Building Today for Just Futures Tomorrow.
We envision a society where our communities live with dignity, power, and freedom. Join us as we create a just future, together.
Become Part of Our Future
Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) is a grassroots organization that builds power in Muslim communities through collective care, organizing, advocacy, and movement-building.
Muslims for Just Futures’ local work spans the DC, MD, VA (DMV) region and Chicago. MJF is committed to building long-term power and base-building with a focus on centering working-class communities and women. We are also committed to building grassroots power nationally through our movement-building and advocacy work.
MJF is dedicated to countering the widespread divestment from Muslim communities resulting from criminalization, structural Islamophobia, and gendered Islamophobia by focusing on investing in economic justice, gender justice, and healing justice.
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Leaders Trained through Organizing Cohorts
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Oral Histories Collected
Investing in workers' organizing Muslim womens' abolitionist collective care our political our collective futures.
MJF’s power-building work focuses on investing in the leadership of Muslim women and working-class communities. Our power-building model uses a divest and reinvest framework to build power, and integrates collective care, organizing, advocacy, and movement-building.
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Muslim Women’s Organizing Institute
The Muslim Women’s Organizing Institute is a leadership development and training cohort for individuals interested in organizing, community-building and advocacy.
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Muslim Workers Network & Mutual Aid Fund
The Muslim Workers Network (MWN) provides a safe space for working-class Muslims to build community and collectively organize. MJF also houses a Muslim Workers Mutual Aid Fund that we began at the start of the beginning of the pandemic.
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Advocacy and Civic Engagement
MJF’s Advocacy work includes making demands of policymakers that are rooted in community demands. Our civic engagement work builds political power in our communities through education on and engaging in the political process.
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Movement-Building
The MAF Network, co-founded and co-anchored by Muslims for Just Futures, is a national collective of groups that hold a cross-movement network to abolish the War on Terror and move towards a vision of collective healing, safety, dignity, and freedom for our communities.
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Movement Archives
In order to build narrative power and document our stories, MJF’s Movement Archives include oral histories with organizers, advocates, and community members on resistance and building community power. The Archives are a resource for community members to study resistance within our communities and continue building community power.
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Mutual Aid Fund and Thriving Futures Guaranteed Income Program
Thriving Futures is the first small guaranteed income program in the country focused on working-class Muslim women who are heads of household. The program provides financial assistance and literacy, career services and coaching support, and community organizing training.
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Building Our Narrative Power
In order to build narrative power and document our stories, MJF’s Movement Archives include oral histories with organizers, advocates, and community members on resistance and building community power. The Archives are meant for community members as a resource in order to study resistance within our communities and as a way to continue building community power.
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Muslim Workers Museum
In late 2020 and early 2021, we conducted oral and visual histories of five Muslim immigrant workers through the DC Oral History Collaborative for inclusion in the city’s official records.
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Muslim Abolitionist Futures Oral History Archives
The War on Terror Resistance Archives documents, preserves, and archives stories of grassroots community organizers, activists, and resisters who led, organized, and participated in social movements to resist the War on Terror.
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9/11 DMV Resistance Oral Histories
In partnership with John Hopkins University, this archive documents resistance stories from community members, advocates, and organizers in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
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Take Action With MJF
Join us on the frontlines today for just futures tomorrow. Check out MJF’s current and past online and in-person action and get involved!
This guide offers critical Know Your Rights (KYR) information and a guiding framework for grassroots groups, fiscally sponsored projects, and fiscal sponsors working on mutual aid, bail funds, and Palestine solidarity initiatives. This guide offers key recommendations on managing targeting, risk, and government scrutiny. It offers a framework groups can use to address infrastructure development, map potential oppositional threat targets, develop plans, crisis response, and financial record-keeping.
The guide is divided into three sections:
An overview of organizational infrastructure, with guiding questions and checklists.
Threat mapping and resilience planning for movement infrastructure.
KYR resources specific to mutual aid and donation management.
This guide draws on the expertise of organizers and lawyers with direct experience in executing large-scale mutual aid and bail fund projects within Muslim communities. Please note this document is not legal advice or exhaustive and does not replace consulting with an attorney.