Upcoming events.
Resistance Cinema! Y Tu Mama Tambien
RESISTANCE CINEMA: Y Tu Mamá También
Sometimes resistance looks like a protest. Sometimes it looks like sitting in a room together, watching a movie, laughing, feeling uncomfortable, and talking about what we saw.
This month, Resistance Cinema brings us together for Y Tu Mamá También a film about friendship, desire, class, politics, youth, and the complicated realities that exist underneath everyday life.
But Resistance Cinema isn't just about the movie.
It's about watching together.
In a world that increasingly isolates us behind screens, algorithms, and individual feeds, there is something powerful about gathering in the same room with other people. We watch the same story unfold. We laugh at the same moments. We sit with the uncomfortable ones. We argue about what it means. We discover that someone sitting next to us saw something completely differently.
That is how community gets built.
Movies can give us a common language. They can open conversations that might never happen otherwise. They can help us understand experiences outside our own and remind us that culture, storytelling, and imagination are part of how we understand the world around us.
Resistance Cinema is a space to slow down and experience something together.
Come meet other members of the community. Bring a friend. Bring someone you've been organizing with. Or come by yourself and meet people when you get here.
No speeches. No pressure. Just a movie, a room full of people, and the opportunity to spend a few hours together.
Because building a movement isn't only about what we do in the streets.
It's also about learning how to be together.
FUCK ICE COMEDY SHOW!!!
FUCK ICE COMEDY SHOW
Saturday, October 17 • 6:00–9:30 PM
📍 GAIA HQ — Los Angeles
$10 Entry
Are you tired from being on the frontlines all the time?
Come get some R&R with the ICE Breakers. ❤️
We’re bringing together some of the most exciting up-and-coming comedians in Los Angeles for a night of comedy, community, food, vendors, fun and, of course, a little bit of righteous rage.
All proceeds will benefit a local mutual aid effort supporting migrant people.
For TEN DOLLARS, you get:
😂 Live comedy
🍴 Food
🛍️ Vendors
🎟️ A raffle
🌃 A 360° view of Los Angeles
❤️ Community
🔥 And a whole lot of FUCK ICE energy
You spend enough time fighting.
Come laugh with us.
Come decompress.
Come eat.
Come meet people.
Come support mutual aid.
Come watch some hilarious comedians absolutely throw down.
And yes… there’s gonna be a raffle. 👀
$10. October 17. 6–9:30 PM.
RSVP now to save your space.
FUCK ICE.
LA deserves to laugh, too.
RSVP BELOW TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT
GAIA Organizing Summit
THE GAIA ORGANIZING SUMMIT IS COMING
Two days. One giant organizing game. A whole lot of strategy.
This Halloween weekend, we're bringing together members, organizers, activists, and allied organizations for something different.
The GAIA Organizing Summit is a two-day immersive training and strategy experience where we’ll learn how to build campaigns, develop effective tactics, handle conflict, protect our communities, and build power together.
But we're not just sitting in a classroom.
We're turning the whole weekend into a roleplaying game.
You'll be dropped into a fictional campaign against Stilton Hotels, a fictional corporation profiting from its relationship with a fictional immigration enforcement agency called FICE. The world is fictional... but the organizing challenges are very real.
Throughout the weekend, you'll have to make decisions, build coalitions, respond to opposition, deal with unexpected developments, evaluate tactics, and figure out how to move a campaign forward.
WHAT WE'LL COVER:
Nonviolent Direct Action
Learn what makes direct action effective, how nonviolent discipline works, and where different tactics fall on the line between effective/ineffective and violent/nonviolent.
Strategy & Tactics
Learn how to identify targets, map power, build a theory of change, and choose tactics that actually move a campaign forward.
OPSEC & Security Culture
Learn how organizers can protect themselves, their communities, and sensitive information while building a culture of security.
De-escalation & Dealing With Instigators
Practice staying disciplined when someone is trying to provoke your group, and learn how organizers can respond without allowing someone else to control the situation.
Legal Education
Learn about protest rights, police encounters, arrest, common legal issues around demonstrations, and when it's time to talk to a qualified attorney.
THE STILTON CAMPAIGN GAME
Put everything you've learned into practice. Your team will be given a fictional campaign, a target, allies, opposition, and a constantly changing situation. You'll have to adapt as the game unfolds.
