In March of 2008 the Los Angeles Police Department issued Special Order 11 (SO 11), which authorizes LAPD officers to gather intelligence based on “observed behavior.” Behaviors include everyday non-criminal activities such as: using cameras in public, shooting video, using binoculars, drawing diagrams, taking notes, walking into an office and asking for hours of operation. The order makes the assumption that if you are shooting pictures or taking video in public then you are engaging in what is called “pre-operational surveillance.” The “suspicion” cast on such benign, daily behaviors opens the door for racial profiling and for such normal activities to be used as a pretext to open investigations on people who are just living their lives and abiding by the law.Additionally, LAPD submits Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) to a national information-sharing network which links government, private collectors and users of intelligence data. SO 11 has been edited and superseded by Special Order 1 effective January 2, 2012. The "new" order, while a little more clear in its language, at its core basically contains the same content.The campaign to rescind LAPD Special Order (SO) 1 is housed at Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) located in the skid row area of downtown Los Angeles. The goal of the campaign is to raise community awareness and build a grass root campaign to ultimately rescind SO 1. The key elements of the campaign include research, community education, and coalition building around the scope and impact of SO 1, and utilize organizing and advocacy strategies to rescind SO 1.The campaign to rescind SO 1 provides a unique opportunity to engage a broad diversity of groups in combating law and policies that threaten the human rights and civil liberties of us all. The long term goal of the campaign is to raise awareness and start conversations around police spying in our daily life and police infiltration as a tool to derail and neutralize movements for social justice based on current and historic realities.

At Strange Inc., we unite global Muslim creatives through art, using faith-based practice to heal and reclaim identities. Since our 2022 mission shift, we’ve published “Poetic Justice,” hosted writing shows, and formed a supportive writing group for Muslim women. Our mission: amplify authentic Muslim women’s voices, publishing books, supporting writers, and dispelling media stereotypes.

Strategy for Access Foundation NFP provides educational and entertaining documentaries for the disability community so that they become aware that they’re an integral part of society and that they have much to share not in spite of their disability, but because of who they are.

Struggle for Miami's Affordable and Sustainable Housing (SMASH) is working to create a Community Land Trust that will address the needs of inner-city Miami residents affected by the symptoms of gentrification and that is shaped, developed, and implemented by those same residents.

Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) is a national network of students and youth organizing with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields. We work in alliance with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a Florida-based, membership-led organization of mostly Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian low-wage workers. We understand our work—which formally began in 2000— as part of larger movements for economic and social justice. Through our organizing, we strive to create community and recognize the transformative power of movement building.

The SEAC believes individuals that want to change the world they live in, can do so efficiently, and more importantly, creatively, if they work within groups that have supportive infrastructures and value human collaboration, and imagination. For this reason, SEAC places an emphasis on anti-oppression and collective liberation, both internally, and externally. SEAC focuses its strategies on environmental justice issues and methods for communities to be self-sustaining

The Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) is a US-based network of student and youth organizations committed to the global fight against AIDS. SGAC seeks to mobilize a diverse student movement, in partnership with students internationally, to make claims upon governments, corporations, and civil society through education, leadership training, informed advocacy and direct action. SGAC demands sufficient resources, effective prevention, and guaranteed access to AIDS treatment and care as a matter of moral urgency.

Student-Led Ed’s mission is to bridge the gap between youth and adults and to disrupt the current professional development landscape by offering sliding-scale, digital, student-led PD that can serve to improve student experiences and outcomes.

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s and was one of the principal representations of the New Left.

Suddent Movement is a student-led group organizing students, faculty, and alumni at private colleges to demand fair policies regarding undocumented immigrant youth (DREAMers)

Sunlight Media Collective documents Indigenous issues, educates the public, and offers media to aid movements for Native sovereignty, particularly in Maine where the State’s refusal to respect our inherent sovereignty and jurisdiction often intersects with environmental justice.

S.T.O.P. advocates and litigates for privacy, working to abolish local governments’ systems of mass surveillance which disproportionately harm already-vulnerable communities.

Survivor Speak USA (SSUSA) is a Maine-based, survivor-led organization working to end sex trafficking and sexual exploitation through centering the experiences, healing, voices, and leadership of survivors. We envision a transformation of the anti-trafficking movement where survivors are at every decision-making table, at the front of every room where education on the issues is occurring, and all stakeholders are addressing root causes.

Survivor Theatre Project brings survivors themselves into the center of the effort to break silence and end sexual violence through empowerment, creativity, and public performance. Performances are engaging, poignant, funny, and provocative, and open up dialogue within our communities to address the reality of how common sexual violence is, and what we can do to stop it. We are guided by an anti-oppression framework to allow multiple, complex identities and experiences deserving of expression, exploration, recognition and healing, within the context of sexual violence. We define sexual violence to include child sexual abuse, incest, ritual abuse, sex trafficking, rape, molestation, sexual violence in institutions (such as prisons and the military), on the border and as a tactic of war.

