The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign is building a movement that unites the poor across color lines. Poverty afflicts Americans of all colors. Daily more and more of us are downsized and impoverished. We share a common interest in uniting against the prevailing conditions and around our vision of a society where we all have the right to health care, housing, living wage jobs, and access to quality primary, secondary, and higher education.

PCASC educates and mobilizes community members, workers and students around struggles for human rights and social justice throughout the Americas. PCASC values building a sustainable progressive movement. We believe that education, action, and leadership are key components of building our movement. It is vital to invest in strengthening the political analysis and organizing skills of our members and volunteers.PCASC supports communities in their struggles to control their own lives. Our emphasis is on building direct relationships in the communities that we support and respond to their needs. We use our resources to amplify community voices.PCASC creates a space for those with anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-racist values to build community and foster conversations about these values with other members of our community.

Portland Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC) is a group of individual community members and organizations, representing the most-impacted groups (Native Americans, African-Americans/Black, immigrants, and houseless) in the billion dollar Willamette River Superfund cleanup.

Power Street Theatre Company (PSTC) is home to a collective of fierce multicultural and multidisciplinary artists dedicated to connecting communities through the performing arts by sharing powerful stories that innovate and inspire. ​

Formerly the Practicing Freedom Collective, Partners for Collaborative Change is an organization made up of educators, facilitators, artists and organizers who each bring decades of experience in collaborative, transformative work. Our theory and methodologies are rooted in Popular Education, Theatre of the Oppressed, Participatory Action Research and Healing Justice. PFCC works for organizational, interpersonal and personal transformation through pedagogical practices that support the development of critical consciousness.

Citizens for Preserving Floyd County is a Virginia organization that was founded in the late 1970s by Wayne Bradburn and other concerned Floyd citizens to stop the 765 kilovolt Dominion power lines.Although the power lines divided the county geographically, they united county residents of all kinds in opposing the industrialization of a rural, farming-oriented community.With the arrival of new industrial proposals, such as the EQT gas pipeline, PreserveFloyd will be the the embodiment of the spirit of CPFC by which we will organize and distribute information, encourage conversation and active participation in the issues, and, if necessary, oppose industrial and corporate projects that threaten the rural character, natural integrity and health of Floyd County.

We go by a lot of names– some people know us as the San Francisco chapter of Pride at Work. Some people know us as HAVOQ– usually translated as the Horizontal Alliance of Very (or Voraciously or Vaguely) Organized Queers. Whatever you call us, we’re a collective of queers fighting for economic and social justice.We are the LGBTQ arm of the labor movement, actively campaigning to protect workers’ rights to organize and defending queer justice in the workplace. Our group also organizes to build tenant power in San Francisco, to ward off the gentrification of queer neighborhoods and stop the displacement of communities. We work to resist the ongoing attacks on immigrants, the homeless, and other frequently targeted members of our communities, in hopes that our city will one day be a safe place for all people. We stand with all workers, tenants, immigrants and queers in the spirit of the union movement’s historic motto: An Injury to One is An Injury to All.Everyday we are building a strong queer voice for justice through grassroots organizing. Wherever we go we are a fabulous and energetic presence in the streets. Every voice makes us stronger- Join us

Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) is a prison abolitionist group committed to exposing and challenging all forms of institutionalized racism, sexism, able-ism, heterosexism, and classism, specifically within the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). PARC believes in building strategies and tactics that build safety in our communities without reliance on the police or the PIC. We produce a directory that is free to prisoners upon request, and seek to work in solidarity with prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends and families. We also work with teachers and activists on many prison issues. This work includes building action networks and materials that expose the continuing neglect and outright torture of more than 2 million people imprisoned within the USA; as well as the 5 million-plus who are under some form of surveillance and control by the so-called justice system.

When the gender-specific jail opened in Chicopee in 2008, co-founders Lisa Andrews and Marianne Bullock understood that incarcerated women are not offered the full spectrum of reproductive options, healthcare, and support available to women on the outside given the social, economic, and political oppression that accompanies the carceral system. Thus, they co-founded the Prison Birth Project (PBP) to go beyond support. In particular, PBP works within a reproductive justice framework to provide support, education, advocacy, and leadership training with people at the intersection of the criminal justice system and motherhood.Since 2008, organizational meetings have evolved from front-yard get-togethers to strategic planning meetings with fellow reproductive justice organizers. Nearly all PBP staff have experience with incarceration or feeder systems including DCF, court stipulated programs, juvenile programs, personally and/or through loved ones. Women in our programs can receive services such as doula support, personal advocacy, education in childbirth, and breastfeeding support. We also offer curriculum that begins to undo oppression and teaches organizing methods. Members attend conferences and organize for legislative change on policies directly affecting incarcerated women and families.In 2011, we transitioned from co-directors to a collective model as our decision-making body. The Leadership Circle (LC) was formalized as the center of visioning, logistics, and management of all organizational spheres. Each sphere manages an aspect of the organization (i.e., Operations, Programs, Fundraising). Sphere members make decisions by consensus and at least one is a voting member of the LC. To plan our future, we conduct the same visioning process on the outside and inside to ensure we incorporate ideas from all members into our strategic plan. Our next steps will be to create a committee of currently incarcerated leaders, and to mentor released Mothers Among Us and The Doula Project participants to take LC positions.

Prison Health News is a communication and organizing tool for currently incarcerated people creating health justice movements.

The Prisoner Justice and Whistleblower Support Campaign (PJWSC) developed out of the Dallas 6 Support Campaign, which was organized by prisoners and family members to defend Carrington Keys, Andre Jacobs, Anthony Kelley, Anthony Locke, and Derrick Stanley, who were brutally dragged from their solitary confinement cells at SCI Dallas and stripped, beaten, pepper sprayed and tasered. This attack was in retaliation for their reporting other abuses in the prison, such as guards using racial slurs, urinating into prisoners’ food, unjustly beating and starving prisoners, and strapping them into restraint chairs for hours on end.Shortly after the attack in 2010, the Dallas 6 were criminally charged with rioting. Their trial has been postponed for nearly 6 years, and is now set for February 1, 2016. Shandre Delaney, along with the help of other family members and activists on the outside, built the Dallas 6 Support Campaign to defend the men, and to rally the public against abuses occurring in the prisons and courts of Pennsylvania. Through multiple demonstrations, action alerts, speaking events, radio episodes, and news articles, the Support Campaign has built up pressure against abuse in the prisons and abusive criminal prosecutions.In 2014, Delaney, alongside advisory committee members Derrick Stanley (of the Dallas 6) and Phoebe Jones (of Global Women’s Strike), and other supporters, decided to further develop their work and founded the Prisoner Justice and Whistleblower Support Campaign (PJWSC). PJWSC is dedicated to protecting whistleblowers on the inside, and amplifying the truths they expose to people on the outside. By focusing on one to two individual prisoner’s cases at a time, meeting with government and prison officials, leading demonstrations, and movement building with other powerful organizations intent on destroying the racist, classist system of mass incarceration, we aim to secure the safety, dignity, and humanity of people behind bars in Pennsylvania.

Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (PHSS) is a coalition based in the Bay Area made up of grassroots organizations & community members committed to amplifying the voices of and supporting the prisoners at Pelican Bay & other CA prisons while on hunger strike.In the Spring of 2011, prisoners inside Pelican Bay State Prison contacted prisoner-rights and anti-prison activist organizations announcing 50-100 prisoners would be beginning a rolling hunger strike on July 1st, and that they needed support making sure their voices and demands were heard and acted on outside prison walls.The prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison (California) began what became a historic hunger strike to protest the cruel, inhumane and tortuous conditions of their imprisonment & to improve the treatment of SHU-status prisoners throughout California. At least 6,600 prisoners across the state of CA joined in solidarity with the Pelican Bay hunger strikers’ demands.After entering negotiations with the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation (CDCR) and refusing food for nearly four weeks, the prisoner hunger strike representatives at Pelican Bay’s SHU called for a stop to the hunger strike on July 20th to give the CDCR a few weeks to implement substantial changes to their policies & comply with the prisoners’ demands. The CDCR failed to follow through, so prisoners throughout the state resumed the hunger strike on Sept 26th, 2011, and say they will continue striking until these changes are made.This courageous action falls within a long legacy of prisoner-led resistance throughout the world, including inside both men and women’s prisons in the US. As such, these struggles are connected to global struggles against inequality and powerlessness, for self-determination and liberation.

