BrookLyn
Brooklyn is home to powerful people and powerful movements. As NYC’s largest borough, it holds deep Black historical roots—from free Black communities in Weeksville to the legacy of resistance in neighborhoods like Bed-Stuy and Flatbush. Brooklyn has long been a site of Black, Caribbean, immigrant, and working-class survival, joy, and struggle.
While gentrification, police surveillance, and housing injustice continue to threaten our communities, Brooklyn is also where fierce organizing happens every day. From Sunset Park to Crown Heights, Black feminist and queer-led groups, tenant unions, immigrant justice advocates, mutual aid crews, and youth leaders fight for safety, housing, food, and freedom.
Whether through community fridges, freedom schools, mental health response teams, or prison letter-writing circles, Brooklyn shows what abolition can look like in practice. Grounded in love, dignity, and collective survival, the borough continues to grow movements that honor its radical past and build toward a freer future.
Crown Heights Care Collective
Neighborhood abolitionist organizers building radical block associations, childcare collectives & community infrastructure .
We the People NYC
Abolitionist mutual aid collective feeding 200+ people weekly in Bed-Stuy & Harlem, building neighbor-led care systems .
Rose from the COncrete
Rose From Concrete is a Brooklyn-based young people who aim to respond to our seemingly loveless society with (1) mentorship and (2) investments from the community in the forms of funding, opportunities and services for those who may need it
Gowanus Mutual AiD Group
Hyper-local network in Gowanus, bridging residents of public housing and new luxury developments. They organize food drop-offs, tenant organizing teach-ins, and wheelchair repair workshops.
FlatBush mixtape
Grassroots mutual-aid collective dedicated to fostering leadership and neighborly bonds within our community. Coordinate grocery deliveries, a free community pantry, PPE distribution, and eviction defense support.