What is the Toronto Community Justice Fund?
The purpose of the Toronto Community Justice Fund is to raise and distribute resources for community members living in the Greater Toronto Area who are facing legal and other financial repercussions stemming from the criminalization of their Palestinian liberation and solidarity work.
Our Purpose, Mission, and Values
The TCJF operates from a place of love, care, mutual assistance and resource collectivization to look out for our community. The aim of the TCJF is to work against the isolation and shame that the state wields in order to silence people who stand up for what is right.
In this current moment, we are seeing an intensification of state oppression in order to silence people acting in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. This fund aims to mitigate the impacts of this state oppression and provide community support to our people.
Together, we work to reduce financial and structural barriers for people who face criminalization as a result of their Palestinian liberation & solidarity work through mutual aid and support.
TRUSTEES
Selected by the Palestinian Youth Movement Toronto, there are 5 Trustees who make up the decision making body for the fund. These individuals receive anonymized applications to distribute the funds. These 5 individuals come from different generations, races, classes, and experiences in movement organizing work. They are members of: Palestinian Youth Movement Toronto, Health workers Alliance for Palestine (HAP), No More Silence, Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund, and Showing Up for Racial Justice Toronto.
FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE
The Fundraising Committee is the group of people that come together to raise money for the fund. If you are interested in helping to raise money for the fund, please contact us here.
OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
The Operations Committee provides administrative and operational support for the TCJF. We’re the people answering your emails, supporting the trustees to have their meeting, anonymizing the applications and other supportive administrative tasks.