Freedom Inc

Happy Pride and Happy Juneteenth Month, Freedom Fam!! 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾

For this year’s Give Out, we are raising $15,000 for our free Youth Freedom Summer Programs.

Our free QTI, Black and Southeast Asian Youth Programs are designed to plant the seeds necessary for revolution, transformation, and liberation.

Donate Here: bit.ly/2026FIGiveOut

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ABOUT US

Freedom, Inc. (FI) is a q***r feminist non-profit that organizes within low to no-income Black and Southeast Asian communities. Our focus is on women and girls, gay, le***an, transgender, intersex, and other q***r folx. To bring about

Our mission is to achieve social justice through the coupling of direct services with community organizing. Through leadership development, community mobilization, and the advancement of community control measures, we will bring about social, political, cultural, and economic change.

Your support is crucial to our mission to end violence within and against our communities.

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STAY LOCKED IN:

✅ Donate to bity.ly2026FIGiveOut Page
✅ Create a fundraiser and collaborate with us!
✅ Pop out to our community events!
✅ Volunteer your time or skills

Love and Power ✌🏾

We’re excited to be co-hosting the 2026 Candidate Forum Series alongside an incredible coalition of community organizations!

The first forum in the series is the Governor Candidate Forum, taking place on Thursday, June 4. This is an important opportunity to hear directly from candidates about the issues impacting our communities and our future.

If you’re in Madison, join us for our watch party and experience the forum in community with us.

We hope to see you there!

We’re excited to be co-hosting the 2026 Candidate Forum Series alongside an incredible coalition of community organizations!

The first forum in the series is the Governor Candidate Forum, taking place on Thursday, June 4. This is an important opportunity to hear directly from candidates about the issues impacting our communities and our future.

If you’re in Madison, join us for our watch party and experience the forum in community with us. Check out the comments for the watch party flyer and details.

We hope to see you there!

Proud to co-host our 2026 Governor Forum alongside these incredible partners.

🗓️ June 4
✨ Networking begins at 5PM⁠
🎤 Forum starts at 6PM⁠
📝 Register Online - Link in Bio⁠
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Come learn, ask questions, meet local leaders, and get informed about what’s ahead. Your voice matters, and we want YOU in the room! Don’t miss this important community event — bring a friend and be part of the conversation!⁠
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Happy Hmong Day!

Today, we honor the resilience, survival, culture, and leadership of Hmong people.

Hmong communities continue to face violence through deportations that tear families apart and deny our people safety and dignity. Honoring Hmong people means fighting for our communities and organizing for a future where our families can stay together and thrive.

That is why we are calling on our community to support the Southeast Asian Deportation Relief Act (SEADRA).

SEADRA would:
• End deportations for many Southeast Asian refugees
• Restore due process protections
• Keep families together
• Create pathways for stability and dignity

Our people deserve care, safety, and the right to stay home.

Take action and support SEADRA today at bit.ly/SupportSEADRA

⚠️ Important Notice for Madison and Surrounding Communities, Wednesday, May 13th, 7:30 am: This morning we received credible reports of ICE presence in and around 535 Moorland Road. We can confirm that two individuals were detained as part of a targeted operation and that ICE is not currently at that address.

We will continue monitoring the situation and sharing updates as we are able to confirm more information. If possible, safely document activity and share only verified information. Please call 1-800-427-0213 to report ICE detentions or credible sightings.

This May Day, we stood with the May Day Strong Coalition representing working class, immigrant, refugee, Black and Southeast Asian communities. We showed up with our elders and youth to be clear about the future we are fighting for.

We know that protecting our communities means fighting to abolish systems of harm. No ICE. No police. No cages. No war. Our communities deserve housing, healthcare, education, food, safety, dignity, and care.

From our Hmong elders holding banners, to youth leading chants and marches, to community members building connections across movements, these photos are a reminder that our power has always come from each other.

The work did not end on May Day. The work to protect and build commnity power continues every single day.

Join us in organizing for true community control and collective liberation. We do not need more punishment and surviellance. We need investment in care, healing, and our people.

Our community is our campaign!

We want community power and control over the police!

The Police Civilian Oversight Board (PCOB) exists so community members can report and investigate police abuse and misconduct independent of MPD. But instead of strengthening it, the City of Madison is trying to weaken it and limit its ability to hold police accountable.

Join us to learn more about the fight for community control, the organizing that made the PCOB possible, and what the current attacks on the board mean for our communities!

📍 Freedom, Inc., 2110 Luann Ln.
📅 Wednesday, May 13, 2026
⏰ 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
✨ All ages welcome. Light refreshments provided.

🚨 Applications are now open for Freedom Youth Organizing Camp 2026! 🚨

Join us June 22–26, 2026 for a week of leadership development, political education, and community building with youth of color from across Dane County, and get the opportunity to meet youth from across the Midwest who are organizing for safer schools and communities for all. ✊🏾🔥

Youth ages 12–18 who complete the camp will receive a $300 stipend.

Visit bit.ly/FYOC26 or scan the QR code on the flyer to apply. Applications are due May 27 at 11:59 PM.

📚🍳 BOOKS & BREAKFAST IS BACK! 🍳📚

Join us this summer for a joyful, no-cost literacy program for Black and Southeast Asian youth ages 5–11! Through books, creativity, movement, and meaningful conversations, youth will build community and explore topics like body safety, gender justice, identity, and self-love in a liberatory environment.

🗓 Tuesdays & Thursdays
📍 Freedom, Inc. Office
🕙 10 am – 1:30 pm
📅 June 16 – August 6, 2026

Breakfast and lunch are provided daily!

Register now at bit.ly/BandB26 or scan the QR code on the flyer. Spots are limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis.