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Announcing Anne Braden Program 2024!

January 16, 2024

We are excited to announce that Catalyst Project will be hosting the Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training Program for white social justice activists and organizers starting in May of 2024! This year’s program will meet in-person (with COVID protocols) for 3 trainings May-August in Orlando, Florida. Applications are due February 15th, so apply now! The Anne Braden Program […]

Antiracist Organizing Panel Series of the Florida Anne Braden Program

September 27, 2023

Join us for a 3-part panel series highlighting visionary organizers in Florida. At a time when fascism is on the rise in Florida, it can be hard to not feel hopeless, especially with so little information about the incredible resistance underway to fight the right and build toward our collective liberation. The online three-part Anti-Racist […]

Colonialism Is Burning!

September 12, 2023

The climate chaos we are witnessing so dramatically in the last few weeks – raging wildfires from Maui to British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, from the Tiger Island Fire in Louisiana to tropical storms in Florida and California – is the result of settler-colonial capitalist practices that dispossess Indigenous communities of their land. Since […]

Fund Florida Braden!

July 12, 2023

This fall, Catalyst Project is taking the Anne Braden Program to Florida, helping build a network of white antiracist organizers to join with Black, Indigenous and People of Color leadership to push back against the state’s attacks on communities and build power. Today we’re kicking off a huge fundraising campaign that’s a big reach for […]

Florida Organizers Shut Down Ron DeSantis’ Office

May 11, 2023

Last Thursday, Anne Braden Program alum and organizer with SURJ Florida, Rachel Bass was one of 14 people arrested at the Florida Capitol at an action organized by Dream Defenders in the face of a horrible legislative session that saw bills attacking immigrants, queer people, trans people, Black people, education, renters’ rights and more. See […]

Stop Cop City! Fight for a Shared Future

April 28, 2023

“They are training for war. They’re going to be playing war games in cities. Those are the ingredients for more police tragedies than we can imagine.” – Angela Davis The critical fight to Stop Cop City is a fight that anti-racists everywhere have a stake in. If built, Cop City would become the largest militarized […]

ANNOUNCING: 2023 FLORIDA Anne Braden Program

March 21, 2023

Catalyst Project is thrilled to announce that we are running the 2023 Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizing Program for people organizing in Florida! The application is live! After consultation with many organizers and organizations based in Florida, we are incredibly excited to bring the Anne Braden Program to Florida. Organizers are powerfully working to confront racist attacks on education […]

Join us at People Get Ready 4

February 15, 2023

Catalyst Project is honored to be on the host committee for People Get Ready 4, put on by the Center for Political Education. People Get Ready is a conference bringing together Left organizers to strategize together and build together. It is an opportunity to assess the political moment and wrestle with questions that will help […]

Justice for Tyre Nichols and Solidarity with Memphis

January 31, 2023

Our hearts are with the family of Tyre Nichols and the people of Memphis, after Nichols was brutally murdered by Memphis police. This kind of police violence is not new to Memphis where victims of police brutality and misconduct who aren’t killed are traumatized and where 25% of the city is tied up in the […]

Welcome Ysh and Annie!

December 14, 2022

Our sweet collective is growing! We are bringing in two long-time organizers with deep roots in indigenous sovereignty and international solidarity. After having had the privilege of working with Annie and Ysh on past Braden Leadership Teams, we are eager for them to bring their decades of experience to Catalyst. Ysh Schwartz (they/them) grew up on Uypi […]