This isn't about learning a script.
It's about learning how to think like an organizer.
Because campaigns don't come with instructions.
Targets change.
Coalitions disagree.
Opposition responds.
Unexpected things happen.
The organizers who make a difference are the ones who can adapt, communicate, build power, stay disciplined, and keep moving.
WHO SHOULD COME?
GAIA members. ICE Breakers organizers. Local activists. Lead organizers. Community organizations. Students. Experienced organizers. People who have never organized before but want to learn.
Come with your experience. Come with your questions. Come ready to disagree, learn, experiment, and build something together.
10/24/26-10/25/26.
Saturday & Sunday.
10:00 AM–2:00 PM
Location:(Koreatown) Disclosed when you RSVP Below
Space is limited.
Come play the game.
Learn the tools. Build the strategy. Practice the resistance.
RSVP BY FILLING OUT THE FORM BELOW (feel free to include a message)
GAIA // ICE Breakers Public Townhall September
PUBLIC TOWNHALL
Our movements are strongest when the people who make them possible have a voice.
Our Public Townhall is an open space for our community to come together, hear what's happening, ask questions, share ideas, raise concerns, and help shape where we go next.
A Public Townhall is more than a meeting. It is an opportunity for our community to directly participate in the direction of our organizing.
We'll come together to:
Hear updates about ongoing campaigns and actions
Talk openly about what is working—and what isn't
Share ideas for new campaigns and tactics
Bring forward concerns, questions, and proposals
Connect people who want to get more involved
Identify volunteer opportunities
Train and build organizing skills
Help determine what we organize around next
You don't need to be an organizer. You don't need to have all the answers. You just need to care enough to show up.
If you've been wondering how to get involved, this is a great place to start.
Come with your questions. Come with your ideas. Come ready to organize.
The future of this movement is something we build together.
JOIN THE PUBLIC TOWNHALL.
— ICE Breakers
Relentless Creative Resistance in Solidarity With Impacted Communities
GAIA // ICEBreakers Public Townhall!
PUBLIC TOWNHALL SEPTEMBER 4
Friday, September 4, 2026
Our movements are strongest when the people who make them possible have a voice.
On September 4, ICE Breakers is holding our Public Townhall, an open space for our community to come together, hear what's happening, ask questions, share ideas, raise concerns, and help shape where we go next.
WHAT IS A PUBLIC TOWNHALL?
A Public Townhall is more than a meeting. It is an opportunity for our community to directly participate in the direction of our organizing.
We come together to:
Hear updates about ongoing campaigns and actions
Talk openly about what is working—and what isn't
Share ideas for new campaigns and tactics
Bring forward concerns, questions, and proposals
Connect people who want to get more involved
Help determine what we organize around next
We believe organizing should not happen behind closed doors. The people who show up, organize, canvass, protest, donate, volunteer, and build this movement should have a voice in shaping it.
WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Real grassroots power doesn't come from waiting for someone else to fix things.
It comes from people organizing together.
The Public Townhall is one of the ways we keep our organizing accountable to the community rather than to corporations, politicians, wealthy donors, or institutions.
You don't need to be an organizer. You don't need to have all the answers. You just need to care enough to show up.
If you've been wondering how to get involved, this is a great place to start.
JOIN US
📅 Friday, September 4, 2026
Come with your questions. Come with your ideas. Come ready to organize.
The future of this movement is something we build together.
JOIN THE PUBLIC TOWNHALL.
— ICE Breakers
Relentless Creative Resistance in Solidarity With Impacted Communities
Resistance Cinema T2 Judgement Day
RESISTANCE CINEMA: T2 JUDGMENT DAY
August 29, 2026 · 8:00–10:00 PM
Heavy Manners Library
2115 Sunset Blvd.
The future is here, and maybe we should have listened to Sarah Connor.
This month, Resistance Cinema takes us into the terrifying world of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a film that feels more relevant with every passing year. What was once science fiction, a world where artificial intelligence grows beyond human control, machines become capable of making decisions for themselves, and technology becomes a threat to human survival. It’s increasingly part of the conversation surrounding our own future.
