Alliance for Racial and Social Justice (ARSJ)

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ARSJ in Action
  • Community Trainings
  • Court Watch
  • Voter Registration
  • Partnership and Empowerment
  • Accountability Work
 

The Alliance for Racial and Social Justice (ARSJ) is a grassroots organization whose mission is to promote equity and justice in our communities, with expertise and focus as a watchdog for mental health, child protective and court-based services. 

We work for social justice through collective action and accountability regarding inequities arising from white supremacy and anti-Blackness and by initiating and sustaining action aimed at eradicating racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, able-ism, and other abuses of power.

ARSJ Mission



Court Watch Models Collective Action for Justice

New Jersey family courts are failing domestic violence victims, their children and perpetrators who are not mandated to standardized batterers intervention programs. 

Furthermore, the state's most vulnerable citizens are relegated to a broken system of justice, and influential state agencies and advocates have not moved responsibly to address the complexity and seriousness of the problem.  

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Concerned Citizens Have Power

Engage in accountability for New Jersey and beyond.
Support Watch NJ and community-driven interventions today!

Black Lives Matter

The Alliance for Racial and Social Justice supports the position and actions of the Black Lives Matter movement, working in solidarity against anti-Blackness, colonialism, white supremacy and privilege, racial profiling and the killing of Black and Brown people by police, systemic racism, and other acts of violence against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. 

From the Black Lives Matter movement: watch a series of interviews illuminating what matters in promoting freedom, justice, and collective liberation ... read more.

Teenagers march in solidarity in O'Fallon, Missouri.




Resources

Colonialism Made the Modern World. Let's Remake It, A. Getachew
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
How To Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X Kendi
Tears We Cannot Stop, Michael Eric Dyson
We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, Bettina Love
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Crossover, Kwame Alexander
Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State, Peter Beinart
Racists Aren't Stupid, Tim Wise
An Antiracist Reading List, Ibram X. Kendi



Videos and Podcasts

What Matters, Black Lives Matter

Recovery & Moore, The Privilege Institute

1619 (observing 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery), the New York Times


Supporting ARSJ

ARSJ
greatly appreciates its public and private support. All donations are used to advance:
  • Training and technical assistance for advocates and service providers
  • Community forums and presentations at local and national conferences
  • Sponsorship and support
  • Court Watch (monitoring the judicial system with a racial justice lens)

 
Alliance for Racial and Social Justice

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu

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