PAID RESISTANCE: Anti-ICE Group Advertises Organizing Jobs at Up to $36 an Hour

Natalie Winters Subbstack ^ | 10/9/2026 | Natalie Winters

[cuz1961]

...One of the campaigns recruits would work on is ICE Breakers, which pressures businesses to cut support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The listing also names GAIA’s climate and housing campaigns.

GAIA’s own description of its training program identifies the goal:

“long-term, sustainable paid organizing positions”

The hourly rate—and the fundraising targets The advertisement lists a $23–$36 hourly range. Its detailed compensation pitch starts at $23 an hour plus bonuses, and claims most community organizers earn $26–$30 an hour...

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[cuz1961]

...Pressure the hotels—and their customers The group’s Hilton campaign plan demands a policy banning ICE and related immigration-enforcement agencies from staying at or using Hilton-branded properties.

It proposes recurring protests in Los Angeles, San Diego and Portland, timed to busy business hours. Supporters are also encouraged to make refundable reservations and cancel within the hotel’s policies to disrupt occupancy planning....

...From Greenpeace training to anti-ICE campaigns GAIA identifies Chris Abrahamsen as its founder. His organizational biography says he spent nearly five years at Greenpeace, where he received training in direct action, strategy and leadership while working in grassroots fundraising.

The biography traces ICE Breakers to his participation in Occupy ICE PDX in 2018 and a subsequent strategy of targeting businesses connected to immigration enforcement....

. ...On October 24–25, 2026, GAIA is scheduled to hold a two-day organizing summit in Los Angeles’s Koreatown, with the location disclosed after participants RSVP.

Attendees will rehearse a fictional campaign against “Stilton Hotels,” a corporation profiting from its relationship with an immigration-enforcement agency called “FICE.” Teams will practice choosing targets, building coalitions and adapting their tactics as the simulated campaign unfolds.

The advertised curriculum includes nonviolent direct action and “OPSEC & Security Culture”—training on protecting organizers and sensitive information. Other sessions cover de-escalation, protest rights, police encounters and arrest.

The invitation explicitly includes ICE Breakers organizers, students and people who have never organized before. Its closing pitch:

“Learn the tools. Build the strategy. Practice the resistance.”

The fictional hotel exercise mirrors the pressure GAIA proposes applying to real businesses. Its website states the intended endpoint:

“disrupt their operations until they cut ties.”

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[Mr. K]

It should be a crime to pay for protesters.

AT MINIMUM they should be REQUIRED to show paperwork that they are being paid, and carry signs saying “paid for by...” like they have to for political ads on TV and Radio.

Come to think of it... why can’t they use that law to force it? It is a paid political promotion after all.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Thanks to Natalie G. Winters. OUTSTANDING work!

[bert]

Find the money sources. Kill those who are activelly destroying the Republic

[Mr. K]

Paid protesters are advertisers and should be required to give notice

Yes I posted a link to my own discussion thread.

[unixfox]

George Soros & Co. should be hanging from a lamppost.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

I agree with Mr. K. Great idea. Paid protesters are not engaged in private or personal speech. They should be required to disclose payments just like other paid political ads.

[yesthatjallen]

RICO

[Racketeer]

Surely there are pro-ICE groups paying at least as much to promote ICE, right?

[zeestephen]

The current female Mayor of Seattle claimed employment as a Community Organizer for like the last ten years.

I had no idea the pay check rings in at $36 an hour.

That works out to $75,000 a year putting in a 40 hour week!

Her husband is a useless lay about who occasionally plays guitar and sings on the side walk for Tip Jar wages and takes care of their pre-school child.