As AI creeps further into our everyday lives, T2 asks a question that feels less hypothetical than it once did: What happens when the technology we create becomes more powerful than our ability to control it?
Skynet may be fictional. The questions it raises are not.
Come watch one of the defining films about technology, power, surveillance, artificial intelligence, and humanity's struggle to remain in control of its own future. Then join us for a night of Resistance Cinema, where we don't just watch movies—we think about what they are warning us about.
Come for the movie. Stay for the resistance.
🤖 RESISTANCE CINEMA: T2 — JUDGMENT DAY
📍 Heavy Manners Library — 2115 Sunset Blvd.
📅 Saturday, August 29, 2026
🕗 8:00–10:00 PM
The machines are coming. The question is: what are we going to do about it?
STAND WITH CHRIS IN COURT
STAND WITH CHRIS IN COURT
Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · 8:30 AM
LAX Airport Courthouse · Courtroom 31
For months, Chris Abrahamsen has stood on the front lines of the fight for freedom, dignity, and the right to protest. Now, Chris is facing court and we need our community to show up.
On Wednesday, August 19 at 8:30 AM, Chris will appear at LAX Airport Court, Courtroom 31.
This is bigger than one person. It is about what happens when ordinary people refuse to be silent.
ICE Breakers has spent months confronting institutions that profit from detention and deportation, organizing protests, building community power, and putting our bodies on the line for people whose voices are too often ignored.
Now it's our turn to stand behind one of our own.
JOIN US IN COURT
📅 Wednesday, August 19, 2026
⏰ 8:30 AM
📍 LAX Airport Courthouse
🏛️ Courtroom 31
Bring your friends. Bring your signs. Bring your solidarity.
We are asking everyone who can make it to show up, pack the courtroom, and make sure Chris knows he is not standing alone.
Freedom depends on people willing to defend it.
See you in Courtroom 31.
— ICE Breakers
Relentless Creative Resistance in Solidarity With Impacted Communities
Emergency Letter and Phone Call Blast for Alisa!
EMERGENCY ACTION FOR ALISA
Tuesday at GAIA HQ
Alisa Darbinyan, a Glendale violin teacher and professional musician, has been detained by ICE since August 2. She is now being held in Texas, thousands of miles from her husband, home, students, and attorneys.
Her family is fighting to get her released. We want to help bring her back to California so they can continue that fight from home.
JOIN US TUESDAY FOR AN EMERGENCY PHONE & EMAIL ZAP
We will spend the evening contacting Governor Gavin Newsom and Senator Adam Schiff, demanding that their offices take action on Alisa's case.
We will:
Call their offices together.
Send emails and messages.
Handwrite personal letters directly to Newsom and Schiff.
Ask them to demand answers from ICE and advocate for Alisa's return to California.
We'll provide the information, scripts, letter-writing materials, and everything else you need.
Can't make it to GAIA HQ? You can still join us from wherever you are. Call their offices, send an email, or write your own letter and let them know that people across California are demanding action for Alisa.
📍 GAIA HQ 346 N Vermont.
📅 Tuesday
⏰ [6:00pm]
Alisa's family is fighting for her. Let's make sure they know they aren't fighting alone.
Sunday Hilton Pressure Protest!
It’s about keeping the pressure on! We aren’t going away until Hilton agrees to a policy that would effectively refuse access by ICE thugs. We can cost Hilton more money than they are getting from ICE and that’s how we win. Join us for one of the most crucial pressure campaigns in LA!
June Public Townhall
Have you been thinking to yourself that you want to get more involved? bored? upset at the way things are going in this country? Come hang out with the ICE Breakers and be a part of history! There are roles and ways to help for everyone, whether you’ve done lots of activism or are interested in learning how to participate in your first action. Also you get to hang out in our sweet activist hub!
Strategicon Convention at Hilton LAX
May 24th we're going to Los Angeles Airport Hilton location on Century Blvd to join Strategicon! One of the biggest table top gaming conventions on the west coast!
@stratcon why are you choosing a location where it's known that ICE agents stay? Why won't you join the fight to defend immigrant communities and stop choosing Hilton to host your convention until they choose to stop housing ICE?
Deal with ICE you can deal with US!
420 Friendly Comedy Show!
We’re gathering again! This time on the roof of our beautiful HQ, and you’re invited.
