📣 Resource: Preparing Arts Venues for Immigration Enforcement 📣
Tamizdat’s guide helps music and performing arts venues prepare for ICE encounters, with guidance on staff training, public and private spaces, warrants, emergency contacts, and response plans to protect artists, staff, and audiences.
📣 Artist as First Responder: Investing in Artists Who Care for Communities 📣
Artist as First Responder centers and supports Black, Indigenous, and artists and culture-bearers of color whose creative practices heal communities, through public forums, residencies, archives, and exhibitions.
📣 Artists + Cultural Workers Organize to Defend Democracy 📣
The People vs. Project 2025 is building a national network of artists and cultural workers using creative practice and grassroots organizing to defend civil rights, cultural freedom, and democratic institutions.
📣 Arts Workers United + No Kings 📣
Arts Workers United has created resources connecting artists and cultural workers with the No Kings movement, using art and creative action as tools for nonviolent civic engagement.
📣 Updated Immigration Enforcement Guidance for Nonprofits 📣
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Lawyers Alliance for New York offer practical guidance to help nonprofits prepare for ICE activity, including what to do if agents arrive onsite or issue a subpoena.
📣 Resource: Preparing Employers for ICE Audits + Enforcement 📣
Holland & Knight’s FAQ outlines steps employers can take now to prepare for increased immigration enforcement, from reviewing I-9 compliance to establishing protocols for ICE audits and workplace visits.
📣 USCIS Changes Evidence Requirements for Artist Visa Petitions 📣
Artists from Abroad reports that effective immediately, USCIS may deny O and P artist visa petitions for insufficient evidence without first requesting additional materials. Petitioners should carefully review evidentiary requirements and submit complete documentation with their initial filing.
📣 New ArtsVote Toolkit for Arts Advocacy 📣
ArtsVote has launched a new toolkit with marketing assets, templates, case studies, and other resources to help communities advocate for the arts and connect local action to the national ArtsVote campaign.
📣 Aspen Institute: Opportunity in America 📣
The Aspen Institute’s Opportunity in America series explores how race, gender, and place shape economic opportunity, and highlights policies and strategies for expanding equitable access to economic mobility, work, and business ownership.
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