February 2, 2026 Email to Active Group

------ TUESDAY STUDENT WALKOUT & LOCAL ACTIONS

First things first: Tuesday is student walkout. Join our Palo Alto students at a peaceful protest tomorrow (Tuesday, February 3) to support their action for immigrant students and communities. They will be at El Camino and Page Mill from about 12:45 to 1:30, and then walk to the PAUSD District Office at El Camino and Churchill. The students are leading this event! Come out with your enthusiastic support of their activism – bring signs in support of our immigrant neighbors.

Also Tuesday Feb.3 is Santa Clara city council meeting (5:45pm at 1500 Warburton Ave, Santa Clara City Hall). You can tell them to stand firm and protect our community against ICE. See relevant points here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dKfBuz4e-RT3sVEBdaL6z2Z_mQxM9u6vI12v8BMzB94/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.wvidsoxpujr6

And in the evening is our regular postcard writing at my place (Feb. 3, 6-8pm, and weekly on Sat or Tue): https://itsblueturn.com/rsvp. We're writing to register voters in NC. See what's on the porch.

We'll be making zines Friday Feb.6 for our Feb.7th events and for anti-ICE kits:

https://www.mobilize.us/itsblueturn/event/819931/

There's a special Super Bowl visibility brigade bannering, two shifts (11-1pm, 1-3pm): https://www.mobilize.us/itsblueturn/event/896372/

------ UPCOMING IBT EVENTS

• Every Wednesday: bannering with our IBT Visibility Brigade: https://www.mobilize.us/itsblueturn/event/888664/

• Feb. 7, 10am-12pm, Palo Alto: "Fighting for America: How We Win 2026." Help build long-term power: tools, strategy, and concrete ways you can help win critical elections in 2026 and strengthen democracy for the long run. RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/itsblueturn/event/884935/  

• Feb. 7, 3pm, Mountain View: "ICE Out For Good" protest (together with TWW). Demand that ICE be defunded and dismantled as a secret, masked police force terrorizing our communities. RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/886224/

• Feb. 16, 3-5pm: Making packages for postcard writers: https://www.mobilize.us/itsblueturn/event/823313/

• Feb. 18, 6-7:30pm: How to Host a Postcard Writing Party Training: https://www.mobilize.us/itsblueturn/event/891704/

• Feb. 19, 7-8:30pm: It's Blue Turn's Melt ICE Team Meeting: https://www.mobilize.us/itsblueturn/event/895441/

• Feb. 21, 3:30-5pm: IBT Monthly Meeting, featuring Huy Tran, Executive Director of SIREN: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/750621/

------ FROM OUR ALLIES & FRIENDS

• Feb. 4, Santa Clara: 11:00 AM: Healthcare Defense Rally – Meet at Kaiser in Santa Clara
• Feb. 5, Palo Alto: Nurses are calling on us to abolish ICE and drop Palantir, whose surveillance tools help fuel ICE’s abuses and undermine human rights and patient care. Join the march and vigil on Thursday, February 5 at 4:30 pm at Heritage Park, 300 Homer Ave, Palo Alto, CA to stand with ICE’s victims and demand our institutions stop collaborating with Palantir.
• Feb. 8, Redwood City: Protest in Redwood City at El Camino and Jefferson Ave to support all cities--especially Minneapolis--that are standing up to ICE. RSVP https://mobilize.us/s/nJw2J8

------ SUPPORT FOR TRANS FOLKS

From Rogan's List:

• Donate to Trans Lifeline, a peer support network for trans people that runs a crisis hotline of their own which will be all the more important if Trump successfully eliminates services for LGBTQ youth through 988

• Donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline, which helps trans people relocate from unsafe communities in the United States to Colorado, where they have more legal protection

• Donate to one of these trans-led mutual aid funds or the Trans Income Project, providing direct support to trans folks in need

• Donate to fund Distribute Aid’s harm reduction toolkits, which provide medical equipment for trans people taking injection-based gender affirming hormone therapy