After everything we’ve been carrying, this is a night to breathe, reconnect, and actually enjoy being together. We’ll slow things down, shake off the chaos, and build the kind of bonds that make this work sustainable.
We’ve got an incredible lineup of comedians from Last Stoner Laughing ready to bring the house down. Expect real laughs, the kind that hit your gut and remind you why we do this together.
There will be food and drinks for everyone.
Entry is $20.
$50 gets you VIP access, which includes a 420 goodie bag.
Come through. Bring your people. Laugh a lot. We all need it.
May 20th Public Townhall
Our public townhalls are where everything begins.
They are the engine behind our campaigns! The space where new people step in, where ideas sharpen into strategy, and where collective power actually takes shape. Every win we’ve secured has roots in these rooms.
This May, we’re opening the doors again.
Townhalls are critical to our success because they bring the public directly into the work. Not as spectators, but as participants. This is where we meet new organizers, identify committed volunteers, and build the teams that carry campaigns forward week after week.
It’s also where we plan. Together, we break down current campaigns, map out next steps, and develop tactics that are strategic, creative, and grounded in real conditions. Nothing is abstract here. This is where decisions get made and actions get set in motion.
And just as important, this is where we train. Whether you’re brand new or have been organizing for years, we use this space to build skills collectively. How to engage, how to communicate, how to take action effectively and safely, and how to move as a unified force.
If you’ve been looking for a place to plug in, this is it.
If you’ve been wondering how to get involved, this is where it starts.
Join us for our May Public Townhall. Step into the room, meet the community, and be part of building what comes next.
Hilton LAX Protest
Hilton Houses Hate // Weekly Sunday Protest
Join us this Sunday as we continue our weekly Hilton Houses Hate protest outside the LAX Hilton.
For weeks now, our community has been gathering every Sunday to call attention to the hotel’s decision to house ICE agents an agency responsible for countless abuses, detentions, and deaths in custody. As long as Hilton continues to provide lodging to ICE, we will continue to show up.
Every week we gather to make sure the truth is heard by every guest who walks through those doors. We read the names, we hold the signs, and we remind the hotel that the public is watching.
📍 LAX Hilton
🕛 Sunday | 12–6 PM
Come for an hour or stay for the day. Bring a sign, bring a friend, and help us continue building pressure until Hilton ends its relationship with ICE.
Hilton Houses Hate! and we’re not going to let them hide it.
Hilton LAX Protest
Hilton Houses Hate // Weekly Sunday Protest
Join us this Sunday as we continue our weekly Hilton Houses Hate protest outside the LAX Hilton.
For weeks now, our community has been gathering every Sunday to call attention to the hotel’s decision to house ICE agents an agency responsible for countless abuses, detentions, and deaths in custody. As long as Hilton continues to provide lodging to ICE, we will continue to show up.
Every week we gather to make sure the truth is heard by every guest who walks through those doors. We read the names, we hold the signs, and we remind the hotel that the public is watching.
📍 LAX Hilton
🕛 Sunday | 12–6 PM
Come for an hour or stay for the day. Bring a sign, bring a friend, and help us continue building pressure until Hilton ends its relationship with ICE.
Hilton Houses Hate! and we’re not going to let them hide it.
Public Townhall
Our monthly public townhall! Come meet organizers and activists from GAIA and the ICE Breakers.
We are going to discuss volunteer opportunities, do some training together, and allow time for folks to brainstorm and contribute to the direction of the campaigns. If you have been wanting to get deeper involved this is when and where!
346 N Vermont ave. 6pm 4.17.26
Hilton LAX Protest!
Hilton Houses Hate // Weekly Sunday Protest
Join us this Sunday as we continue our weekly Hilton Houses Hate protest outside the LAX Hilton.
For weeks now, our community has been gathering every Sunday to call attention to the hotel’s decision to house ICE agents, an agency responsible for countless abuses, detentions, and deaths in custody. As long as Hilton continues to provide lodging to ICE, we will continue to show up.
Every week we gather to make sure the truth is heard by every guest who walks through those doors. We read the names, we hold the signs, and we remind the hotel that the public is watching.
