upcoming events
meet your neighbors
Hands Off NYC events focus on building community connections with your neighbors, getting organized, learning how to stand in solidarity with one another, and finding joy in resistance.
DSA: Organizing 101
From our partners at DSA: Come to our monthly Organizing 101 to learn about the basics of organizing - things like doing listwork, identifying and developing leaders, moving people from supporter to activist, having organizing conversations with friends, family, and coworkers, and more.
Hands Off NYC DIY Swag Lab
We’re kicking off another DIY swag making workshop on Saturday, April 18 making beautiful resistance prints on your shirts, totes, etc.
RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/928803/
Please bring your own blank clothing or tote bags to print on. We will provide beautiful designs to choose from. Wear something you don't mind getting paint on!
Kids welcome!
Come join us for joyful resistance, meet your neighbors, and help us grow our movement.
Whistle-Mania with Jackson Heights Indivisible
Join Jackson Heights Indivisible and your neighbors to make whistle kits for our community!
Business Canvassing
Indivisible-Lower East Side/Lower Manhattan Signs of Solidarity Training & Business Canvassing
Resistance Street Fair with Brooklyn Reissters
Resistance Street Fair!
RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/925305/
Drop in for Resistance Dance with Cynthia King, anti-fascist songs by Rench and friends, and Songs of Resistance, while making art with the Craft Salon, assembling whistle kits, folding zines, talking with neighborhoods, sharing information, and building community. Also! Business canvassing, led by Kensington Community Defense.
Mutual Aid 101
RSVP and details here: https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/929192/
Join Central Queens Mutual Aid and Queens Says No Kings for a Mutual Aid 101. Learn about Mutual Aid and the many ways neighbors can help neighbors – building community in solidarity, not charity!
Weekly silent Vigil at Federal Plaza
Every Thursday at 12pm, Rise and Resist holds a silent vigil for those who have been murdered and abducted by I.C.E.
We will be out in front of the Federal Worker's entrance at 26 Federal Plaza which houses many DHS and ICE offices as well as immigration courts.
Forest Hills Indivisible Local Day Laborer Outreach
Every Monday and Thursday morning local volunteers build relationships with day laborers as allies, witnesses, neighbors, and friends. Please register for location details.
Long Island City Local Day Laborer Outreach
Every Wednesday morning local volunteers build relationships with day laborers as allies, witnesses, neighbors, and friends. Please register for location details.
RSVP here: https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/929272/
We commit to showing up regularly with love and care.
We build community locally (within 10-15 minutes of school, work, or home).
We provide coffee and food, supplies that support work, and information on rights and resources, with personal follow-up for specific requests.
We provide a friendly face and hope our presence increases community safety amid unlawful federal immigration activities.
We pursue this work inspired by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) Adopt a Corner campaign. https://ndlon.org/adopt-a-day-labor-corner/
Weekly Vigil at Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (Copy)
Our partners at Indivisible Brooklyn and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge are holding a weekly vigil outside the MDC to call for the release of ICE detainees, and to stand against the inhumane treatment of our neighbors. Supporters are invited to bring signs, to sing or play music, and to solemnly bear witness in solidarity. Together we will build and strengthen the vital community connections.
MultiFaith Mondays
Since March 3, 2025, the Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and multifaith community-building in a time of deep division and threat to democratic values.
Every Monday, 5:30 – 6:00 pm
Columbus Circle, 59th Street and Central Park West.
No Kings 3
We say NO KINGS IN NYC!
LOCATION ANNOUNCED! Meeting place: 7th Avenue and Central Park South in Manhattan ** Time: 2:00 PM March 28th
We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
Go to NoKingsNYC.com for more details, and ways to get involved.
Protest Marshal Training
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/912092/
Want to help keep NO KINGS safe, organized, and powerful? Join us for an official Marshal Training. Whether you’re brand new or just want to brush up on your skills, this session will cover both and is open to anyone ready to learn and support actions in any role.
📣 This training will be interactive, and discussion based. You’ll leave with real tactics, scripts, and tools you can use right away. We’ll also go over what to do in case of police presence, counter-protesters, or emergencies. No prior experience is required — just bring your curiosity, your questions, and your commitment to keeping our community strong.
Protest Marshal Training
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/912078/
Want to help keep NO KINGS safe, organized, and powerful? Join us for an official Marshal Training. Whether you’re brand new or just want to brush up on your skills, this session will cover both and is open to anyone ready to learn and support actions in any role.
