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US Organizations
Miami Workers Center
The Miami Workers Center is a strategy and organizing center founded in 1999 for low-income communities and low-wage workers in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Founded in March 1999, the Miami Workers Center’s mission is to work to end poverty and oppression. The center works on these issues by building the power of grassroots organizations made up of and led by the people most affected by these problems and by assisting in the development of a broad-based social justice movement in South Florida. The Center conducts its work by initiating and developing grassroots organizations; developing the strategic and technical capacity of leaders through the hands-on organizing and intensive political education; and increasing the voice, participation, and leadership of no- and low-wage workers (including the unemployed, welfare recipients, and service sector workers) and their organizations in local/national policy-making, community initiatives, and the broader social justice movement. The Center’s most significant achievement has been the initiation and development of Low Income Families Fighting Together (LIFFT), which is a grassroots membership organization of and for current and former welfare recipients, low-wage workers, and public housing residents that has become a growing force in Miami-Dade County. In these efforts the Miami Workers’ Center joins arms with South Florida’s low-income people to address issues of poverty and oppression within the region’s most oppressed communities.
The Brecht Forum
The Brecht Forum is a non-profit organization, in New York City, that promotes social activism. The forum hosts many events each year, including Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory, the Institute for Popular Education, and Neues Kabarett series. At the Brecht Forum, people communicate, meet, and display their art. The Forum offers a full season of performances, poetry readings, visual art exhibitions, workshops, dialogues, seminars and panel discussions.
Project South: The Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide
Project South is a leadership development organization based in the US South creating spaces for movement building. They work with communities pushed forward by the struggle to strengthen leadership and provide popular political and economic education for personal and social transformation. They build relationships with organizations and networks across the US and Global South to inform our local work and to engage in bottom-up movement building for social and economic justice.
Women Of Color Resource Center
The Women of Color Resource Center is an American civic organization founded in 1990 by executive director Linda Burnham, a long time activist and author. The resource center includes five objectives: Women’s Human Rights, Popular Education, Welfare, Peace and Justice, and Sisters of Fire. Women of Color Resource Center’s Mission reads:The Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well being of women and girls of color in the United States. Informed by a social justice perspective that takes into account the status of women internationally, WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women of color across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age.
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