Project Ava is a media nonprofit providing a platform for those of underrepresented identities to share their stories to spark progressive dialogue.

Project Hajra is a membership based, peer supported, and transformative justice initiative working out of our local AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South/Central Asian) community in Queens, NYC. We began in 2011 in partnership with CONNECT-NYC to develop gender justice organizing programs by and for us. We know that immigrant women of color have been doing creative organizing work to end violence without recognition. We work to build on their movements to deepen transformative justice models in our community. Project Hajra sees the root cause of gender justice as power; connected to state and other regime violence. Addressing and eradicating gender justice in our communities means addressing other forms of oppression.

Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty is an Alabama death row prisoner founded and run organization. We were founded in 1989. Our mission is to work together with friends and other supporters to educate the public and to bring about the abolition of the death penalty in Alabama.PHADP publishes a bifurcated newsletter 4 times a year, which is written and formatted on death row. We maintain a web site and an email group, which focus on Alabama related death penalty news, execution alerts etc.For the past 11 years we have been working on a moratorium initiative, which has taken us before city councils, county commissions, groups, churches. 850 entities in Alabama have signed on. We also reach out to families of murder victims and law enforcement to help us achieve our goal of a moratorium. We believe we can not do it without their generosity.

Project YANO primarily serves young people who are looking for job training, wish to go to college or want to make a difference in other people's lives -- but they might not see enough opportunities to pursue these goals. We also work with educators and others who advise young people, and we support youths who are using activism to change their lives, their communities and the larger world they are part of.

The Prometheus Radio Project is an advocacy and community organizing group with a mission to resist corporate media consolidation and radio homogenization.

The Providence Student Union (PSU) is a youth-led student organizing program whose mission is to build the collective power of students across Providence to ensure youth have a real say in the decisions affecting their education.PSU was founded when students from Providence’s Hope High School joined together to resist program cuts at their school. The process of organizing to successfully restore this programming helped student leaders realize that the issue they had been fighting was just a symptom of a larger problem: students’ lack of power and control over their education. To remedy this, youth worked to expand their group into a youth-led organization with chapters in six Providence high schools, two staff members, a growing list of notable campaign victories, and the leadership of a powerful team of student leaders committed to organizing for the high-quality education they deserved.The Providence Student Union’s vision of social change is based on the principle that justice can only be won in lasting ways when impacted communities themselves unite together to work for the changes they believe in. From this principle comes PSU’s model: organize low-income youth of color to make positive changes in the here and now by working to build student power within their schools, while strengthening the movement for social and economic justice in the long term by developing students to become leaders who will continue to bring their communities together to work for change long after they have graduated.

PrYSM was founded on November 8th, 2001, when a series of repeated Cambodian gang fights and resulting deaths inspired youth and local college students to fight for positive change in the community. The first campaign was against the deportation of Cambodian American refugees, who were being sent back to the country from which they fled a genocide and civil war.Today, PrYSM challenges and supports Southeast Asian youth to become leaders, organizers, and critical thinkers, by offering educational workshops, leadership opportunities, mentorship, and oversight of youth-led community organizing projects.