📣 This training will be interactive, and discussion based. You’ll leave with real tactics, scripts, and tools you can use right away. We’ll also go over what to do in case of police presence, counter-protesters, or emergencies. No prior experience is required — just bring your curiosity, your questions, and your commitment to keeping our community strong.
No Kings Art Builds
Shifts for art builds on March 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22! Sign up here:
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/910953/
Join us in making beautiful art for the NO KINGS march on March 28th!
Come build community, pick up posters, and help us make this the most beautiful march yet.
Resistance Sing-In
For anyone who wishes to bring music into public witness and collective action, join our Resistance Sing-In with Resistance Revival Chorus and Singing Resistance on March 19, and learn songs to respond courageously to rising authoritarianism.
RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/915888/
These songs will be put to use at the No Kings March on the 28th, as well as Hands Off NYC actions. The evening will be a celebration of people coming together, finding their voices, and sustaining one another.
Weekly silent Vigil at Federal Plaza
Every Thursday at 12pm, Rise and Resist holds a silent vigil for those who have been murdered and abducted by I.C.E.
We will be out in front of the Federal Worker's entrance at 26 Federal Plaza which houses many DHS and ICE offices as well as immigration courts.
Ice Out of Our Park
Despite thousands of letters from community members, demands from our local elected officials and community board, and protests at Chelsea Piers, the Hudson River Park Trust has refused to end their collaboration with ICE, allowing them to continue to park at Pier 40.
Let's show up in person and send a strong message to the Hudson River Park Advisory Council outside of Pier 57 where they will be meeting!
Weekly Vigil at Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center
Our partners at Indivisible Brooklyn and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge are holding a weekly vigil outside the MDC to call for the release of ICE detainees, and to stand against the inhumane treatment of our neighbors. Supporters are invited to bring signs, to sing or play music, and to solemnly bear witness in solidarity. Together we will build and strengthen the vital community connections.
Hands Off Downtown West, Chelsea Neighbors United, and Hell's Kitchen ICE Preparedness Training
Want to defend our communities? For residents of Chelsea, Hells Kitchen, West Side-South of 14th St. to Canal.
Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSey__l4J1JY3aLbEcN9vGVAopFI3CDp7ksLFH1TOLI19N36Xw/viewform
Please join us on March 16 for and ICE Awareness and Preparedness Training. The event will take place in Chelsea, 6:00pm (location given upon registration). This training will be done by Hands Off NYC.
MultiFaith Mondays
Since March 3, 2025, the Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and multifaith community-building in a time of deep division and threat to democratic values.
Every Monday, 5:30 – 6:00 pm
Columbus Circle, 59th Street and Central Park West.
No Kings 3 Brooklyn Art Build @Old Stone House
3rd time’s a charm! For NO KINGS 3, join Indivisible Brooklyn (INBK) , Brooklyn Resisters (BKR), and artist Julie Peppito to create painted props for a giant moving art piece.
We the people have the ability to generate our own hope, safety and power by joining together in massive numbers like we have been doing for over a year. In this third nationwide declaration that we don’t do kings in the USA we will make art focused on keeping hope alive.
No Kings 3 will be March 28th, 2-4pm
No Kings Art Builds
Shifts for art builds on March 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22! Sign up here:
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/910953/
Join us in making beautiful art for the NO KINGS march on March 28th!
Come build community, pick up posters, and help us make this the most beautiful march yet.
Protest Marshal Training
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/912078/
Want to help keep NO KINGS safe, organized, and powerful? Join us for an official Marshal Training. Whether you’re brand new or just want to brush up on your skills, this session will cover both and is open to anyone ready to learn and support actions in any role.
📣 This training will be interactive, and discussion based. You’ll leave with real tactics, scripts, and tools you can use right away. We’ll also go over what to do in case of police presence, counter-protesters, or emergencies. No prior experience is required — just bring your curiosity, your questions, and your commitment to keeping our community strong.
Weekly silent Vigil at Federal Plaza
Every Thursday at 12pm, Rise and Resist holds a silent vigil for those who have been murdered and abducted by I.C.E.
We will be out in front of the Federal Worker's entrance at 26 Federal Plaza which houses many DHS and ICE offices as well as immigration courts.
