Community Orgs:
Empire 13
JJK
Cahokia Community Basket
Heartland’s
Empire 13 community partners:
SIUE, Clean City Coalition, Loud For Liberation, PSL STL, Coffee Revolution, Build N The Foundation, Moms Demand Action, and City Of Joy Fellowship
Empire 13 Work:
Community service done by Empire 13:
- Boots to the street (partner with SIU and SIUE student volunteers to carry out the campaign)
- Community clean-up ( cleaning up the community with volunteers, picking up trash and abandoned material)
- Tornado Clean-up ( cleaning up the aftermath of the STL tornado)
- No king’s protest ( peacefully protesting against current political issues and the presidency)
- Fighting Environmental racism ( peacefully protesting and doing things such as cleaning up and refreshing predominantly black neighborhoods)
- Earth Day clean-up ( cleaning up on Earth Day)
- Wear Orange Day (gun violence awareness, wearing the color orange to show support for gun violence awareness and gun violence victims)
- Help flood victims restore their homes ( restore homes and repair damage done by floods in the southern Illinois area)
Mutual Aid
Ways to do this mutual aid
- Attend Empire 13 events
- Collaborate with local community members and organizations to gather participants for events in your community or other initiatives tailored to your community’s needs.
- Create a group within your community and protest #freedom of speech
- Create a group (might need a permit) and clean up areas (materials needed: gloves, garbage bags, sanitizing materials, neon colors)
- Form a mutual aid group with neighbors, community members, volunteers, and community partners
- Use online forums to stay connected, or GroupMe
- Set up regular meetings to assess needs and distribute tasks, while also hosting meetings to come up with events, plans, and community service ideas
- Create flyers or social media posts to raise awareness and invite open participation
- Organize donation drives or supply pick-up/drop-off points
- Map out neighborhood needs and available resources for distribution
- Create delivery systems or transportation for people without transportation
- Build systems to track inventory and requests (Google Sheets/Google Forms)
- Coordinate collective action to demand systemic change
- Document and challenge injustice or mistreatment in the community
- Help with job applications, resumes, or navigating legal systems
- Offer tech support for online schooling, work, or healthcare access
