💌 America Resists!

March 8-14, 2026

Welcome to America Resists! A series that documents the American Resistance week by week.

Two announcements:

1. I apologize for the abrupt change in format. I am no longer able to post as many photos as I used to, and I’m condensing the content to pack as much resistance news as I can into the space we have!

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Now, let’s get to this week’s resistance actions!

This week, in the resistance, we saw tax resistance campaigns, boycotts targeting financial ties to ICE, large‑scale art and cultural protests, labor actions calling for May Day walkouts, and demonstrations responding to Trump visits and policies across multiple states. Communities mobilized through weekly vigils, faith‑based actions, anti‑detention organizing, and multi‑city campaigns against proposed ICE facilities. Students held walkouts in schools across the country, while legal challenges, court rulings, and international statements added pressure on federal agencies.

The resistance landscape looks different in a post-Operation Metro Surge environment. Minneapolis taught us that community is resistance, and many folks are shifting their focus to local efforts that are powerful but seldom make the news.

Still, the resistance is expanding across all sectors. This week, we saw coordinated action from tax resisters, faith leaders, labor unions, students, community coalitions, and legal advocates. The breadth of participation, from high school walkouts to federal lawsuits to clergy‑led vigils, is evidence of a growing and structurally diversified movement.

Anti-ICE organizing remains a unifying thread. Over the past few weeks, and especially since ICE activities have shifted in Minnesota, folks are looking to their local communities and paying close attention to ICE activities in their areas, including the development of ICE facilities, detention flights, and corporations that finance these operations. These local actions are seeing concrete results, with airlines cancelling ICE contracts and plans for detention centers being scrapped due to local resistance efforts. These are big wins for these communities and for resistance to Trump’s immigration policies.

The firing of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week is strong evidence that the administration is very aware of just how unpopular policies are. Immigration is one of Trump’s biggest weaknesses, and as we head into election season, it’s important to keep up the pressure. Use this map to find locations of current ICE detention facilities and field offices, Section 287(g) agreements between DHS and state and local officials, and companies contracting with ICE near you. Now is a great time to get plugged into local immigration advocacy groups and follow them on social media to be notified of actions you can get involved in. Local pressure backed by regional and national networks is what works in shutting down these facilities for good!

You can read about these stories and more below.

Until next time, take care of yourselves and each other and we’ll talk again soon!

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Tom Delaney from Peterborough stands among a crowd lining route 101. Many vigil regulars wear orange caps for warmth, visibility and community. Credit: JOHN POLTRACK / Courtesy

Economic Resistance

• Americans are actively withholding federal income taxes to resist Trump‑era policies, with grassroots groups like the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee and National Tax Strike drawing nearly 500 participants to trainings, encouraging people to redirect their money toward community projects instead of funding wars and ICE.¹

• In more than 60 coordinated protests across 12 states, grassroots groups—including Brown Rise Up, AMOR, Jewish Voice for Peace Rhode Island, Indivisible Metro RI, South County Resistance, the Deportation Defense Network, and many others—mobilized thousands to boycott Citizens Bank to cut financial ties with private prison companies that enable ICE detention, urging people to close accounts, move their money, and join anti‑ICE organizing efforts.

Art as Resistance

• An anonymous protest art collective called The Secret Handshake installed a 12‑foot satirical statue of Trump and Epstein, posed as Jack and Rose from the movie The Titanic, on the National Mall. This is their third anti‑Trump installation in a year.²

• Organizers held a sing‑along protest outside the Portland ICE facility.³

Labor Resistance

• The Chicago Teachers Union passed a May Day “Civic Action” resolution urging teachers, students, and communities to skip work and school to protest Trump’s attacks on public education and immigrant families.⁴

Protests

• Anti‑Trump protesters, including members of the Black Panther Party, marched toward Mar‑a‑Lago and confronted Trump supporters in a show of organized resistance near the former president’s residence.⁵

• Despite severe weather, Kentuckians gathered to protest Trump’s visit to Northern Kentucky, demonstrating local resistance to his administration.⁶

No War

• About 82 New Hampshire residents held their weekly pro‑democracy roadside vigil, organized by local volunteers, to protest Israel’s actions and Trump’s war on Iran, using signs and symbolic black attire to denounce war and civilian harm.⁷

Faith as Resistance

• Hundreds of Christian leaders issued “A Call to Christians in a Crisis of Faith and Democracy,” urging believers to resist Trump’s authoritarianism and join nationwide “No Kings” anti‑Trump demonstrations on March 28.⁸

• Trump’s own Religious Liberty Commissioner, Sameerah Munshi, resigned in protest of the administration’s “illegal” war in Iran and anti-Muslim hostility on the panel, a move publicly supported by the Council on Islamic-American Relations for standing up to injustice.⁹

• Faith leaders and immigration advocates, including Rural & Migrant Ministry, held a vigil and formed a weekly resistance campaign in Chester NY to oppose a proposed ICE detention facility¹⁰.

