Resources for Action
Let us commit to resisting state-sanctioned violence and taking action to protect the sanctity of Black life and breath.
We urge you to support and uplift the ongoing work of the mothers of the movement.
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E.R.I.C. Initiative Foundation
Gwen Carr
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
Mother of Eric Garner
A social justice non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating systemic mistreatment of marginalized communities. -
Coalition of Concerned Mothers
Marion Gray-Hopkins
CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Mother of Gary Hopkins, JrPamela Brooks
COMMUNITY OUTREACH DIRECTOR
Mother of Amir BrooksCreating collaborative partnerships with families affected by community violence and police brutality.
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Oscar Grant Foundation
Wanda Johnson
FOUNDER & CEO
Mother of Oscar GrantYoung Black men deserve to be seen and treated like human beings. The foundation helps mend the distrust between residents in predominantly Black, high-crime communities and law enforcement.
Below are organizations on the ground, continuing the vital work of protecting and uplifting Black lives. Join them.
These resources are centered on each location where the Ritual of Breath has been performed
Families United 4 Justice Network
Families United 4 Justice Network is a collection of those families impacted by police murder.
Anti Police Terrorism Network
The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color.
Black Organizing Project
The Black Organizing Project emphasizes the courageous spirit that kept the black community alive through centuries of systematic oppression.
Malcolm X Grassroots
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is an organization of Afrikans in America/New Afrikans whose mission is to defend the human rights of our people and promote self-determination in our community.
Ile Mode School
Ile Omode is an African-centered school founded by Wo'se Community of the Sacred African Way in Oakland. They are an independent, private school in Oakland, California, providing instruction to children from preschool through 8th grade.
Sankofe United Elementary
Sankofa United Elementary School is an Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) school that will be welcoming Kindergarten - 5th grade students.
Community Works West
Each year, Community Works serves more than 1,000 children, transition-age youth, and adults, including those incarcerated or returning home from jail or prison, survivors, and young adults diverted from the system.
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, RJOY, interrupts cycles of violence and incarceration by promoting RJ practices and policies in schools, communities, and the juvenile justice system. RJOY offers speaking, training, workshops, and technical assistance to communities, schools, and justice groups in California and throughout the nation.
TGI Justice Project
TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant, and intersex people–inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers–creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom.
Black Out Collective
BlackOUT Collective is a radical full-service direct action organization. They build organizations’ capacity to execute creative and effective direct actions in service of their organizing and advocacy work through personalized direct action training and on-the-ground action support.
Ella Baker Center
They are named after Ella Baker, a brilliant, Black hero of the civil rights movement. Following in her footsteps, they organize with Black, Brown, and low-income people to shift resources away from prisons and punishment, and towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong.
Critical Resistance Oakland
Critical Resistance (CR) is building a grassroots movement to challenge the use of punishment to “cure” complicated social problems.
Project Safe Return
The Safe Return Team is a group of formerly incarcerated Richmond residents working to strengthen the relationship of people coming home from incarceration with the broader community.
All of Us or None
All of Us or None is a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly-and currently-incarcerated people and our families. We are fighting against the discrimination that people face every day because of arrest or conviction history.
Impact Justice
Impact Justice works to create fair and restorative alternatives to harmful legal systems by improving living conditions and life outcomes for people in jail and prison and expanding opportunities for formerly incarcerated people to reach their potential.
Santa Clara County Alliance of Black Educators
The Santa Clara County Alliance of Black Educators is dedicated to supporting the education of Black children. They are an all-volunteer organization made up of educators and community advocates.
BAY AREA RESOURCES
Afro-American Society
The Afro-American Society was founded in 1969 as a political tool to advocate for and create solidarity amongst Black students at Dartmouth College.
Asian Pacific Islander Caucus
The Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus is a group for all Dartmouth employees and their families committed to fostering a supportive and affirming network for the Asian and Pacific Islander community at Dartmouth College.
Black Caucus ERN
The Dartmouth College Black Caucus is an employee resource network (ERN) that supports Dartmouth College Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center employees of African descent regarding community building, representation, recruitment, retention, and professional development.
Black Liberation Collective (BLC)
The Black Liberation Collective aims to organize poor Black folk and their natural allies, cultivate the peoples’ culture, and model the beloved community in which they can achieve collective liberation.
Black Sound Lab
The Black Sound Lab (BSL), housed in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster at Dartmouth College, is a research environment dedicated to the intersections of Black sonic life and digital work. The dual missions of the BSL are to work towards the decriminalization of Black sound and to amplify Black life through digital practice.
BUTA (Black Underground Theatre and Arts Association)
The Black Underground Theater and Arts Association seeks to create alternative theatrical venues and perform pieces not typically represented within the Dartmouth community.
Dartmouth Rockapellas
The Rockapellas are a gender-inclusive a cappella group at Dartmouth with the mission of spreading social justice through song.
Dartmouth Student Union
Student organizing group working for the rights, safety, and liberation of oppressed students on campus.
Dartmouth College Health Service
The Dartmouth College Health Service provides high-quality care and services for Dartmouth students and promotes health education information for students to maintain a healthy lifestyle during college and in the years ahead.
Empowering Women of Color ERN
Empowering Women of Color ERN (EWOC) is for self-identified, women of color who support Dartmouth College through their work, vision and energy.
FUERZA Farmworkers’ Fund
The FUERZA Farmworkers’ Fund team is made up of several Dartmouth community members who collaborate with a number of partner organizations (including HYH) to ensure that migrant farmworkers across NH and VT have access to health services, educational resources, work gear, traditional foodstuffs, transportation, and other essential goods.
Hartford Committee on Racial Equity and Inclusion (HCOREI)
The committee works to eradicate racial injustice.
Hearts You Hold
A non-profit organization whose mission is to support migrants, immigrants, and refugees. Donors visit the website to view specific requests and choose where they would like their donation to go.
JAG Productions
JAG exists to produce classic and contemporary African-American theatre; to serve as an incubator of new work that excites broad intellectual engagement; and thereby, to catalyze compassion, empathy, love and community.
Latinx Hispanic Caribbean Network (LHC)
This network is a group for all Dartmouth employees and their families committed to fostering a supportive and affirming network for the Latinx, Hispanic and Caribbean communities at Dartmouth College.
NAACP
The page of Dartmouth College Chapter of the NAACP adheres to the goals and standards of the national organization, and is deeply committed to the ideals of ensuring the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens of the United States.
OPAL
OPAL's mission is to foster a Dartmouth where all students can thrive, value difference, and contribute to the creation of a socially just world.
Shabazz Center for Intellectual Inquiry
The mission of the Shabazz Center for Intellectual Inquiry is to enhance the intellectual and cultural milieu of the Dartmouth College campus with particular regard to those issues which pertain to the historical and contemporary experiences of people of African descent.
Showing up for Racial Justice
SURJ Upper Valley VT/NH is a local chapter of Showing Up For Racial Justice, a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice.
Tucker Center
Tucker Center cultivates spiritual and ethical lives, builds relationships and understanding across identities, and engages in dialogue on meaningful issues that will make a profound difference on campus and beyond.
WISE
WISE leads the Upper Valley to end gender-based violence through survivor-centered advocacy, prevention, education and mobilization for social change.