We are a group of low-income women and their allies who organize and educate around poverty, welfare and low-income survival issues. We offer training in writing, speaking, advocacy, computer skills, desktop publishing, organizing, membership and leadership. With these skills we are able to provide a forum for the voices of low-income women to be heard. We connect welfare office outreach and campus organizing with local and broader grassroots efforts to eliminate social and economic injustice

SustainUS is a youth-led organization advancing justice and sustainability by empowering young people to engage in advocacy at the domestic and international levels. We mobilize as US youth at key political moments to push political leaders, multinational institutions, and other global actors to stand on the side of justice.

Sweatshop Watch was a coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry

Switchboard Trainers Network is committed to training trainers and bringing in trainers that prioritize the principles of equality, empowerment, and solidarity. It is a call for a People of Color Trans Two-spirit Women Action Camp(POC TTWAC) on occupied Chumash land to build skills, foster solidarity, and share knowledge.

Tampa Bay Abortion Fund removes financial and logistical barriers to abortion access, assisting low-income pregnant people who are seeking abortions from abortion providers in Florida’s Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties.

The Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) is a local grassroots organization dedicated to fighting for peace, justice, and equality through direct action. As a community-led direct action organization, TCAC is mobilized through our Police Crimes, Medics and Marshals, and Committees advocating for the democratically elected CPAC, challenging Leon County jailing practices, supporting inclusive and equitable LGBTQIA+ policies, protecting individuals at TCAC-led rallies and protests, and ensuring equitable education practices.

Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense Foundation (TRF) is dedicated to providing Teamster members with the tools they need to fight for justice on the job and a stronger, more democratic Teamsters union. Since its formation in 1977, TRF has provided grassroots education and leadership development programs to help Teamster members win important advances, including better national agreements, better pensions, legislation to make Teamster work safer, and direct rank-and-file election of top Teamsters officers.TRF’s programs are grounded in the traditions of solidarity and participatory democracy that lie at the heart of all progressive social movements. The gains won by reform leaders in the Teamsters have benefited working people as a whole—reflecting our vision that unions can be a progressive force for all working people.

Temp Worker Justice is a nonprofit that supports temporary workers and workers’ organizations seeking justice and fairness in the workplace.

The Tenayuca Labor Project works to permanently end wage theft and labor exploitation in Orange County, CA.

TAP was created in October 2001. Our mission is to build a prosperous, sustainable economy that benefits all Tennesseans. TAP believes that we need to articulate a hopeful vision for the future based on our motto "We are all in this together." TAP works to facilitate true political and economic democracy where people actively participate in decisions that affect their lives.

Texans United for Families (TUFF) came together during the fight to end family detention at the T. Don Hutto Detention Center, just north of Austin. TUFF is a grassroots, all-volunteer-driven project of Grassroots Leadership. We support and coordinate TUFF members in their mission to fight back against immigrant detention and deportation close to home. In response to the influx of Central American families and children seeking refuge at the border, the Obama Administration announced the return of family detention in 2014. TUFF is fighting back to end this inhumane practice

The Texas Tenants’ Union is a nonprofit tenants rights organization. We empower tenants through education and organizing to protect their rights, preserve their homes, improve their living conditions and enhance the quality of life in their communities.

The 559 Mural Project is a collective of activists advocating for artists and the arts to address racial injustice and social and economic inequities in the rural communities in Fresno County specifically through mural art and community dialogue.

Founded in 1976, the Afrikan Poetry Theatre continues to promote change with an emphasis on cultural tolerance and understanding through a diverse roster of cultural activities that are of interest to our multi-cultural cluster of constituents. Our principal activities include the celebration of cultural holidays, historical events and leaders. One of our largest initiatives is the “Urban Poets Movement" - artists of any discipline share their work with the community; lobby for change and promote socialization through the presentation of cultural arts activities, events, programs, workshops and exhibits. Arts activities are habitually an effective form and a central meeting place of diverse crowds to gather cultural exchange. As technological innovations continue to change, traditional methods take us from primitive and authentic communications, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that without art, intra/intercultural understanding becomes difficult. Without social interaction, human development is derailed and can become more problematic than you might imagine. In numbers, artists can increase local lobbying using the power of arts.

The Article 20 Network defends and advances the human right to freedom of peaceful assembly.

The Black Response is the convener of a campaign to defund and abolish the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Department and to establish alternative community-based safety initiatives that address the root causes of harm.