There is a demand for locally printed whistles for communities where ICE is or forecast to be.
If you are interested in printing whistles for your area, search “ICE whistles [your area]”. You can use either your state or major nearby city. If you are interested in printing whistles, but can’t find anything, let me know and I can see if I can find a local org you can support.
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I’m planning on printing up quarter-page sheets on the importance your community plays in getting ICE to leave, and starting a Signal group for my neighborhood and including the QR code on there. Then printing a bunch of whistles and putting them with the flyers in mailboxes in my neighborhood.
I’ve printed a ton of these for a protest in the spring and they’re super loud: https://makerworld.com/models/502788?appSharePlatform=copy
I printed a dozen of these and they’re fast and cheap but maybe not as loud as the other (they’re designed to print on their side): https://makerworld.com/models/2245044?appSharePlatform=copy
When I get home after the weekend I’m going to print these two to see if they’re louder or cheaper/faster to print (or both!). If they are I’ll use them for the above exercise.
Printed ones are great - I’d never say not to. But cheap whistles bought in bulk are way less expensive.
The advantage of printed whistles is being able to put the phone number on the whistle. Trying to get a phone number on a bulk whistle is not easy.
I missed a phone number part? What number?
To the org that provides support to those abducted by ICE. Each state or geographical area has a different org and number, so unless you print blank whistles, you need to ensure that you have the correct info.
You can check it out here: https://linktr.ee/wa.whistles
Sadly it’s not just a question of expensive anymore, it’s also a question of whether they can track your purchases (they can) and whether those purchase records will eventually have ICE banging down your door in the middle of the night to have you disappeared for your seditious act of buying justice-obstructing terrorist whistles.
3d printing is not impossible to track either but it’s certainly a lot harder to track when you are using basic internet hygiene and money isn’t changing hands.
I don’t care if they track my purchase of whistles. There is nothing wrong or illegal.
That’s the problem with authoritarianism: it no longer matters what is legal or not (the repressive state does as it pleases), and even if it did matter what’s legal, too bad that’s not up to you to decide anymore.
Still couldn’t give a shit
Precisely, and you giving one or not doesn’t change the outcome when they come pick you up and you have no recourse.
Sure I do. Its just not legal
And which state apparatus do you expect to come to the rescue when all powers are practically consolidated, and the one supposed to protect your rights is the same that oppresses you? Or the oppressor changes/makes-up the rules on a whim? You just don’t seem to understand what authoritarianism is about, and how the deal is changing. Haven’t you been taught history? People generally don’t bring up words like “fascism” for fun and giggles…
I mean, we live in a time when 3d printed guns exist, I’m pretty sure having a 3d printer and ordering filament is probably about as likely to get you on a list as ordering some whistles
But whistles are readily available and cheap, without looking too hard I can get a dozen from them at target for less than $5 with lanyards. Leave your phone at home, pay cash, take a bus or park in the next shopping center over or wear a mask like you’re getting over a cold and a baseball cap and you’re about as anonymous as you can get.
Can probably get them even cheaper if you shop around a bit, if you have a party store around you I’ll bet you can get a bunch there for cheap as party favors for a children’s birthday party goody bag or whatever.
At the end of the day everyone’s got to do their own risk analysis, but ICE is also pretty reactionary and stupid in their gestapo tactics, and people aren’t regularly shooting ICE with 3d printed guns at this point. The whistles probably (hopefully) irritate them though, and they tend to aggressively lash out at things that irritate them.
Counterpoint: Flock cameras also exist. Surveillance police state dystopia is already here and it’s spreading much faster than I think most people are prepared for, we have to take it seriously.
Printed whistles are like 4 cents each. I haven’t checked but I’d be surprised if you could buy them for cheaper than that. Also, I have so many points on Makerworld that filament is free
Huh, really? $100 for a bucket of 50 with lanyards does come out more expensive, then, assuming people have some spare yarn/cord/old lanyards around. I assumed there was no way bulk production wasn’t more expensive, but maybe the supply chain / middle men catch up.
Those are expensive… just a quick search on aliexpress and I found 50 whistles for 5€ including lanyards.
/edit: free shipping if you go over 10€, so 100 whistles.
I have printed a few
I want to print some more and make little bags with a whistle and a zine in it and start taping them to utility poles around town
That is a great whistle, but way too much filament and print time compared to the ICE whistles that have been optimized for print speed, noise volume and size for easy carry.
Any links to the models?
I apologize for not getting back sooner.
Start here: https://linktr.ee/wa.whistles
No problem, thank you!
I just printed a few hundred and donated them to a local organization in town. A friend of mine is working with them and I asked if they wanted whistles and they were happy to get them.
