In response to a recent article in The New York Times about food deserts, Nestle argues that the real issue is poverty and income inequality. more
The Praxis Project Turns 10 this year!
The Praxis Project Turns 10 this year! Your support will help us continue this important work. Please consider making a contribution. Thank for you you do to make a difference.
Transforming Communities
How do we build the communities we’re occupying to create? Transforming Communities is a cross-disciplinary project to draw on some of the world’s best practices in the development of comprehensive, progressive local policies. These policies, taken together, will remake local communities into healthy, democratic, thriving places for all its residents.
CCHE
Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE) program is a national funding and capacity building initiative to support diverse, community-based organizations and tribal groups in the development and implementation of effective, culturally competent, policy initiatives to advance food and recreation justice.
05/03/2012
Reuters reporters Duff Wilson and Janet Roberts argue that the government has succumbed to the industry’s aggressive lobbying and wealth to resist changes to food marketing to children. Reuters has also released a video that shows how the industry fought back. more
05/03/2012
The aim of this legislation is to target the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Michigan, which had picketed and sued a restaurant it accused of mistreating workers. Because a social work graduate student at the University of Michigan chose to do a field placement with the organization, the Michigan Restaurant Association lobbied its Republican friends in the state legislature. more
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As we reflect on our tenth anniversary this month, we have much to celebrate. We have survived the stormy financial waters of the current financial crisis (knock on wood!). We have raised more than $20 million dollars to support organizing and policy change work in communities of color. And we have built a wonderful network of comrades and supporters over the years, including our board leadership whose investments of time and talent have been invaluable.
“Imagine all the people sharing all the world
You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one”
- John Lennon
To understand black freedom we must define what is black and what is free. Makani Themba intimates that the most important work of art is to help people imagine what it is like to be free. That freedom must become part of our thinking is preceded, possibly, by freedom being imagined, designed, explored, thought about and thought through, felt from the inside and pushed out through the soul.
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05/01/2012 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
The Praxis Project Turns 10 this year!
Come by and help us celebrate our tenth anniversary at an Open House Happy Hour. Enjoy live jazz featuring Washington DC's own treasure, The Nasar Abadey Quartet, good food, champagne and more as we say thank you for your love and support. for more information follow along here.
04/06/2012 - 12:30pm to 4:00pm
Please join IMAN tomorrow as we take part in a multifaith prayer
service and observance being held in response to Monday night’s
fatal shooting of a 49-year old man a block away from the IMAN
office. The observance, to be held outside at the spot of the
shooting, will start at 12:45 PM with a Stations of the Cross prayer
led by Father Tony Pizzo from St. Rita of Cascia as part of their Good
Friday procession. That will be followed by Friday khutbah and
congregational prayers led by Gemali Ibrahim, an IMAN-Southwest
03/16/2012 - 2:45pm to 03/18/2012 - 5:45pm
NYPD & Capitalist Systems: Organizing for Police Accountability across Black, Muslim, and Latino Communities
Room W608
Saturday, March 17th
12:00pm - 1:50pm