Alliance of Families for Justice

The mission of the Alliance of Families for Justice is to support, empower, and mobilize families and individuals impacted by the criminal justice system so they can marshal their collective power to create a just world.

Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights stands with social justice movements and communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation—fusing litigation, advocacy, and narrative shifting to dismantle systems of oppression regardless of the risk. Since 1966, we have taken on oppressive systems of power, including structural racism, gender oppression, economic inequity, and governmental overreach. The Center for Constitutional Rights fights for a world without oppression—where people use their power to achieve justice and guarantee the rights of all.

Pan-African Community Action (PACA)

Pan-African Community Action (PACA) is part of a historic and global movement for Pan-Africanism, or the liberation and unification of Africa, and of African people on the continent and in the diaspora, under the economic system of scientific socialism.

The Sentencing Project

The Sentencing Project promotes effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice.

Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression

Since 1973, when it was born from the movement to free Angela Davis and all political prisoners, the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has defended the rights of oppressed people in Illinois and around the world. We defend the civil liberties of workers, activists, and prisoners. We struggle against white supremacy, the prison-industrial complex, and state violence. We demand community control of the police and full representation for Black people and other poor and oppressed people at all levels of government.

National Conference of Black Lawyers

The mission of the National Conference of Black Lawyers is to serve as the Legal Arm of the Movement for Black Liberation, to protect human rights, to achieve self-determination of Africa and African Communities in the Diaspora and to work in coalition to assist in ending oppression of all peoples.

JustLeadershipUSA

JustLeadershipUSA is led by directly impacted people and is dedicated to decarcerating the United States by educating, elevating and empowering the people and communities most impacted by systemic racism to drive meaningful and lasting policy reform

The Bronx Defenders

The Bronx Defenders is a public defender nonprofit that is radically transforming how low-income people in the Bronx are represented in the justice system and, in doing so, is transforming the system itself.

Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY)

VOCAL-NY is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness in order to create healthy and just communities. We accomplish this through community organizing, leadership development, advocacy, direct services, participatory research and direct action.

Brooklyn Defender Services

Brooklyn Defender Services is a public defense office whose mission is to provide outstanding representation and advocacy free of cost to people facing loss of freedom, family separation and other serious legal harms by the government. We believe in a client-centered approach and work in and out of court to uphold the rights, freedom and dignity of people threatened by unjust, racist and harmful legal systems.

Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice

Katal is a community organization that works in Connecticut and New York to strengthen the people, policies, institutions, and movements that advance health, equity, and justice for everyone. We envision a world where all communities have the resources and power to exercise self-determination and participate meaningfully in the democratic process. We launched in 2016 with three big, interrelated goals: 1) Building leadership and organizing capacity of neighborhood residents, as well as organizers, advocates, and community groups, to effectively drive and shape systemic change. 2) Ending mass criminalization, mass incarceration, and the war on drugs. 3) Advancing evidence-based solutions to promote and secure health, equity, and justice.

The Center for Appellate Litigation

The Center for Appellate Litigation is a non-profit public defense law firm dedicated to the pursuit of equal justice under the law for indigent New Yorkers in their criminal appeals and other post-conviction proceedings. We believe all people deserve dignity, respect, and the right to be heard and treated fairly when their liberty has been taken from them or threatened, regardless of their ability to pay for an attorney. In support of our mission, we provide the highest quality legal representation to clients assigned to us by the courts in criminal appeals and post-conviction proceedings in Manhattan and The Bronx, and supply wrap-around services to clients during and after their incarceration.

Institute for Innovation in Prosecution

The Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (IIP) provides a collaborative national platform that brings together prosecutors, policy experts, and the communities they serve to promote data-driven strategies, cutting-edge scholarship, and innovative thinking. The IIP is dedicated to criminal justice that promotes community-centered standards of safety, fairness, and dignity.

STRIVE NY

Our Mission is to help people acquire the life-changing skills and attitudes needed to overcome challenging circumstances, find sustained employment, and become valuable contributors to their families, their employers, and their communities. STRIVE New York provides job readiness, soft skills, & vocational training, as well as job placement and career advancement services in New York City.

