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Activism
ANSWER Coalition(Act Now to Stop War and End Racism): Initiated 3 day post 9/11 attacks, ANSWER initiated the massive U.S Antiwar movement opposing the U.S invasion of Iraq prior to 2004. ANSWER has many chapters around the U.S.
The Audre Lorde Project (ALP): ALP is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color center for community organizing in NYC. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. ALP was first brought together by Advocates for Gay Men of Color (a multi-racial network of gay men of color HIV policy advocates) in 1994.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI): A 2006 educational and advocacy group of Black Americans and Immigrants in response to the repression of laws considered by US Congress.
Black and Pink: Founded in 2005 on the principles of abolition to dismantle the criminal punishment system and liberate LGBTQIA2S+ people/people living with HIV who are affected by that system.
Black Womens Blueprint: Building Power with Black Women and Girls
Black Youth Project website: The BYP is a National platform that highlights the voices and ideas of Black millennials. Through knowledge, voice, and action, they work to empower and uplift the lived experience of today's Black youth. [Deep Roots in Chicago, but they have chapters]
She Safe, We Safe: Current National Campaign; a transformative movement campaign to put an end to different forms of gender violence that Black women, girls, femmes, and gender non-conforming people face daily.
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She Safe, We Safe: Current National Campaign; a transformative movement campaign to put an end to different forms of gender violence that Black women, girls, femmes, and gender non-conforming people face daily.
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Critical Resistance: Grassroots International Movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the inhumane beliefs that caging and controlling people makes us safe.
Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM): Multigenerational, members led organization of working class South Asian immigrants in NYC.
Generation Citizen: Since its founding, Generation Citizen has established an effective civics education program proven to get youth more involved in our democracy. Ultimately, as our mission dictates, we want to ensure every student in America receives an action civics education.
Innocence Project:The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
S.O.U.L Sisters Leadership Collective: Our programming aims to provide our S.O.U.L. Sisters with a powerful community of mentors, activists, educators, and healers that support young women, femmes, and gender non-conforming/gender non-binary youth of color blossoming into leaders with political and self awareness, creative problem solving skills, and strong ethics. We are sensitive to the needs of youth in the foster care, juvenile legal, special education, shelter, and mental health systems.
Survive and Punished Twitter. Survive and Punished Website. Working to end criminalization of survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP): is a collective organization founded on the understanding that gender self-determination is inextricably intertwined with racial, social and economic justice. Named after civil rights pioneer Sylvia River, the project continues her work by centralizing issues of systemic poverty and racism, and prioritizing the struggles of queer and trans people who face the most severe and multi-faceted discrimination.
Take Back The Bronx (TBTB): A group of Bronxites organizing for community control. Since 2011's Occupy Movement, TBTB advocated for community gardens, protested police harassment and murder, repairs from slumlords, and support workers.