Advocacy & Political Action

The Advocates for Human Rights

A nonprofit human rights organization providing legal services, education, and advocacy to protect and promote international human rights. Work includes immigration and asylum representation, anti-trafficking efforts, monitoring detention conditions, and training advocates, lawyers, and community members.

Groundwork Legal

Groundwork Legal is a nonprofit legal organization providing direct legal services, education, and movement defense support for activists and communities facing state violence and political repression. Their work includes protest defense, legal observer programs, and strategic litigation to protect civil and human rights.

ACLU of Minnesota

Founded in 1952 as the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Minnesota continues to promote, protect, and extend the civil liberties and civil rights of people in Minnesota through litigation, lobbying, and community engagement.

Central Area Neighborhood and Development Organization (CANDO)

Their primary bodies of work include grassroots food justice organizing through their flagship program, Plant-Grow-Share (PGS), and anti-racist organizing through the South Central Minneapolis Antiracism Collective (SMAC). They partner with HOME Line to bring tenant organizing to the Central, Bryant, Powderhorn, and Bancroft neighborhoods—and beyond.

Mi CASA

For more than 15 years, Mi CASA has been a trusted, community-led organization rooted in the Hispanic community. They create welcoming spaces where trust and safety come first, so people feel seen, supported, and connected. Their work promotes healthy lifestyles through mental health awareness, healthy eating, and active living, all within an environment that centers[…]

South Minneapolis Mutual Aid Autonomous Zone Coordination

The South Minneapolis Mutual Aid Autonomous Zone Coordination (SMMAAZC) is a grassroots network that emerged after the George Floyd protests to provide community-led support, connecting residents with essential resources like food, housing assistance, mental health care, and political action info, operating largely through Facebook groups to coordinate volunteers and donations for those underserved by traditional[…]

Do Good Roseville

Do Good Roseville is an all-volunteer, community based organization that makes connections to share ideas and information which have a positive impact on the community in Roseville, Minnesota

Women’s March Minnesota

Women’s March Minnesota (WMM) is a grassroots, non-partisan, volunteer-led organization that works to empower women and marginalized communities in Minnesota through education, advocacy, and action to achieve social change, focusing on issues like reproductive rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, racial justice, immigrants’ rights, and economic equity, by organizing marches, workshops, and campaigns to influence policy and activate[…]

West Side Community Organization

WSCO organizes people of West Side to build collective power to advance justice and racial equity in the community for all people. The Hummingbird Initiative is a project of the West Side Community Organization (WSCO) created to share vital information and connect our community with trusted immigration resources, legal support, and rapid response networks.

Unidos MN

An immigrant-led, BIPOC-majority, multiracial, statewide organization building power for Minnesotan working families to advance social, racial, and environmental justice. They are an organization born out of the immigration justice movement. Immigration reform, democracy, education, healthcare, worker justice, and climate justice are at the core of their work.

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