The Correctional Association of New York

For 175 years, CANY has been the only independent organization in New York with authority under state law to monitor prisons and report our findings to the legislature and the broader public. In addition to carrying out this unique mandate through onsite prison monitoring visits, we confidentially communicate with incarcerated people about their experiences through the mail, one-on-one interviews, and collect phone calls. Our access creates a platform for people inside prison to participate in and shape the public debate.

The National Action Network

National Action Network is one of the leading civil rights organizations in the Nation with chapters throughout the entire United States. Founded in 1991 by Reverend Al Sharpton, NAN works within the spirit and tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to promote a modern civil rights agenda that includes the fight for one standard of justice, decency and equal opportunities for all people regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, criminal record, economic status, gender, gender expression, or sexuality.

Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration

Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration (CAAMI) seeks to challenge and dismantle mass incarceration and the systems of oppression that sustain it. We do this through coordinated actions and by opening the dialogue about mass incarceration and the criminal injustice system in a way that is empowering to all individuals and communities affected by them. CAAMI defines “mass incarceration” as both the excessive quantity of people caught in the criminal justice system, and the racially discriminatory and cruel quality of the current punitive model of social control. Police brutality, racially disparate sentencing, and post-prison discrimination function as a self-reinforcing system that damages communities.

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, a New York-based national organization founded in 1974, protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans.

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

A grassroots organization, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice is home to New York’s Jewish Left. For over 30 years, JFREJ members have organized alongside our neighbors to win an equitable NYC free from all forms of racist violence, where everyone has what they need to thrive.

The Newburgh LGBTQIA Center

A grassroots organization committed to addressing the barriers that are created by racial, social, and economic injustices, centering people of color and our allies by creating visibility and reclaiming power. Queers for Justice committee act as an advocate for incarcerated and systems impacted LGBTQ+ identified community members, connection to legal resources, moral support, political education, and leadership development, and community organizing.

The African American Cultural Center of the Capital Region, Inc.

The African American Cultural Center of the Capital Region, Inc. is a nonprofit organization committed to educating, enriching, and empowering through a variety of educational, cultural and performing arts, programs, activities, and exhibits that promote awareness and raise the collective consciousness of all ethnicities to the rich and vibrant history, contribution, and culture of African Americans. The Center seeks to strengthen communities by fostering unity, self-determination, cooperative economics, collective work, and creativity.

The National Queer Asian American Pacific Islander Alliance

The National Queer Asian American Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of LGBTQ Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander organizations. We build the organizational capacity of local LGBTQ API groups, develop leadership, promote visibility, educate our community, enhance grassroots organizing, expand collaborations, and challenge anti-LGBTQ bias and racism.

Black Voters Matter Fund

Our goal is to increase power in our communities. Effective voting allows a community to determine its own destiny.

Maysles Documentary Center

Maysles Documentary Center (MDC) is a Harlem-based nonprofit organization committed to community, education, and documentary film. We use filmmaking to amplify and expand under-represented artists and narratives, while empowering young filmmakers in creative self-expression, communicating ideas, and advocating needs.

Families and Friends of the Wrongfully Convicted. Inc.

The mission of Families and Friends of the Wrongfully Convicted. Inc. (IFFWC) is to support policies and procedures which help prevent future wrongful convictions, assist those who have been victims of a wrongful conviction, raise public awareness of the incidents of wrongful convictions, be a pillar of support to families and friends impacted by wrongful conviction, and network with other criminal justice reform organizations who are working to reform a system fraught with injustices.

New Paltz Women in Black 

It is the mission of New Paltz Women in Black to stand publicly each week in support of the highest ideals of justice and equity and for the protection of our planet.

LAbor for Palestine

Labor for Palestine was launched in April 2004 by New York City Labor Against the War and Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition to reclaim the legacy of working class solidarity with Palestine in the United States, as reflected in groundbreaking statements by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in 1969, and wildcat strikes against the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership’s support for Israel in 1973. LFP endorses the 2005 Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) picket line, which demands an end to occupation and apartheid, full equality for all, and Palestinian refugees’ right to return to the homes and lands from which they were expelled.

