Thursday, January 29, 2026

General Strikes Change Everything

 


If you can, withhold your economic activity from this odious regime on Friday, January 30.

If you can, no work, no school, no shopping.

If you need something, find alternatives - locally owned, independent businesses; co-ops; second-hand, Etsy, allies ...

If you can, use the day to contact our elected  officials. Use 5Calls.org or Indivisible if needed. (Find your elected officials here.)

If you can, withdraw from Amazon, Target, Delta, Hilton, Enterprise, Home Depot--enablers of the occupation. Or spend time researching other collaborators. Boycotts work.

If you can, start disentangling from the oligarchs' networks - FB, IG, TikTok, etc. Here's a guide.

If you can, donate to StandWithMinnesota.com or local agencies like What I Need Now, Coulee Region Immigration Task Force, or Hunger Task Force.

If you can, find and read about or watch an online training about how to document, oppose, and protest ICE.

If you can, help Ellie Leonard comb through the released Epstein file documents.

If you can, connect with neighbors to strengthen our local support systems.

If you can, organize a Visibility Brigade.

If you can, write a blog post or letter to the editor.

Whatever you can do will make a difference. The general strikes here seem small and scattered but they matter.



Tuesday, January 27, 2026

More training

What kind of democracy sets up conditions that force its citizen to attend countless training sessions about how to stay safe from rampaging, unaccountable taxpayer-funded employees? But, here we are.

February 5 EYES ON ICE - Document & Record Training . 7 p.m. Online 

Indivisible will cover the latest updates on ICE and CBP’s out-of-control and dangerous operations. We will talk through rights when documenting and recording law enforcement encounters, and how you can continue to take action.

RSVP NOW.


Community Defender Training Friday, Feb. 6 at 3 p.m. Online

This training will go over the Parental Interest Directive and parental rights and children’s rights in the ICE arrest, detention, and deportation contexts. We will also cover emerging risks in this enforcement environment and some ways that parents might navigate and lessen those risks.

This training is for non-attorney advocates, including organizers and others supporting community members facing immigration enforcement, as well as parents who might face arrest and detention. 

This training will be presented in English with Spanish simultaneous interpretation and is not eligible for CLE credit. 

REGISTER FREE


Saturday, Feb. 7 at Myrick Park: Bystander Intervention & De-Escalation Training. From 5 to 7 p.m. 

Goodwill offerings accepted to help pay for trainer expenses. Childcare available.




Media Disinformation

 

MEDIA DISINFORMATION - Why it matters and what to do about it

Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 6:30 p.m. Online

Hosted by Dane County League of Women Voters

In this webinar forum you’ll participate in a lively discussion with our speakers about

  • What disinformation is and how it affects our civic lives
  • What media changes have led to the growth of disinformation
  • How to spot disinformation

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DISINFORMATION DETOX - Teaching Disinformation from Inside the Information Ecosystem  Thursday , Jan. 29 at 11 a.m. Online

From the Media Education Lab

Disinformation DetoxMedia literacy activities often position students as detached outsiders applying fact-checking skills to help them spot dis- and misinformation from a distance. In a landscape of ubiquitous screens, infinite scroll, algorithmic curation, and generative artificial intelligence, fundamental fact-checking skills do not match with the on-the-ground realities of how people encounter, interpret, and share information.

Learn more and register: https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/disinformation-detox

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STOP THE SCAM - Social Media & Ai-Driven Fraud

January 29 at 3 p.m. from the Alliance for Retired Americans

 Scams targeting older adults are escalating through social media and AI. This webinar will launch the Alliance’s Stop the Scam Campaign, a year-long education and action initiative. Learn how these scams work, how communities can mobilize, and how collective action can strengthen protections. Open to all.

Disinformation Nation is an education project of the Freedom Forum Institute, a nonpartisan organization headquartered in Washington D.C., that fosters First Amendment freedoms for all.

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Other resources


Monday, January 26, 2026

ICE Watch & Community Defense Training


The MAGA regime is escalating violence and lawlessness through ICE abductions and killings, international aggression, and open defiance of Congress, including the refusal to release the Epstein files.

Our movement must get stronger together to meet this moment. Join us for a national Action Training — a coordinated and interactive training to establish what Nonviolent Direct Action means and looks like in practice, then build the skills we need right now, including:
  • Making Political Violence Backfire
  • Women’s Protection + Safety Teams
  • Mutual Aid 
  • Corporate Accountability

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Wednesday,  January 28 from 6 to 7:30 pm online. ICE Watch & Community Defense training. 

Register here (use a nickname if you want): https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1ljKUChmQ9m_Ivl7jE8n2Q#/registration

Join this 90-minute training from States at the Core and Protect RP on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions. ICE Watch and other rapid response tactics are key strategies being used by people across the country to protect their communities against aggressive activity from federal law enforcement agencies like ICE and Border Patrol. Whether or not you are part of an established community response network, this training will share important skills for building neighborhood resilience, documenting ICE activity, and supporting neighbors. In addition to covering the basics of ICE Watch, we will discuss new analysis on ICE operations, rapid response tactics, and safety guidance. Please Note: Due to security and safety concerns, we do not record these trainings. To keep up to date on upcoming sessions, sign up for our Substack: https://statesatthecore.substack.com/

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Federal immigration agents have shot and killed another person in Minneapolis, the third such incident in just weeks amid aggressive federal enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents -- at the behest of Trump's Christofascist regime -- have beaten and threatened us, killed us in broad daylight, held our children as bait, separated our families, arrested our faith leaders, and terrorized our communities. All this while our supposed leaders in Congress lack the basic decency to take action.

It’s time for all of us to strengthen our demands for accountability. It’s time for people of faith to join together and be the moral voice in this moment. It’s time to abolish ICE.

Sign on here.

Sundance online

From Thursday, January 29 through Sunday, February 1 Sundance shorts and select feature films will be available to stream online .

Single film tickets are $35 each. A ticket that gives access to most of the shorts (on demand) is $45.

Shorts include documentaries, animations, dramas, comedies, and more.

Learn more at https://festival.sundance.org/tickets/online