SURJ NYC
@surjnyc.bsky.social
The NYC chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. We’re white people organizing to confront racism & dismantle white supremacy #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine
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ICE wants to spend up to $20M on electric shock gloves to subdue people they deem “resistant.” That money could instead bring people home from detention, feed families, provide legal support, help survivors heal, provide interpretation, & keep immigrant families safe & together.
August 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
ICE wants to spend up to $20M on electric shock gloves to subdue people they deem “resistant.” That money could instead bring people home from detention, feed families, provide legal support, help survivors heal, provide interpretation, & keep immigrant families safe & together.
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💪 Immigrant Protestors in NY
Immigrants have a deep history of engaging in protest to fight for our people’s liberation. Ensure you know your rights & approach protesting safely, especially during these unprecedented times.
To download in English & Spanish, visit: weprotectusny.org
Immigrants have a deep history of engaging in protest to fight for our people’s liberation. Ensure you know your rights & approach protesting safely, especially during these unprecedented times.
To download in English & Spanish, visit: weprotectusny.org
August 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
💪 Immigrant Protestors in NY
Immigrants have a deep history of engaging in protest to fight for our people’s liberation. Ensure you know your rights & approach protesting safely, especially during these unprecedented times.
To download in English & Spanish, visit: weprotectusny.org
Immigrants have a deep history of engaging in protest to fight for our people’s liberation. Ensure you know your rights & approach protesting safely, especially during these unprecedented times.
To download in English & Spanish, visit: weprotectusny.org
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Flock contracts with more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States and scans over 20 billion license plates per month.
But communities across the country, including in New York, are fighting back against these creepy cameras - and winning.
But communities across the country, including in New York, are fighting back against these creepy cameras - and winning.
August 10, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Flock contracts with more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States and scans over 20 billion license plates per month.
But communities across the country, including in New York, are fighting back against these creepy cameras - and winning.
But communities across the country, including in New York, are fighting back against these creepy cameras - and winning.
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TODAY! Join us alongside elected officials and allies in Corona Plaza at 5 PM to rally and canvass amidst ICE’s increased presence in our neighborhoods!
✊ Together, we keep each other safe.
✊ Together, we keep each other safe.
August 10, 2026 at 4:22 PM
TODAY! Join us alongside elected officials and allies in Corona Plaza at 5 PM to rally and canvass amidst ICE’s increased presence in our neighborhoods!
✊ Together, we keep each other safe.
✊ Together, we keep each other safe.
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On Friday, July 17 join us in honoring the fighting spirit of John Lewis at the Good Trouble Lives On march and rally.
📣Defend the Black Vote
📣Protect Immigrant New Yorkers
📣Free Them All!
⏰ 5:30PM
📍Foley Square, NYC
📣Defend the Black Vote
📣Protect Immigrant New Yorkers
📣Free Them All!
⏰ 5:30PM
📍Foley Square, NYC
July 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM
On Friday, July 17 join us in honoring the fighting spirit of John Lewis at the Good Trouble Lives On march and rally.
📣Defend the Black Vote
📣Protect Immigrant New Yorkers
📣Free Them All!
⏰ 5:30PM
📍Foley Square, NYC
📣Defend the Black Vote
📣Protect Immigrant New Yorkers
📣Free Them All!
⏰ 5:30PM
📍Foley Square, NYC
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo & Joan Sebastian Guerrero should still be alive. The 52 people who died in ICE custody since 2025 should still be alive. Our communities should not live in terror, wondering if their loved ones will come home. ICE is a threat to our safety & our humanity.
July 14, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo & Joan Sebastian Guerrero should still be alive. The 52 people who died in ICE custody since 2025 should still be alive. Our communities should not live in terror, wondering if their loved ones will come home. ICE is a threat to our safety & our humanity.
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Read our new report w/ @legaldefensefund.bsky.social on New York's long history of discriminatory policies – from slavery and segregation to voting laws and criminalization – that have exploited and excluded Black New Yorkers and created a vast racial wealth gap.
We're calling for reparations now.
We're calling for reparations now.
The Other New York: The Legacy of Slavery and the Case for Reparations Now - NYCLU
www.nyclu.org
July 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Read our new report w/ @legaldefensefund.bsky.social on New York's long history of discriminatory policies – from slavery and segregation to voting laws and criminalization – that have exploited and excluded Black New Yorkers and created a vast racial wealth gap.
We're calling for reparations now.
We're calling for reparations now.
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NY lawmakers passed a robust, full-year moratorium on data centers in June. Hochul’s executive order, while a hopeful step, falls short of that legislation.
