Concerned Citizens for Justice (CCJ) was originally founded in August of 1984 by Maxine Cousin, Annie Thomas, and Ms. Thomas' two daughters, Lisa and Lydia. The organization was founded in the wake of the Wadie Suttles Case to address, publicize and protest against police brutality.CCJ became known in the city, state and nation by organizing demonstrations and protests to end police brutality and was influential in creating the Ad Hoc Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality. This important coalition joined together likeminded southern organizations who were active in the struggle against the Ku Klux Klan and police violence within their communities. In 1987, this Coalition filed a class action lawsuit detailing federal voting rights violations in the city of Chattanooga. This lawsuit resulted in the election of a new nine-member Chattanooga City Council, adding four new Black elected officials to the city government, and the hiring of the first Black police chief in the city of Chattanooga.In 2012, the tragic murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin sparked the flame for social justice in a new generation of young people in Chattanooga. Building on the legacy of CCJ, we have joined together in the struggle:* for racial justice* to end police brutality* to educate ourselves and each other about social injustices in our city* to create awareness and implement meaningful solutions* to address gang violence in our city through the elimination of root causes of violence--not through the mass incarceration of our youth.We have come together to build on the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement Veterans of CCJ who came before us. Using their experience, counsel and participation, we will promote and create a city which prioritizes social justice for all people. Join us in making Chattanooga the best city it can be!

In 2013 three brave African American women came together with the help of o Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and founded Concerned Citizens of Richmond County in south central North Carolina to address the current toxic pollution and the approved expansion of turbines from our local power plant known as the Duke Energy Combustion Turbines. Duke Energy is the largest investor-owned electric company on earth. As such, it enjoys a huge measure of political power. This power, however, is misused, and the impacts of this misuse are evident in Hamlet, NC, and many other places.Our current goal is to stop the environmental and social injustice of our area of continuing to be a pollution dump ground for the region especially by Duke Energy. In the past many African American residents have been hit hard by a toxic soup of asbestos and chemicals from local railroad company CRX. Members of CCRC have lost multiple love ones and friends to this injustice from cancer and respiratory diseases. It appears that many in the community have been indoctrinated to be passive on these issues because they involve a major company that bring jobs to the area and tax revenue for the local government.When we have requested to be on the local county commissioner's monthly meeting agenda to address some of these issues we have been rejected. Our state representative for this area is in complete denial. Our greatest challenge and goal is to shift the thinking of the community. They need to be educated and empowered to know that they have the capacity to provide a safer and healthier community.

The Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance (CIRA) is a statewide alliance of immigrant,faith, labor, youth, community, business and ally organizations founded to improve the lives of Connecticut’s diverse immigrant community. CIRA exists to facilitate the efforts of organizations and individuals in Connecticut who are working to improve the lives of immigrants in our society. We seek to strengthen family unity through the pursuit of social justice and civil liberties. We achieve this mission through non-partisan civic engagement, public education, and advocating for workable, fair and humane immigration policies.

Connecticut Students for a DREAM is a statewide organization of DREAMers and alies that seek to empower undocumented students and their families by advocating for their rights and raising awareness about issues they face.

Located in one of Cincinnati's poorest neighborhoods, the Contact Center has a forty one year history of community service and organizing. We work on the local, state and national level to be the grassroots voice on issues affecting our members. We work specifically on neighborhood issues in Over-the-Rhine of resident safety concerns and improving the neighborhood schools. In 1992 the Contact Center started organizing recipients on public assistance issues to make changes in government policy. This group is the Benefit Rights Advocacy Group (BRAG). Our statewide group, The People's Empowerment Coalition of Ohio (PEC), organizes to help lift families & individuals out of poverty.

Cooperation New Orleans’ mission is to develop viable worker-owned cooperatives and the structures to support them, with a focus on Black, indigenous, and immigrant communities.

