Community Defense

DC Against Trump Coalition Community Police Patrol Black Neighborhood

September 9, 2025 Iain McNeely, Fight Back! News. Organize! Community Defense, DC, Police, Trump Administration, Washington

Washington, D.C. — On Friday, September 5, over 30 activists and community members assembled in Washington, D.C. 's Navy Yard neighborhood for a “mass cop watch” organized by the DC Against Trump Agenda (DCAT) coalition. This cop watch is just one of many actions that the coalition has organized in weeks since President Trump declared that he would be federalizing DC’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and deploying the National Guard to the city. “This is an occupation,” said Kristen Bonner, organizer for the DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (DCAARPR). “We are seeing heavily armed soldiers on our streets, our buses, and our trains. Sometimes as many as a dozen on a single block.”

Essentials For Fighting ICE

August 30, 2025 Marc Delucchi and Sophie Shepherd, Counter Punch. Strategize! Community Defense, ICE, Mass Deportation, Trump Administration

Since Donald Trump’ s inauguration, ICE has ramped up aggressive attempts to abduct and deport community members across the country. ICE’s tactics and strategies aren’t new. It’s important to remember that every president (yes, even Barack Obama & Joe Biden) and congress has increased ICE’s budget since its creation in 2003. ICE threatening more and more people has always been a logical conclusion of its existence. ICE must be abolished. Trump’s current “Border Czar” Tom Homan (a West Carthage, New York native who began his career as a West Carthage Police Officer) was first appointed to an executive director position with ICE in 2013 by Obama. Obama gave Homan a Presidential Rank Award as a “Distinguished Executive” after Homan began arguing children should be separated from their parents in immigration custody.

DC Against Trump Coalition Shuts Down Racist Curfew Zone

August 26, 2025 Merawi Gerima, Fight Back! News. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, State Repression, Trump Administration, Washington D.C.

Washington, DC – Before organizers from the DC Against Trump Coalition (DCAT) even finished setting up for their August 23 rally at 14th and U Streets in Northwest Washington DC, community members began spontaneously chanting “Fuck Trump!” Anti-Trump sentiment has been sky-high in Washington, DC since August 11, when Trump issued an executive order sweeping away the city’s home rule powers, federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department and flooding the city with federal law enforcement and National Guard troops. To capture that sentiment and turn it into action against Trump’s racist occupation, DCAT called a rally at the city’s “curfew zone,” a location where law enforcement targets Black minors found after 8 p.m.

Community Defense Against The Military Occupation Of Our Cities

August 18, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Community Defense, Cop City, Militarization, National Guard, Police, State Repression, Trump Administration, Wsahington DC

On August 11, the Trump administration announced the deployment of national guard troops and the federal takeover of the police department in Washington, DC. This follows military troops being deployed to Los Angeles and ICE agents snatching people throughout the country. Last week, the Pentagon also announced the creation of a 600-member national guard unit ready to deploy to cities within an hour when there are protests. Clearing the FOG speaks with Erica Caines of the Black Alliance for Peace about the checkpoints and patrols in DC, how this fits into the long history of policing mainly black and brown communities and how people are organizing community self-defense and mutual aid. She also discusses the demand to disqualify the United States and Israel from FIFA and the Olympic games.

Bulletin On Domestic Militarism And Repression

August 16, 2025 Karen A. Johnson, Black Alliance for Peace. Resist! Community Defense, Domestic Occupation, ICE, Self-Determination, State Repression

The strategy is clear, as well as the desperation. Domestic repression in the U.S. colonial/capitalist core is imperative to support the aggressive militarism abroad, the periphery, in the form of wars of aggression, political subversion, economic sanctions, and genocide that have become the consciously and intentionally chosen tools of a rapacious U.S. based global ruling class—a ruling class that is unable to rule in the old way. Yet, it's more than willing to blow up the world and sacrifice millions of people to maintain the predatory material basis for its white supremacist class rule. The irreconcilable contradictions of the neoliberal order that produced the dramatic swing to the right represented by the warmongering of the Obama administration and later succeeded by Donald Trump and Joe Biden, confirmed for the Black Alliance for Peace that its analysis that predicted an inevitable dependency on force and violence by the U.S. rulers domestically and globally was essentially correct.

Following ICE Raid, Mill Town Fights Back Against Local Police Cooperation

August 9, 2025 Mike Elk, Payday Report. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Pennsylvania

Ambridge, PA - In recent years, the dying mill town of Ambridge has seen revival as Latino immigrants pour into the community. However, a recent raid by ICE working in conjunction with local police has angered many residents and raised important questions about how even small municipalities like Ambridge can resist Trump’s attack on immigrants. In 2016, Trump held a rally in Ambridge. After Trump won Pennsylvania, Gabriel Trip writing for The New York Times in an article entitled “ A Pennsylvania Town in Decline and Despair Looks to Donald Trump” wrote that, “Ambridge, like much of Pennsylvania outside Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, eagerly enlisted in Trump Nation this year.”

