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Signs of Solidarity Campaign

There have been dozens of incidents across the country of ICE agents entering small businesses without warrants and detaining people. But business owners can take some simple steps to protect their workers and make sure that all immigrants know they’re welcome at their establishment.

One easy step is to post a sign near the business entrance that declares their support for their immigrant neighbors and their opposition to ICE. These signs demonstrate solidarity not just with immigrant communities, but with everyone who is standing up against Trump’s power grabs. And when multiple businesses in your community display these signs, it has an even bigger impact. It lets everyone know that defiance is everywhere, and all of us have ways we can courageously oppose authoritarian actions from the government.

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Another step is to create a private area in their business for employees. ICE agents are allowed to enter any public space, like a lobby or the dining room of a small restaurant, but they need a signed and dated judicial warrant to enter private business areas.

The best way to establish a private area is by putting up clear signage that designates it as an employee-only space. The area needs to be treated as private: it needs to be kept closed or locked, and have a policy that visitors or the public cannot enter without permission. Think about a private break room, or a door to the kitchen that’s kept closed.

We’ve created signs that these businesses can post to create a private employees-only area and demonstrate that they stand with all immigrants.

Now, volunteers across the country are canvassing their local businesses to ask them to post these signs in their establishments. When businesses in your community take steps to protect their employees and stand up against ICE, your immigrant neighbors are safer. It lets ICE know that we won’t allow them to continue their lawless raids. And it sends the message to everyone in your community that there is solidarity in resisting Trump’s authoritarian overreach.

The Signs of Solidarity campaign was developed in consultation with experts at the National Immigration Law Center and United We Dream and with guidance from the seasoned activists at Organized Power in Numbers, who have been training volunteers throughout the Sunbelt and Los Angeles to help small businesses create private areas for employees amid the escalating ICE crackdowns on businesses that employ immigrants. So we know this works!

STEP BY STEP

1. Check out all the resources, including signs, scripts, and information in the Toolkit
2. Print out several copies of all signs.
3. Visit local businesses and ask the owner or the manager if they’ll put up two signs: one that publicly demonstrates their resistance against the Trump administration’s cruel anti-immigrant policies, and one that creates a private area for employees.
4. Fill out the report back form to let us know how it went!

A core principle behind all NO KINGS events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values, and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events. All events should be held in public spaces or on public property.

Canvassing tip: You can visit your local businesses solo, invite a friend to come along, or coordinate with a larger group to all canvass an entire commercial district together. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach — do what makes you the most comfortable!

LETTER TO AMERICA

Two-hundred forty-nine years ago, members of the Continental Congress signed their names to the Declaration of Independence, thereby founding the United States of America on the proposition that all human beings are created equal and that all are endowed with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

But the Declaration also specified the “long train of abuses and usurpations” suffered by the people under the rule of King George III.

Now, as we find ourselves subject to growing tyranny, this time from a would-be king, we must reclaim our fundamental right to self-government in the face of a long train of willful abuses and misdeeds that Donald J. Trump has committed, or has allowed to be committed. Not surprisingly they include (but are not limited to) grievances outlined in our Declaration 249 years ago.

Action 1: Write your Member of Congress (MOCs) and demand that they work with their colleagues in Congress (!) to compose and present a Letter to America on or before the Fourth of July, 2026. The link below takes you to a boilerplate Letter to America, which you can download, copy, and share with the MOCs in your letters.

Read the Letter To America.

Contact WA MoCs
Email all three MOCs at once using Democracy.io.
Senator Patty Murray, Phone: 253-572-3636 or Contact Form
Senator Maria Cantwell, Phone: 253-572-2281 or Contact Form
Rep. Rick Larsen, Phone: 202-225-9740 or Contact Form

Action 2: Contact friends or family in other parts of the state or country, and encourage them to contact their senators and representatives and do the same.

Basic script for MOC letter/email: My name is __ and I live in __________. I am writing today to ask you to please work with your colleagues in the Senate/House and compose a Letter to America, a formal, historic document pinpointing the abuses and usurpations of power that the Trump administration is perpetrating. We, the People need our Members of Congress to live up to this moment in our nation’s history and bring to light, for all the world to see, the ways in which this administration is flouting the Constitution and actively sabotaging Americans’ lives—as well as those of countless others across the globe. Below is a link to a rough example of such a Letter to America. It is time to take action, create this document, and be ready to present it on or before the Fourth of July, 2026.

Other Ways to Keep Active:

5calls.org 5 Calls lists calls to make to your congresspeople, organized by topic, including script and phone numbers, and a way to log/track your 5 Calls actions if you choose.

Chop Wood, Carry Water is a daily political activism newsletter that comes out 6 days a week. Free or paid subscriptions HERE.

Indivisible.org is our parent organization and they have specific actions you can take by zip code or topic area search. You can also sign up to receive emails from them HERE and donate HERE.

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STOP Moms for LibertyHelp Defend Public Education and Washington’s Schools

Stop Moms for “Liberty” is a nonpartisan, focused movement to unite education advocates across the US to fight against the unwanted takeover of our public schools by anti-public education, right-wing-funded “moms for liberty” groups.

Washington state has a very active, friendly, well-organized chapter called WA Stop M4L, which is currently recruiting for more members. A lot of good work needs doing, including:

• Helping with research of School Board Candidates
• Data management – keeping tracking spreadsheets up-to-date
• Social Media – helping with FB group
• Inviting others to join WA Stop M4L
• Sharing information with your local Educator Association
• Share information with your PTSA

Action: Fill out this form to join WA Stop M4L and help public schools in Washington to be welcoming, inclusive, and committed to accurate, honest, fact-based instruction.

Action: Check out and share the amazing resources and actions in Unite Against Book Bans’ Right to Read Day of Action toolkit which includes:

• read a banned book
• attend your school or library board meeting
• write a letter to your local newspaper or elected official
• report censorship.

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