What a Fusion Coalition Is and How to Make One

1. What a Fusion Coalition Isand How to Make One

2. A Brief History Dec 2006 HKonJ held its first organizing meeting WHO: Rev. William J Barber II and a diverse group of some of the state’s best organizers, political scientists, lawyers, religious leaders, and activists Feb 2007 HKonJ kicked off its first annual “HKonJ People’s Assembly” WHO: More than 3,500 supporters who sanctioned and signed the coalition’s “HKonJ 14-Point People’s Agenda (with detailed ‘Action Steps’). Feb 2013 HKonJ’s 7th Annual Assembly WHO: More than 17,000 supporters

3. Members from the more than 125 North Carolina State Conference NAACP branches, youth councils, high school and college chapters from the four corners of the state and members and friends of over 160 other social justice organizations!

4. IMMIGRANT JUSTICE YOUTH ORGANIZING LABOR AND WORKER’S  RIGHTS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE/DEVELOPMENT FRATERNITIES/SORORITIES LGBT RIGHTS WOMEN’S RIGHTS ECONOMIC JUSTICE/DEVELOPMENT FAITH/RELIGION HEALTH CARE PRESS/COMMUNICATION JUSTICE IN EDUCATION  COMMUNITY ORGANIZING/OUTREACH DEMOCRACY/CIVIL/HUMAN RIGHTS

5. HKonJ Coalition Partners IMMIGRANT JUSTICE • Action NC (also under Community Organizing/Outreach) • Association of Mexicans in North Carolina (AMEXCAN) • El Pueblo • El Vinculo Hispano: Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County • Farm Labor Organizing Committee (also under Labor) • NC Dream Team • Reform Immigration for America LABOR AND WORKER’S RIGHTS • AFL-CIO of NC • Black Workers for Justice • NC H.O.P.E. Coalition (dissolved) • NC Public Service Workers UE Local 150 • Southern Faith, Labor, and Community Alliance • Southern Piedmont Central Labor Council • United Food Commercial and Workers (UFCW) • Farmworkers Advocacy Network • Farm Labor Organizing Committee (also under Immigrant Justice) • National Farm Worker Ministry (also under Faith/Religion) • Raise Up for 15 • Student Action with Farmworkers • Student Action with Workers • Teamsters Local 391 • Working America (AFL-CIO Affiliate) HEALTH CARE • AARP NC • Health Care for All • NC AIDS Action Network • NC Harm Reduction Coalition • Old North State Medical Society • Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) • Planned Parenthood of Central NC • Qualified Mental Health Professionals ECONOMIC JUSTICE/DEVELOPMENT • Center for Responsible Lending • Common Cause NC • National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) • NC Association of CDCs • NC Community Development Initiative • NC Fair Share • NC Housing Coalition • NC Institute of Minority Economic Development • NC Minority Support Center • Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network • Southerners for Economic Justice • Self-Help, Inc. • Support Center

6. HKonJ Coalition Partners ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE/DEVELOPMENT • Clean Water for NC • Coalition to End Environmental Racism (CEER) • Environment NC • Grassroots Energy Alliance • Greenpeace NC • NC Environmental Justice Network • NC Green Party • NC Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) • NC WARN • Working America (AFL-CIO Affiliate) YOUTH ORGANIZING • Hip Hop Haven • Hmong Association (Student Association at NCSU) • NC HEAT • NC NAACP Youth & College Division • NC Student Power Union • Sacrificial Poets COMMUNITY ORGANIZING/OUTREACH • Action NC (also under immigrant justice) • Beloved Community Center of Greensboro • Campaign4Change • Chatham Changemakers • Center for Community Change • Community Success Initiative • Concerned Citizens of Tillery • Durham MLK Steering Committee • El Kilombointergalatico • Good Work, Inc. • Loving Light Community Outreach • People of Color Coalition Partners • Raleigh MLK Steering Committee, Inc. • Rogers Eubanks Neighborhood Association • Rubta House • SERA, Inc. Southeast Raleigh Assembly • United with the Northside Community Now • Walz and Associates, Inc. • YWCA of the Greater Triangle

