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Opening spaces and providing support for people with targeted identities to engage in social uplift within our own communities.
PEOPLE & CULTURE
Building Coalition and holding space for community to organize, navigate, create.
SYSTEMS CHANGE
Training and educating organizations, coalitions, and community groups to advance liberatory practices within systems.
LIBERATION WORK
Programming to Connect Community, Reconnect to Culture, Reawaken our Spirits, and Reimagining and Defining our Futures.
Walking Our Talk…
We honor our Indigenous siblings who made their stand on the hallowed ground at Wounded Knee. We honor our stolen African siblings, who found ways to keep their children fed while teaching them to look the world in the eye. We honor our Latinx siblings who marched in the Plaza de Mayo for the disappeared, willing the world to see. We honor our Asian siblings, who wield leaf blowers against the smoke in our eyes. We honor the brick-throwers, the crawlers up the capitol steps, and the reclaimers of the languages we knew before we grew thorns on our tongues. We honor your stories, your songs, and your survivance. We commit to working toward creating a world that is grounded in the wisdom you’ve imparted to us. We honor your joy, your strength, your resilience, and your vision, and move forward knowing that your gifts live within us all. Your resistance has provided us with a roadmap to liberation. We are still here. And we rise.
What We’re About
Our work focuses on supporting Black, Indigenous People of Color, poor folks, folks who are Disabled/chronically ill, and the Queer/Trans Community. UPRISE does a lot of work through in person storytelling and belonging events, community organizing, training and civic engagement education. Our communities have encountered many obstacles in getting our basic needs met, but as our ancestors before us, we are survivors and so we adapt. We offer online and hybrid events to decrease isolation, develop mutual aid networks, and build coalitions. Our work centers on the concept that we are stronger together, building coalition and community power with those most impacted.
Happening Now
April Showers Bring May Flowers but No Flowers for Trans Rights
Imagine waking up every day, living your life the best you can. Going to work, paying your taxes, being a good neighbor and relative and yet every time you turn around you are being told or shown in the news, government legislation and media that you are a problem,...
Talk the Talk
There’s Always Money for War
As many of us sit wondering if our wages will cover bills and groceries this month or whether we can access health care, afford our medications or be denied again for mobility aids the Trump regime jumps to attack yet another country that raises fears and questions if...
Get Connected, Stay Connected
As February begins Black History Month, we at UPRISE want to take a moment to pause and recognize our Black ancestors who paved the way for us to be where we are today. We also want to acknowledge the Black joy and resilience that continues to build and sustain our...
Chaos New Year
Well before we even got to get our feet into the new year, chaos ensued. 2026 is the commemoration year of 250 years of Independence as a country. A country infamously built on stolen land with the tools of genocide and reshaped by stolen bodies and slave labor. This...
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