**resources from Muslims for Just Futures**
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (AFIRE): AFIRE is a community organization that creates a political home with and for Filipinx/a/os* to confidently organize toward the liberation of immigrants, workers, domestic workers, queer and trans people, and oppressed peoples everywhere. [Website] [IG]
Anti-Detention Network: Anti-Detention Network organizes to expose, resist and abolish all forms of detention and for the decriminalization of migration. They support Comedor Comunitario, a project led by migrants from South and Central America who plan, cook and serve free dinners to migrants living in shelters. [IG]
Arab American Action Network: The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) strives to strengthen the Arab community in the Chicago area by building its capacity to be an active agent for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, their strategies include community organizing, advocacy, education, providing social services, leadership development, cultural outreach and forging productive relationships with other communities. [Website] [IG]
Aurora Rapid Response Team: The mission of Aurora Rapid Response Team is to educate, advocate, & investigate on behalf of immigrant & refugee neighbors in the Aurora area. [Website] [IG]
Casa al-Fatiha: Casa Al-Fatiha is an autonomous, Chicago-based, sanctuary house for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, people released from detention and peer supporters. [IG]
Center for Immigrant Progress: The Center for Immigrant Progress is a grassroots organization led by young leaders passionate about social justice and immigrant rights. [Website] [IG]
Chi Welcome: Chi Welcome is a grassroots volunteer network dedicated to supporting new migrants in Chicago.
We help facilitate an efficient and compassionate response to assist those residing in shelters, police stations, and various temporary living conditions. We connect individuals with volunteer groups and resources to ensure a smoother transition into the community. [Website]
Chicago Community and Workers Rights: Chicago Community and Workers’ Rights (CCWR) was founded in June 2009 by a group of Latino immigrant workers who saw a need for an organization dedicated to empowering all laborers to defend their rights. CCWR is an organization led by workers for workers, regardless of immigration status, dedicated to educating, building leadership, and gathering resources in order to develop organizing tools and collective strategies of resistance against labor rights abuses, towards just living conditions for our families. [Website] [IG]
Chicago People’s Rights Collaborative: CPRC is a volunteer-run, multi-institutional clinic with a mission to provide a breadth of pro bono medical-legal services for individuals seeking asylum, and detained or incarcerated individuals. They work in community with clinicians, trainees, attorneys, and community members, to provide forensic clinical evaluations for survivors of injustice. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America: The Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN) builds partnerships among social movements and organized communities within and between the U.S. and Latin America. They work together through popular education, grassroots organizing, public policy advocacy, and direct action to dismantle U.S. militarism, neoliberal economic and immigration policy, and other forms of state and institutional violence. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Unity Center: The Chicago Unity Center is a historic hub of organizing, learning, and community in Chicago’s near South Side created by the Workers Education Society. The UC houses the Communist Party of Illinois, People’s World editorial office, and a CEDA program that assists low-income families with energy bills, health care, and social security navigation. The space also hosts a plethora of community groups—ranging from language learning circles to neighborhood organizing coalitions to migrant support. [Website] [IG]
CLC Fearless Dreamers Alliance: Club at the College of Lake County advocating for and supporting undocumented students and allies. [IG]
Coalition of Haitian American Organizations in Chicagoland: The Coalition is a voluntary partnership of Haitian American organizations, businesses and professionals working together to build a community voice for advocacy, and improve the quality of life in the Haitian American community. In addition to political advocacy for investment in the island’s infrastructure, they advocate and fundraise for Haitian migrants and refugees. [Website]
Communities United: Communities United (CU) is a survivor-led, intergenerational racial justice organization in Chicago. At the heart of CU’s organizing is the development of grassroots leadership to build collective power to achieve racial justice and transformative social change. With this approach, CU focuses on advancing affordable housing, health equity, education justice, youth investment, immigrant rights, and shifting resources from the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems into restorative justice alternatives. [Website] [IG]
Global Garden Refugee Training Farm: A vacant lot transformed into a vibrant farm in which 75+ refugees grow vegetables in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood. [Website] [IG]
