ABO Comix
Oakland, CA
2019
ABO Comix is a collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ people experiencing incarceration through art.
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Assata's Daughters
Chicago, IL
2015
Assata's Daughters is a grassroots, intergenerational, organizing collective of Black women who love and support each other. Inspired by the Radical Monarchs, Assata’s Daughters was started to hold...
Betti Ono
Oakland, CA
2018
Betti Ono is an experimentally minded hub for art, culture, and community headquartered in Oakland, California that serves as cultural anchor and a safe space for artists of...
CIRCA Pintig
Chicago, IL
2018
CIRCA Pintig is a community arts organization dedicated to the development and popularization of community arts. Pintig which means pulse in Pilipino, was founded in April 1991, with...
Creating Freedom Movements: More Justice, More Joy
Richmond, CA
2018
Creating Freedom Movements is a year-long popular education program that nurtures visionary grassroots leaders who build beloved community, cross-issue solidarity and infrastructures of justice & joy. Bringing together...
Critical Resistance Oakland
Oakland, CA
2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe...
Detroit Independent Freedom Schools Movement (DIFS
Detroit, MI
2016
The mission of the Detroit Independent Freedom Schools Movement is to create free, African-centered, loving educational experiences for Detroit children and families by mobilizing community volunteers and resources...
Detroit Women of Color
Detroit, MI
2019
Detroit Women of Color's mission is to integrate film, social justice and collaboration to advance dialogue and community engagement to radically challenge oppressive systems, and to raise the...
Don't You Feel It Too?
Minneapolis, MN
2019
The mission of Don't You Feel It Too? (DYFIT) is to create a participatory public dance practice that reconnects people to the wisdom of their bodies, cultivates our...
For the Culture
Minneapolis, MN
2019
For the Culture holds multigenerational spaces of resistance and decolonization through rest, relationship building, and resource sharing among ‘healers’ and bodyworkers.
Forced Trajectory Project
Las Vegas, NV
2018
Forced Trajectory Project is a media organization dedicated to investigating excessive-use-of-force cases through primary sources such as witnesses and family members of police homicide victims, and uncovering the...
Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change
Detroit, MI
2018, 2017
Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change is a network of oral historians, activists, cultural workers, community organizers, and documentary artists that use oral history to further movement building...
Interaction Initiative Inc.
Mishawaka, IN
2019
Interaction Initiative Inc. cultivates and advances young people of color and their counter-narratives to build more just and equitable communities through education, activism, and healing.
Kite Line Radio
Bloomington, IN
2018
Kite Line Radio's goal is to amplify the voices of those confined within the prison system, while encouraging dialogue with those on the outside, in an effort to...
L.A. Rooted
Los Angeles, CA
2017, 2015, 2014
L.A. Rooted is a grassroots summer youth program which aims to cultivate youth leadership in the areas of environmental stewardship, community empowerment, food sovereignty and self-care. L.A. Rooted...