International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Black Wall St. Market

The National Jericho Movement

National Lawyers Guild - NYC Chapter

The mission of the chapter is to provide fellowship for those who seek excellence in the practice of law and who embrace a radical vision of economic, social and environmental justice. A core tenet of our practice is to provide mass defense to these movements and to victims of police repression.

HEALING COMMUNITIES NETWORK

The mission of Healing Communities Network(HCN) is to help reduce recidivism by working with people inside prison and after prison to direct their own rehabilitation in support groups that build self-esteem and a sense of community.

Black Alliance for Peace

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) seeks to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist, and pro-peace positions of the radical black movement. Through educational activities, organizing and movement support, organizations and individuals in the Alliance will work to oppose both militarized domestic state repression, and the policies of de-stabilization, subversion and the permanent war agenda of the U.S. state globally.

Attica Improvement and Memorial project (A.I.M.)

A.I.M.’s mission is to remember the Brothers who fought for Prisoner's Rights, and to assist those who are incarcerated and their families with counselling. A.I.M. is devoted to helping them with referrals for jobs, housing, health-care, and transportation costs upon release. A.I.M. High.

John Brown Lives!

John Brown Lives! (JBL!) uses the lens of history to engage in meaningful dialogue around the lasting legacies of slavery and its impacts while inspiring allyship and civic action for a more just society.

U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)

The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) was founded in 2006 as a national, community-based institution with the mission to support the re-establishment of self-determined Palestinian and Arab community organizing in the U.S. Membership in USPCN is open to all Palestinians and Arabs who support USPCN’s guiding principles: 1) self-determination and equality for the Palestinian people; 2) the right of all Palestinian refugees, and their descendants, to return to their original homes, lands, properties, and villages (a natural right supported by international law and UN Resolution 194), especially those in historical, 1948 Palestine; and 3) ending Zionist occupation and colonization of all Palestinian and Arab lands.

People’s Law Office

We are a law office which represents political activists, protestors, political prisoners, victims of police brutality and prisoners challenging their conditions of confinement. We believe that the law is an essential tool in fighting for and protecting your civil rights. Our attorneys are among the nation’s top civil rights lawyers, – passionate, skilled, knowledgeable, and experienced. Most importantly, we are unafraid of confronting and exposing injustice and corruption and will relentlessly fight for justice for our clients.

Gangstas Making Astronomical Community Changes Inc.

G.M.A.C.C. Inc. is committed to making positive change by reaching out to residents of all ages in communities ravaged by gun violence and gang activity. By providing tools and resources to young and old alike, G.M.A.C.C. Inc. helps people reflect, learn, act and evolve to embrace the healthy, caring, stable individual within, and to transform the surrounding community through positivity and activism. G.M.A.C.C. Inc. believes in the power of a healthy body, a nurtured soul and a curious mind; we believe that our past mistakes offer critical stepping stones from which to learn and teach. We want to help people draw on their innate intelligence while understanding their emotions in order to transform negative behaviors into positive achievement. G.M.A.C.C. Inc.

Illinois Prison Project

The Illinois Prison Project fights against the racist and regressive criminal legal system by advocating for and with thousands of people who are needlessly incarcerated. Our work combines lawyering, advocacy, and public education to push back against the systemic racism that has led to mass incarceration.

New York County Defender Services

NYCDS is a public defender office in Manhattan that represents thousands of indigent people accused of crimes every year. Our team pursues justice on multiple fronts, fighting for every client and promoting systemic reform.

Luqman Nation Media

Luqman Nation Media is dedicated to providing a grassroots media outlet which serves the needs of marginalized people often ignored by the mainstream media. To ensure that the concept of self-government outlined by the U.S. Constitution remains a reality for all people, in order that they can make decisions regarding their lives, and their local and national communities. It Is the mission of Luqman Nation Media to promote the flow of information, remain unaligned to special interests or groups that would compromise our mission, stimulate high standards and ethical behavior in all expressions of media, foster excellence among those whom we work, and encourage a climate in which ideas and expressions can be practiced freely.

