\u201cWe are not dealing with the same deck of cards\u201d as before, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She and her training partner, Jane Martin, the organizing director for Bay Resistance, talked about how protests have to be matched with widespread noncompliance, from neighbors who shelter families<\/a> from ICE raids to juries that refused to indict<\/a> peaceful protesters, to the 1.7 million people<\/a> who canceled their Disney+ subscriptions after ABC, the network it owns, suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n This Saturday\u2019s training will focus on organizing, direct action, strikes, boycotts, and community defense, as well as preparation for May Day actions (see below).<\/p>\n Sat., March 14, 2026, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. People showed up for No Kings marches last October in cities small and large, in red states and blue. Several hundred showed up in Little Rock, Arkansas; thousands <\/a>flooded New York City\u2019s Times Square, packing streets for blocks all around; and an estimated 10,000 marched in Oakland<\/a>, bringing their kids in strollers, their frog costumes, or their capoeira moves.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe have the power and are claiming it,\u201d Indivisible East Bay, one of the many organizers<\/a>, said in announcing the March 2026 day of action. \u201cNo thrones. No crowns. No kings.\u201d<\/p>\n Indivisible emphasizes the organizers\u2019 commitment to nonviolence and asks anyone who plans to come not to bring weapons and to commit to de-escalating any confrontations that may occur.<\/p>\n Sat., March 28, 12 noon to 2:30 p.m. \u2018Turning the Tables on Oppression\u2019 vigil, March 31<\/p>\n Cindy McPherson, a leader with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity<\/a>, says the coalition began its immigration court vigils last summer, \u201cafter the first time someone was abducted from the Concord court\u201d in Contra Costa County. They wanted to offer witness and care for those showing up for appointments, and to show that \u201cwe see them and we\u2019re standing for human dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n Volunteers<\/a> don\u2019t chant, she said. They wear prayer stoles, they bring snacks or hot coffee, they hold signs that say things like \u201cKeep Families Together,\u201d and they sing. They hand out information about ACILIP<\/a>, the Alameda County rapid response network, to anyone coming for an ICE check-in (see below). Some days, they give material aid. \u201cThere is power in our ongoing presence,\u201d she said, \u201cas we\u2019ve accompanied people while the immigration court system, rules, and judges keep changing.\u201d<\/p>\n McPherson, a congregant with Chochmat HaLev Synagogue in Berkeley, said no one needs special training to participate; there are several shifts each day and anyone can sign up for a date and time that works for them. She said the group has a special action planned this month to honor the \u201csacred resistance\u201d of Passover and Holy Week at the San Francisco ICE building,\u00a0\u201ccalling out the corporations complicit in ICE kidnappings and the genocide in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTurning the Tables on Oppression\u201d vigil details: Tues., March 31, 2025, 12 noon, San Francisco ICE building, 630 Sansome St.<\/p>\n Routine vigils take place at San Francisco ICE building, 630 Sansome St., Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 7:30, 9:30, or 11:30 a.m., for 2-hour shifts.<\/a><\/p>\n Vigils also take place at Concord immigration court, 1855 Gateway Blvd., Tuesdays 7:30 a.m. or 12:30 p.m.; Wednesdays and Thursdays, 7:30 or 11:30 a.m., for 2-hour shifts.<\/a><\/p>\n May Day Strong, May 1<\/p>\n A national coalition of labor organizations, from the National Education Association to the Working Families Party, has called a national day of action and walkouts for May Day. The organization is inviting local rallies, marches, and a day of \u201cno school, no work, no shopping.\u201d The theme? \u201cIt\u2019s workers over billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n Those who are interested are invited to attend a national organizing call on Wednesday, March 25. Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2018Adopt a day laborer corner\u2019 The National Day Laborer Organizing Network has asked communities across the nation to join in what Gabriela Galicia, executive director of Street Level Health Project, a part of the network, calls \u201can act of care and resistance in the face of attacks on the migrant community.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhile deportation raids are not new, the scale and severity requires a new response,\u201d she said. The goal of Oakland\u2019s Adopt-a-Corner foot patrols is to serve as eyes and ears, able to alert day laborers, vendors, and other vulnerable communities about the presence of federal agents. The effort has recently expanded to support Oakland school communities during drop-offdrop off and pick-uppick up times.<\/p>\n \u201cFoot patrollers across Oakland are creating a visible presence of allyship,\u201d Galicia said. \u201cTogether, they spread hope, not panic.\u201d<\/p>\n Those interested in joining a foot patrol can sign up for intake here<\/a>. Volunteers are taught how to identify federal agents and how to legally observe and document.\u00a0<\/p>\n Become an ACILEP rapid responder<\/p>\n After massive ICE deployments in many American cities, lots of Oaklanders are living on edge, and unconfirmed reports of ICE sightings can stir panic. Federal agents have been spotted in Oakland, including a recent arrest of a truck driver near the port<\/a>; an ICE chase of a driver in West Oakland<\/a>, causing a car crash near a school; and ICE arrests at local courthouses<\/a>.<\/p>\n ACILEP<\/a>, the Alameda County Immigration Legal Education Partnership, has set up a hotline \u2014 510-241-4011, staffed 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily \u2014 to channel reports about possible ICE activity; the group then deploys volunteers to confirm the presence of federal agents before alerting the broader community.<\/p>\n ACILEP conducts regular virtual trainings for Oaklanders and other county residents interested in getting trained as volunteers.<\/p>\n Those who are interested can register here<\/a>. The next training takes place on March 26, 2026, at 6 p.m. Register for details<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bay Resistance pods<\/p>\n Jane Martin, the organizing director of Bay Resistance, encourages Bay Area residents interested in resisting authoritarianism to join a pod, which she sees as a critical way for people to \u201cshow up for each other\u201d while also being connected to \u201ca larger movement and a larger strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a value to having a presence in the streets in high- risk areas even before federal troops arrive,\u201d she said, \u201chaving people in place to document civil rights violations.\u201d<\/p>\n A pod, she said, is made up of 10 to 20 people<\/a> and can be built from a pre-existing community \u2014 a congregation, a group of soccer parents, a knitting group \u2014 or people can just sign up and get assigned to a neighborhood pod based on their address. Bay Resistance shares information about its campaigns and projects with the pods on a weekly basis \u2014 and pods can bring ideas to share with the network as well.Bay Resistance is both registering existing groupings as pods<\/a> and assigning individuals to pods<\/a> based on the neighborhood they live in.<\/p>\n “*” indicates required fields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first No Kings marches in June 2025, an estimated 4 million people showed up at more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[536,2778,143,145,144,7361],"class_list":["post-218824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Mission High School, 3750 18th St., San Francisco
RSVP suggested<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_7026-1-1600x1200.jpg\")
A packed crowd at Oakland Technical High School in October 2025 for \u201cBay Get Ready,\u201d a noncooperation training led by We Are California, Bay Resist, and other organizations. Credit: Esther Kaplan\/The Oaklandside
\nNo Kings Day march, March 28<\/p>\n
Protesters will gather at 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, in front of City Hall<\/p>\n
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The Home Depot at 4000 Alameda Ave. in East Oakland. Credit: Amir Aziz\/The Oaklandside<\/p>\n