Families and parent organizations have an important role to play in ensuring schools remain safe, structured, and supportive places for children to learn. This toolkit compiles ideas from education advocacy organizations in DC that your school community can try now or any time. 

In March, ICE agents tried to kidnap a DC school nurse on her way to work one morning. Putting school nurses into ICE detention won’t make DC communities safer.

We’re calling on all school communities to have morning and afternoon school support teams to support safe arrival and dismissal for all students.

As Black and Brown DC residents, we know that we are safer when we go together. Right now is a time to always travel with a partner, and to have each other’s backs. Take the We Go Together pledge with our partner Harriet’s Wildest Dreams.

MPD has identified four “Youth Curfew Zones” where young people will be subject to increased enforcement and potential arrest. These danger zones will put more DC children at risk of being violently arrested and detained by Trump’s terror squads. We are calling on DC neighbors to Adopt a Curfew Zone and help keep young people safe each night.

Urge Governor Bill Lee to end the Guard’s deployment in Washington, D.C. and reject any plan to send troops into Memphis.

Friends in Mississippi, send a letter to Governor Reeves right now telling him to recall your National Guard members from DC.

Friends in Louisiana, send a letter to Governor Landry right now telling him to recall your National Guard members from DC.

Friends in West Virginia, send a letter to Governor Morrissey right now telling him to recall your National Guard members from DC.

Friends in Ohio, send a letter to Governor DeWine right now telling him to recall your National Guard members from DC.

Friends in South Carolina, send a letter to Governor McMaster telling him to recall your National Guard members from DC.

Here are five important rights that everyone in DC needs to know right now.

Witness, document, and film law enforcement interactions with people experiencing poverty and homelessness. 

On August 11, Free DC held a press conference and rally to make it clear to Trump that DC is our home and it belongs to DC residents.

ICE depends on our federal tax dollars to carry out these attacks. It also depends on the services of hundreds of private companies. One of those companies is Amazon.

DC's local budget for fiscal year 2026 will either protect Home Rule or make the District more vulnerable to federal attacks. We want to make sure the DC Council uses this moment to support our local power.

On June 14, Free DC and Harriet’s Wildest Dreams co-hosted DC Joy Day, a celebration of resilience and community.