The BREATHE Act offers a radical reimagining of public safety, community care, and how we spend money as a society with four simple idea:

• Divest federal resources from incarceration and policing.
• Invest in new, non-punitive, non-carceral approaches to community safety that lead states to shrink their criminal-legal systems and center the protection of Black lives—including Black mothers, Black trans people, and Black women.
• Allocate new money to build healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities.
• Hold political leaders to their promises and enhance the self-determination of all Black communities.

The Thrive Agenda Stands for: Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy. It’s an 8 pillar program to address the inequality and racism the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare and create millions of jobs for a just, healthy, and equitable society.

The Green New Deal is a congressional resolution to mobilize every aspect of American society to 100% clean and renewable energy, guarantee living-wage jobs for anyone who needs one, and a just transition for both workers and frontline communities—all in the next 10 years.

Everyone deserves a roof over their heads and a home to feel safe in.  But Covid, on top of the past decades of negative economic and immigration policies that preceded the pandemic, is putting more and more of us at risk of losing the place we call home.

When President-elect Biden prepares to move into his new home on January 20th, millions of renters, homeowners and immigrants are teetering on the edge of being evicted, foreclosed on, or deported.

We need swift executive action to put a moratorium on evictions, utility shut-offs, and immigration enforcement that leads to deportation and removal.

Micah Bazant is a visual artist who works with social justice movements to reimagine the world. They are honored to work with The Frontline, and their image was inspired by Moms 4 Housing and housing occupations across the country. Micah’s work has been featured in films and publications including Black Futures, Trap Door, Invisible No More, Newsweek, MAJOR! and Free CeCe. They have exhibited nationally including at the Brooklyn Museum, Galeria de La Raza and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and their work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. More importantly, their art can be seen at protests, gay bars, abortion clinics, and prison newsletters. Micah co-founded the Trans Day of Resilience art project, and received the 2019 Art is a Hammer Award from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. They are white, trans anti-zionist jew living in Ohlone territory and they love caterpillars.

@micahbazant | micahbazant.com

Amir Khadar is a Sierra Leonean-American artist and educator from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their main mediums are digital art, writing, and fiber art. Regardless of the outlet, their practice has always been grounded through afro-futurism, black beauty, black femme liberation and reclaiming ancestral practices.

Their illustration depicts two happy Black femmes holding hands in a luscious landscape. One is carrying a baby, and the other a potted plant. Their hand holding emphasizes the importance of relationship building and joy in organizing around liberation. The baby and the plant are symbols of the future and representations of who this work is being done for. They are both being carried and nurtured into the liberated future we have imagined through these policies.

@amir.khadar

Ashley Lukashevsky is an illustrator and visual artist from Honolulu, Hawaii. Her work focuses on issues related to immigrant rights, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ liberation, and gender equity. Through her art, Ashley seeks to call attention to oppressive power structures — and the connective tissue that exists between them — with the aim of dismantling them. She has communed and collaborated with various organizations including the ACLU, Reform LA Jails, Planned Parenthood, the California Endowment, and Al Otro Lado.

This piece was originally made for The People’s Paper Co-op, a women led, women focused, women powered art and advocacy project at the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PPC looks to women in reentry as the leading criminal justice experts our society needs to hear from, and uses art to amplify their stories, dreams, and visions for a more just and free world.

@Ashlukadraws | ashleylukashevsky.com | People’s Paper Co-op

Since the spring of 2018, the PPC has collaborated with the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund (PCBF) on their Mama’s Day Bail Out campaign, raising more than $105,000 through art sales, including $17,000 to bail out protesters arrested in Philadelphia in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

Kah Yangni is an illustrator living in the city of Philadelphia, PA. They make heartfelt, neon visions of justice, queerness, and joy. Their art has been shared by people like Indya Moore and Alok V. Menon, and they’ve worked with the New York Times, Vice Media, Bust Magazine, as well as with projects like the National Women’s Law Center and the Movement for Black Lives. They’ve been featured in Bustle, Hyperallergic, and Them. Kah’s upcoming projects include a billboard on the sacredness of trans people in Richmond, TX and a mural in downtown Philadelphia.

@KayYangni | kahyangni.com/

Thank you to Forward Together for the inspiration with their mama’s day and e-card series. See their gorgeous cards and send one to someone you love at https://forwardtogether.org/ecards/