Dear LittleFriends, 

I’m sure you are also closely following the news out of Minneapolis about ICE’s expanded operations and violent escalation, as well as the courageous response of community members to resist the kidnappings, beatings, and murders of their neighbors. Across the country, people are taking to the streets, forming neighborhood watch groups, and engaging in campaigns to pressure corporations to drop their support of ICE.

In our recently released blog post, we briefly highlight a few campaigns aimed at ICE’s corporate collaborators and provide a guide on how you can research these corporations. 

Photo credit: Stop Avelo Coalition

We focus on the Stop Avelo campaign, which over the past year deployed a broad range of tactics to strategically weaken the “pillars of support” for budget airline Avelo. The campaign successfully pushed Avelo to stop running deportation charter flights for ICE.

We had the honor of supporting this campaign with research uncovering these pillars of support and points of leverage. If you want to know how you can follow a similar approach in your campaign, check out these Six Steps for Researching the Corporate Enablers of ICE. 

Be sure to also check out our upcoming trainings (all free and open to the public), including: 

• Excel for Organizers
• Researching ICE Contracts

Solidarity,

Lauren