Below are some resources, organizations, and toolkits I come to again and again, and lift up their work in solidarity. Sharing them in case they can connect deeper movement building and choices of solidarity.
Truthout
Truthout is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues. Founded in 2001, truthout anchors their principles in accuracy, and independence from influence of corporations and political forces. Movement Memos is a podcast covering broad experiences, stories, information, and more to encourage solidarity work and explore what organizing and movement-building might demand of us. This link above goes to a podcast and transcript with scholar, activist and author, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who continues to conduct powerful work in abolition geography, racial capitalism, and the connection of justice, place, and spatial analysis.
Save California Salmon
https://www.californiasalmon.org/
Save California Salmon is a newer nonprofit organization, recently awarded EPA funding to indigenous leaders and coalitions from Northern California. Their mission is dedicated to policy change and community advocacy for California salmon and fish dependent people, ensuring water and land protection. Their guiding principles support tribal rights, education, youth leadership, water advocacy, and outreach through media attention. Some highlights: a podcast, speaker’s series; educator resources (e.g. high school TEK curricula, posters), information to learn more about advocacy; water protection, TEK (traditional ecological knowledge); and indigenous studies.
JASS Just Power
https://justassociates.org/what-we-do/
JASS is a feminist movement support organization that equips community-based activists to organize and build lasting, systemic change from issues of violence, inequity, and planetary destruction. They build local-to-global networks in the Global South through issue-based organizing – and with a mission to transform systems that harm, as well as the beliefs that uphold them. Priority issues are defined by the leaders they work with, and intersect social, economic and environmental needs. Some highlights from their site: activists’ stories, zines, network building tools, and downloadable workbooks groups can engage with to build collective power.
Tools for Justice – Healing Racism Toolkit
https://tools4racialjustice.net/beginnings/introduction/
Tools for Justice – Healing Racism Toolkit is a source of many tools, definitions, assessment instruments, critical cartography resources, (and more) for white/white assumed individuals to engage in anti-racism work by addressing structural Whiteness. This might be exploring interpersonal associations that connect to behavioral choices or even organizational, policy level changes to address institutional racism. Sections are broken into categories of beginnings, understanding, acting, and becoming.
:: why tools and resources ::
In this program, I often reflect on what it means to be both living in parts of the city that’s under an academic focus, and also in the position of contributing to an academic focus. Whether this is in case studies, sourcing data and narratives to weave a story of what, why, how, and when; or even as an older student that comes in from building with grassroot communities – I take time to pause and center trust-building as a team, and with the lives we build with. I also come into this as someone who’s been part of federal research studies where harms are/can be felt long beyond the project. Maybe you too ask yourself these questions, or go through intentional acts prior to the vulnerable process of research within community transformation? If you have additional, value-minded sites, resources, and toolkits, please comment links our learning community might additionally explore.
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