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Next generation, multiracial civil rights organization inspiring and supporting national and local movements toward a just democracy. advancementproject.org

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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 01/10/2026
We’re releasing an update to our Protecting Immigrant Student Action Kit — a free, field-tested playbook for keeping ICE out of schools built from 18 months of what communities actually lived through and won. Download today for tools that we know work to keep immigrant students safe.
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Protecting Immigrant Students Action Kit 2.0 - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 29/09/2026
Join us tomorrow, September 30 at 12:30 PM ET for a discussion about abolition and what it means to invest in healing, self-determination, and the conditions for all people to thrive. Register now 👇🏾
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We Believe That We Will Win - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 28/09/2026
We hope you’ll join us for a moment to reflect on last year’s achievements while imagining what the future could look like if we are brave and bold enough to fight for it – together.
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2025 Impact Report - Advancement Project
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Movement for Family Power @movfamilypower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1/ STOP TAKING OUR CHILDREN! New data shows ICE is holding 1,900 unaccompanied children hostage in prison-like shelters & the foster system. @advancementproject.org @nokidsinprison.bsky.social bit.ly/children-ICE...
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Revealed: attorneys rally to free children held in US immigration custody
Trump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 24/09/2026
Join us for a timely discussion on abolition as we explore what real alternatives to punishment look like and what it will take for governments and institutions to invest in our communities differently. 📆 Wednesday, Sept 30 🕧 12:30 PM ET RSVP today: bit.ly/we-believe-250
We Believe That We Will Win

Wed, Sept 30, 12:30 PM ET / 9:30 AM PT

Join us for a discussion on abolition and what it means to invest in healing, self-determination, and the conditions for all people to thrive.

With Carmen Daugherty, Advancement Project; Amara C. Enyia, Movement for Black Lives; Janvieve Williams Comrie, AfroResistance; Marbré Stahly-Butts, CUNY Law School

