December 7, 2025 — Virtual Nationwide

Held on December 2, 2025, the “Money Please For Our People,” a 24-hour Giving Tuesday livestream marathon event dedicated to economic justice, solidarity-based resourcing, and community-rooted creativity uplifted disabled creators, Black and Brown cultural workers, trans brilliance, movement elders, and justice-producing artists who are too often overlooked by mainstream philanthropy. Rather than adopting the traditional nonprofit fundraising model, “Money Please” reframed Giving Tuesday as an opportunity to nourish a justice-centered cultural economy rooted in accessibility and reciprocity.

The livestream’s first 12 hours showcased a robust ecosystem of cultural and economic justice partners: fiscal sponsors, regranting organizations, mentorship programs, creative studios, disability justice collectives, and individual artists mapping what a thriving, interdependent artistic future can look like. The second 12 hours featured curated Calling Up Justice content, including Accessible Virtual Pride, theater livestreams, justice talks, and transmedia storytelling.

Despite significant real-world disruptions, the Calling Up Justice team held the livestream together through collective care. The event became a powerful demonstration of mutual aid and community-led problem-solving. “Money Please For Our People” sought to transform Giving Tuesday from a donor-extractive practice into a solidarity-based redistribution model. The event challenged shame around asking for support, uplifted creators normally excluded from funding pipelines, opened pathways into fiscal sponsorship and funding systems, modeled reciprocity over scarcity, and embodied the Calling Up Justice Open Palm Philosophy, where resourcing is mutual nourishment Feedback from participants and partners highlighted the event’s transformative impact. The livestream also catalyzed new training requests, collaborations, and partnerships before the 24 hours had even ended. The livestream reached hundreds of viewers across YouTube and Twitch.

Featured Guest Artists & Justice Partners

The livestream featured more than two dozen partners from across the justice and arts ecosystem, including:

Catalyst Consulting • Urban Jazz Dance Company • Bay Area Deaf Dance Festival • Digital Placemakers • The Black Trans Prayer Book • Knox Community Street Dance • SF Disability Cultural Center • BlinkPopShift • The Curiosity Paradox • LiberArte • BAMBD / BAM House • Vallejo Arts Fund • Sins Invalid • Ability Design House • One Free Community • Loud ‘N Unchained Theater Co • Midwest Mujeres • Disability Power Bloc • SMP Disability Justice Fund • alexa dexa • Crowded Fire Theater • Pockets Change • Terri Lynne Hudson • Theories of Care • Deej Nutz • Gata the Bureaucratic Baddie • Disability Justice Culture Club • Network of Ensemble Theaters

“Money Please” was a vibrant demonstration of what becomes possible when communities resource each other with courage, creativity, and care. Calling Up Justice and its partners created a powerful, accessible, justice-driven gathering.

"Money Please — and Justice Always."

About Calling Up Justice

Calling Up Justice creates accessible, justice-centered digital and in-person experiences that challenge oppression, celebrate collective imagination, and empower communities through art, technology, and mutual aid.

About LiberArte

LiberArte nurtures artists and creative activists co-creating joyful and abundant futures in harmony with each other and Mother Earth. Through festivals, tours, retreats, leadership development, healing arts, and climate storytelling initiatives, LiberArte uplifts artists and cultivates cultural strategies for ecological and social transformation.

To learn more, visit Calling Up Justice here.