Who's involved?

Currently LAVA is housing and controlled by:

Human Rights Coalition
Families and friends of prisoners working to support prisoners and their families and ultimately to abolish the Prison Industrial Complex and all prisons.

ACT UP Philadelphia
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power has been doing succesfull direct action based campaigns for people with AIDS for well over a decade in Philadelphia.

Independent Media Center of Philadelphia
A democratic alternative to the mainstream media empire. Their website's newswire covers a range of local and international struggles. Philly Indymedia is part of what has become an international movement of independent media workers.

Geoclan
Transmitting information to incite hope and inspire people!

the Mothership Connection
A peaceful exchange of Graffiti Writin & Breakin Ciphers.

Graffiti As Political Expression

Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross Federation
Supporting political prisoners and prisoners of war.

the defenestrator
A bimonthly anarchist newspaper which agitates for a social transformation to end all coercive power.

LAVA library
A radical library just inside the 1st floor door.

Media Mobilizing Project
The Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) believes that media must be connected to the economic and social realities of everyday life. The right to free speech means little without the right to be heard. By sharing our own stories for the purposes of education, outreach, and organizing, we can disrupt the fragmentation of our issues and the isolation of our communities, and build the networks necessary to address the root causes of the problems we face.

Food Not Bombs
Fighting global empire and war by giving away meals and groceries in the neighborhood.

The Green Party
The Green Party of Philadelphia (GPOP) is both a politcal party and a grassroots activist organization. GPOP's four pillars are: Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Grassroots Democracy, and Nonviolence. 

rizumu
monthly techno parties with tasty vegan treats

Taxi Workers' Alliance
The Taxi Workers Alliance of PA is the largest Taxi Driver Advocacy Group in the city of Philadelphia.