We urge the Governor to sign the bill on her desk without delay to deliver strong protections for NYers.
www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
We urge the Governor to sign the bill on her desk without delay to deliver strong protections for NYers.
www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
Hochul signs executive order creating data center moratorium 'up to one year'
The governor's executive order will bypass legislation that had proposed more restrictive measures on data centers that use large amounts of energy.
www.timesunion.com
July 14, 2026 at 7:05 PM
NY lawmakers passed a robust, full-year moratorium on data centers in June. Hochul’s executive order, while a hopeful step, falls short of that legislation.
We urge the Governor to sign the bill on her desk without delay to deliver strong protections for NYers.
www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
We urge the Governor to sign the bill on her desk without delay to deliver strong protections for NYers.
www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
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BREAKING: Today, the Supreme Court upheld two state laws barring trans female athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports teams. We need to show trans women athletes that we stand with them, loudly and without apology.
June 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM
BREAKING: Today, the Supreme Court upheld two state laws barring trans female athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports teams. We need to show trans women athletes that we stand with them, loudly and without apology.
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote to uphold birthright citizenship. This is a meaningful victory that reinforces something we already know: the U.S. is a country of immigrants (by choice, by violence, by forced hand, by the human desire for safety and opportunity).
July 1, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote to uphold birthright citizenship. This is a meaningful victory that reinforces something we already know: the U.S. is a country of immigrants (by choice, by violence, by forced hand, by the human desire for safety and opportunity).
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“We can breathe a sigh of relief today, but it doesn’t erase everything else that’s happening. We’ve seen in the last year even citizens have sometimes been subjected to the forces of immigration enforcement, so I don’t think this solves everything,” said our Co-Legal Director, Harold Solis.
NYC immigrants, legal advocates say they’re breathing a cautious sigh of relief as U.S. Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship | amNewYork
New York City’s immigrant communities and legal advocacy groups representing them said they are breathing a sigh of relief Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme
www.amny.com
July 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
“We can breathe a sigh of relief today, but it doesn’t erase everything else that’s happening. We’ve seen in the last year even citizens have sometimes been subjected to the forces of immigration enforcement, so I don’t think this solves everything,” said our Co-Legal Director, Harold Solis.
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Wed, June 10, 3:00-4:30 ET
🌟 How ICE + detention operate in the prison-industrial complex
🌟 National + local organizing to protect communities + end detention
🌟 Victories, challenges, lessons from campaigns across the US
🌟 Ways to support + strengthen the work
www.eventbrite.com/e/one-system...
🌟 How ICE + detention operate in the prison-industrial complex
🌟 National + local organizing to protect communities + end detention
🌟 Victories, challenges, lessons from campaigns across the US
🌟 Ways to support + strengthen the work
www.eventbrite.com/e/one-system...
One System, Many Cages: Why Immigrant Defense is Integral to PIC Abolition
Join us for a rich discussion highlighting the intersections between immigrant defense organizing and prison industrial complex abolition.
www.eventbrite.com
June 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Wed, June 10, 3:00-4:30 ET
🌟 How ICE + detention operate in the prison-industrial complex
🌟 National + local organizing to protect communities + end detention
🌟 Victories, challenges, lessons from campaigns across the US
🌟 Ways to support + strengthen the work
www.eventbrite.com/e/one-system...
🌟 How ICE + detention operate in the prison-industrial complex
🌟 National + local organizing to protect communities + end detention
🌟 Victories, challenges, lessons from campaigns across the US
🌟 Ways to support + strengthen the work
www.eventbrite.com/e/one-system...
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⚽️The World Cup belongs to the people, not ICE.❌🧊
Today, we joined @handsoffnyc.bsky.social, @nycimmigrants.bsky.social & allies for the launch of #HandsOffOurCopa, a citywide campaign to prepare New Yorkers, protect immigrants, and ensure everyone can celebrate the beautiful game without fear. 1/2
Today, we joined @handsoffnyc.bsky.social, @nycimmigrants.bsky.social & allies for the launch of #HandsOffOurCopa, a citywide campaign to prepare New Yorkers, protect immigrants, and ensure everyone can celebrate the beautiful game without fear. 1/2
June 10, 2026 at 8:57 PM
⚽️The World Cup belongs to the people, not ICE.❌🧊
Today, we joined @handsoffnyc.bsky.social, @nycimmigrants.bsky.social & allies for the launch of #HandsOffOurCopa, a citywide campaign to prepare New Yorkers, protect immigrants, and ensure everyone can celebrate the beautiful game without fear. 1/2
Today, we joined @handsoffnyc.bsky.social, @nycimmigrants.bsky.social & allies for the launch of #HandsOffOurCopa, a citywide campaign to prepare New Yorkers, protect immigrants, and ensure everyone can celebrate the beautiful game without fear. 1/2
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This is the biggest win I’ve ever been part of as an organizer. In 2017 I joined @surjnyc.bsky.social & began the move from activism into organizing. I can’t even express the love & respect & gratitude I have for my comrades in DND. I can’t even tell you how happy & excited we all are. #FreeThemAll
🙌🏽 VICTORY 🙌🏽
🎉 It's official‼️
Years of organizing by immigrant communities across New York State have delivered a historic budget win: an end to 287(g) and immigration detention contracts in New York.
