Drive
pdfs of NOLA whistle kit zines
drive.google.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The New Orleans Rapid Response hotline # for ICE/CBP/HSI/DHS sightings is: 504-221-1499. Please RIGHT NOW put it into your phone's contacts so you have it if/when you need it. Link to the whistle kit zines here: drive.google.com/drive/u/2/fo...
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OK, I wanna make a few things clear about the hotline cause I keep getting questions. It is not in indivisible New Orleans that is responsible for it. There’s a coalition of 30+ organizations around town who have been working on this for weeks and helping to staff it. It is voice only, no texts.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
OK, I wanna make a few things clear about the hotline cause I keep getting questions. It is not in indivisible New Orleans that is responsible for it. There’s a coalition of 30+ organizations around town who have been working on this for weeks and helping to staff it. It is voice only, no texts.
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Hey y'all, we started a tip line to get information about Border Patrol as they prepare to descend on the greater New Orleans area. Please let folx know!
ALERT: @veritenews.org has started a tip line for people to report ICE/CBP sightings in the greater New Orleans area ahead of the upcoming deployment of Border Patrol agents to the region. If you see an enforcement action, raid, illegal detainment, etc., please let us know!
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hey y'all, we started a tip line to get information about Border Patrol as they prepare to descend on the greater New Orleans area. Please let folx know!
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People who migrated here made New Orleans and the Metro Area home whether before K or after. Louisiana is rooted in multiple races, ethnicities, culture and heritage.
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
DHS plans to deploy 250 border agents to Louisiana in major immigration sweep, AP sources say
Federal agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called “Swamp Sweep” in New Orleans in the coming weeks. The operation aims to arrest around 5,000...
www.wwltv.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
People who migrated here made New Orleans and the Metro Area home whether before K or after. Louisiana is rooted in multiple races, ethnicities, culture and heritage.
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
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and here's the relevant info about the whistles from the group in chicago that distributes them. i got mine in a whistle kit from Unión Migrante. also comes with a Know Your Rights card in English/Spanish.
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
and here's the relevant info about the whistles from the group in chicago that distributes them. i got mine in a whistle kit from Unión Migrante. also comes with a Know Your Rights card in English/Spanish.
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I’m seeing so many people and orgs posting food access info on instagram and like, Yayyyyyy except that so much of the info is out of date and hasn’t been fact checked. I know, info changes fast! I’m doing my best to keep up. Here’s the latest New Orleans community fridge update.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I’m seeing so many people and orgs posting food access info on instagram and like, Yayyyyyy except that so much of the info is out of date and hasn’t been fact checked. I know, info changes fast! I’m doing my best to keep up. Here’s the latest New Orleans community fridge update.