Last Thursday, we joined Luis alongside members of the Duke community and Representatives Marcia Morey and Maria Cervania in calling on Republican leaders to take action to protect workers like Luis.

✊🏽 After Duke University threatened Luis with retaliatory action if we hosted a press conference at his bus stop yesterday, he spoke alongside supporters on 9th Street on the need to take action to ensure that he and workers like him can continue to be part of the community at Duke and beyond.

Luis is a beloved member of the Duke community and after nearly 20 years with the university he’s at risk of losing his job along with his TPS status.

🥳Write CHICHARRÓN in the comments if we'll see you at one of our 4th Amendment Workplace Celebrations! Come celebrate with us and learn how you can get involved in what Siembra is doing with the community!

Communities all across the country are taking action against Avelo and we need you to join us! By fighting Avelo, we’re showing we can take down those who look to profit off harming our people. We’re showing what’s possible when we organize together.

✨👩🏽‍🎤Yesterday, we delivered a message from the future to our state legislatures. Even though the Governor’s veto of HB 318 was overridden, a beautiful future is still possible for us. We’re going to keep working together and building power.

Back in May, Carrboro became the FIRST municipality to proclaim itself a 4th Amendment Workplace. For months now, members of Siembra NC and Make NC Work volunteers have been connecting with business owners across the state to defend the constitutional rights that we ALL have.

Thanks to @djpeisner.bsky.social for going behind the scenes with us & our friends at The ReMIX, LUCE, Unión del Barrio

When bad bosses don’t pay up, Siembra organizes workers to fight BACK! We’ve recovered nearly $130,000 so far this year, fighting alongside workers that are standing up to assert their rights.

Last month in Torrance, California, a woman who was just getting her car washed recorded this interaction with federal agents. We want to highlight a number of things she did, that you should remember if you ever find yourself in a similar situation

👏🏽WE WON ROUND ONE! After thousands of North Carolinians asked the governor to stand up to the NC GOP’s push to deputize state law enforcement as ICE agents and expand HB 10, he listened, issuing his first-ever vetoes. But this isn’t the end.

Businesses are stepping up to protect their employees against ICE raids. Over 100 workplaces have pledged to become 4th Amendment Workplaces and have trained their staff on what to do if ICE shows up. Learn more: 4thworkplace.org

✊🏽 We ALL have rights! We have the 4th Amendment! ☎️ Go to 4thworkplace.org to bring a 4th Amendment Workplace training to your business or join us in recruiting businesses in your community!

✋🏽🛑 Preparing your workplace on how to respond to federal agents is an important way we can defend our communities against unconstitutional arrests and detentions.

At Siembra, we know that every day is a good day to remember that The Future Belongs to ALL Workers! ✊🏽 If you’re ready to join the fight for ALL workers, go to siembranc.org/volunteer and ussw.org/actions/ to get connected 📣 ¡El Pueblo Vive Vive, La Lucha Sigue Sigue!

Following ICE workplace raids in Los Angeles, we gathered with business owners that have taken important steps to ensure that employees and patrons alike are protected from unconstitutional arrests in our communities

✊🏽 Free David! Free them All! @raiseupthesouth.bsky.social

The ICE raids are meant to make us feel helpless. But now, organizations like ICE Watch are empowering communities by providing tools and training to help people take a stand. (with @siembranc.bsky.social)

Yesterday, a 23-year-old man was detained at a Greensboro laundromat after being warned of ICE activity at Guilford County Courthouse, taking him from his pregnant fiancee. Today, faith leaders joined us to say courthouse ICE activity and family separation does not make our communities any safer.

interrupting the government-issued doom scroll with a friendly reminder que seguimos GANANDO ✊🏽🌱

If there's a boss that doesn't want to pay you or someone you know, call us at ☎️ (336) 543-0353 and we'll help you recover the money you deserve because ALL WORKERS tenemos derechos‼️✊🏽

Carrboro is the FIRST municipality to proclaim itself a 4th Amendment Workplace 🥳 ✊🏽 By joining the dozens of workplace that have signed on across the state, Carrboro has taken a stand against federal overreach and a step toward a North Carolina where EVERYONE can feel safe in their community

Hosting a training at your workplace is how you can help coworkers defend their rights. Our friends at The Pinhook in Durham also invited other venue staff to join them on Monday --we were able to train multiple workplaces at the same time.

