With an imminent surge in ICE activity expected, Mesa Valley Indivisible used our donations and asked our INCREDIBLE volunteers, Melanie & Claudia, to produce thousands of Whistle Kits to help protect our most vulnerable community members. The goal is to get as many whistles as possible in the hands of Mesa residents and provide them with the tools to keep their neighborhoods safe.

Please contact us at mesavalleyindivisible@gmail.com if you would like to pick up our Whistle Kits at no charge and/or helping us distribute these free Whistle Kits.

Preparing & Protecting our Mesa Neighborhoods

If you feel like you don’t know what to do in this traumatic time with ICE, one of the best things that non vulnerable people can do in our community is be active bystanders: if you see ICE, come out of your home, your work, get out of your car if it’s safe, and be present. You can blow the whistle to alert the vulnerable population so they know not to come out. Three short sounds on the whistle repeated means ICE is present, one long sound on the whistle repeated means ICE is taking someone. If you’re one of the vulnerable populations and hear the whistle codes: stay inside, lock the doors if you’re able, alert your community in all ways you can.

In cities like Chicago, Minneapolis, LA, etc., people are coming together and actually driving ICE out of their neighborhoods due to the number of people willing to step forward as active bystanders. They wear their whistles as they move through their neighborhoods and go about their lives, and they step in when they see someone being taken. We are trying to inspire our willing residents to do the same. These people are not criminals; most often they’re people landscaping, doing construction, baby sitting, cleaning homes, working in restaurants etc. They’re our neighbors with families and kids and they’re getting taken and presumed guilty without Due Process, which is illegal according to our Constitution and law.

Whistle Kits Distribution Points:

• Share whistles with care 

• Do not give them to children. The whistles are not toys.

• Please only use for ICE alerting

• Please do not let these go to waste. Take only what you are absolutely certain you can hand out directly to folks in Mesa.

• Don’t leave them in big baskets for people to take. 

• Share them person-to-person as much as possible

• Share in bulk with organizations who will definitely pass them out. 

• Visit the areas in your community which have been most targeted and ask if you can leave them with businesses where people gather 

• Shops, restaurants, supermarkets, food trucks, etc

• Supply them to your local teachers the next time you’re supporting arrival or dismissal times

• Walk around neighbourhoods and meet the people living there— ask them to share whistles with their family and neighbours, 

• Drop them off in the little libraries in your community

• Take them to meetings where people are organizing

• Leave a bundle with your local library

• Share whistles person-to-person or through local organizations.

• Drop a handful of whistle kits in a community fridge

• Share the whistle codes online, explain whistle codes at local gatherings, talk to your neighbors, and make a community safety plan together. 

• Create a neighborhood Signal group chat so your street is connected and prepared. Email us at mesavalleyindivisible@gmail.com if you need help!

• Tell a friend who tells a friend. Every echo helps. Every whistle makes the network stronger.

• Keep the message alive—protect each other, stay loud, and stay connected!