Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro

Organizes through an anti-capitalist lens by rejecting charity models and technological fixes, instead prioritizing direct solidarity with impacted communities and collective, non-hierarchical action.

The organization employs political education and art as tools to challenge and reshape public narratives, particularly concerning policing and safety. This strategy aims to reclaim public spaces and visually represent the power, humanity, and strength of their communities.

Uses political education and art to transform public narratives around policing and safety, reclaim public spaces, and affirm the power, humanity, and resilience of Black communities through visual and cultural expression.

Uses political education and public art to challenge dominant narratives about policing and safety, reclaim public spaces, and affirm the power, humanity, and resilience of Black communities through creative expression.

Engages in solidarity with Indigenous communities, particularly through matriarch-led struggles against land displacement and extraction, viewing land return and collective resistance as central to decolonization and environmental justice.

Engages in solidarity with Indigenous communities, particularly through matriarch-led struggles against land displacement and fossil fuel extraction, viewing land return and collective resistance as core to decolonization and environmental justice.

The organization engages in Black and Indigenous solidarity work, viewing it as a powerful method against colonialism and a tenet of decolonization. This strategy involves supporting Indigenous struggles, advocating for land back, and addressing environmental racism and climate injustices affecting communities of color.

The organization utilizes a reproductive justice framework, grounded in human rights and Black Feminist theory, to address systemic oppression. This approach centers the intersectionality of race and gender to support family autonomy and holistic health outcomes for Black communities.

Implements permaculture and stormwater catchment projects to support community-led climate adaptation, increase environmental resilience, and address ecological degradation in frontline communities.

Creates safe, affirming spaces for BIPOC individuals, particularly Black women and femmes, to rest, heal, express themselves, engage in nature, and access culturally reflective literature, emphasizing collective care and emotional well-being.

Creates supportive, liberatory spaces for BIPOC individuals—particularly Black women, femmes, and youth—to rest, heal, express themselves, engage with affirming literature, and connect with nature as part of building a new world rooted in care and belonging.

The organization creates welcoming and supportive environments, particularly for BIPOC individuals and youth, to foster community, facilitate emotional processing, and provide spaces for rest and care. This approach aims to build connection and resilience within marginalized communities.

Addresses environmental racism in Black and Brown communities by centering frontline, POC-led action on issues like extreme heat, pollution, food access, and gentrification, rejecting top-down and market-based solutions in favor of community sovereignty.

The organization adopts a collaborative, non-hierarchical, and POC-led approach to address systemic climate injustices. This strategy rejects market-based solutions and emphasizes solidarity by working directly with impacted communities, focusing on collective community action over electoralism and top-down charity models.

Addresses environmental racism through a community-led, anti-capitalist framework that rejects market-based solutions and top-down charity, prioritizing frontline communities and intersectional climate justice in Black and Brown neighborhoods.

Uses a reproductive justice framework rooted in human rights and Black Feminist theory to center the intersectionality of race, gender, and class, addressing systemic oppression and advancing family autonomy and holistic health for Black communities.

Uses a reproductive justice framework rooted in human rights and Black Feminist theory to center the intersectionality of race, gender, and class, addressing systemic oppression and advancing family autonomy and holistic health as part of a broader liberation agenda.

Builds community resilience by compiling and distributing resource guides that connect individuals with essential services, enhancing access and navigation of support systems.

Strengthens community resilience by compiling and distributing resource guides that connect individuals with essential services, enhancing access and navigation of support systems.

Implements a pre-court youth diversion program grounded in restorative justice to repair harm and transformative justice to dismantle systemic inequities, offering alternatives to incarceration and reducing reliance on punitive systems.

The organization develops and implements restorative justice-based diversion programs as alternatives to incarceration. This approach addresses harm at an individual level through restorative justice and tackles systemic issues through transformative justice, aiming to reduce recidivism and the need for prisons by addressing root causes.

Implements a pre-court youth diversion program grounded in restorative justice to repair harm and transformative justice to dismantle systemic inequities, offering alternatives to incarceration and policing by addressing root causes of harm.

Advances systemic change by developing pilot programs that address root causes of harm and reduce reliance on policing and prisons, aiming to transform systems rather than reform them.

Advances systemic change by developing pilot programs that address the root causes of harm and reduce reliance on prisons and policing, aiming to transform systems rather than reform them.