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!

Featured Action

Join MJF’s Membership Program

Join as a member of Muslims for Just Futures to engage in organizing, collective care, and advocacy to build communities where we can all thrive. We will have virtual quarterly meetings as well as in person meetings in the DMV and in Chicago. Meetings will be focused on political education, campaign updates and strategy, and relationship building with each other.

Build With Us Today

Please check here for latest MJF events, trainings, and actions.

Featured
Understanding the National Strategy on Countering Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate:A Guide for Groups and Leaders

Understanding the National Strategy on Countering Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate:  A Guide for Groups and Leaders

This guide analyzes the inaugural U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate (Strategy) by examining how the Strategy reinforces harmful national security frameworks, lifting up components of the strategy that align with community recommendations, and offering guidance for groups to engage with the Strategy moving forward.

Read More →
COMMUNITY & MOVEMENT RESOURCE

Understanding Federal Prosecutions and Ways to Prepare

As part of our series of KYR guides for movement groups, this resource delves deeper into understanding and critical KYR information on federal criminal prosecutions. Federal criminal prosecutions have historically been heavier, more punitive, and more difficult to fight. They are used to suppress and destroy social movements. Under the Trump administration, we expect federal prosecutions to get worse, and want our communities to get ready and stay ready!

Read More →
KYR | General Protesting

General KYR |

This resource is designed to equip you with knowledge on your rights and ways to push back against state repression. If you know your rights, you can assert them to protect yourself and others.

Read More →
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.

Read More →
Defending our Future | A Guide for Communities to Resist Project 2025

Given the formidable threat posed by Project 2025, Muslims for Just Futures developed this brief with contributions from the Detention Watch Network and the Armenian-American Action Network. It provides an overview of Project 2025, emphasizing the proposed policies within the expansion of militarism, immigration enforcement, prisons, and jails. It analyzes the potential impact on BAMEMSA and SWANA communities and offers recommendations for community groups on effectively countering Project 2025 and building long-term power. The recommendations and analysis covered in this brief apply to BAMEMSA and SWANA community groups and broader movements building toward a radical democracy.

Read More →
Resources | Know Your Rights

Building Community Power Requires Strong Defense

Our rights are only as powerful as our knowledge of them. That's why Muslims for Just Futures is launching a series of "Know Your Rights" (KYR) resources tailored for community members and organizers. Our first resource focuses on general rights awareness in Chicago, especially in light of the upcoming DNC. We strongly encourage groups to download and share the full KYR guide. This resource covers: 1) Agencies that can bring criminal charges against you in Chicago; 2) What to do if you're arrested. 3) Pretrial detention procedures. 4) How to protect your privacy during searches.

Read More →