Speaking Up: Community Stories from the Anti-ICE Resistance

Speaking Up is a community-driven podcast documenting what is happening in real time to people and neighborhoods impacted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement—and how communities are responding when silence is no longer an option. This show exists because too much of what happens during immigration enforcement never makes it into official records. Raids are reduced to press releases. Detentions are described as procedures. Harm is flattened into language that avoids responsibility. Meanwhile, the people living through it are left to carry the consequences alone. Speaking Up is about changing that. At the center of this project are first-person stories—shared directly by community members through one-on-one interviews and a voice message submission system. These are voices speaking in their own words, on their own terms, about what they’ve seen, experienced, and survived. Some stories describe encounters with ICE. Others describe the ripple effects: families disrupted, workplaces empt