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January 29, 2026, New York — In support of the national shutdown January 30, 2026, Executive Director Vince Warren made the following statement:
The Center for Constitutional Rights endorses the national shutdown this Friday, January 30. To be clear, ICE is a machinery of state violence—tearing families apart, disappearing our neighbors, murdering people, and expanding its reach under an administration accelerating authoritarian rule. In this moment, silence is complicity.
We call on people across the country to act together, visibly and decisively. Mobilize: Organize your members to walk out of schools, off the job, and away from the stores this Friday at 2 PM. Withdraw your labor and your consent from a system that thrives on fear. Demand: Call your senators to vote NO to ICE funding. Every dollar appropriated is a choice to deepen harm and erode the rule of law.
History will remember who stood up when the state targeted the most vulnerable. This is that hour. Disrupt. Refuse. Demand accountability—now.
For more information on the shutdown: https://nationalshutdown.org/
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, the Center for Constitutional Rights has taken on oppressive systems of power, including structural racism, gender oppression, economic inequity, and governmental overreach. Learn more at ccrjustice.org.