Recommended Links
Resources for People of Color
Third Root will add to and amend this list periodically, and we encourage you to browse our Bibliography and visit our Resource Library at Third Root for other resources. (Also, if you find a broken link here or have a link to add to this list, drop us a line at website@thirdroot.org and let us know.)
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Audre Lorde Project — New York, NY
www.alp.org
The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Committed to struggling across differences, we seek to responsibly reflect, represent and serve our various communities. (JB)
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Black Women’s Health Imperative — Washington, DC
www.blackwomenshealth.org
The Black Women’s Health Imperative reinforces the fact that it is imperative that we move beyond documenting the enormous health disparities that exist for Black women, and focus our efforts on actionable steps to eliminate them. To ensure that happens, the Imperative works at the national and local levels, where we bring the perspectives and often missing voices of African American women to the ongoing health policy debates. We also join in partnerships with health coalitions and organizations to develop community-based strategies to reach out and affect change individually, locally, regionally and nationally. (JHC)
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CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities — New York, NY
www.caaav.org
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities (also known as Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) was founded by Asian women in 1986 as one of the first organizations in the United States to mobilize Asian communities to counter anti-Asian violence. CAAAV focuses on institutional violence that affects immigrant, poor and working-class communities such as worker exploitation, concentrated urban poverty, police brutality, Immigration Naturalization Service detention and deportation, and criminalization of youth and workers. By organizing across diverse, low-wage, and poor Asian communities in New York City, CAAAV exposes and struggles against violence with the goal of building community capacity to exercise self-determination. Building coalitions enables CAAAV to contribute to a unified strategy for a broader, multi-racial and multi-issue movement for social change. CAAAV is a volunteer-driven organization led by members of low-income Asian immigrant communities. (JB)
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Committee In Solidarity with People of El Salvador — Washington, DC
www.cispes.org
We are a grassroots organization dedicated to supporting the Salvadoran people’s struggle for self-determination and social and economic justice. The alternative that they are building — an alternative based upon democratic and socialist ideals — is an example to all people who seek a world free of domination and exploitation. We support that alternative because we believe that capitalism is a fundamentally unjust, oppressive and ecologically unsustainable economic system. We join with poor and working people, immigrants and refugees in the struggle against neoliberalism — the current manifestation of capitalism imposed by the United States government and its state, institutional and corporate allies. Neoliberal policies continue to produce enormous suffering and destabilization around the world. We focus our work on El Salvador because of the U.S. government’s continuing military, economic, and political intervention on behalf of U.S. corporate interests, and because the Salvadoran people’s tenacious and inspiring struggle to build social justice. (JB)
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Domestic Workers United — New York, NY
www.domesticworkersunited.org
Founded in 2000, Domestic Workers United (DWU) is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all. (JB)
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Families United for Racial and Economic Equality — Brooklyn, NY
www.furee.org
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) is a Brooklyn-based, multi-racial organization made up of almost exclusively women of color. We are organizing low-income families to build power to change the system so that all people’s work is valued and all of us have the right and economic means to decide and live out our own destinies. We use direct action, leadership development, community organizing and political education to win the changes our members seek. Our guiding principle is that those directly affected by the policies we are seeking to change should lead the organization. (JB)
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FIERCE — New York, NY
www.fiercenyc.org
FIERCE is a membership-based organization building the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color in New York City. We develop politically conscious leaders who are invested in improving ourselves and our communities through youth-led campaigns, leadership development programs, and cultural expression through arts and media. FIERCE is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of social justice movement leaders who are dedicated to ending all forms of oppression. (JB)
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Griot Circle — Brooklyn, NY
www.griotcircle.org
GRIOT Circle is an intergenerational and culturally diverse community based organization dedicated to enriching the lives of older lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, especially Elders of color. It is their mission to maintain a safe space for these Elders, alleviate their feelings of isolation and fear, and construct programs and support systems designed to affirm their lives and encourage self-empowerment. We provide quality services that honor and preserve our histories and traditions, and reunite those parts of ourselves that have been fragmented by racism, sexism, ageism, and homophobia. While our policies are inclusive, and all are welcome, GRIOT is particularly designed for the specific cultural and social needs of LGBT Elders of color. (JHC)
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Jews For Racial and Economic Justice — New York, NY
www.jfrej.org
To pursue racial and economic justice in New York City by advancing systemic changes that result in concrete improvements in people’s daily lives. We engage individual Jews, key Jewish institutions, and key Jewish community leaders in the fight for racial and economic justice in partnership with people of color, low-income and immigrant communities. (JB)
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Make the Road By Walking — Brooklyn, NY
www.maketheroad.org
Make the Road New York* promotes economic justice, equity, and opportunity for all New Yorkers through community and electoral organizing, strategic policy advocacy, leadership development, youth and adult education, and high quality legal and support services.
*Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace el camino al andar. Searcher, there is no road. We make the road by walking. — Antonio Machado, Selected Poems, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982). (JB)
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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement — National
www.mxgm.org
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is an organization of Afrikans in America/New Afrikans whose mission is to defend the human rights of our people and promote self-determination in our community. We understand that the collective institutions of white-supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism have been at the root of our people’s oppression. We understand that without community control and without the power to determine our own lives, we will continue to fall victim to genocide. Therefore, we seek to heighten our consciousness about self-determination as a human right and a solution to our colonization. While organizing around our principles of unity, we are building a network of Black/New Afrikan activists and organizers committed to the protracted struggle for the liberation of the New Afrikan Nation — By Any Means Necessary! (JB)
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New York Community Media Alliance: Voices That Must Be Heard — New York, NY
www.indypressny.org
Voices That Must Be Heard translates and disseminates the best articles from New York*’s immigrant and ethnic newspapers and magazines via email and on the internet. Voices is received by nonprofits, community organizations, government agencies, universities, mainstream and independent media sources, and interested individuals. New York’s immigrant, ethnic and community publications are a vital avenue of cross-cultural understanding — but no New Yorker can know about, access, or read all of them. Voices project works to overcome these barriers, facilitating communication among and between immigrant communities, communities of color, and American society at large. (JHC)
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The New York Immigration Coalition — New York, NY
www.thenyic.org
The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) is an umbrella policy and advocacy organization for more than 200 groups in New York State that work with immigrants and refugees. This link provides a number of updated resources regarding healthcare issues, as well as providing information on other legal issues for immigrants. (JHC)
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People Organized to Win Employment Rights — San Francisco, CA
www.fairwork.org
POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) is an organization made up of and led by no- and low-wage workers fighting for real change. We have united to fight against the people who defend the economic and social systems that are keeping us down. We will not sit silently while others profit from our poverty. As an organization of largely women and people of color, POWER connects its struggle with the struggle of other working people around the world who make up the backbone of the global economy. In order to build a movement that can change the world, no- and low-wage workers are creating organizations like POWER so that we can rid the world of poverty and oppression — once and for all. (JB)
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Sista II Sista — Brooklyn, NY
www.sistaiisista.org
Sista II Sista (SIIS) is a Brooklyn-wide community-based organization located in Bushwick. We are a collective of working-class young and adult Black and Latina women building together to model a society based on liberation and love. Our organization is dedicated to working with young women to develop personal, spiritual and collective power. We are committed to fighting for justice and creating alternatives to the systems we live in by making social, cultural, and political change. (JB)
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Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective — Atlanta, GA
sistersong.net
Sister Song mobilizes women of color around our lived experiences by bringing women of color together, encouraging our collective sustainability through mentoring and self-help, providing a framework that resonates with our lived experience, and organizing and mobilizing to affect change. (JHC)
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Southerners on New Ground — Durham, NC
www.southernersonnewground.org
SONG (Southerners on New Ground) believes all our identities, issues and lives are connected across race, class, culture, gender, and sexuality. SONG is a membership-based, Southern regional organization made up of the working class, people of color, immigrants, and rural LGBTQ people. We envision a world where the double shift factory worker and the drag queen at the bar down the block see their lives as connected and are working together for liberation. (JB)
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Si Se Puede/We Can Do It! Women’s Cooperative — Brooklyn, NY
www.wecandoit.coop
We Can Do It! Women’s Cooperative is a women-owned, women-run business designed to create living wage jobs that will be carried out in a safe and healthy environment, and that promotes social supports and educational opportunities for our members.
