A Call to Social Justice Movements

Over 100 grassroots, advocacy, and movement organizations calling upon broader movements, civil rights organizations, and anti-hate groups to firmly reject the government’s attempts to manipulate hate violence, antisemitism, and Islamophobia to further expand state criminalization. We reject the state’s attempts to use this increased violence to expand hate crime laws. These initiatives do not address community safety. Instead, they simply expand state power and criminalization while ignoring the fact that the state itself has laid the groundwork for this violence.

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Sign up for MJF's Muslim Workers Network

Every last Monday of the Month | 7 - 8:30pm ET

MWN is an equitable and a safe environment for Muslim Workers in the great Washington DC area to come together as a one, to reflect on their experiences and build their power. Through the Network we aspire to highlight and amplify the voices of Muslim Women Workers, mothers, and all of those who are historically unheard, marginalized, or restricted in our community. Join Us.

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MJF's Labor Day Picnic

Monday September 4th, 5-8pm ET, Lubber Run Park, Arlington VA

Join us this Labor Day to break bread and celebrate Muslim workers in the DMV! Meet other MJF, ACE and MOMNetwork members and let's end our summer together with good food and community. Hear about ongoing campaigns for worker justice!

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TPS for Pakistan

After the devastating 2022 floods in Pakistan, which placed over a third of the country underwater and displaced millions, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) began a campaign to support undocumented Pakistanis, many of whom effectively became climate refugees. MJF is supporting this national campaign here in the DC-MD-VA area. Join us.

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Read our policy agenda calling for the divestment from criminalization and investment into communities of care

Read our collaborative grassroots policy agenda calling for the abolition of the War on Terror and building communities of care at the national, state, and local-level. We hope this agenda is used as a tool to further engage our communities, grassroots organizations, movement groups, and policymakers in order to build power, heal, and enact change.

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MJF’s collaborative 2022 mid-term voter guide

In partnership with Muslim Women For, HEART, Queer Crescent, South Asian Americans Leading Together, and CAIR Georgia, MJF developed a nonpartisan voter guide for the midterm elections. The guide offers resources and information for voters across the country, centering Muslim organizations based and working in the South and Midwest.

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Muslim Immigrant Workers of Washington DC

In late 2020 and early 2021, we conducted oral and visual histories of five Muslim immigrant workers through the DC Oral History Collaborative for inclusion in the city’s official records. These interviews focus on how the workers are treated at their workplace, the obstacles and discrimination they face, and their journeys of joining and participating in labor movements. Tune in!

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