In this issue:
Come to our February General Meeting!
Power Not Panic in the Bay Area: Preparing for the Super Bowl
TODAY at 5 PM: Come to the Commission on the Environment Meeting to support the SF Environment Department (SFE) at City Hall
TODAY at 5:30 PM: Pack the room at the SFPD Commission meeting to defend Chinese language access and protect immigrants!
This Saturday: Join us for crafts and adult beverages at Wine Down SF
We Won't Stand For This: Pro Peace Vigil with Spiritual Friends Sangha tomorrow at City Hall at noon
Save the date on Saturday, February 21: CA Democrats, Be Our Voice!
No DHS Funding Without Reining In ICE/CBP!
Hold City Hall Accountable: End the Cruel Rollout of the RV Ban
Tell Mayor Lurie: Don't cut funding to the SF Environment Department (SFE)
We did it: Thank Your Supervisor for Supporting CA Bill 1537: No ICE Side Jobs for Law Enforcement
Learn about San Francisco Bay Area Mutual Aid
We met with District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong
Your Amazon Ring Camera Works For ICE
In America, we no longer are in “business as usual”: Journalists are now a target
We need you. We have ways you can help.
Upcoming events: Find them on our Events page!
Our next General Meeting is Sunday, February 15, 2-4 PM at 683 Florida St.
Join our upcoming General Meeting this Sunday, February 15th at 2 PM at 683 Florida (near 19th St). You’ll get to hear about the types of events and actions we’ll be doing this year, and all of the ways that you can get involved. Come be in community with others who care about our world and our democracy.
Space is limited, so RSVP soon! We hope to see you there!
RSVP on Mobilize.
Power Not Panic in the Bay Area: Preparing for the Super Bowl
In the days leading up to the Super Bowl, with the expectation of some kind of DHS presence, it is important to build our power, not our panic.
Rapid Response networks across the Bay Area are prepared to support communities in the coming days.
Below and on our blog are some resources on what you can do locally, how to help if you’re visiting (or live in) the San Jose or Santa Clara area, and how to be prepared.
Here’s how all of us can be empowered and prepared:
Be ready to record and report ICE.
Save the Rapid Response Line number for your county (and/or the one you visit or work in) in your phone. Ours in San Francisco is 415-200-1548.
Going to Santa Clara for the Super Bowl? The rapid response phone number for Santa Clara County is 408-290-1144. Save this number in your phone now, before you depart.
Read our blog post on how to report ICE in Santa Clara.
If you see unlawful actions, call the local Rapid Response Network to ensure people are connected to legal representation.
If you witness unlawful detention/arrest, ask the person for their full name and date of birth, and their emergency contact’s phone number. Then share that information with the local Rapid Response Network.
Resource: How to report ICE (SALUTE/ALERTA) zines
Know Your Rights—and remind others of theirs
Everyone in this country has rights, regardless of their country of origin or immigration status
You have the right to:
Remain silent
Ask to speak to a lawyer
Ask if you are being detained
Record video in public areas
For more information, please check out the ACLU Know Your Rights Resources
Act accordingly to how much risk your status carries
If you are an immigrant or have a green card, know that this puts you at risk for being deported.
If you are a US citizen and can take more risk, consider using your privilege to volunteer with Adopt a Corner or join or start a street monitoring group in your neighborhood, or otherwise get involved in resisting this fascist attack on our communities. We can and must help keep each other safe.
Follow the Rapid Response Networks’ Instagram pages for updated information
San Francisco: @sfrrn_
San Mateo County: @fiabayarea
Santa Clara County: @scc_rapidresponsenetwork
North Bay: @northbayrapidresponsenetwork
Check in and stay connected with your neighbors and your communities.
Only if you haven’t already, join our Rapid Response Signal group. We will send out a notice in this group if rapid-response protests happen in San Francisco organized by groups we know and trust.
Want to get involved in Santa Clara? Community organizers in this region have asked that any potential Rapid Responders sign up via their Google Form and go through training. You can sign up here.
However, for Rapid Response activity community organizers ask for people to stay and volunteer locally. If ICE does conduct enforcement, we don’t know if it will be at the Super Bowl or somewhere else in the Bay Area. You are needed where you are.
To get involved in your area, join or start a street monitoring group in your neighborhood.
Want to Protest ICE? The best place to do it is San Jose, where many Super Bowl activities are going to take place in the run up to the big game. San Jose organizers have declared a Week Of Action with rallies, banner drops, car caravans and more. They have welcomed all of the Bay Area to join them in this week of events. RSVP here.
TODAY: Come to the Commission on the Environment Meeting to support the SF Environment Department (SFE) at 5 PM at City Hall
Come to City Hall Room 416 at 5 PM today, Wednesday, Feb 4, to support the budget of the SF Environment Department. This year, SFE will get General Fund support that is only 17% of what it got in 2022, if the Mayor's current budget goes through.