#DignityNotDetention
#FreeThemAll
#ImmigrantJustice
#NYforAll
www.instagram.com/p/DYnulxWlW-...
🎉 It's official‼️
Years of organizing by immigrant communities across New York State have delivered a historic budget win: an end to 287(g) and immigration detention contracts in New York.
#DignityNotDetention
#FreeThemAll
#ImmigrantJustice
#NYforAll
www.instagram.com/p/DYnulxWlW-...
Abolish ICE NY-NJ on Instagram: "🙌🏽 VICTORY 🙌🏽
Years of organizing by immigrant communities across New York State have delivered a historic budget win: an end to 287g immigration detention contracts ...
9 likes, 0 comments - abolishice_nynj on May 21, 2026: "🙌🏽 VICTORY 🙌🏽
Years of organizing by immigrant communities across New York State have delivered a historic budget win: an end to 287g immigrati...
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May 22, 2026 at 1:32 AM
This is the biggest win I’ve ever been part of as an organizer. In 2017 I joined @surjnyc.bsky.social & began the move from activism into organizing. I can’t even express the love & respect & gratitude I have for my comrades in DND. I can’t even tell you how happy & excited we all are. #FreeThemAll
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🙌🏽 VICTORY 🙌🏽
🎉 It's official‼️
Years of organizing by immigrant communities across New York State have delivered a historic budget win: an end to 287(g) and immigration detention contracts in New York.
#DignityNotDetention
#FreeThemAll
#ImmigrantJustice
#NYforAll
www.instagram.com/p/DYnulxWlW-...
🎉 It's official‼️
Years of organizing by immigrant communities across New York State have delivered a historic budget win: an end to 287(g) and immigration detention contracts in New York.
#DignityNotDetention
#FreeThemAll
#ImmigrantJustice
#NYforAll
www.instagram.com/p/DYnulxWlW-...
Abolish ICE NY-NJ on Instagram: "🙌🏽 VICTORY 🙌🏽
Years of organizing by immigrant communities across New York State have delivered a historic budget win: an end to 287g immigration detention contracts ...
9 likes, 0 comments - abolishice_nynj on May 21, 2026: "🙌🏽 VICTORY 🙌🏽
Years of organizing by immigrant communities across New York State have delivered a historic budget win: an end to 287g immigrati...
www.instagram.com
May 22, 2026 at 12:36 AM
🙌🏽 VICTORY 🙌🏽
🎉 It's official‼️
Years of organizing by immigrant communities across New York State have delivered a historic budget win: an end to 287(g) and immigration detention contracts in New York.
#DignityNotDetention
#FreeThemAll
#ImmigrantJustice
#NYforAll
www.instagram.com/p/DYnulxWlW-...
🎉 It's official‼️
Years of organizing by immigrant communities across New York State have delivered a historic budget win: an end to 287(g) and immigration detention contracts in New York.
#DignityNotDetention
#FreeThemAll
#ImmigrantJustice
#NYforAll
www.instagram.com/p/DYnulxWlW-...
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📢 "ending IGSA agreements" = #DignityNotDetention‼️
Five years in the making!
Official announcement from the DND coalition soon to come!
Five years in the making!
Official announcement from the DND coalition soon to come!
🚨 STATEMENT: NYS Immigration Package Delivers New Protections, More Needed To Protect NYers from ICE
"By ending 287(g) & IGSA agreements, banning collusion with ICE from schools, state and local agencies, thousands of NY families will be safe from detention and deportation." Murad Awawdeh
"By ending 287(g) & IGSA agreements, banning collusion with ICE from schools, state and local agencies, thousands of NY families will be safe from detention and deportation." Murad Awawdeh
May 21, 2026 at 4:47 PM
📢 "ending IGSA agreements" = #DignityNotDetention‼️
Five years in the making!
Official announcement from the DND coalition soon to come!
Five years in the making!
Official announcement from the DND coalition soon to come!
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@salazarsenate.bsky.social, prime sponsor: "With the inclusion of Dignity Not Detention in our State budget, we are finally banning State and local facilities from being used to detain people for ICE. New York should not be in the business of immigration detention."
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May 21, 2026 at 6:23 PM
@salazarsenate.bsky.social, prime sponsor: "With the inclusion of Dignity Not Detention in our State budget, we are finally banning State and local facilities from being used to detain people for ICE. New York should not be in the business of immigration detention."
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Today, Envision Freedom Fund and the Dignity Not Detention coalition celebrate a historic victory. The state budget includes a requirement for local jails to terminate all existing ICE detention contracts within 180 days of enactment.