The Public Health Organization (PHO), based in Chicago, Illinois, is a community/labor organization comprised of working class patients, current & retired nurses, nutritionist, clerical workers, physicians, therapists, healthcare workers and allies. The PHO is committed to increasing access to quality & affordable healthcare for low income and uninsured individuals and families. Ultimately, the purpose of PHO is to work towards increasing access to quality, affordable healthcare for low-income residents and the uninsured. We achieve this by building patient and worker solidarity and leveraging our collective power to inform, shape, and monitor the implementation of public health policies. We use education, outreach, and organizing to connect with residents and health care workers around the impact of changes to the healthcare system, with the goal of increasing access and improving the quality of health care delivery. Our vision is to develop a community of grassroots experts in translating healthcare policy in a language that inspires residents of color to actively engage in ensuring that everyday people continue to have access to quality and affordable care. We envision PHO serving as a community resource that residents can look to for real-time accurate information related to accessing and navigating the healthcare system, especially upon the implementation of the ACA. We hope to achieve this by staying ahead of the curve in policy research, organizing pathways for resident engagement and participation in the decision making process, continuously identifying health care access priorities of our constituents, and closely monitoring the implementation of healthcare public policies.

The 500,000 people who make up the Massachusetts public higher education community are the sleeping giant of Massachusetts politics. By mobilizing a large and engaged grassroots network, PHENOM is waking up this sleeping giant so we can get the resources to create the public higher education system we and our children deserve. For the first time, all the constituencies in Massachusetts public higher education can speak with one powerful voice. PHENOM unites students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others from community colleges, state universities, the UMass campuses, and the broader community.

Pueblo Action Alliance is a community-driven organization that promotes cultural sustainability by addressing environmental and social impacts on Indigenous lands. 

Puente Arizona is part of the global movement for migrant justice and human rights. As a grassroots community-based group Puente promotes justice, non-violence, interdependence and human dignity. We aim to develop, educate, and empower migrant communities to enhance their quality of life. Puente works to empower the community and build bridges by working collaboratively with various organizations and individuals.With a fist in the air, Puente is working in coalition to fight the aftermath of SB1070 & the anti-immigrant climate in Arizona. With an open hand, Puente organizes and maintains cultural, political, & educational programs. Currently, we are working on various campaigns: Alto PoliMigra, The People VS Arpaio, ICE out of Pinal County Jail, Wacha la Chota and boycotts. Puente provides: English classes, Know Your Rights Workshops, Community Health Workers (Promotoras), Underground Library, Community Committees, Summer Youth Programs, Crisis Line, Deferred Action Application Assistance, and Cultural Events.

We are an organization for people who are struggling to meet the basics and believe we need a voice. We’re fighting for our human rights. County by county, we're bulding all across PA. We’re urban and rural. We’re multi-racial. We’re not part of a political party. We’re people like you. Until we unite, we don’t have the power to change things.

Quilombo is a radical community center dedicated to providing space and resources to our immediate neighborhood, and collaboratively working with our neighbors on educational workshops, decolonization praxis, and community empowerment.

Queer Crescent imagines futures where LGBTQIA+ Muslims are building possibilities towards collective liberation. Our work is shaped by resisting gendered violence and islamophobia through cultural organizing, base-building, and defining Muslimness as an expansive, racialized and self-determined identity.

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP), an Alternative-to-Detention program for queer, trans, and HIV+ immigrant detainees, asylees, and their families across the United States. QDEP supports folks in securing housing, food, education, travel, employment, healthcare, legal services, know-your-rights trainings, community organizing, and arts space! We also advocate around structural barriers our clients face. In short, we are committed to assisting folks in building lives outside of the detention system, and to queering dialog and work on immigration justice.

Queer Trans Project is a Black-led and Trans-led organization on a mission to provide gender-empowering resources to LGBTQ+ individuals all across the world so that they have the power and confidence to create social change in their communities.

QUEEROCRACY is an activist organization cultivating the leadership of queer folks and people living with HIV/AIDS in NYC. Through direct action organizing, membership led advocacy campaigns, educational trainings and political art and media we challenge and fight back against the existing structures that thrive on the punishment of positive and queer folks. QUEEROCRACY is dedicated to ending the AIDS crisis and the stigma, discrimination and criminalization that fuel its existence.

As queers, we are part of an international movement for human rights that encompasses the movement for Palestinian liberation, and all other liberation movements. Since 2000, QUIT! has been one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most active and consistent voices for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel. We are also part of a growing international queer movement to stop "pinkwashing" by the Israeli government and its supporters. Pinkwashing is a part of the Brand Israel public relations campaign which attempts to hijack the queer movement to promote ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. We say no!