As ICE Raids Intensify, Trained Volunteers Patrol LA Streets

July 3, 2025 Myriam-Fernanda Alcala Delgado, LA Progressive. Resist! California, Community Defense, ICE, ICE Raids, Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles, mass deportations

The day after families across the country gathered to celebrate Father’s Day, Francisco Romero huddled at dawn with 10 volunteers in a South Los Angeles parking lot. The group was preparing to patrol the neighborhood for signs of Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity. There was a heaviness in the atmosphere, despite the comradery and smiles. During the group huddle, some reflected on the difficulty celebrating Father’s Day while families across the city were being separated by ICE. Another volunteer mentioned viral videos from the prior weekend showing apparent ICE presence in the nearby city of Bell, including “snatch and grabs,” in which unmarked vehicles surrounded pedestrians suspected of being undocumented and ICE officers pulled them inside.

The Battle For Los Angeles Begins To Take Shape

June 28, 2025 Thomas Knapp, Counter Punch. Strategize! California, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles

Cynthia Gonzalez, vice mayor of Cudahy, California, wants to know where LA’s street gangs are: “You guys are always tagging everything up, claiming [the] hood, and now that your hood’s being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you …. We’re out there fighting our turf, protecting our turf, protecting our people and, like, where you at?” By “the biggest gang there is,” of course, she means US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and its co-conspirators in the occupation of Greater Los Angeles. A few miles away in Huntington Park, mayor Arturo Flores has instructed his city’s chapter of the Blue Line Gang to “begin verifying the identities and authority” of masked marauders attempting to abduct alleged immigrants on his city’s streets.

Community Shows Up At ICE Check-Ins To Support Undocumented Immigrants

June 24, 2025 Anthony Franklin, Fight Back! News. Resist! Community Defense, Deportations, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Immigrant Solidarity, Louisiana

St. Rose, LA – On June 17, over 20 activists and community members showed up to monitor a building in Saint Rose, Louisiana where ICE called in a large number of people for immigration check-ins. The action was called with a hope to video and deter the ICE kidnappings. “A couple weeks ago, people were getting a text that they have to report to this office at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, June 4. A lot of people were in the waiting room, about 40 people, which is more than usual and seemed really suspicious. It was confirmed that they are detaining people and taking them out back into vans,” Catalina Gallagher, an ICE-watch participant explained.

Protesters And Federal Agents Face Off After Possible Immigration Raid

June 22, 2025 ABC7 Los Angeles. Resist! California, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Immigrant Solidarity

In Maywood, AIR7 was flying over the area when federal agents deployed some kind of tear gas or smoke bombs on a small crowd of protesters. The crowd quickly dissipated in the chaos, with a lot of people yelling. Things became aggressive after the gas or smoke was deployed. One protester was seen kicking it back toward the federal agents. Video shows multiple SUVs, seemingly belonging to federal agents, stopped on Slauson Avenue near Alamo Avenue, about a block away from where the gas or smoke was deployed. Just moments before that, a protest on Atlantic Avenue in the City of Bell got heated. AIR7 video shows a group of about 100 people who showed up after an immigration operation in the area.

The Los Angeles Protests Are An Act Of Self-Defense

June 11, 2025 Melissa Gira Grant, Portside. Strategize! California, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, LAPD, Los Angeles, Police

Early Sunday evening in Los Angeles, as the city was under siege by federal anti-immigration forces, aided by local law enforcement, Mayor Karen Bass was holding a press conference. Out in the streets, a reporter noted, it appeared that the Los Angeles Police Department was “cooperating” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “using flashbangs and less-lethal munitions” to push people engaged in “peaceful protest” away from a federal building being used as an ICE detention center. The reporter asked if Mayor Bass would comment on this cooperation, which is against city policy.

Inside The Hamas Unit Fighting Israeli-Armed Gangs That Loot Aid

June 7, 2025 Faris Giacaman and Tareq S. Hajjaj, Mondoweiss. Resist! Community Defense, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Palestine

The Israeli military is arming gangs to combat Hamas in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Thursday. The revelation comes to light after right-wing Israeli lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman accused Netanyahu on Israeli public broadcaster Kan yesterday of arming a gang of hundreds of men in Rafah as a counterweight to Hamas influence in the Strip. The Prime Minister’s office responded by saying that it was combating the Palestinian resistance group “in various ways, on the recommendation of all heads of the security establishment.” Later, Netanyahu officially confirmed the reports in a video posted on X.

Federal Agents Conduct Immigration Raids Across Los Angeles

June 7, 2025 Frank Stoltze, LAist. Resist! California, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles

Federal agents conducted a series of immigration sweeps across Los Angeles on Friday, prompting anger and resistance from onlookers and immigrant rights groups that have braced for this type of action for months. About 44 people were arrested in the raids, according to a statement from a spokesperson for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement obtained by LAist's media partner KCAL News. "ICE officers and agents alongside partner law enforcement agencies, executed four federal search warrants at three locations in central Los Angeles," ICE spokesperson Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe said in the statement.

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