7. HKonJ Coalition Partners JUSTICE IN EDUCATION  • Action for Children NC • Chapel Hill Friends School • Great Schools in Wake • HOLLA (Helping Our Love ones Learn to Achieve) • National Chapter of Greenville Industrial CMS High School Alumni Association • NCCU Graduate Student Association • North Carolina Association of Educators • Public Schools First • Triangle Lost Generation Task Force FAITH/RELIGION • AME Zion Church • American Friends Service Committee (also under Peace Advocacy) • Binkley Baptist Church Outreach Committee • Chapel Hill Friends Meeting • Church of Reconciliation PCUSA  • Community Church Unitarian Universalist – Charles M. Jones Peace & Justice Committee (also under Peace Advocacy) • Community United Church of Christ • Cornerstone Community Church • Covenant Community Church of Raleigh • Ebenezer Missionary Baptist (Rocky Mt.) • First Baptist Church of Murfreesboro • General Baptist State Convention • Greater Joy Baptist Church • Muhammad’s Mosque No. 79 • Muslim-American Society Freedom Foundation • National Farm Worker Ministry (also under Labor) • NC Association of Women in Ministry (also under Women’s Rights) • NC Council of Churches • New Beginnings Temple of Faith COGIC • New Hope Presbytery Peacemaking Committee (also under Peace Advocacy) • People of Faith Against the Death Penalty (also under Democracy/Civil/Human Rights) • Poplar Springs Christian Church • SURGE Youth Ministry • Temple Beth Or Social Action Committee • Unitarian Universalist Association • Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh • United Church of Chapel Hill UCC

8. HKonJ Coalition Partners LGBT RIGHTS • All of Us North Carolina • Freedom Center for Social Justice • Southerners on New Ground • Equality NC WOMEN’S RIGHTS • Feminists Students United  • NARAL Pro-Choice NC • NC Association of Women in Ministry (also under Faith/Religion) • NC Concerned Women for Justice • NC MomsRising • NC National Organization for Women (NOW) • NC Women United • Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Central North Carolina  • Women In NAACP (WIN) • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (also under Peace Advocacy) DEMOCRACY/CIVIL/HUMAN RIGHTS • ACLU of NC • Common Sense Foundation • Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice • Democracy NC • Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People • Durham People’s Alliance • Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill & Carrboro • North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP • NC A. Philip Randolph Institute • NC Alternatives of the Death Penalty • NC Black Leadership Caucus • NC Coalition for a Moratorium • NC Justice Center • Southern Anti-Racism Network • Southern Coalition for Social Justice • Students for a Democratic Society – UNC Chapel-Hill • The Rev. Isaiah James Jackson Jr. Foundation • Traction • Triangle Urban League

9. HKonJ Coalition Partners PEACE ADVOCACY • American Friends Service Committee (also under Faith/Religion) • Code Pink • Community Church Unitarian Universalist – Charles M. Jones Peace & Justice Committee (also under Faith/Religion) • Chapel Hill Elders for Peace • Franciscan Coalition for Justice and Peace • NC Peace Action • NC Peace with Justice Coalition • New Hope Presbytery Peacemaking Committee (also under Peace Advocacy) • Stop Torture Now • Veterans for Peace, Eisenhower Chapter • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (also under Women’s Rights) FRATERNITIES/SORORITIES • Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. • Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Stars in NC • Grand Lodge of Prince Hall Masonic Order • Groove Phi Groove, Inc. • Masonic Lodge 21st District • Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. • Swing Phi Swing PRESS/COMMUNICATION • Dancy Communication Network • Jim Buie and Associates • Spectacular Magazine

10. 14 Point Agenda • All Children Need High Quality, Constitutional, Well-Funded, Diverse Public Schools.  • Livable Wages and Support for Low Income People.  • Health Care for All.  • Redress Ugly Chapters in N. C.'s Racist History: The overthrow of the bi-racial 1898 Wilmington Government, the sterilization of poor, mainly Black, women from 1947-1977 and the 1979 Greensboro Massacre.  • Expand and Improve Same Day Registration and Public Financing of Elections • Lift Every Historically Black College and University • Document and Redress 200 years of State Discrimination in Hiring and Contracting.  • Provide Affordable Housing and Stop Consumer Abuse.  • Abolish the Racially-Biased Death Penalty and Mandatory Sentencing Laws; Reform our Prisons. • Promote Environmental Justice.   • Collective Bargaining for Public Employees and Worker Safety. • Protect the Rights of Immigrants from Latin America and other Nations.  • Organize, Strengthen and Provide Funding For Our Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies and Statutes Now. • Bring Our Troops Home from Iraq Now. 

11. HKonJ Achievements to Date Include, but are not limited to: • Successful voting, mobilization, legal, and public awareness campaigns aimed toward preventing the unconstitutional resegregation of Wake County Schools (the largest school system in NC) • An increase in the minimum wage; successful passage of The Racial Justice Act • Obtained Same Day Voting • Won Smithfield workers their right to unionize • Secured former Governor Perdue's veto of • Voter I.D. Laws, • Unfair budget • Legislative efforts to repeal the Racial Justice Act in 2012 • Helped to initiate groundwork for former Governor Perdue's “Eugenics Compensation Program Bill.”

12. Ingredients of a Fusion Coalition • State-based • Transformational • Highly-intelligent • Cross-issue • Non-partisan • Anti-poverty • Anti-racist • Led by indigenous leaders • With national implications

13. “You have to have a movement that believes that darkness is not real! Get peoples heads out of depression. Attacks are a sign we’re making progress You have to have faith!” The Rev. Dr. William Barber II