📍 LAX Hilton
🕛 Sunday | 12–6 PM
Come for an hour or stay for the day. Bring a sign, bring a friend, and help us continue building pressure until Hilton ends its relationship with ICE.
Hilton Houses Hate! and we’re not going to let them hide it.
National Day Of Action to Abolish ICE!
We are joining cities around the world in a day of action to Abolish ICE! The people are going to go to every detention center in America and have our voices heard!
535 Alameda Metropolitan Detention Center is our local one…. We will be there all night look for the ICE Breakers flag.
ICE Breakers Public Townhall
GAIA ICE Breakers Public Townhall
📅 March 27th
⏰ 7:00–9:00 PM
📍 GAIA HQ 346 N Vermont
Join us for our monthly GAIA ICE Breakers Public Townhall, an open organizing space where community members, volunteers, and organizers come together to plan the work ahead.
This townhall is a chance for all of us to collectively shape our campaigns and actions. We will discuss upcoming organizing efforts, review current campaigns, and work together to develop strategies that strengthen our movement. Whether you are brand new or already involved, this meeting is designed to be a place where everyone can contribute ideas and help guide the direction of our work.
During the townhall we will:
• Plan and strategize for upcoming campaigns and actions
• Provide training and skill-building for organizers and volunteers
• Assign volunteer roles and plug people into active projects
• Share campaign updates and next steps
• Create space for discussion, ideas, and community leadership
The ICE Breakers Townhall is also a place to get further involved with GAIA. If you’ve been looking for a way to step into organizing, take on a volunteer role, or help lead campaigns, this is the best place to start.
Everyone is welcome. Come meet other organizers, learn about the work, and help build the next phase of our campaigns together.
See you March 27th at GAIA HQ.
Resistance Cinema Presents Snowpiercer
Save the date: March 20th. 7:30pm at Whammy Theaters.
Resistance Cinema
Returns with Bong Joon-ho’s modern sci-fi epic Snowpiercer. A relentless, ice-cold allegory of class war set aboard a train barreling through a frozen apocalypse. The world has ended, but the system hasn’t. At the tail of the train, the poor are crammed into squalor. At the front, the elite sip champagne and cling to the illusion of order. What begins as a revolt becomes a brutal, claustrophobic fight through steel corridors and shattered glass — a revolution measured in train cars. As always, Resistance Cinema isn’t just a screening — it’s a conversation. About capitalism. About hierarchy. About who gets saved and who gets sacrificed when the world collapses. Punch your ticket. Fight your way to the front.
Golden State Furry Convention Hilton Protest!
Golden State Furry Convention Protest // LAX Hilton
The Golden State Furry Convention is coming to the LAX Hilton… and so are we.
Every Sunday, every convention, every guest who walks through those doors will hear the truth: Hilton Houses Hate. The LAX Hilton continues to house agents from ICE. The same agency responsible for countless abuses, family separations, and deaths in detention.
So while the furries gather inside, we’ll be outside making sure the reality cannot be ignored.
This protest will be a little different — because let’s be honest, protesting a furry convention is definitely a unique moment in organizing history. Expect creative signs, high energy, and a crowd that knows how to make a point while keeping things lively. Whether you come in protest gear or show up ready for the unexpected spectacle, it’s going to be one of the most memorable Sundays yet.
And most importantly, every convention guest will hear the names:
Keith Porter Jr.
Renee Good
Alex Pretti
…and the thousands of others who have lost their lives due to the actions of the criminal agency known as ICE.
As long as Hilton continues to house ICE agents, we will continue to show up — every Sunday, every convention, every guest.
Because silence is comfort, and comfort is exactly what we are here to disrupt.
Join us outside the LAX Hilton and help make sure the truth is impossible to ignore. 🪧🔥
Hilton Weekly Protest !
Hilton Houses Hate // Weekly Sunday Protest
Join us this Sunday as we continue our weekly Hilton Houses Hate protest outside the LAX Hilton.
For weeks now, our community has been gathering every Sunday to call attention to the hotel’s decision to house ICE agents — an agency responsible for countless abuses, detentions, and deaths in custody. As long as Hilton continues to provide lodging to ICE, we will continue to show up.
Every week we gather to make sure the truth is heard by every guest who walks through those doors. We read the names, we hold the signs, and we remind the hotel that the public is watching.
