Vision

One day, we envision a safe and healthy city, state, and world where people have agency over their lives and are not interrupted by prison profiteering, incarceration, deportation, and criminalization.

Goals

1. 1.Build power in communities by building a base of impacted people - Grassroots Leadership defines power building as centering and organizing those impacted by carceral/immigration systems. This means treating them as experts, cultivating them as leaders, and mobilizing their collective strength (the "base") to force systemic change, hold decision-makers accountable, and redefine justice.
2. 2.Transform the narrative of criminalization - Grassroots Leadership's narrative change work is a long-term strategy to dismantle narratives that justify mass incarceration and deportation. It challenges dominant views, centers the power of directly impacted communities, and redefines safety to create the political will for true systemic change and liberation.
3. 3.Change policy and practices of incarceration and deportation - Grassroots Leadership defines policy change as strategically shrinking the scope of mass incarceration and deportation. This involves ending private profiteering, decriminalizing migration, reducing local arrests and disparities, and implementing abolitionist solutions to build community health and safety outside of punitive systems.