Our annual celebration is on Thursday, April 27th and oh, are we pumped! We’re pulling out all the stops: beers from DC Brau, gin from Green Hat, noms from Corcoran Catering and Insomnia Cookies and more! We’ll also have a bunch of fun activities including a photobooth and a silent auction with offerings from awesome […]
“I left because my foster mother was mistreating me,” one of DC’s missing Black and Latinx teen girls told WUSA9. She opted to sleep in the laundry room of an apartment building next to her sister’s place rather than return to foster care. Vaneshia Weaver, another teen reported missing, told WUSA9 that she wasn’t missing […]
Music, and the spaces it occupies, has often been a safe haven for those who feel they don’t belong—a place to express and feel without fear. But in 2016 alone, over 40 women were assaulted within a week at music festivals, an entire state told trans artists and fans they weren’t welcome in facilities, and […]
Not to oversell it or anything, but 2016 was an INCREDIBLE year for CASS. In 2016, we made bars in DC safer — and traveled to cities across the country (and Canada!) to help start Safe Bars programs in those cities. We raised a lot of money — over $17,300, in fact — thanks to you, […]
Editor’s Note: The note below was distributed by the DC Justice for Muslims Coalitions. Collective Action for Safe Spaces is proud to be part of the Coalition. We hope you will join us in rallying against these unjust bans. At 11:30 AM this morning, President Trump signed an Executive Order putting Muslim Ban 2.0 into […]