Chicago Ceasefire Victory
Chicago becomes the largest city in the U.S. to endorse a ceasefire in Gaza after historic City Council Vote
Today, Chicago became the largest city to endorse a ceasefire, supported by the work of a multi-racial, multi-faith coalition of 165 community organizations and over 100 Chicago City Council staffers. This vote comes 116 days after the start of Israel’s most recent onslaught in Gaza. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 26,400 Palestinians, mainly women and children, and injured over 64,400. The vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza are displaced and face starvation and disease as Israel blocks humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, including water, food, and critical medicine.
Report Launch: 100 Days of Building Power and Solidarity
100 Days of Building Power and Solidarity: Observations and Recommendations about Immediate and Long-Term Infrastructure Needs for Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab Groups in the U.S. This report highlights the emerging needs of organizations working closely with Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, South Asian, and Black communities in the United States as the genocide in Gaza passes the 100 day mark in January 2024. The observations and recommendations in this report synthesize conversations around needs and recommendations for infrastructure and solidarity to address the current crisis and plan for the long-term.
Chicago Demands Permanent Ceasefire
100+ CHICAGO ORGANIZATIONS & 81 MAYORAL & ALDERMANIC STAFFERS CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE NOW
We are a cross-section of organizations based in Chicago that are sharing this letter in solidarity with the Chicago Progressive Staffers (read letter) and their collective demands for the Mayor’s office and Chicago’s City Council to call for a permanent ceasefire now.
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.
Joint Organizational Statement
BAMEMSA Organizational Statement in Opposition to Short-Term Reauthorization of Section 702 and Calling for Comprehensive Privacy Protections
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.
MJF's Advocacy Mixer
Muslims for Just Futures invites you to an evening of community-building & advocacy.
Sept 21, 2023 | 6-8 pm EST | Busboys and Poets, 450 K St NW Washington, DC 20001
Sign up for MJF's Heal Sessions
Join Muslim for Just Future's Chaplain Yasmin Yonis on the first Friday of every single month from 7:00-8:00 pm EST for our HEAL Circle.
Take MJF's Guaranteed Income Survey
MJF is conducting this survey with working-class Muslim mothers and working-class Muslim women in the DC, MD, and VA region in order to understand working-class Muslim women's financial needs and expectations.
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!
Make a contribution to the Thriving Futures Guaranteed Income Program
Please support the Thriving Futures Guaranteed Income Program by make a financial contribution. You can also email our Executive Director to learn more about supporting the program.
Muslim Women's Powerbuilding Institute Reportback
MJF's Muslim Women's Powerbuilding Institute met during the summer and discussed building power in Chicago. Here is a report back of narrative themes and movement-building themes.
MJF's MAF Mixer and Powerbuilding Feature
Muslims for Just Futures invites you to an evening of celebration and community-building.
August 27, 2023 | 6:00 PM CST | Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
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.
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.
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.
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!
Applications for the Muslim Women’s Organizing Institute
Applications are currently closed. Please check back here for our organizing institute applications.
Policing Violence, Gendered Islamophobia, & The War on Terror in France
From #JusticeForNahel to #StopCopCity, policing is a racist institution of state violence and control.
#StopCopCity Solidarity Statement: Mapping the War on Terror Roots of Cop City in Atlanta
MJF leads the Muslim Abolitionist Futures National Network in releasing this public statement in solidarity with #StopCopCity protestors and joins organizational demands to drop domestic terrorism charges against the Defend the Atlanta Forest Protestors.