Corporation of Newe Sogobia aims to achieve economic and social self-suffiency for the well-being of the Westner Shoshone people.Our goals are to protect the lands, resources and rights of the Western Shoshone Nation and to provide for the health and welfare, educational needs, and protection of the Western Shoshone people.

Countywide Family Development Center addresses zero tolerance and similar policies in the local schools that push kids into the juvenile justice system.

"Supporting the troops who refuse to fight."Courage to Resist is motivated by a "people power" strategy that we believe can weaken the pillars that maintain war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. By supporting GI resistance, counter-recruitment, and draft resistance, we hope to diminish the number of troops available for unjust war and occupation.

It is the mission of Crawford Stewardship Project to protect the environment of Crawford County and neighboring regions from threats of polluting and extractive industries, to promote sustainable land use, environmental justice, and local control of natural resources

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 social movement history and analysis, healing practices, the arts, and practical skills, we heal people and the planet by moving from cultures of separation & domination to cultures of connection & reciprocity.

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 that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope.Critical Resistance’s vision is the creation of genuinely healthy, stable communities that respond to harm without relying on imprisonment and punishment. We call our vision abolition, drawing, in part from the legacy of the abolition of slavery in the 1800′s. As PIC abolitionists we understand that the prison industrial complex is not a broken system to be fixed. The system, rather, works precisely as it is designed to—to contain, control, and kill those people representing the greatest threats to state power. Our goal is not to improve the system even further, but to shrink the system into non-existence. We work to build healthy, self-determined communities and promote alternatives to the current system.Critical Resistance (CR) is building a member-led and member-run grassroots movement to challenge the use of punishment to “cure” complicated social problems. We know that more policing and imprisonment will not make us safer. Instead, we know that things like food, housing, and freedom are what create healthy, stable neighborhoods and communities. We work to prevent people from being arrested or locked up in prison. In all our work, we organize to build power and to stop the devastation that the reliance on imprisonment and policing has brought to ourselves, our families, and our communities.

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 that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope.Critical Resistance’s vision is the creation of genuinely healthy, stable communities that respond to harm without relying on imprisonment and punishment. We call our vision abolition, drawing, in part from the legacy of the abolition of slavery in the 1800′s. As PIC abolitionists we understand that the prison industrial complex is not a broken system to be fixed. The system, rather, works precisely as it is designed to—to contain, control, and kill those people representing the greatest threats to state power. Our goal is not to improve the system even further, but to shrink the system into non-existence. We work to build healthy, self-determined communities and promote alternatives to the current system.Critical Resistance (CR) is building a member-led and member-run grassroots movement to challenge the use of punishment to “cure” complicated social problems. We know that more policing and imprisonment will not make us safer. Instead, we know that things like food, housing, and freedom are what create healthy, stable neighborhoods and communities. We work to prevent people from being arrested or locked up in prison. In all our work, we organize to build power and to stop the devastation that the reliance on imprisonment and policing has brought to ourselves, our families, and our communities.

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 that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope.Critical Resistance’s vision is the creation of genuinely healthy, stable communities that respond to harm without relying on imprisonment and punishment. We call our vision abolition, drawing, in part from the legacy of the abolition of slavery in the 1800′s. As PIC abolitionists we understand that the prison industrial complex is not a broken system to be fixed. The system, rather, works precisely as it is designed to—to contain, control, and kill those people representing the greatest threats to state power. Our goal is not to improve the system even further, but to shrink the system into non-existence. We work to build healthy, self-determined communities and promote alternatives to the current system.Critical Resistance (CR) is building a member-led and member-run grassroots movement to challenge the use of punishment to “cure” complicated social problems. We know that more policing and imprisonment will not make us safer. Instead, we know that things like food, housing, and freedom are what create healthy, stable neighborhoods and communities. We work to prevent people from being arrested or locked up in prison. In all our work, we organize to build power and to stop the devastation that the reliance on imprisonment and policing has brought to ourselves, our families, and our communities.