This Commission can push the Supervisors to increase it.. We need to show that voters care about the climate. Join and let the Commission know: we need more funding for SFE!
We have a few weeks to push back while Lurie and the Supes are haggling, so please call both the Mayor and your supervisor now.
Can’t make it? Contact the Mayor and your Supervisor and tell them: no funding cuts to the SF Environment Department!
TODAY: Pack the room at the SFPD Commission meeting to defend Chinese language access and protect immigrants!
From Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA):
Please come to City Hall Room 400 for the Police Commission meeting TODAY, Wed, Feb 4 at 5:30pm to give public comments to let the Police Commission know that they can’t ignore immigrants and low-English-proficiency residents!
This year, the SFPD Commission released a new Language Access Policy that is shockingly insufficient for the equitable treatment of people with limited English proficiency by police. For example, it reduces instructions for how officers can identify someone with limited English proficiency to one sentence!
Join Chinese for Affirmative Action that evening at City Hall to pack the room to send the message that this is wholly unacceptable. More details on the event on our website.
This Saturday: Join the Gathering of the Wine Moms at Wine Down SF
Indivisible SF, in partnership with Wine Down SF, is hosting a wine social for all. Everyone is welcome: wine moms, beer dads, adults of any beverage preferences.
The event will be at 4 PM on Saturday, Feb 7 at Wine Down SF (685 Folsom, near 3rd St). Join us to make buttons, write postcards, fold zines, make friends, and talk activism at our casual meetup with beverages and snacks. A patio is available.
Space is limited at Wine Down, so please RSVP to attend.
We Won't Stand For This: Pro Peace Vigil with Spiritual Friends Sangha continues on Thursdays at noon through February!
Join our friends at Spiritual Friends Sangha every Thursday at Noon at City Hall for a vigil of the ongoing tragedies. The January vigils have been well-received and lots of people came out, so they have extended them through February. Please come out any Thursday at noon to City Hall for a peaceful, meditative gathering.
See their website for more details.
Save the date on Saturday, February 21: CA Democrats, Be Our Voice!
The weekend of February 21 is the California Democratic Party convention. State Democrats from the Governor down to local officials will gather at Moscone Center. We will march to tell them: Be Our Voice!
We want the Democratic Party to represent us, the people, not big-money donors. And we need them to stand with us against fascism and the MAGA regime more than ever.
Join us in marching and leafleting to meet our elected officials where they are and tell them: Be Our Voice!
This event is still being planned. If you are interested in volunteering or leafleting, please sign up on this Cryptpad form.
We have transitioned to Cryptpad for some of our volunteer signups to keep your data off of Google and have control over when it is deleted.
No DHS Funding Without Reining In ICE/CBP!
Trump's MAGA Regime campaigned on—and is hell-bent on implementing – a massive deportation campaign targeting more than 10,000,000 nonwhite immigrants.This is ethnic cleansing. And it cannot be done without trampling on the Constitutional rights that protect all Americans—citizens and non-citizen alike. Police violence, military occupation, usurpation of power, and destruction of our traditional checks-and-balances democracy are the inevitable result.
The fundamental political issue for us is the behavior and goals of ICE/CBP, its partisan politicalization by the MAGA Regime, and the role and future of immigration in American society. The House has passed a funding package that kicks DHS funding two weeks down the road. Now, with no government shutdown for Republicans to hold hostage, the ball is in the Democrats’ court.
Funding for ICE/CBP is currently before the House.
Our representatives must use this opportunity to amend the DHS appropriation bill to add significant and meaningful provisions that rein in ICE and CBP's unchecked violence, impunity, and denial of basic human rights. And prevent continued intimidation, abuse, ethnic cleansing, and killing our friends and neighbors.
Call your House Representative and tell them: No DHS Funding without reining in ICE!
Hold City Hall Accountable: End the Cruel Rollout of the RV Ban
Mayor Lurie's RV ban has led to hundreds of San Franciscans losing their homes without replacement.
We are in an affordability crisis, with 14,000 people waiting for housing in this city and nearly 1,000 single adults and family households on the shelter waitlist. RV residents have a home; why should they be forced from theirs to take a housing spot that is desperately wanted by families without an RV?
Contact the Mayor and tell him: end the cruel rollout of the RV Ban!
Tell Mayor Lurie: Don't cut funding to the SF Environment Department (SFE)
This year, SFE will get General Fund support that is only 17% of what it got in 2022, if the Mayor's current budget goes through.
SFE has been working to get EV installers and home/building/parking lot owners together to put in more chargers, and we don’t want them to have to shut down this effort. A lot of other programs like tree-planting and supporting the Climate Equity Hub that brings city residents important jobs installing electric heaters that save on utilities and spare the air, will also have to stop. No wonder SFE brings $29 per dollar of General Fund support - the wonder is that our Mayor can’t see that!
