Aerial view of a massive crowd filling streets in Minnesota in the winter, with thousands of people holding signs during a large protest.
Immigration, state violence, and complicity. A strategy session for moving from witness to coordinated action with immigrant communities.
The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti—two co-conspirators—by federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis mark a dangerous escalation. Their deaths, alongside the countless immigrants who have died in detention, during raids, and within a system designed to terrorize, reveal the expanding reach of federal state violence against those who stand in solidarity and those targeted for elimination.
This strategy session is for people ready to move from witness to action—to practice co-conspiratorship with immigrant communities facing heightened risk.
We'll move beyond shock and mourning to explore concrete, coordinated actions we can take right now—both locally and nationally—to support immigrant safety, demand accountability, and challenge policies and structures that harm immigrants.
What We'll Do Together
Name how fear operates as a strategy of control: Fear suppresses organizing in both targeted communities and potential allies. We'll examine how state violence manufactures paralysis—and how to organize through it.
Define co-conspiratorship in practice. Co-conspirators share risk and are materially aligned—not just speaking out, but building collective safety and moving resources. We'll explore: what accountability looks like when centering those most impacted; what co-conspiratorship requires when risk is real; and how to move from performative solidarity to sustained action.
Move from individual actions to coordinated strategy: Beyond lists of what individuals can do, we'll examine how to build coordinated pressure across multiple sites: leveraging institutional positions for policy change, coordinating resource flows to immigrant-led organizations, creating accountability mechanisms within your networks, and identifying where collective action—not just individual witness—can shift conditions and build sustained power. We'll focus on how to organize others, not just act alone.
You'll leave with
Clearer understanding of co-conspiratorship vs. allyship
A framework for coordinated action in your sphere of influence
Connections to networks and resource channels
Action commitments for organizing in your community
This session is for organizers, educators, faith leaders, workers, students, and anyone positioned to leverage institutional access, resources, or platforms in solidarity with immigrant communities.
The question is not whether you're outraged. The question is: what will you do?
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