This week, Mayor Sean M. Ryan issued his first executive order, formally prohibiting the use of City of Buffalo personnel or resources for federal civil immigration enforcement. Also this week, Colored Girls Bike Too announced that they have co-authored an activist toolkit, How Suppression of the Black Radical Tradition Gave Rise to the Era of ICE Terror, launching February 2026 for Black History month, in collaboration with several Buffalo-based, Black-led organizations, including Liberation for One, Liberation for All (LOLA), and Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment (DOPE Collective), links below.
A Know Your Rights training will be held on January 30 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM, focused on the Black experience in the United States and the impacts of ICE and state violence. Click here to register.
A virtual option is also available.
In addition to the training, the toolkit will officially launch during Black History Month, as part of a commitment to honoring the “Black Radical Tradition not only as history, but as a living political practice necessary for survival, resistance, and liberation today.”
Jalonda Hill, Founder and Executive Director of Colored Girls Bike Too, says, “as recent developments involving rampant, unchecked ICE encounters escalate, so does the need for heightened community discussions and far-reaching actions.” Adding, “The toolkit was developed in the wake of the murders of Keith Porter Jr., Renée Good, Alex Pretti, and others… and to honor all Black and Brown people who have been killed as a result of state-sanctioned violence and white supremacist enforcement.
Hill wants readers to know that this toolkit is for everyone: “We want people to use it to learn not only about ICE and how it is impacting our neighbors and our country, but also about how ICE functions as an extension of the state-sanctioned violence that Black and Brown communities have experienced for generations.”
Hill hopes this toolkit reminds people, as they protest and fight back against ICE, to also honor, respect, and study the Black Radical Tradition and to understand that,
Until Black people are free, no one is free.
“For us, these murders are not isolated tragedies. They are political portals calling people in to deepen their understanding of how such violence is the direct result of the white supremacist and imperial foundations of the United States, foundations that have long terrorized Black communities and people across the Global Majority.”
To receive a copy when published, or for additional events and information on how to get involved, follow:
- Colored Girls Bike Too
- Liberation for One, Liberation for All – LOLA Buffalo
- Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment – DOPE Collective
