About NJNP - No Justice No Pride
This section is about No Justice No Pride and our values and principles that we follow as a activist collective.
Mission Statement
No Justice No Pride (NJNP) is a fiscally sponsored, Trans-led Community Organization based in Washington, D.C. with several state-based and international chapters, as well as state-based ally community groups. NJNP started as an ad-hoc coalition originally intended to be a weekend of mobilizations in Washington, D.C. to call attention to the longrunning, deep fissures within the LGBTQIA2S Community — particularly to fight back against the LGBT “equality” movement’s complicity with systems of oppression that further marginalize Two-Spirit, Trans, Non-Binary and Queer individuals — while building a world that affirms us all. The first planning call was held in February 2017.
Our members are black, brown, indigenous trans, queer, two-spirit, gender nonconforming, bisexual, formerly incarcerated, current and former sex workers, disabled, and white allies. Together we recognize that there can be no pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.
No Justice No Pride operates thru aggressive Digital and Online Organizing Campaigns, breathtaking Art and Visuals, and Organizing and Supporting Relationships.
Operating Structure
NJNP has a shared model of decision making and governance with roles filled from all levels of NJNP's Structure. Outside of the Board and Advisors, NJNP is mostly functional through its Steering Committee. Each Steering Committee member is responsible for leading and being accountable on a role that supports NJNP's DNA & Vision. Decision making embedded throughout process with pieces of centralization and decentralization.
Principles and Values
Note: This are not hard and fast commitments or positions. Lines can be blurry, and we adapt to change. This is meant to inspire thinking about radical political ideas, not stifle them.
Issue |
Official Gay and Lesbian Solution |
NJNP’s Critical Trans and Queer Political Approach |
Trans and queer people, poor people, people of color, and immigrants have minimal access to quality health care. |
Legalize same-sex marriage to allow people with health benefits from their jobs to share with same-sex partners. |
Medicaid/Medicare activism; fight for universal health care; fight for trans *affirming* health care; protest deadly medical neglect of people in state custody - we need to expand more here, healing, wellness, holistic solutions, etc |
Violence against trans and queer people |
Pass hate crime legislation to increase prison sentences and strengthen local and federal law enforcement; collect statistics on rates of violence; collaborate with local and federal law enforcement to prosecute hate violence and domestic violence. |
Develop community based responses to violence that support collective healing and accountability; join with movements addressing root causes of trans and queer premature death: police violence, imprisonment, poverty, lack of healthcare and housing |
Trans and queer people experience violence and discrimination in the military |
Eliminate bans on participation of LGBT folk, specifically trans folks in the military. |
Join with movements to oppose racist, sexist, imperialist military actions abroad and at home; demand reduction / elimination of defense budget |
Unfair and punitive immigration system |
Legalize same sex marriage to allow people with citizenship to apply for legal residency for same-sex spouses; provide limited, conditional support to ‘Save DACA’; celebrate immigrants as ‘hard working’ and separate ‘good’ immigrants from ‘bad’ immigrants |
Solidarity with immigrant justice movement; Support campaigns to abolish ICE and end immigrant detention and deportation; oppose immigration rules that make legal immigration status dependent on marital relationships; support ALL immigrants regardless of “work ethic” or criminal background. |
Trans and queer families (esp. Chosen families) are vulnerable to legal intervention and separation by the state and/or nonqueer and nontrans people |
Legalize same-sex marriage to provide a route to “legalize” families with two parents of the same sex; pass laws banning adoption discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation |
Join with other people targeted by family law and the child welfare system (poor families, imprisoned parents, native families, families of color, people with disabilities) to fight for community and family self-determination and the rights of people to keep their kids in their families and communities |
Gun violence and mass shootings, specifically school shootings |
Support minimal gun control measures including background checks, raising the age, banning assault weapons; criticize the NRA; increase budget for police in schools to ‘protect students’ |
Support community-led interventions that address root causes of violence; end loopholes and lack of regulation that has funneled firearms into marginalized communities for decades; disarm the police; support students with resources and counselors |
Institutions fail to recognize family connections outside of heterosexual marriage in contexts like hospital visitation and inheritance |
Legalize same-sex marriage to formally recognize same-sex partners in the eyes of the law |
Change policies like hospital visitation to recognize a variety of family structures not just opposite-sex and same-sex couples; abolish inheritance and demand radical redistribution of wealth and an end to poverty |
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Random list of other things we don’t fuck with:
(If you don’t know why, ask!)
- Charter Schools
- Public-Private Partnerships
- The Gay Games
- Gays Against Guns
- The police
- feds
- Muriel Bowser
- Everyday Feminism (the blog)
- RuPaul’s Drag Race
- “Good” Protestor vs “Bad” Protestor dichotomy
- Developers and their land deals with the Mayor
- Non Profits that collaborate with the Mayor's destruction of public housing and the police.