Community Defense Resource Hub
Welcome to our Community Defense Resource Hub, a collection of tools and guidance designed to empower grassroots organizers, mutual aid networks, and solidarity movements. These resources provide critical Know Your Rights (KYR) information and frameworks for navigating infrastructure development, managing risk, and building resilience against state targeting and repression.
Defending our Future | A Guide for Communities to Resist Project 2025
Muslims for Just Futures (MJF), in collaboration with Detention Watch Network and Armenian-American Action Network, has released a crucial report addressing Project 2025 and White Christian Nationalism. Project 2025 is an ideological, narrative, and governance strategy focused on institutionalizing and deepening conservative White Christian Nationalist power across society with a particular focus on controlling and remaking government institutions. It is a counter-movement against the most formidable progressive wins of our time and anyone committed to the project of building a radical democracy. Project 2025 poses a severe and imminent threat to the rights, belonging, and well-being of Black, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, South Asian (BAMEMSA), and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) communities. White Christian Nationalists have gained significant political power and mobilized popular support by weaponizing anti-Black racism, anti-immigrant racism, patriarchy, and Islamophobia.
Community Memorandum: Recommendations for A Foundational White House Islamophobia Strategy
This community memorandum offers input from organizations working with impacted BAMEMSA and SWANA communities on key initial recommendations, as a starting point, for federal government agencies in implementing a comprehensive White House Islamophobia strategy. This memorandum also offers concerns with the existing process for developing the White House Islamophobia strategy, provides a community-rooted framework of structural and gendered Islamophobia and contains key agency recommendations. While these recommendations are wide-ranging, we note that they are not exhaustive. This community memorandum was developed by Muslims for Just Futures with consultation from our working-class community members and Palestine Legal, Afghans for a Better Tomorrow, HEART, DREAM of Detroit, Muslim Women For, American Muslim Bar Association (AMBA), Center for Constitutional Rights, and Savage Daughters. Overall, 95 community-based organizations, national networks, and coalitions working across communities have endorsed the recommendations and joined this memorandum.
Community Guide for Grassroots Groups
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.
What’s included?
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
Upcoming events
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Session 1
10.21 7:00-8:00PM
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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Session 2
10.21 7:00-8:00PM
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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Session 3
10.21 7:00-8:00PM
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
FAQs
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.