Register: bit.ly/we-believe-250
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votolatino.bsky.social @votolatino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’re one month out from the midterms. Join Citizens In Action on Oct 7 for a conversation with organizers and advocates working across election protection, immigrant advocacy, and democracy defense! 🕚 11am PT | 2pm ET Register: CitizensInAction.us
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 21/09/2026
We’re fighting for a future where our public schools offer Black and brown young people an abundance of resources and care. Get involved, get informed, and get organized!
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Back to School Resource Guide - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 21/09/2026
We are far from done in fighting for liberatory education. But change won’t come from courts or institutions. It comes from young people and families organizing to fight back against an educational system that has systematically shut them out to demand better.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 21/09/2026
Decades of divestment, closures, and corporatization have created a two-tier system where only the most privileged people can access quality educational opportunities while everyone else gets left behind.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 21/09/2026
Many Black families are faced with impossible choices when deciding where to send their kids to school.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 21/09/2026
More than 70 years after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, our public schools remain segregated. Black children are routinely denied equal access to well-resourced, quality public education rooted in dignity and care.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 21/09/2026
Every child deserves well-resourced, nurturing schools where students have self-determination, power, and dignity.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 21/09/2026
We’re prepared to keep our people safe at the polls and protect free and fair elections where every vote counts.
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Cops won’t fight federal election interference—so citizens will have to
How democracy protection groups are preparing for Trump's worst.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 17/09/2026
Today, we're excited for @carmen.advancementproject.org to step into the role of Executive Director with a bold vision for building the future, not just in moments of crisis but in the everyday, difficult work of building power. “Let’s build the world we’re all dreaming toward, together.”
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Movement For Black Lives @mvmnt4blklives.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our ancestors were counted as property before they were counted as voters. Every protection we've fought for has been rolled back and won again by us organizing together. Today on National Voter Registration Day, take two minutes to register, or check that you're still on the rolls. m4bl.link/VOTE
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Asian Law Caucus @asianlawcaucus.org · 15/09/2026
Happy #NationalVoterRegistrationDay! Take 30 seconds to check your voter status and register today – it’s the very first step to a fair and inclusive democracy. 🔗Learn more at: citizensinaction.us @votolatino.bsky.social #NVRD #CAVotes #Election2026
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 08/09/2026
“There are more of us who care about fair and free accessible elections than those who want to suppress our vote, so we have to show up in numbers.” - @carmen.advancementproject.org
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Voting Rights Groups Are Preparing to Confront ICE at the Polls
Trusted figures such as firefighters and clergy will protect Black, Latino, and Asian precincts that could be targets.
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Ben & Jerry’s @benandjerrys.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ICE agents don't make our schools or communities safer. They make kids, parents, and teachers live every school day in fear and unable to access the services they need. Take action now to demand accountability for ICE now: benjerrys.co/4x3xOPq
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 24/08/2026
As students head back to school, they're doing so under the weight of multiple threats—ICE enforcement near schools, a national school closure crisis, and the fight for police-free schools. We have the resources you need to get organized, fight back, and defend every child's right to learn.
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Back to School Resource Guide - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 20/08/2026
Less than a year after young people organized mass school walkouts to protest immigration enforcement, the Department of Education is encouraging schools to return to zero-tolerance policies and exclusionary discipline that would suppress student speech and exclude marginalized students from school.
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Advancement Project Rejects Dept. Of Ed’s Letter on School Discipline Policies - Advancement Project
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Adaku Onyeka-Crawford @adaku.advancementproject.org · 18/08/2026
Shout out to @publicnewsservice.bsky.social for covering our PA complaint challenging Pittsburgh's racist school closure plan. State civil rights enforcement matters much more as McMahon's Dep't of Ed ignores/encourages racial discrimination in schools app.publicnewsservice.org/story/pa-civ...
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PA civil rights complaint alleges school closures harm Black students
Pittsburgh Public Schools are facing a civil rights complaint alleging district school closures discriminate against Black students and violate the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.The board's May 27 ...
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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 13/08/2026
Today we filed an appeal on behalf of Amanda Wallace, a Durham activist protesting family separation who was silenced with a no-contact order issued under the North Carolina Workplace Violence Prevention Act. This appeal was filed with the @movfamilypower.bsky.social and @aclunc.bsky.social.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 11/08/2026
Local safety tips from @freedcproject.bsky.social and @harrietsdreams.bsky.social:
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Know Your Rights — Free DC
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 11/08/2026
Download the zine to print at home and distribute widely:
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Know Your Rights Zine for DC Youth - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 11/08/2026
Know your rights, know your power! With the increased presence of law enforcement in DC, Black and brown youth face heightened risks of surveillance, criminalization, and police interactions. Here are five safety tips for keeping DC's young people safe during federal occupation:
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today marks one year of Trump's occupation of DC. Contrary to Trump’s lies, this occupation not making DC safer or more beautiful. It is hurting families, children, workers here, and more. Yet every time this regime has attacked DC, we have grown stronger. This morning we will tell that story.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 11/08/2026
Real safety doesn't come from systems of punishment and surveillance, but rather from organizers and community institutions already building dignity and care from the ground up. Read our full statement:
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One Year into D.C.'s Federal Occupation, Advancement Project Demands End to Collaboration with Federal Law Enforcement - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 11/08/2026
One year into the federal occupation of DC, the facts are clear: this was never about safety. It was about control and the criminalization of Black and brown communities.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 10/08/2026
"We deserve a D.C. that is free from surveillance, free from policing, and free from the millions of dollars that people are wasting on these things and these troops to be invested in the people." - Loreal Hawk, Staff Attorney
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One Year Later, the Federal Surge Still a Tool of Racist Prosecution
A Black August rally highlights allegations of federalized policing and unethical prosecutions in D.C. following a year of heightened enforcement.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 10/08/2026
As families prepare to head back to school, join us for a virtual press briefing to hear directly from experts and advocates about escalating threats to Black and brown students nationwide. 📆 Thurs, August 13 🕐 1 PM ET 📍 Zoom
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RSVP: The State of Black and Brown Education
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 30/07/2026
We are in a national school closure crisis. But school closures aren’t inevitable — and they aren’t a solution to budget deficits. School districts should listen to communities calling for real investments in education and actual solutions to the fiscal issues they face. Read more: wapo.st/4pJwTkU
Letter to the Editor

The Washington Post

How to respond to shrinking enrollment

Regarding July 21 front-page article "Shrinking student pools put public schools at risk" :

