Catalyst California

“Board secretary/treasurer steve english and board president molly munger are married.”

“The form 990 is reviewed by members of the finance committee prior to filing and making it available to the full board for review upon request.”

“The disclosure of conflicts is called for at each board meeting. Directors who have a personal interest in a matter such that it is a conflict of interest under the organization's conflicts of interest policy, disclose such interest and do not vote on the matter.”

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“Justice project the goals of justice project include: challenge the strengthening of the police state by the federal government, ensure protestors are not criminalized, transform policing to ensure community accountability and safety for communities of color, re-define safety in communities of color, increase awareness of local and national policing and mass incarceration issues, reduce harmful use of discretion in application of criminal laws (including prosecutorial discretion), strengthen the capacity of the national movement to end over-policing and profiling, and change the discourse on criminalization, especially in the aftermath of high profile police misconduct. In st. Louis, missouri, a local jail (the workhouse) houses almost 1,000 people, 95% of whom are there pre-trial because they cannot afford bail. There are 8 times more black detainees than there are white detainees, even though only 47% of st. Louis city's population is black. The average stay is almost 300 days. We filed a lawsuit in january, 2019 in order to change the policies and reduce the jail population so the workhouse can be closed. The class action lawsuit alleges that the city and courts are running an illegal cash bail scheme that resulted in the unlawful detention of hundreds of poor people and black people. In june, we experienced a major victory in the campaign when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring bail hearings to determine ability to pay bail to every person arrested within 48 hours of their arrest and a hearing within one week to all those who are currently being held in jail awaiting trial. This shortened timeline and focus on a fair cash bail will mean that people will no longer face sitting in a jail for months waiting for a hearing when they have not even been convicted of a crime.”

“Immigrant justice our immigrant justice project has been challenged by the immense attacks on immigrants. During these difficult times, we have responded to the needs of local groups providing research, analysis, training, as well as communication support. We have worked with grassroots partners to raise public awareness about criminalization and detention of immigrants, linking these issues to criminalization of other communities of color when possible, and demonstrating the paralleled fate of immigrants and non-immigrant communities of color in the struggle for racial justice. On april 2, 2019, we worked with our partners, juntos, and casa san jose and conducted a stakeholder visit of york county prison in york, pennsylvania. Advocates had the opportunity to meet with officials, tour the prison, ask questions, and meet with over 30 people who are detained. Ice had about 690 immigrants detained at york (the total capacity of the prison is about 1500). At york, the people imprisoned at this facility have to sleep, eat, bathe, and relieve themselves all in the same giant open room. To bring awareness to these conditions and hold them accountable, we submitted an advocacy letter to ice and the pennsylvania department of corrections. In collaboration with puente human rights movement (puente), advancement project and puente have co-authored the report "the carceral state of arizona: the human cost of being confined" to shed light on the harmful ways that migrants of color are criminalized and dehumanized as part of the human rights crisis that is mass incarceration in this country. Through a focus on arizona, which has long been a testing ground for repressive immigration and policing policies and is currently in the midst of an unprecedented incarceration crisis affecting black, latinx and native communities, advancement project national office and puente human rights movement seeks to expose yet another piece of this system. The report also provides first-hand stories of people currently detained in the eloy detention center in eloy, az, helping to underscore how immigration detentionwhich is truly imprisonment, not just detentionand, ultimately, dehumanizes individuals at every level. Strategic communications to make lasting change, we must also change the dominant narratives regarding public safety. Our strategic communications work leverages our national media profile, broad social media reach, culture and the amplifying effect of the grassroots organizations we partner with. We continued our work with rep. Marcia fudge to support the house administration committee's voting rights field hearings that we began in february 2019. In november 2019, we released a report we vote, we count: the need for congressional action to secure the right to vote for all citizens that catalogues and highlights stories we collected from people's hearings we held during congressional hearings collecting similar stories. That report is now a part of the congressional record. We also developed a microsite which is a national hub for advocates that provides news and updates, video, and campaign tools. This microsite features a new #assaultat map that charts the countless incidents of students being assaulted by school police in their places of learning. The #assaultat campaign began in response to the recorded assault of a young woman of color in spring valley, south carolina. With the #assualtatspringvalley campaign, student recorded videos of police violence in schools were able to be shared and circulated quickly through social media and, then, local news channels and papers. This online campaign exposed the state violence perpetrated by police that had once been concealed. On august 27, 2019, we held a community event to launch our microsite in washington, dc where we walked people through the report, timeline, and immersive digital experience.”

“The process has not changed from the prior year.”