University of Michigan Prison Creative Arts Project

The Prison Creative Arts Project brings those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

Law and Disorder Radio

Law and Disorder is a weekly, independent civil liberties radio program airing on more than 100 stations across the United States and podcasting on the web. Law and Disorder provides timely legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to dissent and practices of torture exercised by the US government and private corporations. Our guests are leading authorities in their fields from around the country, and sometimes internationally. They include authors, lawyers, activists, scholars, and advocates focusing on such areas as free speech, the environment, prisoners’ rights, workers’ rights, trends in privatization, and government and corporate accountability.

Incarcerated Nation Network

Incarcerated Nation Network is a collective of projects owned and operated by those directly impacted serving those incarcerated, previously incarcerated and their families. INC creates and operates community based solutions to incarceration, alternative to incarceration & reintegration services for returning citizens. INC’s mission is combat mass incarceration through Trauma informed care practices that produce healed people who work to heal other people directly impacted.

Illinois Coalition Against Torture

The Illinois Coalition Against Torture (ICAT) is an association of individuals and community-based organizations whose goal is to end U.S. torture by state actors at all levels of government at home and abroad. We also want to eliminate the culture of impunity regarding torture through influencing public opinion and advocating for political change.

The Legal Action Center

The Legal Action Center (LAC) uses legal and policy strategies to fight discrimination, build health equity, and restore opportunity for people with criminal records, substance use disorders, and HIV or AIDS.

Release Aging People in Prison

RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison) works to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release from prison of older and aging people and those serving long and life sentences. RAPP challenges a fundamental pillar of mass incarceration: reliance on a system of permanent punishment, a racist culture of retribution and revenge rather than rehabilitation and healing. RAPP is led by and mobilizes currently and formerly incarcerated people, their families, and other concerned community members. From this powerful base, RAPP works to raise public awareness about the destructiveness of mass incarceration and the benefits to society in releasing aging people, including those convicted of violent crimes. RAPP promotes the use of key mechanisms for release, such as parole, compassionate release, clemency, and policy changes, towards dismantling the racist punishment system.

Unchained

Unchained organizes and advocates to dismantle the carceral state and guarantee access to dynamic and culturally-relevant education. We invest in people locked up by police and locked out of schools to build power and chart a path toward liberation by making racial and economic justice a reality.

Amistad Law Project

Amistad Law Project is a public interest law firm and organizing project working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania and fighting to get our communities the resources they need to thrive.

UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy advances radical democracy in an unequal world through research, critical thought, and alliances with social movements and racial justice activism. We analyze and transform the divides and dispossessions of our times, in the university and in our cities, across global South and global North.

Black August Archives

Black August Archives is a multimedia archive that is dedicated to documenting, collecting, and preserving hxstories of freedom fighters and radical light. A liberatory archive in content and structure, Black August Archives seeks to digitize and disseminate material related to the prison movement, most notably the prisoners' movement of the 1960s and 70s. The archive ultimately works to disseminate these hxstories in order to educate our communities and impact future trajectories of liberation.

The Drug Policy Alliance

The Drug Policy Alliance envisions a just society in which the use and regulation of drugs are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights, in which people are no longer punished for what they put into their own bodies, and in which the fears, prejudices and punitive prohibitions of today are no more. Our mission is to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the autonomy of individuals over their minds and bodies. Learn more at drugpolicy.org.

The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)

The Movement for Black Lives is a national network of more than 150 leaders and organizations creating a broad political home for Black people to learn, organize and take action. M4BL includes activists, organizers, academics, lawyers, educators, health workers, artists and more, all unified in a radical vision for Black liberation and working for equity, justice and healing.

Freedom Agenda

Freedom Agenda is a member-led project, dedicated to organizing people and communities directly impacted by incarceration to achieve decarceration and system transformation.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. LDF also defends the gains and protections won over the past 80 years of civil rights struggle and works to improve the quality and diversity of judicial and executive appointments.

Michiana Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression

The MAARPR is a multi-racial organization dedicated to organizing against racism and its expressions in police violence, mass incarceration, school discipline and the racist treatment many African Americans and other people of color experience in their neighborhoods, in stores and in public arenas. In our Michiana chapter, we support Black Lives Matter-South Bend, and BLM activists were among the founders of the organization and continue to provide leadership.

