meet the

invest in justice coalition

Partners in the coalition:

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), Adalah Justice Project (AJP), MPower Change, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Palestine Working Group, Eyewitness Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace Action (JVP Action), & Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD)

Goal of building this coalition:

• What are we making?: Inspired by the power built in local and community-based organizations (i.e. intersectional divestment campaign coalitions), we are building similar movement infrastructure at the middle space between grassroots community & campus organizing and congressional-focused direct advocacy. In that crucial middle space, we are building a cross-organizational community of political organizers that can jointly mobilize.

• What does it do?: The coalition advances national campaigns by creating resource exchanges, trainings, mentorship, and infrastructure for grassroots advocacy as well as national-level narrative & story-telling interventions, which together advances concrete policy wins.

• What big win do we achieve?: The coalition aims to create and pass U.S. policies in Congress to end U.S. military funding to Israel and advance the transformative Freedom Is the Future demands, while bolstering movements to end U.S. investment in militarism and reinvest in community needs.

Audiences we engage:

• Grassroots in progressive cities: We powermap, collaborate and coordinate with local organizers to build a larger, more activated base in key cities with a progressive base and congressional representatives.

• Grassroots organizers in social movements that aim to transform policy: We engage movements with similar theories of change, political targets, and systems of oppression at the root i.e. Abolish ICE, tech justice, or defund the police spaces.

• National “progressive” organizations and their members: We approach and push organizations that share some of our analysis to focus on building relationships with and moving on issues of Palestine and adopting an internationalist lens.

Values-based principles shared by coalition members:

• Under capitalism, we know that our oppressions, and therefore our work to achieve collective liberation, are interconnected.

• Our work is grounded in an analysis of settler colonialism, global white supremacy, and an internationalist lens. As such, anti-imperialism drives the goals of this coalition: we work to end US financial, political, and military support for oppression globally when we challenge the US role in propping up the structural violence in Palestine.

• We believe all ‘progressives’ must work to expose the dangers of strategies that attempt to exceptionalize liberation for some at the expense of others. Instead, we are aligned with Black and indigenous-led abolitionist visions to achieve justice for all, and we stand firmly by the mantra: none of us are free until all of us are free.

Levels of Engagement:

Level 1: Core Partners

Time & responsibility commitment: Facilitating monthly meetings, acting as point people for committees and/or taking on significant responsibilities in committees, mobilize base and support organizing and grassroots collaborating partners in mobilizing their bases.

Level 2: Organizing Partners

Time commitment: Having at least one representative (could be rotating) participating in monthly meetings, participating in committees, limited work outside of calls to mobilize organization/base.

Level 3: Grassroots Collaborating Partners

Time commitment: Having at least one representative join monthly calls (could be rotating), generally does not participate in committees expect in one off cases, limited work outside of calls to mobilize organization/base.

MPower Change aims to build political power online and offline for Muslims across the U.S. Combining cutting edge digital tools with years of field experience, organizing know-how, and an extensive network of supporters, MPower Change is redefining the ways that our communities build, maintain, and exercise power.

JVP Action is a multiracial, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies working towards justice and equality in Israel/Palestine by transforming U.S. policy.