When we get organized, we have the power to stop the bad corporations that enable the deportation agenda. ✋🏽🛫 Take the pledge and get connected to others saying NO to Avelo defendandrecruit.org/stopavelo

Yesterday at least six different high-end DC restaurants were visited by ICE agents. No one was detained. #defendandrecruit Be like them: 4thworkplace.org

Back on January 25th, these Philly restaurant owners showed us all how to stand up for our Fourth Amendment rights. Want to nominate a Fourth Amendment workplace near you? Visit www.4thworkplace.org

May 1st is International Worker's Day so we are going to Raleigh to celebrate! Immigrant labor is essential to our state and the country as a whole.

When workers aren’t paid, there are hidden costs for all of us. It’s kind of like when you have a president who says, “don’t worry, China will pay..."

Organizing still works. Since the inauguration, we've received a few hotline calls that went like this: “My boss didn’t pay me, I threatened to complain to Siembra, then they paid me right away.” Luis had to work a lot harder. But last week we went with him to pickup a $70,000 check in Charlotte.

🙅We're not waiting on ICE to ramp up unconstitutional searches & seizures in our state, and we know a lot of employers who may not be worried about federal agents are already struggling with the effects DOGE and tariffs are having on our local economies.

🏫 Student visas are being canceled and international staff and students are being targeted -- and there's a lot we can do to defend our people on campus.

This week at #JamesBeard Chef Action Summit we announced #4thAmendmentWorkplaces 🖼️ Our workplace guide and organizing toolkit has many tools for resisting unconstitutional search and seizure operations, employee handouts you can leave by the front door, etc. ➡️ www.4thworkplace.org

This week at #JamesBeard Chef Action Summit we announced #4thAmendmentWorkplaces 🖼️ Our workplace guide and organizing toolkit has many tools for resisting unconstitutional search and seizure operations, employee handouts you can leave by the front door, etc. ➡️ www.4thworkplace.org

Who else is setting new contact goals now that the days are longer? ☀️ Sample outreach scripts, handouts & a neighborhood defense workshop how-to video --> tiny.cc/defensehub

I talked with Nikki Marín Baena about community defense and how we can organize in opposition to Trump’s mass deportation agenda. If you want to defend your community and your immigrant neighbors, this episode can serve as a resource.

This story looks familiar 👀 When the community is organized, ICE's plans don't live up to the hype. A few volunteers and a plan is all it takes to throw them off their script. So, who's ready for showtime? #defendandrecruit

Gracias @jasgarsd.bsky.social for telling the story we're NOT hearing: millions of people taking small actions to keep each other safe & continue living lives con dignidad #defendandrecruit

🥣 If you throw together a sancocho of chisme, snacks & juegos, you get an HORCHATAZO, which is our neighborhood-based Defend Your Rights training. ☀️ Full how-to video at tiny.cc/horchatazo & how-to manual in the Community Defense Hub (link in bio) #defendandrecruit

💔 Who broke Tom Homan's heart? Was it an FBI leak? Or was it... someone with a 📢 Full version: tiny.cc/homanvday #defendandrecruit

Witnesses say the agents wore masks as they took away three young men from India on Thursday morning. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Last week Tom Homan gave a solid KYR training while complaining about @icirr.bsky.social 🤠 but more importantly Latinos rose up all over. Full version: tiny.cc/alacalle

Looking for 32 graphics on how to organize, learn ICE tactics & defend where you work, learn and play? --> tiny.cc/defendgraphics

Check out our #ICEWatch explainer videos and download our #defendandrecruit playbook in this op-ed

We've got updates coming later in the week about how you can #defendandrecruit wherever you are. And if you're in NC this weekend...