Greater Chicago Sudanese American Association: Greater Chicago Sudanese American Association (GCSAA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to offering assistance and relief, enhancing health and nutrition, ensuring access to clean water, and advancing educational and economic development for underprivileged communities in Sudan and Sudanese individuals residing in the USA. [Website]
HANA Center: HANA Center builds the power of Korean, Asian American, and multiethnic immigrant communities in Chicagoland through social services, education, culture, and community organizing to advance human rights. [Website] [IG]
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS): HIAS offers an array of services to help people from around the world reunite with family members, find stability, and settle in a community with a sense of belonging in their new country. [Website]
IL Workers in Action: IWA strives to build worker power in immigrant, Latinx, and black communities by working to advance systemic change that promotes racial and social justice and stabilizes low-income immigrants and communities of color. [Website] [IG]
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants (ICDI): ICDI (Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants) is a Chicago-based nonprofit that works to uphold the dignity & human rights of immigrants. [Website] [IG]
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights: ICIRR is an advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society. [Website] [IG]
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs Immigration Committee: JCUA organizes people and resources to advance racial and economic justice. JCUA works in collaboration with directly impacted communities to transform unjust systems and bring material improvements to people’s lives. Their Immigration Justice Committee advocates for municipal, state, and federal legislation to protect and support immigrant communities. [Website] [IG]
Latino Union: Latino Union of Chicago builds power with Day Laborers, Household Workers, and other contracted workers to fight for social and economic justice through education, organizing, advocacy, and coalition building. [Website] [IG]
Mi Villita: A community org in Little Village with a focus on community, political and economic development among the residents by the residents. [IG]
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund: The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund was formed through a coalition in 2020 and began paying out immigration bonds for IL, IN, WI, and KY residents as funds allow in February 2021. [Website] [IG]
Migrant Mobile Health Team: A project of the Pilsen Food Pantry, the Migrant Mobile Health Team provides healthcare to newcomers. [Website]
Mijente: Mijente is a political home for Latinx and Chicanx people who seek racial, economic, gender and climate justice. Their campaigns include #NoTechForICE. [Website]
Muslim Immigrant Refugee Action (MIRA): The Middle Eastern Immigrant and Refugee Alliance (formerly the Iraqi Mutual Aid Society) fosters the well-being and self-sufficiency of Middle Eastern refugees and immigrants in the United States through easing their transition o life in America. MIRA also forges connections between Middle Eastern and American society and facilitates the preservation and exchange of Middle Eastern culture. [Website] [IG]
Never Again Action Chicago: Never Again Action is the Chicago chapter of a national direct action organization of Jews, immigrants & allies taking action against ICE. [IG]
Nuevos Vecinos: Free store in Chicago serving newly arrived migrant neighbors. [Website]
Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD): OCAD stands for Organized Communities Against Deportations. They are group of undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid organizers building a resistance movement against deportations and the criminalization of immigrants and people of color in Chicago and surrounding areas. [Website] [IG]
PUÑO (Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo): A coalition committed to advocating for the protection of immigrant rights through legal support, education, and community engagement in Pilsen and the surrounding area. [IG]
Refugee Community Connection: Refugee Community Connection is a volunteer-run, self-directed community organization that seeks to ease the transition for newly arrived refugees to Chicago. They provide resources, information, and household necessities. [Website]
RefugeeOne: Every year, RefugeeOne serves more than 2,500 refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants of all ages, ethnic groups, faiths, and backgrounds. They provide holistic services (housing support, English language training, mental health care, employment coaching, youth programs, dental care, and more – at no cost to program participants!) to help newcomers build flourishing lives in Chicago. [Website] [IG]
Sanctuary Working Group: The Sanctuary Working Group, a solidarity organization, supports and accompanies vulnerable migrants in their journey towards sustainable independence. [Website]
United Workers’ Center / Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: United Workers’ Center is a grassroots member-led community organization and worker center serving Chicago’s southeast side and south suburbs. CTU strives to build immigrant and worker power by working to advance systemic change that promotes social justice and stabilizes low-income immigrant communities and communities of color. [Website] [IG]
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