📍 LAX Hilton
🕛 Sunday | 12–6 PM
Come for an hour or stay for the day. Bring a sign, bring a friend, and help us continue building pressure until Hilton ends its relationship with ICE.
Hilton Houses Hate — and we’re not going to let them hide it. 🪧
GAIA Public Townhall !
GAIA Public Town Hall + Volunteer Meeting
Join Grassroots Activist International Association for a public town hall on Friday, Feb 28th from 7–9pm. We’ll break down our frontline organizing work, give campaign updates on ICE Breakers, and map out upcoming actions and ways to get involved. This is an open, community-driven space for organizers, volunteers, and anyone ready to build real power together.
All are welcome. Come ready to listen, learn, and organize.
Every Sunday Hilton Protest
Hilton continues to profit by housing ICE agents… the same agents responsible for raids, family separation, detention, and deportation in our communities. By providing rooms, meeting space, and logistical support, Hilton is choosing profit over people and becoming complicit in state violence.
That’s why we’re returning to the LAX Hilton for the third weekly Hilton Houses Hate protest. This is part of a sustained campaign to pressure Hilton to cut all ties with ICE and to stop profiting from human rights abuses.
Join us Every Sunday! Come for an hour or stay all day. Bring signs, bring friends, and help us build the pressure Hilton can’t ignore.
No hotels for hate. No business with ICE. ✊
Hilton Campaign Planning Meeting
We’re hosting a Hilton Campaign Planning Meeting to regroup, reflect on the campaign so far, and build out our next phase of strategy.
We’ll be reviewing what we’ve accomplished, discussing where things stand, and mapping out how we escalate and grow from here. Most importantly, we’ll be assigning volunteer roles so folks can plug in more deeply and take ownership of different parts of the campaign.
At this meeting we will:
Review progress from our Hilton actions so far
Share updates on outreach, media, and turnout
Assign clear volunteer roles (outreach, media, logistics, art builds, coalition building, research, etc.)
Identify leadership opportunities for those ready to step up
Build out our next 4–6 weeks of action planning
If you’ve been coming to the protests and want to get more involved? this is the meeting for you. If you’re new and want to plug in? this is also the space.
This campaign is long-term. We’re committed to showing up every Sunday and continuing to escalate until Hilton agrees to stop housing ICE agents. That kind of sustained pressure requires structure, shared leadership, and organized teams.
We’re excited to build this next phase together!
Hilton Houses Hate! HILTON LAX PROTEST!
HILTON HOUSES HATE WEEKLY PROTEST
📍 LAX Hilton
🗓️ Sunday, February 15
⏰ 12:00–6:00 PM
Hilton continues to profit by housing ICE agents. The same agents responsible for raids, family separation, detention, and deportation in our communities. By providing rooms, meeting space, and logistical support, Hilton is choosing profit over people and becoming complicit in state violence.
That’s why we’re returning to the LAX Hilton for the second weekly Hilton Houses Hate protest. This is part of a sustained campaign to pressure Hilton to cut all ties with ICE and to stop profiting from human rights abuses.
Join us on February 15. Come for an hour or stay all day. Bring signs, bring friends, and help us build the pressure Hilton can’t ignore.
No hotels for hate. No business with ICE. ✊
Music & Matcha With Cafe Rosita!
✨ Cafe Rosita After Hours: Music & Matcha ✨
Join us for a late-night Cafe Rosita takeover 💘
Follow @caferosita on Instagram for more info!
📅 Friday, February 13th
⏰ 6–11 PM | 21+
📍 Los Angeles, CA
Music, matcha, tattoos, art, and local vendors all under one roof—plus specialty DRRRKØØØ drinks all night.
🎨🖋️🫖
🎟️ Admission: $13
Come for the vibes, stay for the art, leave caffeinated and inspired.
Resistance Cinema Presents: The Black KKKlansman
Resistance Cinema Presents: BlacKkKlansman
February 1st, 2026 • 7:45 PM
Whammy! Theaters 2514 Sunset Blvd Rear, Los Angeles, CA, 90026.