• Faith leaders, lawmakers, and community groups, including Southfield Neighbors Action Committee and Detroit Jews for Justice, rallied to pressure building owner REDICO to cancel a lease allowing ICE’s legal office to operate in Southfield, MI.¹¹

ICE Facilities & Activities

• Dozens of Florida residents—including faith leaders, immigrant‑rights advocates, Florida Rising members, and the grassroots Orlando Singing Resistance—rallied outside the county building as Orange County commissioners unanimously opposed converting a warehouse into an ICE detention center, declaring it incompatible with community values.¹²

  

  Pastor Sarah Robinson of Audubon Park Church leads protesters in song outside the Orange County Administration building in downtown Orlando, Tuesday, March 10, 2026. The county commission was scheduled to vote Tuesday on a resolution opposing plans to convert an Orange County warehouse into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel)

• Hundreds of New Hampshire residents—supported by grassroots groups like AFSC, Indivisible, NH 50501, ACLU, and the Granite State Organizing Project—organized decentralized protests, packed a 1,200‑person town meeting, and successfully pressured officials to stop a planned ICE warehouse jail in their community.¹³

The grassroots campaign was led by Merrimack residents and supported by other New Hampshire residents, activists (new and seasoned), elected officials, and longstanding organizations. Photo: KT Brown

• Massachusetts leaders launched a new statewide portal for residents to report ICE misconduct, part of a broader effort by Gov. Healey and AG Campbell to increase accountability, limit ICE operations, and connect affected communities with legal advocacy.¹⁴

• More than 80 Arizona residents protested a proposed ICE detention facility in Marana, led by the grassroots group PRICE and supported by speakers from local community and political organizations.¹⁵

Student Activism

• Hundreds of Montclair High School students walked out in New Jersey, marched to the municipal building, and demanded sanctuary city protections while protesting ICE’s actions in New Jersey and nationwide.¹⁶

  

  Montclair High Schoolers at the municipal building. (ASAD JUNG/MONTCLAIR LOCAL)

• After ICE arrested three immigrants in a chaotic South Burlington raid in Vermont, Migrant Justice organized large Burlington marches—joined by about 30 student walkouts and community members who chanted, shared testimonies, and condemned ICE’s endangerment of families and schoolchildren.¹⁷

• Fifty Chesterton High School students in Illinois walked out despite threatened truancy penalties to join a growing regional student movement against ICE, marching, chanting, and publicly opposing the Trump administration’s immigration tactics.¹⁸

• Nearly 1,000 Irvington High School students walked out in California, joining a broader Bay Area youth‑led movement and supported by Tri‑City Against ICE.¹⁹

• More than 100 Bonneville District 93 students in Idaho walked out to protest ICE abuses, joining a wave of Idaho student walkouts.²⁰

Judicial Resistance

• After protesters and journalists, represented by the ACLU of Oregon, sued over violent federal crackdowns at the Portland ICE facility, a U.S. judge issued a sweeping injunction limiting agents’ use of teargas and munitions.²¹

• Somali immigrants and two advocacy groups—African Communities Together and the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans—filed a federal lawsuit to stop Trump from ending TPS for Somalis.²²

• After the ACLU of Colorado challenged ICE’s warrantless arrest practices, a federal judge sharply criticized agents for failing to follow his prior order—scrutiny that prompted community protests in Aurora and led to multiple ICE officers being removed from field duty.²³

International Support

• A U.N. racial discrimination panel condemned Trump’s racist rhetoric and immigration crackdown for fueling human rights violations, including the killings of two protesters, and urged the U.S. to suspend immigration enforcement at sensitive locations.²⁴

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1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/11/trump-income-tax-protest

2. https://www.wafb.com/2026/03/12/statue-unveiled-national-mall-depicts-trump-epstein-jack-rose-titanic/

3. https://www.kgw.com/video/news/local/protests/protesters-hold-sing-along-demonstration-outside-portland-ice-facility/283-3de33587-0afa-4044-86fd-a26be8a5dae8

4. https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-teachers-union-calls-school-shutdown-may-day-protest-trump

5. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/picture-gallery/news/trump/2026/03/08/anti-trump-protest-near-mar-a-lago-during-trumps-florida-visit/89052605007/

6. https://www.courier-journal.com/videos/news/politics/2026/03/11/president-donald-trump-visit-hebron-kentucky-verst-logistics-facility-rain-tornado-watch/89103709007/

7. https://ledgertranscript.com/2026/03/12/peterborough-iran-war-protest-trump/

8. https://religionunplugged.com/news/when-who-and-what-of-a-new-christian-protest-against-trump

9. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-religious-adviser-resigns-iran-b2938315.html

10. https://www.chroniclenewspaper.com/news/local-news/faith-leaders-advocates-hold-vigil-against-proposed-ice-facility-FJ5649421

11. https://michiganadvance.com/2026/03/12/lawmakers-and-faith-leaders-demand-southfield-building-owners-cancel-ice-lease/

12. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/03/10/orange-county-opposes-incompatible-ice-detention-warehouse-in-orlando/

13. https://afsc.org/news/how-small-new-hampshire-town-stopped-ice-warehouse-jail

14. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/massachusetts-ice-portal-agents-misconduct-reporting/3915423/

15. https://www.kvoa.com/news/protest-held-over-possible-ice-detention-facility-in-marana/article_70e9dd37-7cdd-4d9c-aca6-44988504b7e4.html

16. https://montclairlocal.news/2026/03/montclair-high-students-walk-out-to-protest-ice/

17. https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2026-03-13/vermonters-rally-after-south-burlington-ice-arrests-protests

18. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/09/chesterton-high-school-students-protest-ice/

19. https://ihsvoice.com/2026/03/14/irvington-students-walk-out-during-school-day-show-solidarity-against-ice/

20. https://www.eastidahonews.com/2026/03/bonneville-students-hold-walkout-against-ice-second-walkout-in-eastern-idaho/

21. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/10/judge-teargas-portland-ice-protests-ruling

22. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/lawsuit-challenges-trump-administrations-ending-protections-somalis-2026-03-10/

23. https://www.denverpost.com/2026/03/11/court-hearing-immigration-arrests-ice-order/

24. https://www.kgns.tv/2026/03/13/un-panel-says-racist-hate-speech-by-trump-other-us-leaders-has-led-human-rights-violations/