Beloved Community Center
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Direct Action Welfare Group
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
Stop Mountain Top Removal
Tompkins County Workers Center
Taxi Workers Alliance of PA
Picture the Homeless
Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights
United Workers Association
World Vision

Beloved Community Center
The mission of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, Incorporated is to foster and model a spirit of community based on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s vision of a "Beloved Community." In this spirit, we envision and work towards social and economic relations that affirm and realize the equality, dignity, worth, and potential of every person. We are a network of people committed to a vision of Greensboro, North Carolina as a community where everyone is valued and respected. We are a nonprofit organization with a board, director, and staff. Through our efforts to build a beloved community, we are forging creative relationships with individuals and groups around the nation and the world working on issues of racial and economic justice.
www.belovedcommunitiesnet.org

Coalition of Immokalee Workers
The CIW is a community-based worker organization. Our members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. We strive to build our strength as a community on a basis of reflection and analysis, constant attention to coalition building across ethnic divisions, and an ongoing investment in leadership development to help our members continually develop their skills in community education and organization. From this basis we fight for, among other things: a fair wage for the work we do, more respect on the part of our bosses and the industries where we work, better and cheaper housing, stronger laws and stronger enforcement against those who would violate workers' rights, the right to organize on our jobs without fear of retaliation, and an end to indentured servitude in the fields.
www.ciw-online.org

The CIW McDonald's Truth Tour
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers announces a major mobilization for farmworker justice, April 13-14, 2007, in the greater Chicago area. They issued the following press release:

Nearly two years have passed since Taco Bell and the CIW announced an historic initiative to address the ever-deepening poverty and decades of degradation faced by farmworkers in Florida. At that time, Taco Bell challenged its fast-food industry counterparts to join in demanding fair wages and humane treatment for the workers who pick their tomatoes.

McDonald’s, the undisputed leader of the $100 billion fast-food industry, has refused to meet that challenge. Despite increasing public pressure on the fast-food giant, McDonald’s has refused to recognize the seriousness of the exploitation of tomato pickers exposed through the Taco Bell boycott, and refused to work with the CIW to address that exploitation. Instead, it has taken measures that appear aimed at undermining the hard-won advances in wages and working conditions established in the agreement with Taco Bell.

After nearly two years of waiting patiently for McDonald’s to join us in addressing the crisis of human rights abuses and sub-poverty wages in its tomato supply chain, we are tired of waiting. We are tired, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, of “relying on the good will and understanding of those who profit by exploiting us.”

Our members and allies feel that it is now time to intensify our efforts. As such, the campaign is entering a new phase this year, and support from our allies across the country will be more important than ever. The action in Chicago this April will mark the first major engagement in this new phase of the Campaign for Fair Food. Mark your calendars today and start organizing to bring members of your community to McDonald's backyard this April to join us in a: Major rally outside McDonald's global headquarters in Oak Brook, IL, Friday, April 13, 2007 and a Carnaval and Parade for Fair Food, Real Rights, and Dignity - Saturday, April 14, 2007 in downtown Chicago.

Direct Action Welfare Group
The Direct Action Welfare Group (D.A.W.G.) is a group comprised of current and former public assistance recipients, low wage workers, and concerned individuals who come together to share information and ideas and to advocate for each other, their neighbors, and themselves. Our purpose is to promote social justice and to empower former and current public assistance recipients and persons living in poverty by providing them with the knowledge, and the tools to change their lives.  
www.wvdawg.org         

Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
The Michigan Welfare Rights Organization is the union of public assistance recipients and low-income workers in this state. MWRO has chapters across Michigan and is one of the founding members of the National Welfare Rights Union. Our goal is to organize recipients and low-income workers to fight for our rights, to eliminate poverty in this country and to build an army prepared to battle for the economic and human rights of millions of disenfranchised Americans.
www.mwro.org/

Stop Mountain Top Removal
Our coalition is a broad-based effort by local and national groups dedicated to stopping the harmful practice of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. Please visit each group's website for more information about how you can help stop mountaintop removal mining.
www.stopmountaintopremoval.org/

Tompkins County Workers Center
The Tompkins County Workers Center is composed of a group of low and middle income residents of Tompkins County, as well as over 50 affiliated organizations. Our mission is to stand up with all workers treated unfairly at work or faced with critical poverty, racial, housing, health care or other social and economic issues. We will support, advocate for, and seek to empower each other to create a more just community and world.
www.tclivingwage.org

Taxi Workers Alliance of PA
Founded in 2005 by taxi drivers, the Taxi Workers Alliance of PA is the largest Taxi Driver Union in the city of Philadelphia. TWA-PA is a multi-ethnic membership based organization and its mission is to transform the taxi industry, and improve working conditions through organizing, political and media advocacy, litigation, direct legal services and access to health care. TWA-PA's programs and activities respond to the direct needs of more than 1,200 driver members, providing them with a means to advocate and organize for their rights and achieve basic workers protection and benefits. The primary focuses of our work are: economic justice, work place civil and privacy rights, safety, healthy conditions and access to healthcare and the institutionalization of a democratic mass-based organization (unionization).
http://socialjustice.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/index.php/Taxi_Workers_Alliance

Picture the Homeless
Picture the Homeless was founded on the principle that homeless people have civil and human rights regardless of our race, creed, color or economic status. Picture the Homeless was founded and is led by homeless people. We refuse to accept being neglected, and we demand that our voices and experience are heard at all levels of decision-making that impact us. We oppose the 'quality of life laws' that criminalize homeless people in any form by the city, state and national governments. We work to change these laws and policies as well as to challenge the root causes of homelessness. Our strategies include grassroots organizing, direct action, educating homeless people about their rights, public education, changing media stereotypes, and building relationships with allies.
www.picturethehomeless.org/

Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights
POWER is a member of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. Founded in 2001, Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights (POWER), is a group of people who are low-income, working class, and people of conscience from all walks of life, all working together in the struggle for economic justice. With a leadership base of low-income people, POWER is part of the local and national struggle to END POVERTY in America.
www.povertyontrial.org/

United Workers Association
The United Workers Association organizes low-wage workers and others in poverty to advance human rights for all, including the right to freedom from poverty. We are an organization of low-wage workers ourselves - all decision making is done by the Leadership Committee. The committee composed entirely of low-wage workers. Former low-wage workers and day laborers form most of our staff, with at least 50% of staffing hours reserved for those who are from the ranks of the poor. 
www.unitedworkers.org  

World Vision
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
www.worldvision.org

 

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