September 28 2026 at 7:30PM
The Wyncote NW Forum at Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.)
Seattle, 98101 United States
Throughout America, communities have been facing increasingly aggressive state enforcement under the banner of immigration control. Under the Trump Administration, ICE has vastly increased its presence, arrests, deportations, and has even caused the death of American citizens. In the face of what many call an authoritarian crackdown, communities have come together to resist and provide aid, protection, and awareness around the presence of ICE in neighborhoods across the country. The fight against ICE is multifaceted and occurs at all different levels. Whether in the streets, through advocacy, or social organizing, a frontline has emerged which directly challenges the actions and existence of ICE and the MAGA movement.
Award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author, Sonali Kolhatkar, reports on these issues from the ground level. Her new book, Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism, is a ripping, vivid account of the growing movement against state violence, featuring interviews with those on the frontlines of the fight for immigrant justice. Kolhatkar highlights the divide between the ICE agents, the DHS, and their supporters, terrorizing communities throughout the United States with the threat of arrest and deportation, versus the growing national movement dedicated to protecting communities, reversing racist and authoritarian policies, and otherwise challenging MAGA’s violent anti-immigration regime.
In Breaking ICE, Kolhatkar presents her conversations with over a dozen movement organizers, lawyers, artists, labor leaders, and scholars. Through courageous storytelling, she documents the impact of ICE violence, workplace raids, mass surveillance, and intimidation tactics, and highlights how communities from Maine to California are organizing for a better world. Kolhatkar asserts that our present actions will not only determine the nature of American demographics moving forward, but also whether the future of the United States will look like an open multiracial democracy or a fascist police state.
Join us in the Forum at Town Hall Seattle for an honest and urgent discussion over the divisive actions of ICE and the Trump Administration, centered around a multitude of voices and reports from the frontlines.
Sonali Kolhatkar is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the host of Rising Up With Sonali, a weekly television and radio program that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates around the United States. She is also the author of Talking About Abolition: A Police Free World Is Possible and Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice. She has won numerous awards, including Best TV Anchor and Best National Political Commentary from the LA Press Club, and has been nominated for Best Radio Anchor four years in a row.