End Solitary Santa Cruz County

End Solitary Santa Cruz County [CA, U.S.A.] works to end solitary confinement torture and the criminalization, incarceration, and state control of Black, Brown, Indigenous, People Of Color, the poor, and immigrants. Invest in caring in community, not caging.

Campaign to Bring Mumia Home

Circle for Justice Innovations

New Hour

American Friends Service Committee

Guided by the Quaker belief in the divine light of each person, AFSC works with communities and partners worldwide to challenge unjust systems and promote lasting peace.

University of Michigan Carceral State Project

The Carceral State Project is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings impacted communities and advocacy organizations together with researchers, writers, and artists from the University of Michigan to address the current crisis as well as collateral consequences of mass incarceration, policing, and immigration detention in the state of Michigan and to work towards more just responses to the safety concerns and social needs of this region.

The Freedom Archives

The Freedom Archives is an educational media archive dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of history about progressive movements and culture. We produce original documentaries and educational media as tools for community building and social justice work. “Preserve the past - illuminate the present - shape the future.”

The Riverside Church

As agents of God’s justice, healing and love the Mission and Social Justice Commission of The Riverside Church in the City of New York seeks to transform individuals, communities and systems of racial, economic and environment oppression.

Arab American Action Network (AAAN)

The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) strives to strengthen the Arab community in the Chicago area by building its capacity to be an active agent for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, our strategies include community organizing, advocacy, education, providing social services, leadership development, cultural outreach and forging productive relationships with other communities. Our vision is for a strong Arab American community whose members have the power to make decisions about actions and policies that affect their lives and have access to a range of social, political, cultural and economic opportunities in a context of equity and social justice.

Color of Change

Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.

A Little Piece of Light

A Little Piece of Light (ALPOL) works within communities to achieve our outreach goals whether we are working with individuals who are reentering their communities or people who are still incarcerated. We have made important contributions to honor the humanity of women and girls impacted by the incarceration system through mutual aid, advocacy, community healing and empowerment, and grassroots mobilization. We achieve these contributions by cultivating a coalition of partnerships with community members directly impacted by incarceration, nonprofits, lawmakers, advocates, and professionals operating within and outside of the incarceration system.

The Fortune Society

The Fortune Society’s mission is to support successful reentry from incarceration and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities. We do this by BELIEVING in the power of individuals to change, BUILDING LIVES through service programs shaped by the needs and experience of our participants; and CHANGING MINDS through education and advocacy to promote the creation of a fair, humane, and truly rehabilitative correctional system

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem provides the highest quality legal representation to the people of upper Manhattan through community-based, holistic public defense.

The Amadou Diallo Foundation

The mission of the The Amadou Diallo Foundation is to advocate for racial equity and promote education for students of African descent.

The Osborne Association

The Osborne Association serves individuals, families and communities affected by the criminal justice system. Through our programs we offer opportunities for people to heal from and repair harm, restore their lives, and thrive. We challenge systems rooted in racism and retribution, and fight for policies and practices that promote true safety, justice and liberation.

Center for Community Alternatives, Inc.

CCA serves people in difficult situations: youth at risk, families in crisis, people struggling to address substance use disorders, and people living with HIV and AIDS. The individuals served by CCA are among the most impoverished and disempowered in our society. CCA endeavors to address these issues by emphasizing personal empowerment, self-respect, and concern for one’s community.

The Legal Aid Society

"The Legal Aid Society is built upon one simple but powerful belief: that no New Yorker should be denied the right to equal justice."

West Town Law Office

For 40 years, West Town Law Office has been a community-based law office in the heart of the Puerto Rican community. Attorney Melinda Power has worked in the law office for 39 years. The office specializes in criminal defense, civil rights and domestic relations. West Town Law Office is proud to represent our clients, many of whom have been falsely arrested, falsely accused and physically abused by the police. We also help to resolve domestic issues such as divorce, paternity, child support and custody.

Abolitionist Law Center

The Abolitionist Law Center is a public interest law firm inspired by the struggle of political and politicized prisoners, and organized for the purpose of abolishing class and race based mass incarceration in the United States. Abolitionist Law Center litigates on behalf of people whose human rights have been violated in prison, educates the general public about the evils of mass incarceration, and works to develop a mass movement against the American punishment system by building alliances and nurturing solidarity across social divisions.

