OUR PRIORITIES

All forms of injustice are interconnected – environmental harm, economic inequality, political exclusion, criminalization, AND MORE. THEY ARE NOT ISOLATED PROBLEMS, BUT RATHER THE RESULT OF shared systems built to concentrate power into the hands of A FEW AT THE EXPENSE OF MANY.

we organize across issue areas, but ground ourselves in the following four core pillar areas. Pillars are distinct but also overlap and reinforce each other.

COMMUNITIES OF CARE

Building safe, equitable, and resilient communities that don’t rely on punitive structures. Goal to reduce harm, support residents, and advance policing and incarceration alternatives using abolition, transformative justice, and mutual aid.

  • Community-led resource network for food, emergency assistance, etc. to strengthen resilience and reduce reliance on harmful institutions

  • Supporting reparations for historical injustices and systemic inequities (can look at LV for context).

  • Advocating for programs that prioritize accountability, conflict resolution, and restorative practices as alternatives to current policing and prison-industrial complex structures. Community-based accountability, healing, etc.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Across South Jersey, communities are fighting for clean air, safe water, affordable energy, and land use decisions that protect people over industry. Environmental harms disproportionately impact marginalized communities. Something about intersection with racial and economic justice here?

  • toxins like PFAS and LSLs, affordability and consumer protection, riverways and watershed health

  • Opposing harmful energy infrastructure projects like pipelines and LNG facilities, advocating for community-led energy planning

  • Incinerators, industrial emissions, and air quality inequities

  • Equitable land-use policies, AI, green spaces, community input in development decisions.

  • Accessible, affordable, and safe pedestrian transportation, Complete streets planning, Vision Zero planning

  • Strengthening local food systems, including partnerships with communities like the Nanticoke, to reclaim land and resources for sustainable agriculture and cultural practices. community gardening skills, land stewardship, and organizing around waste justice and environmental health.

Democracy & Civic Engagement

Strengthening civic participation, fair representation, and equitable access to the political process Democracy is good oooh we need a lot of words here hehehehheeehhee the formatting I am scared!

  • Resources and programming to prep for primaries, general elections, and local ballot initiatives

  • Voter drives and vote plans to encourage participation from marginalized and disenfranchised communities

  • Ensuring equitable political representation, including combating voter suppression and advocating for inclusive governance. Fighting gerrymandering, etc.

IMMIGRANT JUSTICE

 Resources, protections, and community support for immigrant communities and their unique struggles. more words more words more words english major haheho. Wow I can’t get this to a full line oh good there we go!

  • Education and outreach to inform communities of legal rights and protections under federal, state, and local law

  • Working with grassroots orgs to support immigrant communities’ support from legal, social, and civic infrastructure

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