Local Organizations Supporting Criminal Justice Reform

Austin

Austin Justice Coalition

Austin Justice Coalition is a Racial Justice Group that educates and builds community power for people of color who live in Austin, Texas that need support, community, and liberation during a time of systemic injustice in America.

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Grassroots Leadership

Grassroots Leadership works for a more just society where prison profiteering, mass incarceration, deportation, and criminalization are things of the past.

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Black Lives Matter: Austin

 Black Lives Matter Austin is the only official chapter of the Network

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Dallas

Movement for Black Lives

The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) formed in December of 2014, was created as a space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions, develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural and political wins, convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement-wide strategy. Under the fundamental idea that we can achieve more together than we can separately.

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TOP: Dallas

Description: Texas Organizing Project organizes Black and Latino communities in Dallas, Harris, and Bexar counties with the goal of transforming Texas into a state where working people of color have the power and representation they deserve. Texas is a big and diverse state, and considering the evolving social makeup and the widespread need for improvement in areas of health care, poverty, and education, community organizing has never been more important in Texas than it is today.

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In Defense of Black Lives

Description: We are a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color led coalition.  We believe we have a duty to fight against police and racial terror and are united in defense of Black Lives, Queer, Trans, and undocumented people.

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Mother’s Against Police Brutality

Description: Mothers Against Police Brutality (MAPB) is the new voice for justice for victims of police brutality and deadly force. We are a multi-racial, multi-ethnic coalition uniting mothers nationwide to fight for civil rights, police accountability, and policy reform.

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Houston

Black Lives Matter: Houston 

Description: Black Lives Matter Houston is an organization that addresses the issues that affect Black folks and collaborates with partners to build a healthy, educated, and financially stable Black community. Our ultimate goal is to pave a path for Black power and liberation where it is understood that ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER. Our Mission is to build a movement that transforms Houston into a city that allows Black Houston to grow and thrive.

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Pure Justice 

The mission of Pure Justice is to empower our members and supporters to advocate for the changes they want to see in our criminal justice system and for the economic opportunities they need. Through community organizing and civic engagement, we aim to transform institutions, create equity, and improve the lives of low to moderate-income families in Harris County.

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TOP-Houston h

Description: Texas Organizing Project organizes Black and Latino communities in Dallas, Harris, and Bexar counties with the goal of transforming Texas into a state where working people of color have the power and representation they deserve. Texas is a big and diverse state, and considering the evolving social makeup and the widespread need for improvement in areas of health care, poverty, and education, community organizing has never been more important in Texas than it is today.

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Black Lives Matter Houston Texas Organizing Collective (BLMHT Organizing Collective) 

Description: A Houston-based, black women-led collective of activists, organizers, artists, & scholars addressing issues that impact black lives locally.

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San Antonio

TOP – San Antonio 

Texas Organizing Project organizes Black and Latino communities in Dallas, Harris, and Bexar counties with the goal of transforming Texas into a state where working people of color have the power and representation they deserve. Texas is a big and diverse state, and considering the evolving social makeup and the widespread need for improvement in areas of health care, poverty, and education, community organizing has never been more important in Texas than it is today.

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Southwest Workers Union 

As an organization of low-income, working-class families and youth, SWU unites in one collective struggle for self-governance based on dignity, respect, justice, and liberation. SWU organizes its grassroots members through de-colonization, emancipatory education, leadership development, and direct action for worker rights, environmental justice, and systemic change. We envision all-inclusive sustainable healthy communities rooted in dignity, justice, and respect for self-determination, social-economic well-being autonomy, and pachamama.

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El Paso

Sunrise Movement Chapter

Description: Sunrise El Paso is a local movement to stop climate change and create hundreds if not thousands of good jobs in the process here in the desert Southwest and in El Paso, Texas.

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Rio Grande Valley

RGV Equal Voice Network  :

The Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network (RGV EVN) works to advance the human rights and quality of life for historically marginalized groups in the region.  We advocate for the intersectional reform of immigration, housing, health care, the labor force, and education justice while bearing in mind the specific set of challenges that immigration status, income, language, and other identities that matter can play in these sectors.  By centering the voices, experiences, and knowledge of community members, we advance equity and social justice at the regional, local, state, and federal levels.

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Frontera Progressive

We are an independent organization that educates and engages the energy of the community to support progressive values.

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