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ICE OUT NOW!
SURJ Twin Cities encourages us to follow and support UnidosMN and Defend 612 who are leading work on the ground in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Move money to support impacted communities and folks organizing on the ground. Support is needed in Minneapolis (Stand with Minnesota and Minneapolis Mutual Aid) and here in NYC (GoFundMe campaigns for Osvaldo, Gilberto, Glenda, Karina, and Manuel from Sunset Park).
Urge Congress to Stop ICE Funding by answering Detention Watch Network’s call to contact your elected officials and urge them to cut funding to ICE. Congress is currently proposing to increase resources to immigration detention even more than the $45 billion given to ICE last year.
Call your representatives and urge them not to approve any more funding for ICE in the next budget. You can use 5Calls to find talking points and easily look up what numbers to call.
Weekly Vigil For Democracy
Tuesdays, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center
Join us in standing up for our neighbors. The vigil will be held at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center, which has had a reputation for inhumane conditions: rancid food, lack of heating in winter, and oppressive heat in summer. Now, ICE is using the Metropolitan Detention Center to detain our immigrant neighbors — mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters.
Members of SURJ’s Immigration Justice working group will be attending this vigil organized by Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and Indivisible Brooklyn.
Dignity Not Detention Phone Zap
Join the Dignity Not Detention campaign’s weekly phone zap, taking place through the end of the New York legislative session. They will be making calls and sending emails in community as part of their campaign to end ICE detention contracts across New York state.
Dignity Not Detention Letter Writing Night
Tuesday, March 10, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Hybrid: Midtown or on Zoom
While the Dignity Not Detention campaign works to get New York out of the business of ICE detention, they believe that writing letters to members of our community currently in ICE detention is a crucial act of solidarity. Join members of SURJ NYC at the campaign’s next letter writing night in person in Midtown or on Zoom. They have a high need for Spanish-speaking letter writers.
American Indian Community House Winter Social
Sunday, March 15, 12:00pm - 4:00pm
The Whitney Museum
Join the American Indian Community House at the Whitney for an afternoon of community, connection, dancing, and shared joy.
End mass Incarceration Day of Action
Monday, March 16, all day
Albany, NY
Join 500 other New Yorkers in Albany as campaigns led by formerly incarcerated people are coming together for a collaborative day of action to demand that pathways to release and improved conditions be secured by the legislature and the governor in response to the long-standing and acute prison crisis.
We will be advocating for legislation and executive action, including:
Challenging Wrongful Convictions - (S.6319/A7422)
Communities Not Cages - Second Look Act (S.158/A.1283), Earned Time Act (S.342/A.1085), and Marvin Mayfield Act (S.1209/A.1297)
Parole Justice - Elder Parole Bill (S.454/A.514) and Fair and Timely Parole Bill (S.159/A.127)
Compassion and Reproductive Equity (CARE) Coalition - CARE Act (S.4583/A.4879A)
Rights Behind Bars - (S.3763/A.1261A)
and more
Dignity Not Detention Letter Writing 101
Wednesday, March 25, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Join Dignity Not Detention to learn about the culture/language of being inside — to grow the sense of community and solidarity across walls and to reduce the chance of misunderstandings during a correspondence. These tips are for all of DND letter writers! If you are interested and haven’t yet written to someone in detention, you’re welcome to attend.
Beyond the Bars Conference 2026
Thursday, March 26 - Sunday, March 29
Columbia University
The Beyond the Bars Conference is an annual student-driven interdisciplinary conference on mass incarceration held at Columbia University. Each year the conference brings together students, faculty, activists, advocates, practitioners, those who have experienced and/or been impacted by incarceration, community members and more to connect, galvanize, and deepen the work of building justice and equity and ending mass incarceration.
Indigenous Solidarity Book Club
Monday, April 13, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Join the Indigenous Solidarity Working Group as we discuss chapters from Robin Wall Kimmerer's "Braiding Sweetgrass." Order the book from an Indigenous-owned bookstore here, or let us know if you need help getting a copy.
Together we'll learn about de-colonial practices from Indigenous people and weave those learnings into our organizing. Show up as you are each month and let's spend some time and grow together. We'll discuss Chapter 9: “A Mother’s Work.”
Future Dates:
Monday, May 11, 7:00pm - 8:00pm - Chapter 10: “The Consolation of Water Lilies”
Demand Apple and Google Stop App Censorship
Apple and Google recently agreed to government requests to remove ICE tracking apps off their app stores, including RedDot, ICEBlock, and Eyes Up which let people report sightings of ICE and/or preserve video evidence of ICE abuses. This app store censorship helps government surveillance efforts and puts real people in danger, all while setting a terrible precedent where the Trump Administration gets to decide what apps we can and can’t access.
Support the Tonawanda Seneca and Tuscarora Nations
Indigenous members of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation are fighting against the proposed STAMP mega-industrial site in western New York State. The proposed site would occupy 2.2 million square feet, guzzle energy, and store and burn diesel fuel directly upstream from the Nation.
Demand that the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation dispute Genesee County as the “lead agency” for environmental review, and listen to the environmental concerns of impacted Indigenous communities.
Help Protect Immigrant New Yorkers from Mass Deportation!
Urge your elected officials to pass the New York For All Act! NY4All (S.2235 Gounardes / A.3506 Reyes) helps immigrant New Yorkers lead freer lives and take care of family, preserves state and local resources for community safety, ensures that local resources cannot be diverted to carry out ICE’s cruelty, and protects immigrant families. With the end of the legislative session fast approaching, now is a crucial time to put pressure on our representatives!
Move Money For Palestine
Donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians
To support ongoing organizing in the US for Palestinian liberation and against Israeli occupation and apartheid, donate and consider making a monthly financial commitment to Palestine Legal, the Adalah Justice Project, Jewish Voice for Peace, and IfNotNow.
In the South Hebron Hills, Palestinian women are leading with courage. The Rural Women's Association is a small group of women who offer social and emotional support for the children and families, often after attacks. Most recently, they put on a workshop for the children of Um Al Kheir and visited the villagers from Khallet a Dhaba in the hospital after their attack. Donate today and stand with women on the frontlines of justice.
Join the Break the Bonds New York State campaign in their call to tell New York to stop purchasing Israel Bonds for the Common Retirement Fund!
Financially Support SURJ NYC!
Power = organized people + organized money.
SURJ NYC needs your help to fight racism in New York. We raise money for growing our work with trainings and technology, providing things like food and childcare at meetings, and funding partner organizations fighting structural white supremacy in our communities. Please join us in this movement by donating today.