🛠️ Know & Grow: Tools for Resistance and Resilience

🛠️ Know & Grow: Tools for Resistance and Resilience

A community resource center from KPFA

✊🏽 IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

  • CHIRLA
    chirla.org
    Free legal help, deportation defense, rapid-response hotline: 888-624-4752
  • Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
    ilrc.org
    “Know Your Rights” guides, family prep plans, and advocacy tools.
  • CA Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC)
    caimmigrant.org
    Policy updates, legal resources, multilingual toolkits.

✊🏽 Know Your Rights – ACLU Resources

  • ACLU of Northern California

    aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights

  • ACLU of Southern California

    aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights

    These ACLU resources provide comprehensive Know Your Rights guides covering protest safety, police encounters, immigration enforcement, surveillance, and more. Materials are available in multiple languages and include downloadable toolkits tailored to communities across California.

✊🏽 DIGITAL & COMMUNITY SAFETY

  • Surveillance Self-Defense (EFF)
    ssd.eff.org
    Tips for secure texting, email, and social media use.
  • Mutual Aid Network Bay Area
    bit.ly/BayMutualAid
    Food, supplies, housing, medical and legal aid.

✊🏽 RAPID RESPONSE HOTLINES

How to Use These Hotlines

  • Call immediately if you see ICE agents, checkpoints, or enforcement activity in your area.
  • Provide specific details: location, number of agents, vehicle descriptions—anything that could help.
  • The dispatcher will document the event and coordinate legal support or observers to help.
  • These services are free and community-based, designed to offer rapid assistance and connect individuals to legal aid. Do not call 911 for immigration enforcement issues.

    📍 Bay Area

    Region / County Hotline
    San Francisco 415-200-1548
    Alameda County 510-241-4011
    Contra Costa (Stand Together) 925-900-5151
    Marin County 415-991-4545
    West Marin 415-755-3622
    North Bay (Sonoma/Napa/Solano) 707-800-4544
    San Mateo County 203-666-4472
    Santa Clara County 408-290-1144

    🌄 Central California

    Region / County Hotline
    Humboldt County 707-282-5226
    Sacramento & Surrounding 916-382-0256
    Monterey / San Benito 831-643-5225 / 831-204-8082
    Santa Cruz (YARRN) 831-239-4289
    Valley Watch (Fresno, Kern, etc.) 559-206-0151
    805 Region (Santa Barbara, Ventura, SLO) 805-870-8855

    🌞 Southern California

    Region / Network Hotline
    Los Angeles County (CHIRLA) 888-624-4752
    Boyle Heights Immigrant Rights Network 323-922-5644
    Koreatown Rapid Response 323-894-1504
    Orange County Rapid Response 714-881-1558
    Inland Empire (IC4IJ) 909-361-4588
    Long Beach Community Defense 562-269-1083
    San Diego Rapid Response Network 619-536-0823

    If you witness ICE activity: Call your regional hotline immediately. Provide the time, location, number of agents, and any vehicle/license plate info if possible.

    💪 Protest Mobilization

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    KPFA believes in an informed and engaged public. While we do not promote or endorse actions on the airwaves, we invite you to explore independent organizing platforms off-air.