Creating Sanctuary & Practicing Solidarity
In our Palenque…
We welcome new arrivals as our new neighbors. • We recognize this is not a new crisis now but one people have been forced to navigate for a very long time. • We acknowledge the root causes as policies and social structures that have been orchestrated by Western governments to claim power while displacing and uprooting people from their homes. • We know if systems continue to make life impossible for people to live with abundance, we will have refugees everywhere. • We act in response through community actions and connections to provide basic and essential needs, resources, and comfortable spaces to decompress. • We collaborate to share stories that tell how similar many of our experiences really are. • We stand in solidarity with our longstanding and our new neighbors. We support peace and justice.
Know Your Rights
We ALL have rights and it is important to know them so we can keep ourselves and our community safe! With increased ICE activity happening please share this information to best protect and defend our community, documented or not.
Know Your Rights Resource: English
Conozca el recurso de sus derechos: Español
Report emergencies and get support by contacting the ICIRR Family Support Hotline (1-855-435-7693)
How to Film ICE: English
Cómo grabar a ICE: Español
Email all documentation to: chicagoSINice@proton.me
ICIRR Family Support Network and Hotline information
Organizing Safety
Know Your Rights & Stay Safe- Resisting Project 2025, The Resistance Sentinel
Staying Safe While Protesting & Organizing -ACT UP and Rise and Resist
Know Your Rights for Protestors-National Lawyers Guild (Hotline: 872-465-4244)
Protest Planner A Resource for Organizers-Center for Constitutional Rights
Social Story Toolkit
his social story toolkit Is rooted In our coloring book “Where Am I?” and comic book “Nuevos Horizontes”. Both tools were created by our Palenque Youth and staff. The Social Story Toolkit was created to help bring our histories and stories of migration, resilience, and community care into the classroom. At a moment when our young people face division and uncertainty, this toolkit is an invitation to build solidarity across differences by learning, reflecting, and acting together
Download the entire Toolkit
Download the coloring book
Download the comic book: In English or In Spanish
Suggested donation of $100 for download to support our Youth Team and their ongoing work!
Black and Immigrant Division in Chicago: How Real Is It?
Watch Juliet de Jesus Alejandre, Palenque LSNA’s Executive Director, speak on the impact of false narratives and the strategy of division in Chicago through this interview with Break Through News.