Freedom Inc

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

At Freedom, Inc., we recognize that patriarchy is the foundation of many forms of violence, including state violence.

Women, girls, and gender-expansive people are already navigating violence from intimate partners, family members, and our broader communities. At the same time, the Trump administration is attacking the very systems survivors rely on for safety and support—while targeting women’s bodies, trans bodies, and the lives and dignity of Black, Southeast Asian, Indigenous, immigrant, q***r, and intersex people.

These attacks are not separate. They are rooted in the same systems of control, isolation, silence, and dehumanization that drive gender-based violence.

To every survivor: we believe you. We see your strength. You deserve safety, freedom, care, and a life beyond violence. You do not have to survive alone.

We refuse to be erased. We will continue to center survivors and fight for the safety, freedom, and dignity of all people. Our liberation is bound together.

We are looking for skilled, dedicated,
and passionate individuals to fill the positions of:

Full-time Gender Justice Coordinators
Full-time Youth Justice Organizer
Part-time Q***r Justice Coordinator

If you are looking for an opportunity to support survivors of gender-based violence, this is the place for you!

Accepting applications until the positions are filled.

Apply at bit.ly/FreedomTeam2026 (case sensitive)
Then send your resume and list of references to [email protected].

The whole damn system is guilty and complicit in the ex*****on of Corey Ruiz.

Elected officials keep playing hot potato and passing the blame, but make no mistake: they have power. They can use their influence to call for the arrest of Killer Kop Kiel. They can fund the Independent Police Monitor, strengthen the PCOB, and give us community control over the police.

They have options. What they lack is the political will to challenge a system that protects police over people.

We not going for that.

Join us at the Madison Common Council meeting Tuesday, September 8th at 6:30pm to make your voice heard.

The government has the resources. Our elected officials make the choices.

They find money for policing, punishment, and systems that harm our communities.

While our people are left fighting for food, housing, health, and basic needs.

So, we take care of each other.

On September 1, we fed over 250 households across Dane County.

Not because our communities should have to fill the gaps left by the state, but because we refuse to let our people go without.

We keep us fed.
We keep us safe.
We keep us alive.

This is community care.
This is community power.

Imagine what our communities could build if public resources were actually invested in our people.

Imagine if we had the power and control to determine for ourselves and community.

This is what community control looks like.

Thank you to our amazing volunteers: Ms Gail Adams, Ms Beverly Moore, Ms Euna Whitehead, Ms Rose Johnson-Brown, Timeya Smith, Ma Yang, Niam Tais Ka Lor, and Freedom Youth Squad, who helped us keep our community safe and fed during our Community Cuisine Meal Kit Distribution on September 1, 2026!

We will be out until 8pm! Come through!

WE KEEP US SAFE. WE KEEP US FED.

We’re LIVE from Freedom, Inc.’s Free Community Curbside Cuisine!

Taking care of each other is part of how we build power. When our communities don’t have what we need to live, thrive, and be safe, we don’t wait around for someone else to save us—we show up for one another.

Today, we’re distributing FREE meal kits to our community because food is care, and care is part of our movement. This is what community looks like: sharing resources, meeting each other’s needs, and building the relationships that make us stronger.
Our people deserve more than survival. We deserve to be safe, fed, housed, cared for, and free.

We keep us safe.
We keep us fed.
We take care of us. We build power together.

Freedom, Inc. — 2110 Luann Ln
Today, September 1 | 5–7 PM
Pull up and pick up a FREE meal kit

WE KEEP US SAFE. WE KEEP US FED.

We’re LIVE from Freedom, Inc.’s Free Community Curbside Cuisine!

Taking care of each other is part of how we build power. When our communities don’t have what we need to live, thrive, and be safe, we don’t wait around for someone else to save us—we show up for one another.

Today, we’re distributing FREE meal kits to our community because food is care, and care is part of our movement. This is what community looks like: sharing resources, meeting each other’s needs, and building the relationships that make us stronger.
Our people deserve more than survival. We deserve to be safe, fed, housed, cared for, and free.

We keep us safe.
We keep us fed.
We take care of us. We build power together.

Freedom, Inc. — 2110 Luann Ln
Today, September 1 | 5–7 PM
Pull up and pick up a FREE meal kit

Freedom, Inc. members wrote letters to political prisoners for Black August. We can’t forget our people. Mumia Abu-Jamal, Joy Powell, and so many others are still caged for fighting for Black liberation. Our job is to keep them lifted, fight for their freedom, and stay a thorn in the side of police terror.

Black August is a time to honor Black freedom fighters, political prisoners, and generations of Black people who have resisted prisons, policing, and state violence.

We understand that all Black people are political prisoners. Black people live under systems that surveil, police, criminalize, and control our lives. From slavery to Jim Crow to modern policing and mass incarceration, the carceral state has always been used to control Black people. Corey Ruiz was murdered by the state under these conditions.

This Black August, Freedom, Inc. and Freedom Action Now have been organizing, studying, and fighting for our people:

- We fought for justice for Corey Ruiz and continue demanding community control over the police.
- We hosted the Frontline Organizing School, bringing young people together to study organizing, political education, principled struggle, and direct action.
- We wrote letters of love and support to Black political prisoners.
- We are reading Assata Shakur’s autobiography and studying the history of Black liberation struggles.
- Alongside the Free the 350 Bail Fund, we have bailed more than 55 people out of the Dane County Jail.
- We continue fighting to destroy the carceral state and build life affirming services for our people.

For us, Black August is about understanding that the struggle our ancestors and elders were fighting is not over.

Our people are still being killed by police. Our people are still sitting in cages because they cannot afford their freedom. Our families are still being separated. And when we organize against these conditions, the state still responds with surveillance, intimidation, misinformation, arrests, and violence.

Black August is a reminder that our people have always fought back. And we are still here. Still organizing. Still resisting. Still building. Still fighting to get our people free.

Free the people. Free them all. All power to the people.