Jessica Alcantara, Washington

The writer is an attorney at Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 28/07/2026
This Thursday — Join us for an important conversation on current threats to our right to dissent and build power with our movement partners at @ccrjustice.org, @dreamdefenders.bsky.social, and GSA Network. 📆 July 30 🕑 2pm ET / 11am PT 📍 Zoom
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Beyond 250: We Build Power - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 27/07/2026
With so many threats jeopardizing our rights to dissent, organize, and build power, it's critical that we fight for a people-powered democracy where everyone can thrive. Join us in building another world, one beyond punishment and control, at the polls, in the streets, and in our communities.
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Pledge to Fight for a People-Powered Democracy
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 22/07/2026
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Beyond 250: We Build Power - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 22/07/2026
How do we build power in the face of an escalating authoritarian attack on our First Amendment rights? Join us Thursday, July 30 at 2pm ET as we break down how dissent keeps democracy alive with @ccrjustice.org, @dreamdefenders.bsky.social, and GSA Network.
We Build Power

Thursday, July 30, 2pm ET / 11am PT

Join us for a timely conversation on the right to protest as a necessary practice of collective survival and how ongoing threats jeopardizing our right to dissent are connected to the same fight for power ahead of the midterm elections.

Carmen Daugherty, Advancement Project; Vince Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights; Gia Loving, GSA Network; Nailah Summers-Polite, Dream Defenders
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 22/07/2026
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Beyond 250: We Build Power - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 16/07/2026
Is your district showing signs that it might be closing your school? Has it slated your school for possible closure or is studying the possibility of closing your school? We have the tools you need to get organized and fight back.
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Stop Closing Public Schools - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 15/07/2026
Read the full story:
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Parent group claims Pittsburgh Public Schools' closure plan violates children's civil rights
A group of parents has filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission in an effort to prevent Pittsburgh Public Schools from carrying out its closure plan.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 15/07/2026
Catch our team on CBS Pittsburgh discussing the fight to protect Black students in Pittsburgh Public Schools with @412justice.org   The district’s vote to close 12 schools disproportionately affects Black students who make up 62% of students affected by the closures—that’s not an accident.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 14/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero should be alive today. We honor the lives stolen by the militarized ICE enforcement, and we are in solidarity with communities nationwide calling for ICE to be removed from our communities and eliminated altogether.
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ICE Killed Two Men in One Week: This Deadly Pattern Demands Urgent Change - Advancement Project
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Carmen Daugherty @carmen.advancementproject.org · 14/07/2026
What happens when communities refuse to accept school closures as inevitable? Pittsburgh families are showing us. ✊🏾 Neighborhood schools are worth fighting for. Read how @advancementproject.org is fighting back with @412justice.org! advancementproject.org/perspective/...
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The People vs. School Closures: Pittsburgh - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 14/07/2026
Today, on behalf of five Black Pittsburgh Public School students, we filed a civil rights complaint alongside @412justice.org with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission challenging a recent vote to close twelve schools and displace 6,000 students, predominantly in Black neighborhoods.
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New Civil Rights Complaint Alleges Pittsburgh School Closures Plan Discriminates Against Black Students - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 13/07/2026
We are in a national school closures crisis. While this crisis is fueled by profit-motivated billionaires seeking to control, corporatize, police, and close schools in Black and Latine communities, it would not be possible without the complicity of local policymakers approving mass closure plans.
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Why are School Boards Closing Our Schools? - Advancement Project
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 09/07/2026
We will continue to fight against criminalization and incarceration while advocating for new safety models that transform justice on the path to liberation.
Another world is possible. Together, we can build a future where every young person has the opportunity to grow and thrive.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 09/07/2026
Black youth deserve joy. Black youth deserve safety. Black youth deserve to grow old.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 09/07/2026
We demand an end to the illegal occupations of U.S. cities by the National Guard, demilitarization of police, divestment from carceral institutions & investment in our communities, a full investigation into these deaths, transparency for the grieving families seeking answers about their loved ones.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 09/07/2026
Black youth have every right to enjoy summer. But rising criminalization rooted in a long history of anti-Blackness threatens the joy, safety, and very lives of young Black people. We must invest in Black youth to protect Black futures.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 09/07/2026
Where can young Black people be safe in the United States?
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 09/07/2026
Summer had barely started when police fatally shot a Black toddler in Mississippi; two National Guard soldiers in Memphis shot and killed a young Black father hours after July 4th; a Black teenager went missing in Mississippi shortly after July 4th.
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Advancement Project @advancementproject.org · 09/07/2026
Kohen Wiley, 1 year old.  Nolan Wells, 18 years old.  Tyrin Johnson, 20 years old.
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