6/30/2022: Roots & Remedies, Roe v. Wade, Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda

- PRAXIS ANNOUNCEMENTS - Pleasure In Praxis Roots & Remedies 2022 The Praxis Project is excited to announce our 2022 annual Roots & Remedies convening for community organizations and organizers in the Praxis network. Join us from July 11-15th for Pleasure in Praxis, a pleasurable week of virtual programming all centering the radical practice of pleasure as activism. Since 2008, Roots and Remedies has been a space for our community to reconnect, relax, heal, and celebrate the profound work that community organizers are doing across the United States to improve health, justice, and racial equity. Learn More & Register Roe v. Wade Praxis Statement on Roe v. Wade As anticipated, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Access to safe health care is a human right. This is dangerous and unconstitutional and will have devastating consequences on BIPOC, low-income people, rural communities, and other marginalized communities whose residents often do not have the resources or ability to travel to obtain the safe, reproductive health care they need. Read more… In Praxis Season 3 - Food Justice New Episode Releases Season 3 of In Praxis continues! Join us as we explore community driven strategies for food justice in our latest episodes. Ep. 7: The Power of Youth Led Food Justice - Bevelyn Afor Ukah Bevelyn Afor Ukah believes that youth power holds the key to our survival and collective freedom. Her work at the Food Youth Initiative (FYI) at the Center for Environmental Farming System is more than just about food access, their organizing efforts span across interconnected issue areas leading us towards liberation. Ep. 8: Derechos de los Trabajadores, ¡Justicia Alimentaria! / Workers' Rights, Food Justice! - Lupe Gonzalo Lupe Gonzalo of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) shares the profound power that lies within farmworker voices to build agency among farmworkers in impact change in Immokalee, FL and inspired advocates nation-wide. Note: this episode is in Spanish. An English transcription can be found on our website. *A transcript of episodes, edited for readability, are included on the website. - POLICY NEWS & ACTION - Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, Interfaith Voices for Reproductive Justice, and SisterLove, Inc. announced the release of the Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda, an innovative, proactive policy agenda created in collaboration with more than 30 Black women’s organizations and Reproductive Justice activists. The agenda offers proactive policy solutions to address issues at the intersections of race, gender, class, sexual orientation and gender identity within the situational impacts of economics, politics and culture that make up the lived experiences of Black women, femmes, girls and gender-expansive individuals in the United States.  Full Agenda: Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda The Black RJ Statement on Abortion Access Sign The Pledge  TAKE ACTION Sign the Petition to Demand the Biden Administration to end the War on Black Immigrants  Sign the Petition Demand Congress fully fund Housing Provisions of Infrastructure Bill  Protect Immigrants! Tell Congress to include strong protections for immigrants and a pathway to citizenship in the #BuildBackBetter reconciliation package #WeAreHome  Sign the Petition Tell the Biden Administration to give Black & Indigenous Farmers Emergency debt relief now! Co-sponsor the Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act  - RESOURCES & OPPORTUNITIES - RESOURCES Event: Join SisterSong, Amplify Georgia Collaborative, SPARK Reproductive Justice and Reproductive Just Resilience Project on 7/2 for From the Ashes of Roe: A Healing & Grief Space come grieve and feel, and release what you're holding as we process the overturning of Roe. Register Resource: TransLash's Trans-Affirming Guide to Roe v. Wade: Abortion Resources for Transgender & TGNC People Resource: This June Scalawag Magazine released their 3rd annual Abolition Week issue featuring perspectives from formerly incarcerated folks. Tune into essays, videos, podcast and letters all about abolition! Workshop: Highlander Center's Thread Sessions continue with "Cultural Organizing 101" on July 18th at 7pm ET. Register Resource: Know Your Rights Camp updated their "Know Your Rights: A guide for protesters" This resource is best to us in advance of action or demonstration Conference: Race Forward presents, Facing Race: A National Conference will take place Thursday November 17th - Saturday November 19th, 2022. Register Resource: Nonprofit Quarterly released "Dimensions of Thriving: Learning from Black LGBTQ +/SGL Moments, Spaces and Practices" The Bridge to Thriving urges us to envision and remake our relationships with one another and our world—because the world we need doesn’t yet exist. Conference: SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective is having their 5th national Let's Talk About Sex! Conference August 25-28, 2022 in Dallas, TX. Register  FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Strategic Opportunities Support (SOS) Fund. Circle for Justice Innovations Fund's SOS fund is a funding mechanism that issues micro-grants (up to $5,000) to eligible organizations addressing immediate, emergency needs and critically urgent strategic organizing opportunities in their communities. Applications are considered on a rolling-basis until all funding has been granted through 12/02/2022. Learn more & Apply. JOB OPPORTUNITIES CAIR California is hiring for multiple positions based in the SF Bay Area and Santa Clara, CA Black Futures Lab is hiring for multiple positions The Coalition for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Development is seeking a Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement based in Washington, D.C. The Sentencing Project is hiring for a Youth Justice Campaign Strategist and Executive Assistant based in Washington, D.C Arts on the Block is hiring an Assistant Teaching Artist and Activity Specialist based in Washington, D.C. The Marshall Project is seeking an Outreach Manager based in Cleveland, OH Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy, and Leadership (APPEAL) is hiring for multiple positions, remote California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN) is hiring for multiple positions based in California Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) is hiring an Operations Associate, remote Advocates for Youth is hiring a Director of Public Policy based in Washington, D.C. Advancement Project California is seeking a Legislative Advocate and Administrative Assistant based in Sacramento, CA The Praxis Project is a values-driven national nonprofit organization that seeks to improve health justice through partnerships to build community power. Our Community Power Digest - Monthly Newsletter features updates and news from The Praxis Project and our basebuilding network. If you'd like to stop receiving emails from us, simply click here to unsubscribe.