Grassroots Leadership
“The power of a community is greater than the power of a single person.”
– Maria Lopez, Community Member, Grassroots Leadership
What We Do
Accompaniment
Grassroots Leadership believes that solidarity means showing up and walking alongside community members.
Community-Driven Campaigns
Grassroots Leadership empowers people to be the center of their own campaigns and fight for their own liberation.
Hotline
Grassroots Leadership runs La Linea de Defensa Comunitaria, a bilingual Spanish/English immigration crisis hotline.
Know your rights & popular education
Grassroots Leadership conducts trainings with their members and volunteers on rapid response around immigration enforcement and detention.
Our Story
In the United States, putting bodies in jail is a business. Grassroots Leadership fights to end prison profiteering and reduce reliance on criminalization and detention through direct action, organizing, research, and public education. Grassroots Leadership works with communities to fight back against detention and deportation, both in Texas and nationally. It is led by impacted community members and believes that people who can transform the system are those that have been through the system.
Grassroots Leadership seeks to remind immigrants detained at centers like Hutto Detention Center that they are not forgotten through a visitation program. It also runs a Court Watch program at county courts and jails in which volunteers monitor individual cases to hold state actors accountable. Grassroots Leadership creates new advocates for detention and enforcement reform, and organizes campaigns in response to the injustices that community members face, and employs a participatory defense angle to their work.
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