4. Latina Rebels
Nashville, Tennessee
Latina Rebels is a group of five organizers on a mission to “ f*ck with your colonized expectations of ‘acceptability,’” using social media to dismantle “binary expectations that are placed on Latinas bodies and minds.” The platform’s founder Prisca Dorcas Moica Rodriguez recently made pit stops in cities like Chicago, Portland, and Seattle to host “Woke Brown Girl Hour” panels.
6. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations
Nationwide
CAIR is one of the leading organizations enhancing understanding and dialogue around Islam. They provide excellent resources for reading up on civil rights legislation concerning Muslim communities.
8. Project NIA
New York, NY
Earlier this month, The FADER spoke with Mariame Kaba about the school-to-prison pipeline and some of her organizing efforts centering youth and community engagement. She spearheads the #FreeBresha movement and her blog is packed with resources and action plans demanding Bresha’s immediate release and reunification with her family.
10. La Feminista Descolonial
Chicago, IL and Panama
Activist and organizer Nazly Sobhi Damasio founded the La Feminista Descolonial platform in 2015 as a space for Spanish-speakers to, in her words, “have access to resources and share information about feminism, anti-racism, queer/trans rights and more.” Damasio hopes the platform will help fill the void in social justice content catered to non-English speakers, and aims to someday launch a similar resource in Farsi.
12. Make the Road New York
New York, NY
Working with immigrant and working class communities in New York, Make the Road boasts over 14,000 members working to enact change “through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.”
13. New York Immigration Coalition
New York, NY
Shortly after the #MuslimBan was announced, the NYIC was the main organizing element in rounding up folks for the New York City Battery Park March on Sunday, January 29. The organization represents the collective interests of New York’s immigrant communities and has been keeping tabs on important immigration news in the days following Trump’s inauguration.