Mutual Aid
Ways to Support Our Work
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Your donation supports our programming, mutual aid network, legal referral services, generational operating costs and more.
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Find out what actions you can take today to help your community. By signing petitions, supporting fellow organizations and donating to Go Fund Me campaigns, you can take direct action.
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We have partnered with lawyers and volunteers to support our community through legal outreach.
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If you are in need of mental health resources or would like to volunteer your services as a mental health practitioner, click below.
Our Social Outreach Committee hosts free meal distributions, community resource fairs, archival-based workshops, social justice art youth camps and more in order to bridge intersectional issues while organizing around advocacy needs. Part of our mutual aid includes maintaining consistent food, household supplies, and clothing distributions to marginalized families, houseless communities, indigenous reservations and rural populations surrounding Oregon and Washington.
#YouCantControlArt. Our Children’s Art & Social Justice Council ensures that we support the development of youth activism and civic participation through education, art and history projects. We firmly believe that the fight against state sanctioned discrimination is strengthened through the use of knowledge and promotion of process, policy and history. We have year round programming that uplifts the CASJC, including Reclaim MLK, Liberated Archives, Spring Break Out, Juneteenth, Black August and Not Black Friday.
Since 2014, Don’t Shoot Portland has provided legal referral services in partnership with lawyers, legal observers and civil rights attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild, Oregon Justice Resource Center, PCC Clear Clinic, Legal Aid Services of Oregon and other individual firms. Facilitating access to these resources are an essential part of the work we do to serve families that are systematically underrepresented.