To resist the ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and alert communities about incoming operations, neighborhoods across Los Angeles and Chicago have created a campaign called “Whistlemania.”
Whistlemania is a community-organized decentralized movement in which volunteers mass create zines and distribute whistle packs into different Long Beach locations to bring attention to ICE raids. The zines inform people on how to report an ICE raid and support someone being arrested, while the whistles are meant to alert communities and rapid responders.
Long Beach residents and grassroots organizers recently adopted this movement to bring awareness, solidarity and a culture of care.
Dawn Nadeau, a Long Beach grassroots organizer, helped create a local Whistlemania Linktree a month ago and brought national grassroots organization Long Beach Indivisible on board…