Weekly Vigil at Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center
Our partners at Indivisible Brooklyn and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge are holding a weekly vigil outside the MDC to call for the release of ICE detainees, and to stand against the inhumane treatment of our neighbors. Supporters are invited to bring signs, to sing or play music, and to solemnly bear witness in solidarity. Together we will build and strengthen the vital community connections.
MultiFaith Mondays
Since March 3, 2025, the Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and multifaith community-building in a time of deep division and threat to democratic values.
Every Monday, 5:30 – 6:00 pm
Columbus Circle, 59th Street and Central Park West.
Protest Marshal Training
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/912092/
Want to help keep NO KINGS safe, organized, and powerful? Join us for an official Marshal Training. Whether you’re brand new or just want to brush up on your skills, this session will cover both and is open to anyone ready to learn and support actions in any role.
📣 This training will be interactive, and discussion based. You’ll leave with real tactics, scripts, and tools you can use right away. We’ll also go over what to do in case of police presence, counter-protesters, or emergencies. No prior experience is required — just bring your curiosity, your questions, and your commitment to keeping our community strong.
Weekly Vigil at Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center
Our partners at Indivisible Brooklyn and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge are holding a weekly vigil outside the MDC to call for the release of ICE detainees, and to stand against the inhumane treatment of our neighbors. Supporters are invited to bring signs, to sing or play music, and to solemnly bear witness in solidarity. Together we will build and strengthen the vital community connections.
MultiFaith Mondays
Since March 3, 2025, the Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and multifaith community-building in a time of deep division and threat to democratic values.
Every Monday, 5:30 – 6:00 pm
Columbus Circle, 59th Street and Central Park West.
Community Art Builds with Hands Off NYC
Join Hands Off NYC for community art builds! **The March 1 shift is specifically for families!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/899606/
The Many Hands space in Chelsea will be opening soon, and we’re inviting community members and groups to come together to create banners for tabling and string flags to bring back to your neighborhoods. No prior art experience is required: come ready to plug into the assembly line, and make visuals for your neighbors. Wear clothes you can get paint on!
Art build shifts are scheduled in two-hour blocks, though participants are welcome to stay longer as space is available. As the workshop continues, we’ll offer a variety of art projects for neighborhood groups, friends, organizations, and anyone interested in making art that stands up to fascism.
All Together: Benefitting Hands Off NYC w/Eli Escobar, Bridge, Bea Trinidad
Get tickets: https://ra.co/events/2372555
On Sunday, March 1, we gather at Gabriela for a night of deep grooves, classic house, and disco warmth — in community and in support. $10 suggested cover. All proceeds from the door will benefit Hands Off NYC, a grassroots network providing rapid response support and resource coordination for immigrant communities across New York City. Advance tickets for guaranteed entry available on RA. 50% of RA ticket fees will be donated to Hands Off NYC.
ICE Preparedness Town Hall - Manhattan Valley
Sunday, March 1st at 5:30PM, 225 West 99th Street
Learning from Minneapolis, Preparing New York City
Resistance Lab: Presented by Brooklyn Resisters
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/900227/
Our event, which we are calling Resistance Lab, is open to everyone! We would love it if you joined us, even if you’ve never joined before. Come meet your neighbors, participate in some community building, and learn more about all the different ways you can fight back.
We will have music from our own Oscar Owens and dance courtesy of the Cynthia King dance company, a reading from Saul Austerlitz, and then an opportunity to fold zines, put together whistle kits, make craft projects, and more.
We have 2,000 whistles to give away, so you can also take some home with you to give out to your friends, neighbors, and colleagues. I’ve tested the new whistles, and they are loud!
Please come, and bring the people in your life who have been telling you that they really want to do more, but don’t quite know how.
Community Art Builds with Hands Off NYC
Join Hands Off NYC for community art builds!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/event/899606/
The Many Hands space in Chelsea will be opening soon, and we’re inviting community members and groups to come together to create banners for tabling and string flags to bring back to your neighborhoods. No prior art experience is required: come ready to plug into the assembly line, and make visuals for your neighbors. Wear clothes you can get paint on!
Art build shifts are scheduled in two-hour blocks, though participants are welcome to stay longer as space is available. As the workshop continues, we’ll offer a variety of art projects for neighborhood groups, friends, organizations, and anyone interested in making art that stands up to fascism.
No Room for ICE Town Hall
Join us for No Room for ICE this Sunday at 2pm as we explore ways to protect our neighbors!