The mission of Bay Resistance Institute is to educate the public about non-partisan issues including: immigrant and refugee rights, public education, healthcare, economic issues, women and LGBTQ rights, and the environment.
Bay Resistance Institute advances an agenda that empowers ordinary Americans to be engaged in their community and our democracy.
Bay Resistance Institute is a project of Chinese Progressive Association, a 501(c)(3) organization.
Bay Resistance Institute
The Bay Resistance Institute is a network of over 50 organizations and unions. Our Steering Committee includes:
- Arab Resource and Organizing Center
- Bay Rising (convenor)
- Black Alliance for Just Immigration
- Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
- Causa Justa / Just Cause
- East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (convenor)
- GABRIELA USA
- Jobs with Justice San Francisco (convenor)
- San Francisco Rising (convenor)
- SEIU United Service Workers West
- SEIU Local 1021
- Senior and Disability Action
- United Educators of San Francisco
The Bay Resistance Institute includes these organizations who have pledged to build a stronger response to the threats before us. Together we will use our collective power to fight for the world we deserve.
- 350 Bay Area
- Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
- American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees 3299
- American Federation of Teachers 2121
- Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
- Arab Resource and Organizing Center
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network
- Black Alliance for Just Immigration
- Council on American-Islamic Relations – San Francisco Bay Area
- California Faculty Association – SFSU
- California Immigrant Policy Center
- Causa Justa / Just Cause
- Chinese for Affirmative Action
- Chinese Progressive Association
- Climate Workers
- Congregation Kol Shofar
- Diablo Rising Tide
- East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
- East Bay Organizing Committee
- El/La Para TransLatinas
- Fight for $15 Bay Area
- Forward Together
- Greenlining Institute
- Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network
- Hospitality House
- Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
- Internationalist Socialist Organization
- Jewish Voice for Peace — Bay Area Chapter
- LYRIC
- Marin Immigrant Community Safety Strategy Team
- Marin Interfaith Council
- Mission Graduates, Movement Strategy Center
- National Lawyers Guild – SF Bay Area Chapter
- National Union of Healthcare Workers
- North Bay Jobs with Justice
- Oakland Catholic Worker
- Oakland Rising
- Parent Voices Oakland
- RYSE Center
- Sacred Heart Community Service
- SEIU 1021
- SEIU 2015
- SEIU United Service Workers West
- Senior and Disability Action
- SF United Against Trump
- Showing Up for Racial Justice – Oakland/SF Bay Area
- Sunflower Alliance
- UNITE HERE Local 2
- United Educators of San Francisco
- Warrior Womyn Network
- Young Workers United.