How to melt ICE…

Find Support, Make community

• Start with your own community, or any group you’re part of: student groups, religious groups, political parties, clubs, labor unions, families
• If you haven’t already, connect to local immigrant and human rights organizations, local activists
• The process of building stronger communities and organizing free movement and expression melts ice

Process

• Meet with your groups to discuss your personal and collective reasons for melting ICE
• Discuss how ICE has affected your community
• Call for ideas about how to use the symbolism of ice in a way that makes sense for your community
• Make it easy for all different people in your neighborhood to participate. Consider what languages people speak, eliminate obstacles for people with disabilities, include people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds
• Consider how you will document the event (images, stories, videos)

Experiment with melting ice. Suggestions to get started:

• An image, a message, or object frozen inside ice
• Ice in the shape of a wall, a detention center
• Ice in our mouths, ice in our hands, ice in our shoes
• Our bodies surrounding ice, ice surrounding our bodies
• Buried ice, hanging ice

Choose a place to melt ICE

• Where are the spaces of fear in your neighborhood?
• Border zones, zones of contact, zones of encounter
• Spaces of incarceration and disappearance
• Secret spaces
• Workplaces
• Homes
• Virtual places

Protect

• People are priority; protect people who might be targeted
• Never put each other in danger for the sake of the event
• Know the laws in your city about assembling and protesting
• Create and practice safety plans for disassembling or canceling the action if necessary
• Consult with immigration justice organizations in your community familiar with the local climate

Share

• Upload your photos, videos, or any kind of documentation to social media
• Link them to the Melting ICE website so that we can create a collective archive of actions directed to melt ICE
• Make sure that the images don’t endanger anybody. Don’t publish images of people who do not want their image shared