Advocacy & Civic Engagement

Using advocacy and civic engagement to build political and community power. 

Investing in Our Political Futures 

MJF’s Advocacy work includes making demands of policymakers that are rooted in community demands. Our civic engagement work includes educating our communities about the political process and ensuring we are represented through census work, getting out the vote, and the voting process through development of voter guides. MJF also partners with other civic engagement organizations to hold educational forums on the civic engagement and voting process. 

Updates

Check here for general updates on our civic engagement work.

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Stand with Minnesota: MJF Statement, Urgent Calls to Action, and Local Resources

Muslims for Just Futures condemns the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis. This is the second public killing of a legal observer in recent days.

Alex was killed the morning after more than 75,000 Minnesotans marched demanding that ICE leave the state. He was a registered ICU nurse who cared for veterans at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and a union member of AFGE Local 3669 within the AFL-CIO. He was acting as a legal observer and protecting another observer when he was pepper sprayed, tackled, surrounded, and killed by federal agents.

We join the AFL-CIO in mourning Alex’s death and hold his loved ones, union siblings, and the people of Minneapolis in our hearts.

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Stand with Minnesota: MJF Statement, Urgent Calls to Action, and Local Resources

Muslims for Just Futures condemns the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis. This is the second public killing of a legal observer in recent days.

Alex was killed the morning after more than 75,000 Minnesotans marched demanding that ICE leave the state. He was a registered ICU nurse who cared for veterans at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and a union member of AFGE Local 3669 within the AFL-CIO. He was acting as a legal observer and protecting another observer when he was pepper sprayed, tackled, surrounded, and killed by federal agents.

We join the AFL-CIO in mourning Alex’s death and hold his loved ones, union siblings, and the people of Minneapolis in our hearts.

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Muslims for Just Futures Condemns ICE Killing in MN, Attacks on Community Rapid Responders, and the Use of NSPM-7 to Justify State Violence

Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) condemns the extrajudicial killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents. She is a victim of escalating ICE and state terror, as families are kidnapped and Somali communities are disproportionately targeted in Minnesota. In recent months across the country from Chicago to DC and beyond, community rapid responders fighting ICE’s terror have been surveilled, targeted, and arrested, including a woman who survived being shot multiple times by ICE in Chicago.

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Muslims for Just Futures Statement on ICE Terrorizing Chicago Communities

Muslims for Just Futures condemns the ongoing acts of violence, harassment, and intimidation carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal agents throughout Chicago. Today, ICE operations once again brought fear and disruption to our communities—this time in the Lakeview neighborhood and the broader North Side—where at least nine individuals were detained, and federal agents deployed tear gas in a residential area.

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