About Us

Asheville for Justice is a collective of activists, inspired to organize around promoting local equitable solutions to racial injustice in response to the state-sponsored, violent destruction of a community-funded medical station.


The aftermath of state violence on June 2nd, 2020

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n-c-police-chief-apologizes-after-video-shows-officers-destroying-n1225716

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/apd-medic-tent/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/03/asheville-north-carolina-police-seen-destroying-protesters-supplies/3135539001/



Moving beyond the state violence that galvanized our uprising, Asheville for Justice uses its platform of privilege to center and amplify Black voices.

We are Guided by Progressive Ethics…

  • BLACK LED // Centering the voices of BIPOC leadership
  • Youth led // intergenerationally grounded
  • WOMAN LED // GENDER DIVERSE
  • QUEER LED // QUEER & TRANS AFFIRMING
  • IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKING CLASS
  • STRUCTURED FOR MUTUAL AID

…As an Anti-Oppression Space

  • ANTI-RACIST
  • ANTI-CLASSIST
  • ANTI-SEXIST
  • ANTI-TRANSPHOBIC
  • ANTI-HOMOPHOBIC
  • ANTI-AGEIST