National Bail Fund Network

There are no good words for what we’re living through right now. This is fascism. ICE’s violence is destroying lives across the country - and coming for anyone who dares to stand in their way. Each one of us is trying to play our part for humanity and freedom amidst chaos. As federal agents bring terror to our neighborhoods, the number of ICE prisons caging people are exploding. They are locking up our family members and friends, as well as neighbors standing up for each other. You see that people are taking to the streets, throwing down to protect their communities and risking arrest. In the terrible hours, days and months after a loved one is taken there is nothing more important than trying to figure out if there is any way to get them out. Despite all of the violence, immigration bond and criminal bail are still transformative mechanisms that allow folks to fight their deportations and their prosecutions from outside of a cage and share out vital information about the realities and conditions in jails and detention centers. You can make an impact right now by supporting freedom and donating to the National Bail Fund Network today (link in bio)! When you donate to the Immigration Freedom Fund , the Pretrial Freedom Fund or directly to your local immigration bond fund or local pretrial bail fund here, it goes directly to freeing our neighbors who are jailed. #AbolishICE #FreeThemAll Art by Danbee Kim (danbeekim.com)

It isn’t illegal to fundraise for our collective needs, but there are learnings we wanted to share about raising direct aid money through payment platforms like venmo, cashapp, & paypal. 2025 Update: Gift limit for 2025 is $19,000 - it goes up every year. #FreeThemAll

Join Community Justice Exchange's fellow James Kilgore & @haymarketbooks on Sept 18th for a virtual panel discussion to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnamese liberation forces victory over US imperialism. This webinar will also serve as the launch of the third and final zine in the La Luta Continua: Lessons in Global Solidarity series, titled "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the NLF Is Gonna Win: Solidarity and the War in Vietnam 1955-1975." The launch of this zine comes at a moment when a massive global solidarity movement has emerged in support of the liberation of Palestine. In this webinar, a panel comprised of individuals who took part in the anti-war movement of the 60s and 70s will share perspectives on the parallels and differences in the struggles, look at lessons learned from the support for the Vietnamese, and assess how we might learn from that history. The discussion hopes to provoke answers on how we can mobilize more support for Palestinian freedom and build a global movement based on international solidarity and visions of true liberation. 🔥Register here: bit.ly/VietnamSolidarity🔥

We don’t need to tell you what it’s like right now. You see ICE’s violence livestreamed across the country from Los Angeles to New York City. You see the windshields smashed, doors rammed in, guns drawn, and children left abandoned after their loved ones are detained. You know the beast is even bigger than before - ICE detention expanded, National Guard deployed, and militarized policing increased beyond belief. You see that people are taking to the streets, throwing down to protect their communities and risking arrest. In the terrible hours, days and months after a loved one is taken there is nothing more important than trying to figure out if there is any way to get them out. Despite all of the violence, immigration bond and criminal bail are still transformative mechanisms that allow folks to fight their deportations and their prosecutions from outside of a cage and share out vital information about the realities and conditions in jails and detention centers. You can make an impact right now by supporting freedom and donating to the National Bail Fund Network today (link in bio)! When you donate to the Immigration Freedom Fund , the Pretrial Freedom Fund or directly to your local immigration bond fund or local pretrial bail fund here, it goes directly to freeing our neighbors who are jailed. #AbolishICE #FreeThemAll

Looking to fight the massive expansion of carceral infrastructure on the local, state or federal level? Check out CJE’s new resource for generating abolitionist struggles against the construction and expansion of cages: If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure! bit.ly/iftheybuildit and link in bio This resource draws on experiences of fighting jail expansion across the US, and particularly on the experiences of campaigns within the No New Jails Network, in order to offer lessons learned and recommendations for current and future efforts against carceral infrastructure. It aims to connect fights against all forms of caging, including prisons, jails, detention centers, military bases, cop cities, psychiatric facilities, at the county, state, and federal levels, through a broad framework that resituates site fights amidst a larger movement to prevent carceral system expansion and abolish the PIC. It’s meant to support anti-infrastructure organizers who reflect on fights they have undertaken, or hope to wage, as part of the collective struggle for liberation, even under increasingly repressive and authoritarian conditions. Design by @noahjodice 🔥

Do you, or anyone you know, check in with ICE and/or ISAP/BI? Check out CJE’s new resource to learn about risks for arrest and detention and how to reduce them through knowledge and planning ahead. We hope this document gives you as much information as possible so you can make informed decisions about what is best for you and your family. Remember that the safest community is a community that is educated and organized. You are not alone! The resource is available in English, Spanish, French, Wolof, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, and Kreyol (coming soon!) Link in bio and here: https://bit.ly/knowyourfight ¿Usted o alguien que conoce se reporta con ICE y/o ISAP/BI? Consulte el nuevo recurso de CJE para conocer los riesgos de arresto y detención y cómo reducirlos mediante el conocimiento y la planificación anticipada. Esperamos que este documento le brinde la mayor cantidad de información posible para que pueda tomar decisiones informadas sobre lo que es mejor para usted y su familia. Recuerde que la comunidad más segura es una comunidad educada y organizada. ¡No está solo! El recurso está disponible en inglés, español, francés, wolof, chino simplificado, portugués, hindi, árabe, y kreyol (disponible pronto). https://bit.ly/knowyourfight

Authoritarianism is here. Migrants, unhoused people, & protestors will be targeted immediately under the incoming administration, jailed on bail & bond they cannot pay. You can make an impact right now by donating the National Bail Fund Network at our link in bio so we can #FreeThemAll! Contribute to the Pretrial Bail Freedom Fund where all $$ is distributed across local bail funds in the National Bail Fund Network who are posting bail for people experiencing criminalization, including the criminalization of protest and dissent. Contribute to the Immigration Freedom Fund where all $$ is distributed across the immigration bond funds of the National Bail Fund Network to help post bond for people in immigration detention.

Please join us on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 4-6pm PT/7-9pm ET for a webinar that invites defenders, law scholars, and law students, to a conversation about the complexities of practicing solidarity, using the 5 Questions for Cultivating Solidarity resource from Community Justice Exchange, @spade.dean , @azohra , & @jocelynsimonson as a guide. Together we will grapple with the following questions: 1. How do we assess when to make individual arguments that certain defendants are exceptional, and when such arguments might further stigmatize others in the movement? 2. How do we understand collective and individual defense tensions in joint defense work? 3. How do we successfully invoke rights and legal protections that we simultaneously know have never been truly guaranteed or implemented, without contributing to legal fictions that justify existing regimes of enforcement? 4. How do we know when it's acceptable to use certain talking points in the context of advocacy, and when they should be avoided in the context of political commentary, as we strive for solidarity? Register at bit.ly/5QuestionsWebinar or link in bio.

ICYMI - This summer, we launched Pathways to Deportations, a parody based on ICE’s ATD website that exposes ICE’s current tactic of infiltrating communities through non-profit organizations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has massively expanded its so-called “Alternatives to Detention Program” (ATD). Despite its misleading name, ATD has never reduced the number of people in detention and has, in fact, functioned as a net-widening deportation management program. In response to strong organizing pushback under President Biden, ICE has attempted to reposition ATD as helpful and compassionate services provided to migrants, while upholding its declared objective of deportation compliance. Weaponizing this misleading language, ICE regularly seeks partnerships with well-meaning community-based nonprofits to help legitimate its objective. This website aims to show that ICE is a violent organization that we should never work with and cannot be trusted. #ICElies Link in bio to learn more and take the pledge or visit / To sign our WE WILL NOT WORK WITH ICE pledge click here: bit.ly/icelies

Announcing the launch of a new resource, Dismantling Carceral Debt: A Manifesto on Building Debtor Power!   The Prison Policy Initiative estimates that at least 10 million people owe more than $50 billion in debt resulting from their involvement in the criminal punishment system. Erasing this debt requires us to organize with an abolitionist vision and approach. This resource documents two years of experimenting, campaigning, and research and is written by the Milwaukee Freedom Fund, Tucson Bail Fund, and Community Justice Exchange. We identify six critical interventions organizations in the U.S. can take to meaningfully challenge debt that accrues as a result of people being criminalized, prosecuted, imprisoned, or deported, including strategies for building debtor power and rejecting techno-solutionist reforms. Link in our bio and bit.ly/CarceralDebtManifesto

Trying to free a loved one with an immigration bond and having trouble navigating the CeBONDS on-line payment system? Check out our new guide for bond funds, legal workers, volunteers and families on how to pay immigration bond on-line using the CeBONDS system: http://bit.ly/CeBONDSGuide & link in bio. #FreeThemAll ¿Está intentando liberar a un ser querido con una fianza de inmigración y tiene problemas navegando el sistema de pago en línea CeBONDS? Consulte nuestra nueva guía para fondos de fianza, trabajadores legales, voluntarios y familias sobre cómo pagar fianzas de inmigración en línea utilizando el sistema CeBONDS: http://bit.ly/CeBONDSGuide. #LibérenlesATodes

Here’s a screenshot from the webinar we just finished—an invigorating conversation about how we can stick together in the face of growing mobilizations and escalating criminalization. You can watch the video on YouTube—link in bio. And check out the Cultivating Solidarity tool we were launching, images from which are included here, image descriptions in the recent posts I have made of these images. The whole thing is available at bit.ly/cultivatesolidarity