Organizing & Campaigns
From Pain to Power- Impacted Families Healed and Organized.
A leadership program for directly impacted families that prepares them with organizing, policy and other skills along with how to integrate Healing Justice into campaigns for justice & accountability so they may assume their rightful place as leaders in the movement to end state violence.
Families meet weekly to support each other, analyze the political conditions, develop and run campaigns and strengthen public testimony and media skills, engage in policy advocacy, and build the power needed to demand accountability from local, state and federal governments, police departments, prosecutors, oversight bodies, and elected officials. The program also integrates Healing Justice into every stage of the work, creating space for grief, care, political education, collective healing, and sustained leadership so families can fight for justice without being isolated or consumed by the trauma of the struggle. This work ensures that directly impacted families can assume their rightful place at the center of the movement to transform public safety and build communities rooted in care, dignity, and self-determination.
Surveillance
Our surveillance work challenges the expansion of policing technologies that track, criminalize, and endanger Black, Brown, immigrant, unhoused, and working-class communities. This includes organizing against tools like Flock cameras, automated license plate readers, private camera networks, military equipment, and data-sharing systems that expand police power without creating real safety.
We work to expose how surveillance turns everyday life into a site of monitoring, threatens privacy and sanctuary protections, and increases the risk of police contact and state violence. Our goal is to stop the growth of carceral technology, protect community members from harmful data sharing, and shift public resources away from surveillance and policing toward care, housing, mental health support, youth programs, and real community safety.
Black Power Trumps Fascism
In 2025, we launched Black Power Trumps Fascism as a strategic response to the escalating attacks on immigrants, Black communities, and working-class people under the Trump administration. Rooted in Black leadership and cross-diasporic solidarity, the coalition brings together communities across birthplace, background, and political experience to build a shared agenda that protects Black people, defends immigrant communities, and confronts the rise of fascism with organized people power.
Black Power Trumps Fascism is a coalition of 16 organizations and networks representing grassroots organizing, labor, youth-serving organizations, migrant justice work, political education, community defense, and Black-led movement infrastructure. The coalition first came together publicly as part of the July 17 John Lewis “Good Trouble” National Day of Action, where Black-led organizations united to make clear that the fight against fascism must be rooted in the leadership, safety, and self-determination of Black communities.
We created this proposal to establish an Infrastructure Working Group that can coordinate the coalition’s next phase of work. The working group would support shared strategy, communications, rapid response, political education, mobilization, member coordination, and campaign alignment while strengthening the capacity of each participating organization. This infrastructure is critical to moving from one-time mobilizations to sustained, disciplined, Black-led organizing capable of meeting this political moment.
People’s Assembly
We created the People’s Assembly as a mass democratic space where community members, organizers, directly impacted people, and allied organizations can come together to assess political conditions, share information, and decide collectively how we move forward.
In response to escalating threats from the Trump administration and the anticipated presence of ICE in the Bay Area during the Super Bowl, the People’s Assembly is designed to help our communities prepare, align, and respond with discipline and unity. This is not a press conference, a panel, or a symbolic gathering. It is a space for shared strategy, collective decision-making, political education, and coordinated action.
The People’s Assembly creates a structure for Black, Brown, immigrant, undocumented, working-class, and directly impacted communities to discuss what ICE activity means for our people and what it will take to protect one another. Together, we co-create resistance strategies, clarify roles and responsibilities, and strengthen the relationships needed to move together.
This work is about preparation, not panic. It is about building people power, moving with consent, and making sure our communities are organized, informed, and ready to resist together.
Decarcerate transportation
The Decarcerating Transportation work advances a police-free mobility justice framework that challenges the long-standing use of armed policing as the default response to traffic and transportation safety. This work highlights how traffic enforcement, surveillance technologies, fare enforcement, and other punitive transportation policies disproportionately harm Black, Brown, low-income, undocumented, unhoused, disabled, LGBTQIA+, and other marginalized communities.
Through the Seven D’s of Mobility Justice, this framework calls for a shift away from carceral approaches and toward community-centered solutions that actually make roads and transit safer. This includes decriminalizing transportation, divesting from enforcement and incarceration, investing in infrastructure and public transit, centering impacted communities in decision-making, building community-based safety resources, challenging carceral technologies, and creating ethical guidelines for data collection. The framework offers a roadmap for policymakers, transit agencies, organizers, and communities to reduce police contact, prevent harm, and build transportation systems rooted in equity, care, and real public safety.