{"id":52494,"date":"2025-11-14T05:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/52494\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:29:14","slug":"san-francisco-neighborhoods-find-new-way-to-coordinate-against-ice-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/52494\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco neighborhoods find new way to coordinate against ICE deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Locals in San Francisco, California, have begun passing out whistles to communicate and coordinate against ICE deportations.<\/p>\n

Activists and organizations have started distributing whistles for local residents to coordinate against the federal government\u2019s immigration enforcement efforts, SFGate<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

“By following the same whistle code, locals can communicate from afar: Three short whistles signal that ICE is nearby, and one long whistle means that somebody is being detained,” SFGate reported.<\/p>\n

Frameline,<\/a> the nonprofit behind San Francisco\u2019s LGBTQ+ Frameline film festival, has been stocking “whistle stops” in the city, where people can pick up free whistles and join anti-ICE efforts. The organization explained in a post on Instagram that it was inspired by efforts in Chicago.<\/p>\n

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In an email to SFGATE, Roxie Theater manager Gabriella Siaton, whose venue is one of multiple participating whistle stops, said the theater\u2019s initial supply of whistles was gone within a day of arrival.<\/p>\n

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“Prior to this, I had not heard about the whistle code,” she wrote. “I knew there were different sharings on social media regarding ICE agents being spotted in the Mission, but I appreciate how the whistle allows for a more instant and in-the-moment response.”<\/p>\n

This trend appears to have begun with Chicago’s local anti-ICE efforts,<\/a> where there are entire group meetups to assemble whistles to give out.<\/p>\n

“The sound of a whistle tells immigrants and other vulnerable community members to run away while also urging fellow neighbors to gather in a crowd and run toward the scene to film arrests,” the California news outlet wrote.<\/p>\n

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Similar efforts reportedly date back long before the immigration crackdowns of 2025,<\/a> all the way back at least to the 1970s, where LGBTQ+ groups used whistles to alert people of alleged hate crimes in progress.<\/p>\n

“We were inspired by the bold legacy of queer resistance\u00a0\u2014 from San Francisco\u2019s<\/a> Butterfly Brigade blowing whistles in the Castro to defend each other from violence to the community organizing coming out of Chicago now,” Frameline\u2019s executive director Allegra Madsen told SFGate.<\/p>\n

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