🛠️ Know & Grow: Tools for Resistance and Resilience
Community resources, compiled and shared by KPFA
✊🏽 IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
- CHIRLA
Free legal help, deportation defense, rapid-response hotline: 888-624-4752 - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
“Know Your Rights” guides, family prep plans, and advocacy tools. - CA Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC)
Policy updates, legal resources, multilingual toolkits.
✊🏽 Know Your Rights – ACLU Resources
- ACLU of Northern California
- ACLU of Southern California
The ACLU of Northern and Southern California offer comprehensive “Know Your Rights” guides. These materials provide information on protest safety, police interactions, immigration enforcement, and surveillance. Resources are available in multiple languages and include downloadable toolkits tailored to communities across California.
✊🏽 Know Your Rights – CCIJ Resources
- CCIJ Rapid Response toolkit
This toolkit provides essential Know Your Rights information to help protect our community in situations involving immigration agents. - Kit de Respuesta Rápida de CCIJ
Este kit ofrece información esencial sobre Conozca Sus Derechos para ayudar a proteger a nuestra comunidad en situaciones que involucren a agentes de inmigración.
✊🏽 DIGITAL & COMMUNITY SAFETY
- Surveillance Self-Defense (EFF)
Tips for secure texting, email, and social media use. - Mutual Aid Network Bay Area
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 hotlines offer legal support and community-based assistance. For immigration enforcement, they are often a more effective alternative to 911..
📍 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.
✊🏽SF Rapid Response Network
- Rapid Response Network of San Francisco
Made up of 21 community based organizations that provide legal and education services to the immigrant community.
💪 Protest Mobilization
50501 is an independent multimedia archive focused on documenting protest movements, authoritarian trends, and civic responses in the U.S. and globally. The site includes visual art, dispatches, and tools shared by grassroots organizers.
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