SPIRIT-ROOTED SOCIAL JUSTICE 

MEET THE ORGANIZATIONS

Because true, comprehensive social justice must pair justice in our social systems with justice in our inner systems.

THE INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK SPOTLIGHT

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization founded in Chicago, and now in Atlanta as well, that fosters health, wellness and healing in the inner-city by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. The organization models an integrative approach that employs holistic interventions to address a spectrum of structural and systemic injustices. They infuse all that they do for their community - health center, organizing, re-entry for incarcerated folks, and making spaces for art and culture - with an understanding of the Muslim spiritual tradition as a way of effectively reaching, treating, ministering to, and mobilizing a strong base of community in Chicago and Atlanta. (Muslim + Community Development, Health)

By integrating Faith & Spirituality into their theory of change, IMAN is using a model of whole-person development. Pairing systemic change with inner transformation increases the impact of re-entry efforts.

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BOUNDLESS FREEDOM PROGRAM

Boundless Freedom works with more than 500 incarcerated people in 15 different prisons across the state of California, offering Buddhist teachings, meditative movement, ethics and mindfulness. While rooted in abolitionist beliefs, they start their work where suffering is most acute - with those who experience the most suffering as a part of the criminal justice system and are in deepest need of liberation teachings. (Buddhist + Direct Impact in Criminal Justice)

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LIVE FREE

Through a network of advocates, fundraisers, organizers and community leaders, Live Free works to end gun violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization. Led by Rev. McBride, they center faith and culture as critical means to understand and mobilize historically marginalized communities. Their work has become so successful in reducing gun violence in communities, that they have now been moving to train others across the country to replicate their approach. (Christian + Advocacy and Community Change in Criminal Justice and Gun Violence)

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RISE UP

Rise Up is a network and capacity building organization that aims to support and strengthen organizations that integrate deep Jewish practice of Tikkun Olam, centering those at the margins and progressive action for social change. Through this they hope to nurture the soul of Jewish justice work. They do this work through re-granting, offering leadership and organizational development to leaders who are critical to this work, and convening communities of practice. (Jewish + Capacity Building)

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WINNIMEM WINTU (SAWALMEM)

The Winnemem Wintu Tribe has cared for and upheld land between Mt. Shasta and McCloud River in California. They see it as their sacred obligation to protect and bring balance to their lands. Through this they have led action and programming to protect salmon, partnering with state agencies on strategies to restore waterways. Through the purchase of new land within their traditional territory they hope to create an ecovillage and a set of programming and practices that can help to share land-based spiritual practices of protecting land to a broader audience. (Indigenous + Cultural Preservation and Climate)

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