5/26/2021: Disaster Justice, We Are Home, + Resource Roundup

THE PRAXIS PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENTS Moving from Disaster Preparedness to Disaster Justice: Centering Community & Racial Justice for a Transformed Future   From the inequitable impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic to fires ravaging the West Coast, from migrant children being forcibly separated from their parents at the border to continued police violence against the Black community, we have witnessed an array of disasters in the last year and beyond. This brief investigates the concept of “disaster justice” within the context of disaster preparedness and response, and how grassroots organizers have integrated disaster justice into their work.   Read the Brief In Praxis Podcast Episodes 8 & 9 Now Available   In the final episodes of our season, we speak with the amazing advocates at the center of community-based SSB campaigns around the country: Building on Historic Public Health Efforts: Holly Scheider connects the fight against the beverage industry to the historic public health efforts that took on the tobacco industry.  Centering Community in Soda Taxes: Christina Goette emphasizes the importance of centering the voices of communities who are disproportionately burdened by beverage industry's predatory marketing. POLICY NEWS & ACTION We Are Home   We Are Home​ is a nationwide campaign fighting to ensure that “we the people” includes all of us​.   The We Are Home campaign is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational coalition calling on the Biden administration and Congress to take immediate action to protect millions of immigrants who call this country home and end the cruelty of our interior detention and deportation system.   Take Action: Immigrants are neighbors, friends, coworkers, family members #WEAREHOME   POLICY NEWS & ACTION Take Action Rise Up with Palestine: Tell Congress to Sanction Israeli Apartheid Take Action End Qualified Immunity & Demand Police Accountability Take Action Demand McDonals'd raise wages to $15+/hr Now #Fightfor15 Take Action Global Calendar of Resistance: Join these events to defend Palestine! Take Action Pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, TPS holders, Farmworkers, and Essential Workers now! #WeAreHome Take Action Support H.R. 40 and reparations for slavery Take Action Tell Congress: Support The EACH Act Take Action Pledge to Teach the Truth & Teach the People's History in Schools  Take Action Tell Congress: To Honor Mothers & Prioritize the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Take Action Tell Congress: Stop Weapon Sales to Israel Now! RESOURCES & OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCES Webinar: VidaAfrolatina's Historias featuring powerful Black women leaders in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico discussing the impacts of sexual violence on the lives of Black women and girls in their communities on May 29th, 6:00 to 7:00pm EST. Tickets start at $15, register here. Resource: Palestinian Youth Movement's #SaveSheikhJarrah educational and action resources.  Resource: Decolonize Palestine's Palestine 101, myths database, and Palestine reading list.  Workshop: A Bookkeeping Cooperative's Understanding My Organization's Finances workshop discussing basic financial concepts & the four basic reports for those looking to co-create a solidarity economy based on sustainable alternatives to capitalism on May 27th, 11:00 AM PDT and June 1st, 2:00 PM PDT. Register and review sliding scale attendance costs/scholarship opportunities here. Toolkit: Project NIA's Restorative Conversation Toolkit for addressing the impacts of harm, mutual harms, conflicts and more.  Report: Indigenous Environmental Network and coalition organizations' 2021 Banking on Climate Chaos report investigating the fossil fuel financing and policies of the world’s 60 largest banks to over 2,300 companies.  Resource: Stop The Money Pipeline's Move Your Money resource guide for aligning your money with your values and away from funding climate chaos.  Week of Action Events: Media Justice and Athena Coalition's #EyesOn Amazon Action Week June 7th-June 11th for the end of Amazon'a one-year moratorium on selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement. Stay tuned for a series of conversations about ending Amazon's use of surveillance and algorithmic control for retaliation against its workers, putting a stop to Amazon's empowerment of violent police departments, and more.  Webinar: The Social Justice and Climate Action Committee of the San Francisco Labor Council's Black and AAPI Relations: Unpacking the Systemic Origins of Conflict and the Natural Solidarity of Inter-Minority Relations webinar on May 26th, 2021 5:30pm PT. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The Fund for Trans Generations (FTG) from Borealis Philanthropy provides rapid response funding to trans-led organizations responding to rising needs and is accepting requests for COVID-19 specific funding. Grants range between $2,000-$10,000, are processed quickly and without strings to meet the pressing needs of trans communities of color. Learn more. The Henry Luce Foundation is developing a new initiative focused on the challenges of building just, equitable, and inclusive societies. Groups and organizations addressing those challenges are invited to send the foundation information about their work at fundingopportunity@hluce.org no later than June 15. JOB OPPORTUNITIES HEAL Food Alliance is currently looking for a Resource Organizing Director and Social Media Consultant Alameda County Community Food Bank is seeking a Community Organizer based in Oakland, CA Human Impact Partners is seeking a Operations Associate based in Oakland, CA  Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) is hiring a Strategic Communications Specialist The Moriah Group is hiring a Project Manager based in Huntsville, AL Resource Generation is seeking a Community Organizer and Finance Manager, remote or based in New York, NY Physicians for Human Rights is seeking a Senior Writer, remote based in New York, NY  San Francisco Rising is hiring a Communications Manager based in San Francisco, CA  Immigrantly is searching for a part-time Social Media Coordinator, remote  Mijente is hiring a for multiple positions Family Equality is hiring a Chief Communications Officer and Finance Operations Manager, remote Cultural Survival is hiring a Director of Policy and Advocacy, remote Fair Count is seeking a Program Director and Digital & Social Media Manager, remote based in Atlanta, GA Weave the Social Fabric Project is hiring a Community Manager based in Washington, D.C. Dream Defenders is searching for a Director - Healing and Justice Center, Executive Assistant, and Digital Communications Coordinator based in Florida SIREN is hiring for multiple positions based in the Central Valley or Bay Area, CA Asian American Organizing Project is hiring for multiple temp and intern positions, based in St. Paul, MN SHARE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES Do you have any resources or opportunities to share with our network? Reply to this email and tell us about it! 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 these emails, simply click here to unsubscribe.