Resistance Cinema returns with a powerful screening of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. A blistering, darkly funny, and deeply unsettling true story of resistance from within the belly of white supremacy. Set in the 1970s but unmistakably relevant today, the film follows Ron Stallworth, the first Black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, as he infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a Jewish colleague, exposing the banality, violence, and persistence of organized hate.
This is not just a movie night. It’s a collective reckoning with history, policing, fascism, and the ways white supremacist movements rebrand and resurface across generations. BlacKkKlansman forces us to confront how closely the past mirrors the present, and why resistance, solidarity, and vigilance remain necessary.
Join us for an evening of cinema as a tool for political education, cultural resistance, and shared reflection.
Film screening
Showtime: 7:45 PM
Whammy! Theaters, Hollywood
Come early, bring friends, stay engaged
Resistance Cinema: because watching together is an act of resistance.
Public Townhall Volunteer Meeting
ICE Breakers Public Town Hall + Volunteer Meeting
Join us as we build the next phase of the movement!
We’re gathering to break down everything we accomplished in December. From our escalating Spotify actions to our ongoing Home Depot pressure campaign, And to map out how we’re ramping things up for the next wave. Momentum is real, and we’re ready to push even harder.
We’ll also be talking about our art pop-up, how powerful it was as a community touchpoint, and the future pop-ups we’re bringing to neighborhoods across the city. Plus: an update on our canvassing program and why hitting the streets and talking directly with our community has been one of the most impactful things we’ve done.
This meeting is open to everyone — and we are actively looking for folks ready to take on volunteer roles as we scale up. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to get involved… this is it.
✊ Come through. Bring ideas. Bring energy. Let’s grow the team and grow the power.
Hilton Houses Hate Kickoff Protest!
HILTON HOUSES HATE
January 29, 2021
10:30 AM
Los Angeles Airport Hilton
Hilton wants you to think they are neutral but they aren’t.
Hilton houses ICE providing rooms, comfort, and infrastructure to an agency responsible for family separation, detention, deportation, and death. This is how corporate America launders violence: clean sheets, polite smiles, and contracts signed in silence.
When ICE sleeps at Hilton, raids begin in our neighborhoods.
When Hilton takes the money, they take a side.
This action is about calling it out loudly and publicly.
No more hiding behind “hospitality.”
No more profiting off terror.
We’re bringing the noise to the Los Angeles Airport Hilton to make one thing clear:
Housing ICE is housing hate.
Comfort for ICE means violence for our communities.
Bring noisemakers.
Bring signs.
Bring your rage, your love, and your refusal to be silent.
This is nonviolent resistance.
This is public accountability.
This is how we make support for ICE bad for business.
No comfort for corporations that house hate.
Open Tactics and Strategy And Non Violent Direct Action Training.
TACTICS, STRATEGY & NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING
A playful, powerful, hands-on movement laboratory
Before we take the streets for a citywide day of action, we’re kicking things off with a two-hour interactive training at GAIA HQ that’s equal parts movement school, strategy game, and collective imagination experiment.
This is not a lecture.
This is learn-by-doing.
Together, we’ll break into small affinity groups and participate in a live, gamified campaign simulation where Los Angeles has been taken over by a Big Orange Bad Guy, masked federal agents are disappearing “undesirables,” and corporations are making a killing off the whole thing.
Your job?
Figure out how to take the system down. Nonviolently, creatively, and strategically.
WHAT YOU’LL ACTUALLY DO
Learn the difference between strategy and tactics (and why movements fail when they confuse the two)
Power-map corporations, oligarchs, financiers, media, and state actors
Practice nonviolent direct action tactics from disruption to divestment campaigns
Design actions inside affinity groups and see how power actually responds
Adapt when backlash hits and escalate collectively toward real leverage
Measure success beyond vibes, clicks, or crowd size
All of this happens through a fast-paced, playful training game where every group gets to act, adapt, and collaborate toward a shared strategy.
WHO’S JOINING US
This training is being facilitated by experienced organizers and movement builders from around the country, including:
Jolly Good Ginger
Da Woke Farmer
Chelsea Gods
plus a whole crew of seasoned activists who’ve run campaigns, shut down corporations, and survived the backlash.
These are people who’ve won fights, made mistakes, learned the hard way. And are excited to train with you.