The New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement

The New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC) brings together advocates, formerly incarcerated persons, family members of currently incarcerated people, concerned community members, lawyers, and individuals in the human rights, health, and faith communities throughout New York State. Our small staff is made up of people directly affected by solitary confinement, and we have hundreds of active volunteers and thousands of individual and institutional supporters. Our common goal is sweeping reform of New York’s use of solitary confinement and other forms of extreme isolation in state prisons and local jails. We pursue this goal through public education, community organizing, and support of the Humane Alternative to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act, which is currently making its way through the New York State Legislature.

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is a broad-based, non-partisan, global, democratic association of grassroots activists and students. Al-Awda develops, coordinates, supports and guides, as needed, global and local grassroots initiatives for action related to the achievement and restoration of Palestinian rights in full. Our central advocacy is for the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands of origin, and to full restitution of all their confiscated and destroyed property in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International law and United Nations Resolutions which uphold these rights.

Parole Preparation Project

We provide critical advocacy and direct support to currently and formerly incarcerated people serving life sentences, and seek to transform the parole release process in New York State.

California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP)

CCWP is a grassroots abolitionist organization—with members inside and outside prison—that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). We see the struggle for racial and gender justice as central to dismantling the PIC and we prioritize the leadership of the people, families, and communities most impacted in building this movement.

The Debt Collective

The Debt Collective is the nation's first debtors' union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage.

The Community Service Society of New York

The Community Service Society of New York (CSS) is an informed, independent, and unwavering voice for positive action on behalf of more than three million low-income New Yorkers. Our work bridges many subject areas and approaches, all with a concerted focus on addressing economic and racial disparities that stand in the way of opportunity and forward movement. We conduct incisive research on issues facing low-wage workers, rent-burdened tenants and Black and brown New Yorkers overpoliced at the subway turnstile; create and run innovative direct-service programs providing critical support to low-income individuals and families; work with and for New Yorkers with past criminal systems involvement in reentry and conviction records-related advocacy, litigation and rap sheet-related services; promote and ensure equitable access to healthcare across New York State; assist individuals facing student loan debt; and engage in a wide variety of other programs and projects aimed at reducing barriers to full participation in the life of this great city.

The Society of American Law Teachers

The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) is committed to advancing teaching excellence, social justice and diversity. SALT is a community of progressive law teachers, law school administrators, librarians, academic support experts, students and affiliates. SALT has been working for more than 40 years to improve the legal profession, the law academy and expand the power of law to under-served communities. SALT engages in work within and beyond the law school to advance social justice.

Global Center for Advanced Studies

The mission of the Global Center for Advanced Studies is to provide the highest quality education and research opportunities in the world, debt-free.

After Incarceration

After Incarceration’s mission is to build power in communities directly impacted by policies of excessive punishment and mass incarceration. We offer opportunities for people to process the trauma of incarceration, and develop the resiliency necessary to break through the barriers to freedom that exist after incarceration. We work to affirm the value of all human beings, to transform pain into power, and to find a way to be in right-relationship with one another. We envision a restorative reentry experience that will grow collective efficacy from the ground up.

THE UNIVERSAL ZULu NATION

The Overall Mission, Purpose, Goals & Objectives Of The Universal Zulu Nation-World Department Of Community Affairs; Is To Use Socially Conscious Grassroots Hip Hop Culture As A (R)evolutionary Tool For Global Humanism, Inner/Over/Understanding, Liberation, Self-Determination, Peace, And A Spiritual Oneness With Mother Earth.

St. Rocco's Poetry Collective

St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective is a literary organization that hosts a monthly invitational reading series in Albany, New York featuring a mix of visiting and Capital District writers, several annual literary celebrations, and presents a weekly St. Rocco's Broadcast on WCAA 107.3FAM in Albany.

Jews for Palestinian Right of Return

As Jews of conscience, we call on all supporters of social justice to stand up for Palestinian Right of Return and a democratic state throughout historic Palestine — “From the River to the Sea” — with equal rights for all.

Lotherapez Services Resources Anonymous

One World Life Systems

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