May 21, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Today, Envision Freedom Fund and the Dignity Not Detention coalition celebrate a historic victory. The state budget includes a requirement for local jails to terminate all existing ICE detention contracts within 180 days of enactment.
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BREAKING: Amid a campaign of anti-immigrant cruelty by a massive, militarized, and malicious ICE, Albany just barred most formal types of collusion between local law enforcement and ICE.
That's good news, but it is not enough. Here's the latest ⤵️
That's good news, but it is not enough. Here's the latest ⤵️
May 21, 2026 at 9:05 PM
BREAKING: Amid a campaign of anti-immigrant cruelty by a massive, militarized, and malicious ICE, Albany just barred most formal types of collusion between local law enforcement and ICE.
That's good news, but it is not enough. Here's the latest ⤵️
That's good news, but it is not enough. Here's the latest ⤵️
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ICYMI: Earlier this week, a district court ruled that ICE officers are largely prohibited from conducting civil immigration enforcement actions in or near 26 Federal Plaza, 201 Varick Street, and 290 Broadway.
✊ We are PROUD to have been among the group of organizations that made this happen.
✊ We are PROUD to have been among the group of organizations that made this happen.
May 21, 2026 at 12:02 PM
ICYMI: Earlier this week, a district court ruled that ICE officers are largely prohibited from conducting civil immigration enforcement actions in or near 26 Federal Plaza, 201 Varick Street, and 290 Broadway.
✊ We are PROUD to have been among the group of organizations that made this happen.
✊ We are PROUD to have been among the group of organizations that made this happen.
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“I regret that we were not able to get all three parties to support New York for All,” @salazarsenate.bsky.social said. “But I am really looking forward to ending immigration detention in New York State.”
That's right! #DignityNotDetention: soon to be law!
gothamist.com/news/how-kat...
That's right! #DignityNotDetention: soon to be law!
gothamist.com/news/how-kat...
How Kathy Hochul got behind making New York a sanctuary state
Aggressive roundups of immigrants have pushed state leaders like Hochul to stand up to ICE policies.
gothamist.com
May 20, 2026 at 10:38 AM
“I regret that we were not able to get all three parties to support New York for All,” @salazarsenate.bsky.social said. “But I am really looking forward to ending immigration detention in New York State.”
That's right! #DignityNotDetention: soon to be law!
gothamist.com/news/how-kat...
That's right! #DignityNotDetention: soon to be law!
gothamist.com/news/how-kat...
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In response to Mayor Zohran Mamdani release of the FY27 Executive Budget, Vera’s Benjamin Heller issued the following statement:
www.vera.org/newsroom/ver...
www.vera.org/newsroom/ver...
Vera Institute of Justice Applauds New York City Mayor Zohran…
For Immediate Release Contact: [email protected] New York, New York: In response to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s release of the Fiscal Year 2027 Executive Budget…
www.vera.org
May 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
In response to Mayor Zohran Mamdani release of the FY27 Executive Budget, Vera’s Benjamin Heller issued the following statement:
www.vera.org/newsroom/ver...
www.vera.org/newsroom/ver...
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ICE appears to be seeking a new facility near Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y. The search for this facility began under the Biden Administration.
A Deleted Filename Reveals ICE's Plans for a New Facility in the Hudson Valley
Federal leasing documents, including a briefly posted file bearing the agency's name, point to a ICE’s interest to lease a law enforcement facility near Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y.
www.projectsaltbox.com
May 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
ICE appears to be seeking a new facility near Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y. The search for this facility began under the Biden Administration.
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Tom Homan can make all the threats he wants. We won't sell out our immigrant friends, neighbors, and loved ones to thuggish threats from the man behind Trump's family separation policy.
New York is immigrant strong.
New York is immigrant strong.
Trump border czar threatens ICE surge if New York approves sanctuary measures
Gov. Kathy Hochul decried the remarks, saying they are at odds with what the president told her earlier this year.
www.politico.com
May 5, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Tom Homan can make all the threats he wants. We won't sell out our immigrant friends, neighbors, and loved ones to thuggish threats from the man behind Trump's family separation policy.
New York is immigrant strong.
New York is immigrant strong.
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The Progressive Caucus (@nycprogressives.bsky.social) of NYC Council (@council.nyc.gov) said in a Sunday night statement that the NYPD violated city sanctuary laws by coordinating with ICE on the timing of an arrest at Wyckoff hospital in Bushwick. They called for an investigation.
NYPD Clears the Way for ICE in Bushwick
And more news for your Monday morning.
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May 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
The Progressive Caucus (@nycprogressives.bsky.social) of NYC Council (@council.nyc.gov) said in a Sunday night statement that the NYPD violated city sanctuary laws by coordinating with ICE on the timing of an arrest at Wyckoff hospital in Bushwick. They called for an investigation.