Antiracist Resources: Local Action
Guide to antiracist resources including books, films, articles, primary sources, local and national action networks, protest resources, and bail funds.
Local Initiatives
Looking to invest long-term in your communities? Here is a small selection of New York based organizations, many of which run on the people-power of volunteers. Need help finding an organization in your area? Search for terms like “mutual aid” or “community action” together with the name of your neighborhood or borough. Contact us for help at library@sva.edu.
- Audre Lorde ProjectThe 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
- Brooklyn Movement CenterBrooklyn Movement Center works to build power and pursue self-determination in Bedford-Stuyvesant & Crown Heights.
- Equality for FlatbushA hub for affordable housing, anti policerepression, and anti gentrification initiatives in Flatbush.
- Housing Justice For AllThe Upstate-Downstate Housing Alliance is a diverse coalition of tenants, homeless people, manufactured housing residents, and advocates from across New York.
- Let's Get on the BusA nonprofit dedicated to supporting children and families impacted by mass incarceration with education, art, and activism.
- Mutual Aid NYCMutual Aid NYC is a multi-racial network of people and groups helping community action initiatives find the people and resources they need to do their work.
- New York Communities for ChangeNew York Communities for Change achieves breakthrough campaigns that unite working people, local communities, social justice organizations, grassroots activists, students, and progressive policy leaders.
- Racial Justice BKRacial Justice BK is a space where neighbors come together to both discuss, and work on, issues of systemic and institutional racism.
- Showing Up for Racial Justice NYCLocal chapter of the Showing Up for Racial Justice initiative working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice.
- South Brooklyn Mutual AidVolunteers building solidarity not charity and working to feed and support our neighbors in South Brooklyn during the COVID-19 crisis.
- VOCAL-NYVoices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY) is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people affected by HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, the drug war, homelessness, and mass incarceration in order to create healthy and just communities.
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