Building Today
for Just Futures
Tomorrow.
We envision a society where our communities live with dignity, power, and freedom. Join us as we create a just future, together.
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Muslims For Just Futures (MJF) is a grassroots organization that builds power in Muslim communities through collective care, organizing, advocacy, and movement-building.
Muslims for Just Futures is rooted in the DMV and committed to building long-term power and base-building in the region with a focus on centering working-class communities and women. We are also committed to building grassroots power nationally through the Muslim Abolitionist Futures (MAF) National Network.
The issue areas we focus on include dismantling the systemic dehumanization of Muslim communities and beyond, through resisting Structural Islamophobia, Gendered Islamophobia, White Supremacy, Anti-Black Racism, and interconnected systems of oppression.
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Leaders Trained through Organizing Cohorts
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Families & Individuals Supported through Mutual Aid Fund
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Oral Histories Collected
Our Programs
Collective Care
We build community through our healing justice program where we host monthly heal circles and chaplaincy support for organizers and community members, led by our movement chaplain. We also support Muslim communities through mutual aid efforts.
Organizing
Our community organizing work is focused on connecting our community-building efforts to cultivating members and leaders through political education, training, organizing institutes, and campaigns. We house the annual Muslim Women’s Organizing Institute and other organizing cohorts to support with MJF’s critical rapid response, civic engagement, and mutual aid campaigns.
Advocacy
Our advocacy work is guided by our community building and organizing work to impact systems-level change. We advocate for divestment from systems of death and destruction, and push for an investment into structures of collective care that improve the material conditions of our communities. Our advocacy work is carried out through the Muslim Abolitionist Futures Network’s grassroots policy agenda titled, Abolishing the War on Terror, Building Communities of Care.
Movement-Building
Our movement-building work focuses on building internally within Muslim communities and across movements. We build our own narratives of power and solidarity within Muslim communities through oral histories documented in our Movement Archives. Second, we believe in connecting with other organizations who have shared values to build collective grassroots power through co-anchoring the Muslim Abolitionist Futures National Network.
History as our guidance, present as our power, abundance as our future.
Our Five Pillars that ground and guide us for the future.
Rootedness
We ground our work in our Islamic faith and rich communal legacies of resistance and community-building. We look towards storytelling, memorialization, oral traditions, our collective cultures, and the past to ground ourselves.
Abolition
We view abolition as a tool for visioning and organizing. Abolition and organizing are both creative processes, rooted in faith: we lead our work today from a place of envisioning and building the future we want to live in tomorrow.
Community (ummah)
We believe in the power of community and the concept of an ummah. We believe that our liberation and wellbeing is tied to one another. We envision a mutiracial, multiethnic, multifaith, and intergenerational space of collective care, joy and belonging that moves together to build just futures.
Intersectionality
We move in this work with the recognition that oppression is multilayered. As such, we aim to center communities directly impacted by systemic oppression, racism and patriarchy that are pushed to the margins of Muslim communities and broader society.
Internationalism
Our struggles for collective liberation are interconnected to global struggles for liberation. As an organization rooted in the DMV, we commit to moving in our work in a way that connects our struggles to global communities that are directly impacted by policies created by federal and global institutions here. Hence, our work for just futures must be connected to transnational struggles around the world.
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