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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All Real Radio
Houston, TX
2019
Since June 2014, All Real Radio has worked to establish a strong base to bring poignant, diverse, and socially-responsible commentary and events, along with positive music, to the...
Arizona Community Media Foundation
Tempe, AZ
2012
Arizona Community Media Foundation was formed by concerned citizens who desire to provide access to independent, educational, community-focused broadcast media outlets serving Arizona. We exist to provide a...
Barrio Writers
Austin, TX
2018
Barrio Writers (BW) is a creative writing program founded by author Sarah Rafael García, which provides free college level writing workshops to teenagers in underserved communities. In the...
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...
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...
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...
Gender Portraits
Austin, TX
2018
Gender Portraits mission is to advocate for transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people through art.
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...
LibroMobile
Santa Ana, CA
2018
LibroMobile is a literary project that integrates literature, visual exhibits, year-round creative workshops, and live readings to cultivate diversity in Santa Ana.
Practicing Freedom Collective
Oakland, CA
2014
Practicing Freedom supports communities to generate and enact their own solutions while strengthening their relationships through Popular Education practices. We amplify the liberatory, participatory and humanizing potential of...
Qilombo
Oakland, CA
2017, 2015
The project, which was initially called The Holdout, was started in 2011 by a group of mostly white anarchists as a social space, events space, bookstore and bike...
Reclaim Ugly
San Leandro, CA
2019
Reclaim UGLY spreads awareness about uglification; how it’s been used to service white supremacy, patriarchal religious dogma, imperialism, fatphobia, and hetero-cissexism; how it validates bullying; and how we...
Red Salmon Arts
Austin, TX
2017
Red Salmon Arts (RSA) is a cultural arts organization, with a thirty-year history of working with the indigenous neighborhoods of Austin. RSA is dedicated to the development of...