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SanctuaryNC

SanctuaryNC

Published: February 23, 2017

A collection of resources for groups and individuals seeking to support targeted communities in North Carolina. Currently, most of the resources are aimed at immigrant communities, but we are explicitly and intentionally supportive of all targeted communities, including Black, Muslim, Jewish, and Trans/LGB communities and women & girls.

We have contacts working on Sanctuary efforts in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Durham, Charlotte and Raleigh right now. For more info and contacts in those cities, email: LKhamala@afsc.org.

Individuals in Sanctuary in North Carolina

  • Please visit www.afsc.org/NCsanctuary  to learn more about the courageous sanctuary leaders who are at the forefront of this movement—and join us in rejecting unjust and inhumane policies and practices. Sign their petitions to help protect Juana, Jose, Samuel, Eliseo, Oscar and others from deportation. And join us in calling for humane policies that welcome and respect the dignity of all people.  For information about how to host a guest in Sanctuary, scroll down to the Congregational Sanctuary section.

General links

  • AFSC #SanctuaryEverywhere website
  • #SanctuaryEverywhere 2 minute video!
  • SanctuaryEverywhere flyer
  • Protect Each Other NC website  // Protect Each Other NC (PEONC) Facebook site 
  • AFSC's Communities Against Islamophobia website
  • Raleigh based Movement to End Racism & Islamophobia (MERI) website
  • Movement for Black Lives policy platform
  • Excellent article about present-day Abolitionism

 

Should you share info about checkpoints/raids on social media? Read this first!

 

Resources for K-12 schools

 

Know your rights

  • ACLU Know Your Rights page
    The most comprehensive Know Your Rights information that we know about. Includes resources for police encounters, LGBTQ teens, visits by ICE, people with disabilities, pregnant and/or breastfeeding workers, protestors, Muslims, and much more.

 

Emergency planning for immigrant families

Only work with reputable, experienced, licensed attorneys when filling out Power of Attorney forms.

 

Raids & community response

 

Police accountability

 

Sanctuary city resources

 

Congregational sanctuary

Discerning if your congregation's path includes offering physical sanctuary

Toolkits, guides and information on offering congregational Sanctuary

Legal considerations

Reflections on the role of allies in the Sanctuary movement by Jeanette Vizguerra, formerly in Sanctuary

Articles

Articles about Juana Tobar Ortega's Sanctuary case in North Carolina (May 31, 2017)

Supporting Inviduals in Sanctuary in NC

  • Please visit www.afsc.org/NCsanctuary  to learn more about the courageous sanctuary leaders who are at the forefront of this movement—and join us in rejecting unjust and inhumane policies and practices. Sign their petitions to help protect Juana, Jose, Samuel, Eliseo, Oscar and others from deportation. And join us in calling for humane policies that welcome and respect the dignity of all people. 

College campus resources

 

Bystander intervention

Note: Many communities do not feel safer with the police presence; get consent before calling 911 except in case of serious physical harm.

 

Art & graphics

 

Additional Resources