Building Long-Term Community Power
Muslims for Just Futures envisions a society where our communities live with dignity, power, and freedom. Muslims for Just Futures’ local work spans the DC, MD, and VA (DMV) region and Chicago. MJF is committed to building long-term power and base-building in the region 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.
Mission + Vision
Muslims For Just Futures (MJF) is a grassroots organization that builds power in Muslim communities through collective care, organizing, advocacy, and movement-building.
AMEMSA Voters Called & Texted
Leaders Trained through Organizing Cohorts
Families & Individuals Supported through Mutual Aid Fund
Oral Histories Collected
Building Grassroots Power Locally and Nationally
MJF uses a divest and reinvest framework to build power in Muslim communities that have been impacted by Islamophobia and the ways it has been codified through the War on Terror. Islamophobia has resulted in divestment from Muslim communities, which disproportionately harms working-class communities and women.
Thus, MJF prioritizes building the leadership of women with an emphasis on working-class Muslim women. Locally, MJF reinvests into Muslim communities by prioritizing gender justice, economic justice, and healing justice through our base-building, leadership development, and mutual aid efforts.
Nationally, MJF builds power by centering the leadership of Muslim women led grassroots organizations through the Muslim Abolitionist Futures Network, where we are working towards building movement support for our joint policy agenda demanding divestment from the War on Terror and an investment into communities of care.
Led by women and non-binary organizers rooted in the communities we support, we are building grassroots power today to ensure just futures tomorrow.
Power-Building Programs
MJF’s power-building work invests in the leadership of Muslim women and working-class communities through collective care, organizing, advocacy, and movement-building. Our work is focused on the DMV and Northside Chicago.
Movement Archives
In order to build narrative power and document our stories, MJF’s Movement Archives documents oral histories with organizers, advocates, workers, and community members on resistance and building community power.