We have a few weeks to push back while Lurie and the Supes are haggling, so please call both the Mayor and your supervisor now.
Contact the Mayor and your Supervisor and tell them: no funding cuts to the SF Environment Department!
We Did It: Thank Your Supervisor for Condemning ICE and Supporting CA Bill 1537: No ICE Side Jobs for Law Enforcement
At the January 27 Board of Supervisors meeting, the full board unanimously backed key resolutions to defend our immigrant communities and our Sanctuary City.
This is all thanks to your calls from last week. On the local level, a call to your elected official can really spur them into action, so give yourself a pat on the back.
When our Supervisors take bold action, we need to support them. Call today to thank them for taking a public stand against collaborating with ICE and to ask that they continue to hold SF law enforcement fully accountable to San Francisco’s Sanctuary City commitments.
Learn about San Francisco Bay Area Mutual Aid
SF Bay Mutual Aid is a collective of Bay Area residents & organizers coming together for the purpose of meeting the needs of our local community, including immigrants, the unhoused, the elderly, LGBTQ+ neighbors, etc.
Some of the ways SF Bay Mutual Aid is doing this:
Providing funds to support in paying for rent, utilities, medications, and other necessities
Delivering groceries, medicine, supplies or running errands for elderly, immuno-compromised, or other high-risk folx
Connecting people with relevant resources in their communities
Holding events, like clothing swaps, community wellness day, and more
Forming pods to build community in our neighborhoods
If you would like to join this collective to volunteer (or you are curious), fill out this form. If you would like to request mutual aid help, fill out this form (and Spanish form here). You can also make a tax-deductible donation here, and funds go directly to those who request financial aid. For more information, visit sfmutualaid.com.
Indivisible SF met with District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong
Last week, members of Indivisible SF met with District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong and several members of his staff. We shared concerns about several issues and discussed his legislative priorities.
Our State and Local team meets regularly with representatives at all levels of local and state government. This year we’re also meeting with people running in the various Supervisor elections. If you’re interested in attending a meeting, please email [email protected] to find out how to join the team. No prior experience or knowledge of state and local politics is needed, and training will be provided.
Read about it on our blog.
Your Amazon Ring Camera Works For ICE
In October 2025, Ring announced an integration with Flock Safety, a company that operates a vast network of license plate readers and security cameras for law enforcement nationwide and freely shares its footage with ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy.
Ring and Flock both publicly deny any direct partnership with ICE and say they only share data with agencies under user consent, court orders, or emergency legal processes—but given our current level of state violence, trust that the rule of law will be followed by billion-dollar corporations and federal law enforcement agencies is at an all-time low.
If you own an Amazon Ring Camera, please consider taking it down and protecting your neighbors. If that is not possible, please consider turning off or limiting law‑enforcement features in the app, declining all “Community Requests” from police, using strong privacy and sharing settings, and avoiding posting videos on Amazon’s “Neighbors”—their crime and safety social networking app—that could be easily repurposed by law enforcement.
Read more about it on our blog.
In America, we no longer are in “business as usual”: Journalists are now a target
The arrest of Don Lemon and other journalists on January 18, 2026 for covering a church protest is, as rightly noted by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and many others, prohibited by our Constitution. It is also an intentional and clear message from this Trump Regime to journalists-at-large: Do not challenge our power, our authority, our propaganda, our mission—or we will come after you! That they came for a Black journalist is also a clear message that should not be ignored.
During the Civil Rights movement, television exposed the violence of segregationists to a disapproving public, but today, those same racists have turned television to their own needs. In order to succeed, they need to strongarm the populace into submission. Who helps with this effort? Corrupt corporate media.
Read more on our blog about how corporate media facilitates the celebration of racist violence by the MAGA regime.
We need you. We have ways you can help.
Your skills can help us grow our power to resist the MAGA regime.
If you would like to join and do important work with us, we welcome you! Currently we are in need of volunteers to help with the following:
Making artwork for our calls to action, blog posts, and other projects.
Maintaining our website, newsletter, and Zoom account.
Posting on our social media channels. We’re on Mastodon, Bluesky, TikTok, Meta, and more. You don’t have to do all of them—do what you’re comfortable with.
Joining our on-the-ground flyering team. We’re distributing information on our events and other ways people can help in the real world. We want people who can print and post flyers around their neighborhood. It’s a great way to get your steps in.
Publishing this very newsletter! We meet Tuesdays at 5 PM to put this together.
Recording or live-streaming our events. We have the equipment. If you can stand in one spot for an hour, you can do this!
No experience is needed; we will train you and provide everything you need. If you would like to help us, please contact us at [email protected].