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 that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope.Critical Resistance’s vision is the creation of genuinely healthy, stable communities that respond to harm without relying on imprisonment and punishment. We call our vision abolition, drawing, in part from the legacy of the abolition of slavery in the 1800′s. As PIC abolitionists we understand that the prison industrial complex is not a broken system to be fixed. The system, rather, works precisely as it is designed to—to contain, control, and kill those people representing the greatest threats to state power. Our goal is not to improve the system even further, but to shrink the system into non-existence. We work to build healthy, self-determined communities and promote alternatives to the current system.Critical Resistance (CR) is building a member-led and member-run grassroots movement to challenge the use of punishment to “cure” complicated social problems. We know that more policing and imprisonment will not make us safer. Instead, we know that things like food, housing, and freedom are what create healthy, stable neighborhoods and communities. We work to prevent people from being arrested or locked up in prison. In all our work, we organize to build power and to stop the devastation that the reliance on imprisonment and policing has brought to ourselves, our families, and our communities.

CulturalWorker creates a series of musicals for popular education, including The Moment Was Now in 2019 and beyond, to help build movements of resistance.

Cumberland Center for Justice and Peace promotes justice and peace in the Cumberland Plateau. We accomplish this through: education, networking, financial assistance, non-violent, and the facilitation of controversial issues.

The mission of Current Movements is to connect activists, organizations, and movements around the world using film, art, and technology.

The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival uplifts Palestinian artists and filmmakers, engaging their work within global and local contexts and communities in Washington, DC..

Done for Didi is a community led by Black women and Marginalized Genders (MaGes) to educate white folks on racism and all the other "isms" while reallocating resources from those with privilege.

Decarcerate PA is a coalition of organizations and individuals seeking an end to mass incarceration and the harms it brings our communities. Decarcerate PA seeks mechanisms to build whole, healthy communities and believes that imprisonment exacerbates the problems we face. We therefore demand an immediate and lasting moratorium on all new prisons: no new prisons, no new county or city jails, no prison expansions, no new beds in county jails, no immigrant detention facilities, no private prisons. We also demand changes in policing, sentencing and legislation to reduce the prison population. We believe that public money should instead be spent on quality public schools, jobs and job training, community-based reentry services, health care and food access, drug and alcohol treatment programs, stable housing, restorative forms of justice and non-punitive programs that address the root cause of violence in our communities. Such steps are necessary to secure socially responsible, personally secure, and economically viable communities in our state.

Defense Depot Memphis Tennessee - Concerned Citizen Committee works for environmental justice in communities contaminated by military waste.

Delighted to Doula Birth Services exists to eliminate maternal mortality in communities that have the lowest quality of care by offering anti-bias-based, judgment-free education and postpartum support to mothers.

We are feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalists sparking radical conversations about the environment in conservative geographies with a mobile environmental museum.

DASHR creates and supports community-based responses to crisis and conflict as a way to ensure public health and safety.

Denver Homeless Out Loud (DHOL) works with and for people who experience homelessness to help protect and advocate for dignity, rights, and choices for people experiencing homelessness. We commit our efforts toward goals affirmed and raised by homeless people, within our organization and throughout the homeless community. We strive to add our strengths together to create ways of living in which everyone has a safe place they can call home.

The Denver Justice Project works with historically marginalized communities to address systemic racism by transforming law enforcement and the structure of the criminal justice system through intersectional movement building, direct action, policy advocacy, and collaborative education.

The Desiree Alliance is a diverse, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities and individuals across the US working in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy and health services for sex workers. We provide leadership and create space for sex workers and supporters to come together to advocate for human, labour and civil rights for all workers in the sex industry.

Detroit Community Wealth Fund exists to empower innovative historically-marginalized Detroiters by providing non-extractive supportive loans to co-ops and community-based businesses in Detroit.

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 to cultivate community strength, self-determination, and build movement-based futures.