5/25/2022: Lifelong Medical Care CBPH Video, In Praxis Podcast, #BansOffOurBodies

- PRAXIS ANNOUNCEMENTS - Check out our latest Communities Building Power for Health - Healthy Investments for the Berkeley Community video! Lifelong Medical Care's community-centered Heart 2 Heart and Oral Health programs bring critical health services into their communities. Their community health advocates/leaders ensure services are accessible and work in partnership with trusted local organizations to build community agency and empowerment to improve health and well-being. Watch the Video 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. 6: Getting Back to Mother Earth Donne Gonzalez and Emily Arasim are deeply committed in serving as acequia caretakers, and passing on knowledge about intergenerational farming and the larger systems impacting people living in New Mexico. Ep. 5: Rooted in Praxis amaha sellassie is a public-sociologist working to transform communities through a love ethic. In this episode, amaha shares the story of how Gem City Market, a worker owned cooperative, came into existence. Ep. 4: Planting Seeds to Grow Community As a second generation Pan-Asian American, Angela Patel (she/her) uses her cultural history to shape and influence her work at Danny Woo Community Garden as the Sustainable Community and Educational Coordinator. *A transcript of episodes, edited for readability, are included on the website. - POLICY NEWS & ACTION - No abortion bans #BansOffOurBodies We won't let the abortion bans sweeping the country put our lives and futures at risk, and we won't be silenced while our fundamental right to control our bodies is taken away. Everyone deserves health care that's free of shame, stigma, or judgment. Together, we say: Get your bans off our bodies! Sign the Petition Join the Campaign  TAKE ACTION Take Action: Join the Fight for Black Workers' Rights. Sign the petition to invest in Black workers. Take Action: Demand Big Food and Soda disclose its global political activities and spending. Sign the petition Take Action: Join Reform LA Jails in their campaign to cancel the contract with the LA Country Sheriff with community-driven public safety. Sign the petition Take Action: Join Louisiana Center for Children's Rights campaign to end solitary confinement in juvenile prisons. Take Action: Support Community Food Access in Buffalo, NY. Take Action: Support the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth and communities. Take Action: Please sign the petition to Instagram now: Stop silencing Palestinian voices. Stop censoring posts! - RESOURCES & OPPORTUNITIES - RESOURCES Training: Rockwood Leadership Institute is offering a 30-day self guided course on Deep Listening Daily Practice to build more authentic connections. Register Resource: Mijente just releases the first comprehensive report on Latinx experiences with policing. Read Futuro y Esperanza: Latinx Perspectives on Policing and Safety Tool Kit: Sex Education Collaborative curated a tool kit Sex Ed: Equity & Access for All. Virtual Event: Join Human Impact Partners (HIP) on 6/16 to explore The Healing Project's new digital archive which explores art, stories, and realities of incarcerated people in U.S. Register Training: Black Feminist Future is offering Abortion is Freedom Skill Camp on June 6th-8th! Register Resource: Read "Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and Criminalization" to learn how our movements can organize in solidarity. Resource: Listen to the 2022 APIA Heritage Month Solidarity podcast series! Learn and reflect on ways to build stronger movement solidarity with the APIA community. Training: Education for Racial Equity is offering Somatic Abolitionism training courses. Training is available to the general public, and multiple offering dates include Nov 2021, and Feb, Apr, July, and Oct 2022 Resource: List of Black-led Buffalo, NY based organizations ending food apartheid & violence  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. Resist Grants for organizing, basebuilding, direct action, and cultural organizing. Resist foundation support groups organizing within communities for structural social and economic change. Grant applications are due quarterly (June 3, 2022) and provide general support groups for up to $4000 and up to $1000 for rapid response. Learn more & Apply. The Mobilize Power Fund. Third Wave Fund's Mobilize Power Fund is a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions. Grants up to $10,000. The next deadline for the Mobilize Power Fund is July 5, 2022. Learn more & Apply. JOB OPPORTUNITIES Center for Native American Youth at The Aspen Institute is seeking a Staff Assistant Freedom for Immigrants is hiring a Database and Information and Technology Manager, remote CPEHN is hiring for multiple positions based in Oakland, Sacramento, and California broadly CNHED is seeking a Senior Director, DC Community Anchor Partnership based in Washington D.C. Asian American Organizing Project (AAOP) is hiring their next team of canvassers and canvasser organizers based in St. Paul, MN Indigenous Environmental Network is hiring a Communications Director, remote Cultural Survival is hiring an Individual Donor Manager, remote City life / Vida Urbana is seeking a Grant Writer, Director of Development, Bilingual Organizer based in Jamaica Plain, MA (currently remote) National Birth Equity Collaborative is seeking a Digital Content Producer and Social Media Manager, remote Black Future Lab is hiring for multiple positions Al Otro Lado is seeking a Haitian Community Coordinator based in Tijuana, Mexico or remotely by the right candidate Berkeley Food Institute is seeking an Educational Programs Director based in Berkeley, CA Advocates for Youth is seeking a Senior Administrative Assistant, AMAZE based Washington D.C. 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