Friends,

Four months ago we launched the Movement Infrastructure Project to help get tools and resources into the hands of activists and organizers on the front lines of the fights for transformative change in our community and in our world. In launching this project our hope was that by cultivating a social movement infrastructure we could free up movement organizers to focus on taking bold action, not worrying about where they were going to have their meetings, or find a sound system for their rally. We also hoped that by sharing tools and resources across organizations and organizing spaces we could build bridges between our movements and create organic space for collaboration. 

After just a few months it’s become clear that our work is filling an essential gap in our movement landscape. 

• We’ve supported more than 50 actions events with equipment and on-the-ground logistical support. Some of the events we supported included If Not Now’s Passover Seder on the lawn of the Capitol; the TRIGGER project’s city-wide gun violence prevention summit; the Debt Collective’s “Fund Education, Not Genocide” rally at the Department of Education; and the “Pass the Torch, Joe” rally at the White House. 

• We’ve hosted a dozen trainings, meetings and events in our space at the Petworth United Methodist Church including Harriet’s Wildest Dreams’ cop watch training, marshal trainings for the Poor People’s Campaign, and a day-long youth anti-militarism conference. 

• We facilitated a series of six “Gear in the Streets” workshops on technical skills like running sound systems for protests, guerrilla projections, and live streaming actions and events. Over the next few weeks we’re offering a series of legal workshops including a Know Your Rights & Risks training and a workshop on Freedom of Information Act requests.  

And we’ve done all of that on a shoestring budget. We’re an all volunteer team playing what we think is an essential role in our movement landscape. We’re funded by small donations from people who value this work and sliding scale contributions from the groups that use our gear and space. 

If you think the Movement Infrastructure Project is a valuable resource for our movements, please think about investing in our movement infrastructure by making a donation today. And if you want to help sustain this project over the long haul, think about signing up to make a monthly recurring contribution. 

We’ve had the opportunity to plug into some incredible work over the past four months and we’re excited to continue to build and develop this project with your support. 

In solidarity, 

The Movement Infrastructure Project