Dream Defenders
Background
Dream Defenders is a youth- and student-led grassroots movement building organization based in Florida. Founded in 2012 in the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin, the organization trains and mobilizes Black, Brown, and working-class youth to fight for liberation, racial justice, and human rights. Dream Defenders organizes around prison abolition, ending police violence, immigrant rights, free public education, housing justice, and dismantling capitalism and state violence. Through local campus and commun
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Dream Defenders is a youth- and student-led grassroots movement building organization based in Florida. Founded in 2012 in the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin, the organization trains and mobilizes Black, Brown, and working-class youth to fight for liberation, racial justice, and human rights. Dream Defenders organizes around prison abolition, ending police violence, immigrant rights, free public education, housing justice, and dismantling capitalism and state violence. Through local campus and community chapters ("SquaDDs"), direct action, civic engagement, and political education, the collective works to build long-term community power and transformative social change across Florida and nationally.