This whistle fights fascists

"Even I print whistles now. It's the first thing I do each morning after dropping kids at school, and the very last before bed. Usually, I squeeze in a hundred more after dinner. I print whistles because reality still matters; whistles get neighbors to come running, make sure enough people are recording, so when the regime pretends there's only one camera angle of Renee Good's death, we know the truth."

"Across the country, people are realizing these printers can serve a bigger purpose than building toys and trinkets. Whether someone is looking for 100 whistles to protect friends and family, 200 for a church or school, or 1,000 for a whole neighborhood, requests are flooding in, each one vetted and added to a spreadsheet by volunteers. No one is told what to do, which whistle to print, or which request to fulfill."

Kit Rocha and Courtney Milan helped organize distribution of half a million whistles to warn communities about ICE activity. The project shipped whistles to 49 states, including 200,000 in the first week of February. Volunteers produce whistles with home 3D printers; one volunteer reported printing over 12,000 since January 15 with three printers and harvesting batches multiple times daily. The whistles cost roughly five cents each even with retail filament and high California electricity and are more cost-effective than drop-shipping. Requests for hundreds or thousands of whistles are vetted by volunteers and assigned via decentralized Signal chats without central leadership.

Read at The Verge