The NLG is receiving more and more verified reports of federal agent door-knocks and contacts. If you are approached by federal law enforcement, don’t be afraid to alert your community.

The NLG is receiving more and more verified reports of federal agent door-knocks and contacts. If you are approached by federal law enforcement, don’t be afraid to alert your community.

As the federal government escalates its attacks against immigrants, university campuses have become a focus of political repression. ICE is targeting non-U.S. citizens on campuses due to their political speech and beliefs. Read on to know your risks and ways to fight back!

The @nlgnews.bsky.social has released a manual on setting up a legal hotline www.nlg.org/massdefensep...

Got some old clothes you want to get rid of? Join our friends at Liberation for Our be, Liberation for All (LOLA) tomorrow for a community clothes swap!

Remember to take care of yourself.

The NLG Queer Caucus and the NLG National Office are excited to share an extended and updated "Teaching for Belonging" guide for educators! As the back-to-school season begins, we want LGBTQ+ teachers, students, and their comrades to know that the NLG has their backs!

DHS is completely irredeemable and incompatible with a civilized society

NYs Wafler Farms workers voted for the UFW in 2022 but still don't have a contract. In Feb, an arbitrator ruled for a 2-yr contract. Wafler won't implement it so we're going to court again. Workers will deliver a petition to tell Wafler they won't give up. act.seiu.org/a/waflerpeti...

Join us at our next (and last) Research Tools For Organizers training this Thursday. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 5/5

The Buffalo Common Council is set to vote on a new police training facility in early September. LOLA is leading the charge to inform residents of the facility and organize against it. BTPM reporter Holly Kirkpatrick talked to residents around the facility, have a 🎧. www.btpm.org/local/2025-0...

Everyone that registered for our training tomorrow should have gotten the location. If you haven’t please reach out via email.

Air quality is dangerously poor today Monday August 4, with almost all monitors in WNY reading above 150 (unhealthy for all) - check in on neighbors who have underlying health conditions, and if you are outside, consider wearing a n95. www.nyaqinow.net map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...

Hey y'all! Buffalo needs more legal observers. I would be terrible at it, so you should do it.

Some thoughts on recent protest movements: In 2020, Black abolitionists led an uprising and a whole lot of white and other non-Black people showed up in solidarity. Protesters were brutalized by police. In 2024, Arab and Jewish students built the pro-Palestine encampments. They were also brutalized

Huge win for organizers in Atlanta this month! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE has been kidnapping people from the Buffalo immigration court, as they have been doing in many other cities. For the past few weeks, I have been doing court support there. I'm still processing everything I've seen, but I want to say a few things. 1/

Who on here lives in KenTon? I'm working with a group of neighbors on a response to the militarized ICE raid on our streets two days ago. Specific tasks are to contact local legislators and attend a public rally next week. DM me for details if you want to participate.

We will be tabling at the Burning Books Block Party from 11am-2pm on Connecticut between 14th and 15th. Come out and say hi! www.facebook.com/events/68407...

Our next LO training will be August 5 at 6pm! Email [email protected] to register

An ICE checkpoint with unmarked vehicles reported near St Francis HS in Hamburg

It’s great to see so many people on the lookout to help keep community members out of the clutches of immigration enforcement! One important thing to remember is how impacted folks interpret your reporting of potential threats within public/semi-private spaces. (thread)

Thanks to @joehalljoehall.bsky.social, @livingbraindead.com, the other performers not on this platform and everyone that came out to the JFMF fundraiser last night! It was lots of fun!

It’s great to see so many people on the lookout to help keep community members out of the clutches of immigration enforcement! One important thing to remember is how impacted folks interpret your reporting of potential threats within public/semi-private spaces. (thread)

We are in the early planning stages for our next Legal Observer training! Let us know if you either have already signed up or are about to and have a preference for date and time, either here or via email. It will probably be on a weekday evening in July.

Help prevent Military deployment on US soil! If you know a member of the military or reserves please share with them this resource for filing their conscientious objector paperwork and understanding their legal protections. centeronconscience.org/mil-co-guide...

Here is a thread on how to make wheatpaste using only a few common household items!

A common tactic police use to arrest protesters for assaulting a police officer is to step on someone’s foot. Your instinct will be to pull your foot back from under the boot, causing the officer to “trip.”

Protest the "right" way: Learn calligraphy, write "Knock it off, please." on elegant stationery then mail it to the White House.

Hey Buffalo--If you're feeling inspired to read about this nation's long history of people-powered resistance to tyranny, I remind you that these events are coming up.

Tonawanda and Kenmore residents - on Monday at 7pm there will be a public hearing at 2919 Delaware Ave about a proposed traffic calming project on Colvin between Kenmore and Sheridan! tonawandatownny.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det... @gobikebuffalo.bsky.social

It’s important to remember the acronym SALUTE when you are reporting on immigration or other law enforcement activity in your community to your networks in order to avoid causing unnecessary panic and trauma to affected community members.

Happy Pride!

Something fun to do on a senile fascist's birthday.

Missed the first Research Tools for Organizers training last week? Find the recording here youtu.be/i2njsx-zhYE?...

Later this month we'll have the honor of hosting an incredible panel to discuss historian Garrett Felber's new biography of Martin Sostre, an under appreciated legend in the history of anti-prison and Black freedom movements! Learn more and register at firestorm.coop/events/3372-....

Join us as we take action in Buffalo as part of a national day for housing justice! We'll call out Trump-era housing cuts and developer Douglas Jemal, who was pardoned by Trump in 2021 and continues to profit from Buffalo’s public subsidies while exploiting workers and tenants.

We’re tabling at this! Stop by and say hi!

The Buffalo Women’s March is this Saturday at 2pm at Lafayette Square! More info from our friends at the WNY Peace Center here: www.wnypeace.org/event/wny-wo...

This is your regular reminder that Eric Adams told the FBI that he couldn’t remember his phone’s passcode.

Join the UFW and supporters this Friday, May 9 at 6:30pm at the ICE detention center in Batavia NY. Demand the release detained UFW farm worker leaders. An attack on any worker is an attack on the rights of every worker.

Join our friend @bibliothecar.bsky.social to learn about security culture at tonight’s SURJ meeting tonight at the Merriweather Library at 6!

Save the date! Join our friends @livingbraindead.com, Wolf Tickets, Urban Achievers, and @joehalljoehall.bsky.social for a night of punk rock, poetry, art, and more to raise funds for our friends at Justice For Migrant Families! Poster art by @mcfadden.bsky.social! www.facebook.com/share/1JVc2J...