What We’re About
Lost River Racial Justice is dedicated to using our collective power and privilege to support and uplift BIPOC organizing, communities, voices, and experiences. We strive to maintain strong, ongoing accountability relationships with BIPOC organizations.
How We’re Organized and Organizing
The Lost River community is led by the Nucleus, a core organizing group that holds the logistical and political unity of the organization. The nucleus meets monthly and each nucleus member is committed to being involved in ongoing projects.
Opportunities for Connection, Learning and Action:
Healing In Practice (HIP)
The Healing in Practice (HIP) program is a collaborative initiative with our white accountability partners at Lost River Racial Justice (LRRJ) under the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Thriving Network (BTN) at The Root Social Justice Center.
HIP brings together BIPOC individuals and white racial accountability partners from the larger community in a healing-centered space. Through multigenerational and multiracial events, HIP promotes social healing and mending, creating opportunities for connection, celebration, and shared growth. By centering BIPOC voices and experiences, HIP fosters an environment where participants can engage in meaningful interactions, celebrate diversity, and collectively work toward building stronger, more resilient communities.
Ready Response Team
Additionally, HIP encompasses the Ready Response Team (RRT), a vital component focused on providing immediate support and action in response to incidents affecting our communities, particularly serving BIPOC, QTBIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ individuals and families who face identity-based harassment, harm, or violence. The RRT equips members with the tools and training necessary for rapid and effective response, further embodying HIP’s commitment to social justice and community empowerment.
Gear Up
Gear Up is a learning, training, and action program from SURJ that focuses on organizing strategies under authoritarianism, and the role of white people in social movements. Our current focus is building up mutual aid capacity to support communities under attack from our government, including working with other institutions, organizations, and businesses to lend their support to this work.
Migrant Justice Milk with Dignity campaign
Migrant Justice, a Vermont-based, Immigrant Worker-led organization, is campaigning for dairy workers’ rights. The Milk with Dignity campaign builds a movement of farmworkers and allies calling on companies to ensure respect for human rights in their dairy supply chains by joining the worker-driven Milk with Dignity Program. The Milk with Dignity campaign currently focuses on Hannaford Supermarket, the largest supermarket chain in northern New England and a major buyer of dairy around the Northeast. Lost River partners with Migrant Justice to bring this campaign to our local community and our local Hannaford’s store.