WHY THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN
Because:
You’ll be making decisions, not taking notes
You’ll be working in teams, not sitting silently
You’ll be laughing, plotting, role-playing, and building together
And you’ll leave with real skills you can use that same day in the streets
This training is designed to be accessible for first-timers and deeply satisfying for experienced organizers.
WHY IT MATTERS
We believe movements win when people:
Understand power
Act collectively
Stay nonviolent and disciplined
And know how to turn pressure into change
This training is how we practice that together.
Come for the fun.
Stay for the skills.
Leave ready to move power.
Shut Down LA City Wide Day of Action!
JANUARY 16, 2026 CITYWIDE DAY OF ACTION
Los Angeles | ICE Breakers x G.A.I.A x Coalition Partners
On January 16th, 2026, ICE Breakers and G.A.I.A are joining forces with dozens of grassroots organizations, artists, organizers, and community members such as Jolly Good Ginger, Resist The Coup, Human Liberation Coalition, Chelsea Gods, Da Woke Farmer and more! for a citywide day of action in Los Angeles.
This will be a coordinated escalation, rooted in nonviolence, strategy, and mass participation. Aimed at confronting the systems, corporations, and institutions that enable fascism, tyranny, and oligarchs who think they are beyond accountability.
11:00 AM TACTICS, STRATEGY & NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING
Hosted at G.A.I.A Headquarters 346 N Vermont Ave Koreatown
We will begin the day together with a tactics, strategy, and nonviolent direct action training led by experienced organizers. This training is designed for first-time participants and seasoned activists alike.
The training will cover:
Nonviolent direct action principles
De-escalation and safety
Affinity groups and action roles
Legal considerations and risk levels
How today’s actions fit into a
larger strategy to pressure billionaire oligarchs, fascist and supremacist ideologies, and Corporations that profit from suffering.
Attendance at the training is strongly encouraged, especially for anyone participating in actions later in the day.
CONVERGENCE MARCH TO METROPOLITAN DETENTION CENTER
2-5pm 535 Alameda DTLA
After training together we will converge to the occupation protest, all groups will converge and march together to the Metropolitan Detention Center.
This convergence represents:
Collective power
Solidarity across movements
A direct challenge to the machinery of detention
This is a moment of unity. Many fronts becoming one.
ESCALATION TESLA DINER TAKEDOWN PROTEST
6pm-9pm 7001 Santa Monica Blvd
Following the MDC Occupation Protest, we will move into the final phase of the day:
Tesla Diner Takedown Protest
This action will confront corporate power and tech-enabled authoritarianism, calling out the role corporations play in surveillance, repression, and state violence.
Details and participation levels will be shared during the day.
WHAT TO EXPECT
A full day of coordinated action
Nonviolent, disciplined protest
Art, banners, sound, and movement energy
Clear leadership and marshaling
Opportunities for low-risk and higher-risk participation
WHAT TO BRING
Water, snacks, and weather-appropriate clothing
Comfortable shoes
A mask if you choose
Any personal medications
Signs, banners, instruments, and creative energy
ACCESSIBILITY & SAFETY
Nonviolent principles will be upheld throughout the day
Legal observers and safety marshals will be present
Participation is voluntary and based on personal comfort and risk level
WHY THIS MATTERS
ICE detention continues to tear families apart. Corporations continue to profit. Politicians continue to stall.
On January 16th, we refuse to be silent.
This is a day to train together, act together, and show what coordinated people power looks like.
Join us.
ICE Breakers Public Town Hall + Volunteer Meeting
ICE Breakers Public Town Hall + Volunteer Meeting
Join us as we build the next phase of the movement!
We’re gathering to break down everything we accomplished in December. From our escalating Spotify actions to our ongoing Home Depot pressure campaign, And to map out how we’re ramping things up for the next wave. Momentum is real, and we’re ready to push even harder.
We’ll also be talking about our art pop-up, how powerful it was as a community touchpoint, and the future pop-ups we’re bringing to neighborhoods across the city. Plus: an update on our canvassing program and why hitting the streets and talking directly with our community has been one of the most impactful things we’ve done.
This meeting is open to everyone — and we are actively looking for folks ready to take on volunteer roles as we scale up. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to get involved… this is it.
✊ Come through. Bring ideas. Bring energy. Let’s grow the team and grow the power.