Home | RESIST

Grantee Spotlight

Student / Farmworker Alliance

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),...

URL

http://sfalliance.org

Grantee Spotlight

Reclaim Ugly

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 can reclaim UGLY to liberate ourselves.

URL

https://www.instagram.com/uglyblackwoman

Grantee Spotlight

Sunlight Media Collective

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...

URL

http://www.sunlightmediacollective.org/

Grantee Spotlight

Restaurant Opportunities Center of Minnesota (ROC-MN)

The mission of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Minnesota (ROC-MN) is to improve the wages and working conditions of low-wage restaurant workers in our state.

URL

https://rocunited.org/

Grantee Spotlight

Community Ready Corps (CRC)

Community Ready Corps (CRC) is a liberation organization that combats white supremacy and actively supports self determination in the Black community in nine specific areas. Their use of the framework of the nine areas of...

URL

http://crc4sd.org/

Grantee Spotlight

WeCopwatch

WeCopwatch is a nationwide grassroots organization dedicated to educating the public about their rights when interacting with law enforcement, how to safely and effectively Copwatch, and how to de-escalate conflicts with the police.

URL

http://www.wecopwatch.org/

Grantee Spotlight

Don’t Shoot Portland

Don’t Shoot Portland is a Community Action Plan that incorporates activism, education and strategic partnerships to foster community liberation from violence and oppression.

URL

https://www.dontshootpdx.org/

Grantee Spotlight

Eastern Woodlands Rematriation

Eastern Woodlands Rematriation mobilizes folks at the grassroots level to decolonize their current food, economic, and political systems as well as reconnect spiritually, mentally, and physically to the natural systems of which we belong. They...

URL

http://www.rematriate.org/

Grantee Spotlight

Venceremos

Venceremos is a worker-based grassroots organization that works to protect the fundamental human rights of poultry workers to achieve long-term systemic change in the poultry industry. They seek to spearhead the adaptation of the Worker-driven...

URL

https://www.facebook.com/venceremosarkansas/?modal=admin_todo_tour

Grantee Spotlight

Faith Voices for Jefferson City

Missouri Faith Voices gathers and equips a diverse and non-partisan, state-wide network of congregations and faith based community organizations to positively impact issues affecting Missouri’s communities. We believe in the potential for transformation - of...

URL

http://www.missourifaithvoices.org

Grantee Spotlight

Bayan USA

BAYAN USA is an alliance of 26 progressive Filipino organizations in the United States and serves as a center for educating, organizing, and mobilizing anti-imperialist and progressive Filipinos.

URL

http://bayanusa.org/

Grantee Spotlight

For the Culture

For the Culture holds multigenerational spaces of resistance and decolonization through rest, relationship building, and resource sharing among ‘healers’ and bodyworkers.

URL

http://Instagram.com/healersfortheculture

Grantee Spotlight

Life In My Days, Inc

Life In My Days, Inc is a peer and youth led international non-profit built on a foundation of peer support, disability justice, racial justice, divestment from capitalism and patriarchy, Indigenous people justice, and LGBTQ justice...

URL

http://lifeinmydays.com/

Grantee Spotlight

P0STB1NARY

P0STB1NARY is a Washington, DC based arts collective working to destroy all cistems by uplifting the safety, autonomy, wellness, and creative development of trans and gender expansive people.

URL

https://www.facebook.com/P0STB1NARY/

Grantee Spotlight

Youth Rise Texas

Youth Rise Texas is an Austin, Texas based organization, largely comprised of young women and queer youth of color, who have been impacted by the incarceration or deportation of a parent or caregiver. Through popular...

URL

http://www.youthrisetx.org

Grantee Spotlight

Decarcerate PA

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...

URL

http://decarceratepa.info

Grantee Spotlight

For the Gworls

For the Gworls hosts monthly community events — such as healing spaces, panel discussions, and rent parties — to fundraise to assist Black transgender people with rent and gender-affirming surgeries.

URL

https://www.instagram.com/forthegworls

Grantee Spotlight

LOUD: New Orleans Queer Youth Theater

LOUD: New Orleans Queer Youth Theater uses ensemble theatre to cultivate resilience, develop an intersectional analysis, and build a shared vision for liberation through devising and producing original theater by and for LGBTQ youth.

URL

https://www.facebook.com/loudtheater/

Grantee Spotlight

Muslim Women For

Muslim Women For is a grassroots organization of women who organize locally to build power through direct service, community organizing, advocacy, and spiritual resistance.

URL

http://muslimwomenfor.org/

Grantee Spotlight

Peaceful Uprising

Peaceful Uprising is committed to defending a livable future through empowering nonviolent action. We seek to change the institutional and social status quo at the root of the climate crisis, and move toward a just...

URL

http://www.peacefuluprising.org

Grantee Spotlight

The Womanist Working Collective

The Womanist Working Collective is a social action and support collective for Black womyn (both cis and trans), femmes and gender non-conforming folks who work as a community of practice that unapologetically centers our quality...

URL

http://www.womanistworkingcollective.org/

Grantee Spotlight

Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom

It is the mission of the Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom to create opportunities for workers to learn and exercise their rights, realize their collective power, and develop the leadership skills necessary to advocate...

URL

http://www.jobsandfreedom.org

Grantee Spotlight

Root Cause Research Center

The Root Cause Research Center trains and works alongside impacted community members to further examine and address social determinants of health in the American South.

URL

http://rootcauseresearch.org

Grantee Spotlight

Queerocracy

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...

URL

http://queerocracy.org

Grantee Spotlight

Dignidad Inmigrante en Athens

Dignidad Inmigrante en Athens creates and promotes spaces for the liberation of immigrants in the United States through education, celebration of culture, and activism.

URL

https://dignidadinmigrante.wordpress.com/

Grantee Spotlight

Rise St. James

RISE St. James is a faith-based grassroots organization formed to advocate for racial and environmental justice in St. James, Louisiana. learned in November 2019 that graves of people enslaved on former plantations had been discovered...

URL

http://www.stopformosa.org

Announcement: Rapid Response Applications Open 8/1/2020

News

August 27, 2020

June 15, 2020

A Message from Noam Chomsky, Resist Co-Founder

Dear Resister, History tells us that ordinary folks coming together, organizing themselves at the grassroots level, and standing up and fighting for systemic change is the way to create a...

View all