What is the Community Defense Network?
LSURJ's Community Defense Network (CDN) is a collection of trained volunteers dedicated to keeping our immigrant neighbors safe. We work in partnership with the Louisville Immigrant Solidarity Council and other organizations serving impacted communities. Our work includes accompanying vulnerable communities, transporting released detainees from nearby detention centers, operating a 24/7 hotline, and patrolling high-risk locations.
In 2025 CDN members provided 3,000 hours of protection at community centers, field trips, festivals and more, allowing our immigrant neighbors to seek help, gather and support one another at an incredibly vulnerable time. We're covering over 50 accompaniment shifts for our community partners and nearly 40 patrol shifts every week!
In 2025 CDN members provided 3,000 hours of protection at community centers, field trips, festivals and more, allowing our immigrant neighbors to seek help, gather and support one another at an incredibly vulnerable time. We're covering over 50 accompaniment shifts for our community partners and nearly 40 patrol shifts every week!
CDN Training
LSURJ has trained over 400 people in Community Defense skills such as De-escalation, Know Your Rights, Accompaniment, Solidarity, and How Our Liberation is Connected to the Liberation of Others. We have a list of teams and individuals already responding to calls for accompaniment. We are serving at vulnerable gatherings, meet ups, centers that accompany directly impacted communities, doing court accompaniment and more.
The LSURJ CDN training is your first stop to be included in accompaniment, witness, ICE Watch, mutual aid, and whatever formation we may need to take as on-the-ground conditions change. We're now offering CDN 1.0 Training on the fourth Thursday of every month from 6 to 8pm. Registration is required. If you are interested in joining our Community Defense Network, please register for an upcoming CDN Training either In-Person or On-line here
The LSURJ CDN training is your first stop to be included in accompaniment, witness, ICE Watch, mutual aid, and whatever formation we may need to take as on-the-ground conditions change. We're now offering CDN 1.0 Training on the fourth Thursday of every month from 6 to 8pm. Registration is required. If you are interested in joining our Community Defense Network, please register for an upcoming CDN Training either In-Person or On-line here
CDN Hotline
We have volunteer bilingual (English/Spanish) hotline operators and response teams on call 24/7 ready to dispatch volunteers and assist our immigrant neighbors. Please put 502-830-9398 in your phone and share with people who might need it for themselves, people they work with, or at-risk places they often are. When you share, please remind folks to only report *verified* sightings and be ready to use the ALERTA method (Activity, Location, Equipment, Request Aid, Time & Date, Appearance & Size). Click here for links to the ALERTA flyer (and other useful information) in other languages. Feel free to print and distribute wherever you think would be most useful!
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Calor Humano
Our neighbors are being abducted and transported to jails hundreds or thousands of miles away from their families, their loved ones, and their homes. Kentucky has an estimated 1150 people detained across the state, often without a bed. Little regard is paid to the language they speak, their dietary or religious needs. Calor Humano, an LSURJ project, provides support for these neighbors through commissary fund donations, phone account funds, volunteer visits, legal aid support, and transport and care upon release. Please consider a donation to support this important project! Venmo: calor-humano-ky or Zelle: M Porter