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October 2024 Newsletter

October 1, 2024

Dear Catalyst Community, We’ve been reflecting on the difficulty many of our movement organizations are having when it comes to political disagreement. Many of us are in deep pain right now. We are in pain as we witness one year of genocide. We are in pain for losses in our lives and communities. Part of […]

Ayşenur’s spirit lives!

September 10, 2024

Ayşenur is gone. Another beautiful life stolen by Israeli forces paid for by you and me. She joins the tens of thousands of Palestinian lives stolen in the past few months, most of whose names we will never know. She defected from US empire to stand alongside those being harmed and joined their fate. Privilege […]

September Newsletter

September 2, 2024

Welcome to Catalyst’s September newsletter! This month we reflect on the struggles of working people and the changes in the labor movement over the last few years. Seven unions – whose members make up almost half of all union members in the US – have demanded an end to US military aid to Israel. We are taking […]

July/August Newsletter

July 30, 2024

Like many others, we’re feeling the intensity of this political moment, and are holding James Baldwin’s words close to our hearts:   “One must say Yes to life and embrace it whenever it is found — and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is. For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and […]

June 2024 Newsletter

June 11, 2024

Dear Catalyst family, As conditions in Gaza become more and more dire, 3,500 people gathered last month in Detroit to advance the work of Palestinian liberation. We offer this excerpt from a brilliant speech by Lara Kiswani that gives perspective to the power of the ongoing organizing for the liberation of Palestine, the tremendous potential […]

May 2024 Newsletter

May 2, 2024

Dear Catalyst family, YES!!! to the 139 – and growing – encampments on college campuses across the country, and internationally, created by students demanding their universities end their complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. And they are working, already Brown University and the Evergreen State College have signed agreements that outline the next steps to […]

50 Arrested in Powerful Senate Cafeteria Action: Help Us Build on This!

April 16, 2024

As a queer and trans person, my relationship to Christianity has been fraught, to say the least, but it is also a significant part of how I was raised and who I am today as an anti-racist organizer in the South. So in October, as I was throwing myself into Gaza solidarity efforts alongside lots […]

Reproductive Justice in Florida

April 10, 2024

Dear Catalyst Community, I am sure many of you have heard the news out of Florida that a horrific 6-week abortion ban is going to go into effect in May with wide-ranging impacts. At the same time, organizers alongside millions of Floridians, have succeeded in getting Amendment 4, a referendum to provide constitutional protection for […]

March 2024 Newsletter

March 5, 2024

Dear Catalyst community, Like so many people we are focusing much of our collective energy on stopping the U.S. supported genocide in Gaza and supporting the resistance of the Palestinian people. We have been in the streets and in organizing spaces to demand an end to the horror we witness daily: the bombing of homes, […]

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 […]