Resist awards grants six times a year to groups throughout the United States engaged in activism for social and economic justice. In this issue of the Newsletter we list a few recent grant recipients from our June 2006 allocation cycle. For more information, contact the groups at the addresses below.

Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center, Inc.
618 West 142nd Street, STL, New York, NY 10031
www.mirabalcenter.org

Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center is a grassroots community organization founded in 1992 by community activists concerned about police brutality in Upper Manhattan. The Center is currently focused on tenant organizing and pioneering a community campaign to fight the takeover of local neighborhoods caused by gentrification, eroding rent control regulations and the expansion of Columbia University.

A $3,000 grant from Resist will support the organization’s continued effort to empower community members to find solutions to the growing social and economic needs of the low-income immigrant communities of West Harlem.

Concerned Citizens for Clean Air (CCCA)
PO Box 375, 758 NW Cross Street, Seal Rock, OR 97376
www.concernedcitizensforcleanair.org

The Concerned Citizens for Clean Air (CCCA) formed in 2005 to rally community support against a local Georgia-Pacific mill’s attempt to increase its toxic emissions. The organization fights to improve local air quality through education and collective action.

A $2,000 grant from Resist will help provide funding to support the group’s work to educate and organize Central Oregon Coast citizens to fight for clean air issues, including opposing pulp mill emissions, widespread herbicide use, burning and diesel emissions.

Freedom Center
Box 623, Northampton, MA 01062
www.freedom-center.org

The Freedom Center was founded in July of 2001 as a place for people labeled with severe mental illness to unite. They advocate for self-determination, educating their members on all types of wellness techniques in supportive settings. As a radical activist organization run by and for people labeled with serious mental illnesses, they fight for human rights and social justice.

A $3,000 grant from Resist will help support this group in their goal to unite people with severe mental illness, to organize against psychiatric abuse and oppression and to promote alternatives to mainstream care.

Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solutions
1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
www.facessolidarity.org

Founded in 2002, The Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solutions (FACES) was dedicated to the clean-up of former U.S. military bases in the Philippines. FACES has since evolved into an intergenerational transnational environmental justice organization that works for environmental justice within communities in the United States and in the Philippines. It builds partnerships through advocacy, education, service and organizing.

Resist’s grant of $3,000 will help support the organization’s work for environmental justice within communities in the United States and the Philippines.

Interfaith Alliance of Idaho
P.O. Box 15893, Boise ID 83715
www.tiaidaho.org

TIA Idaho, an affiliate of the Interfaith Alliance based in Washington D.C., was founded in 1998 by progressive clergy and people of faith who realized that Idaho was in need of an inclusive faith perspective and an interfaith voice that spoke in terms of love, respect, healing and diversity. TIA works in faith-based communities in Idaho to examine the interrelations between racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism and challenges religious political extremism.

Resist awarded TIA a general support grant of $3,000 to continue its work building communities.