Community Support and Engagement
#RunningForJustice x Prayer Runs
Over the last few years, I have been organizing more and raising awareness about the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous womxn, girls, two-spirits and relatives. It got to the point where I felt like no matter how much organizing was being done, no matter how many advocates and families spoke about this issue, it wasn’t being heard or getting the attention they needed. When enough was enough, I decided to run in prayer, to honor our relatives taken, to remember them, and offer my prayers. I wanted to share my running platform, with our stolen relatives taken by this ongoing violence - to pray for their families, to pray for justice and healing. And as we have seen the deaths and murders of Black lives taken by cops, I realized our traumas and injustices are similar, rooted in racism and white supremacy. I ran for Ahmaud Arbery on May 8th, and on Global Running Day, I ran for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, James Scurlock, Tony McDade and Ahmaud Arbery - supporting the Black and Black Indigenous relatives. My running has new purpose. My little mitankela, Rosalie, is running with new purpose for our relatives. Many are running and using their platforms to shine light on these injustices and honoring those taken. I won’t stop running for them.
For more information about my new purpose with running, running in prayer for our stolen relatives, visit here!
For more content, visit Rising Hearts for information, organizations doing this work and reports to learn more about this heartbreaking issue..
SLC Air Protectors
The SLC Air Protectors is a Native American-led inclusive organization to recruit volunteers, raise awareness, perform community service, support existing initiatives, and take direct action that will address the on-going air pollution crisis in Utah. And the purpose of the UT Tribal COVID-19 Support program is to provide Native Americans living in Utah with the proper means of combating and preventing the spread of COVID-19 within their communities. Indigenous People are more vulnerable to viruses due to geographical challenges, increased susceptibility, and the occurrence of comorbid health issues caused by industrial pollution that has affected thousands of acres of Tribal lands. This increased susceptibility could likely lead to the loss of yet another generation of elders reigniting hundreds of years of cultural trauma.
YOUR DONATIONS GO TO:
• Earth Stewardship,
• Grassroots Environmental Protection, and
• UT Tribal COVID-19 Support
Venmo: SLC-AirProtectors // PayPal: info@slcairprotectors.org
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Intersectional Environmentalists
We are a platform for resources, information and action steps to support intersectional environmentalism and dismantle systems of oppression in the environmental movement, led by environmental activists and sustainability advocates.
What is intersectional environmentalism?
This is an inclusive version of environmentalism that advocates for both the protection of people and the planet. It identifies the ways in which injustices happening to marginalized communities and the earth are interconnected. It brings injustices done to the most vulnerable communities, and the earth, to the forefront and does not minimize or silence social inequality. Intersectional environmentalism advocates for justice for people + the planet.
~ Leah Thomas
To learn more and support, click here.
To view who is on the IE Council, click here.
Protecting Indigenous Women, Two Spirits & Relatives.
Sovereign Bodies Institute (SBI) builds on Indigenous traditions of data gathering and knowledge transfer to create, disseminate, and put into action research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people. SBI is committed to:
conducting, supporting, and mobilizing culturally-informed and community-engaged research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people
uplifting Indigenous researchers, knowledge keepers, and data visualists in their work to research and disseminate data on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people
empowering Indigenous communities and nations to continue their work to end gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people, through data-driven partnerships that enhance research efforts, develop best practices, and transform data to action to protect and heal their peoples.
To learn more and support this needed work, click here.
California Native Vote Project, or CNVP, is the first-of-its-kind statewide effort to engage Native American communities across dozens of counties to build political power through an integrated voter engagement strategy.
CNVP launched three months prior to the 2016 presidential election to register and educate Native American community members, and has since expanded into organizing, census advocacy and outreach, research, policy and leadership development -- all part of an integrated-voter engagement approach.
Areas of Focus:
Census as a Power Building Strategy
Community Organizing
Research
Voter Registration, Education and Protections
Youth Organizing
JOIN THE MOVEMENT.
“In January of 2017, a group of 4 women inspired over a thousand people to join them on their run from Harlem to Washington DC. This event raised over $100k for women’s reproductive rights and inspired a movement that led to our first Brand Ambassador Team, National Summit and State Chapter Events in August of that year. These state events fostered amazing connections across the country and raised an additional $50k for Planned Parenthood. Using footage from the DC run, we created a documentary that premiered at the Women in Sports Film Festival in Oakland and went on to screen in a dozen cities.
Most importantly, we have built out a corporate structure that will allow us to grow, adapt and bring the mission of Run 4 All Women to communities around the globe.”
Defend Our Community
Our team is helping elders in Leupp, AZ with essential items, provide information about preventing the spread of Covid-19. Donations and assistant is really appreciated. Stay safe everyone and please stay home.
Venmo: Defend-Our-Community
Email: defendourcommunity@gmail.com
We are an education, research, and policy organization dedicated to equity and promoting healthy racial identity development in youth. We support organizations, families, and educators in taking action to disrupt racism in young children.
IG: @theconsciouskid
FB: www.facebook.com/theconsciouskid
#SayHerName Campaign.
Launched in December 2014 by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS), the #SayHerName campaign brings awareness to the often invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by racist police violence, and provides support to their families.
To learn more, click here.