Dear United for a Fair Economy
community,
As spring begins to bloom, we are excited
to share with you some updates about our new, continued and emerging
work for economic and racial justice across the country. Through
supporting grassroots leaders and providing organizing training, we
are ensuring that those most impacted by inequality and injustice are
leading the work for systemic change and movement building. Thank you
for being part of our community, supporting our work and joining us in
working for a fair and inclusive economy for all.
In solidarity, the UFE team
UFE is building grassroots
leadership in Alabama:
We are excited to share that we have
launched a new project in Alabama: The Grassroots Organizing School of
Alabama! GOSA is bringing UFE’s popular economics education
toolkit — custom curricula on economic inequality and racial
injustice, facilitation skills, healing for liberation practices, and
language justice tools — to Alabama to develop a strong group of
organizers that are ready to be activated. Our intent with GOSA
is to resource projects – especially projects to build Black and Brown
solidarity, and to advance worker rights and fair pay – with
organizers who have the analysis and skills to hit the ground running.
Read more about GOSA on our blog!
UFE is supporting immigrant
organizing in the South:
UFE is excited to announce our
partnership with Southeast Immigrant Rights Network
on the leadership and organizing initiative The Hummingbird Institute!
This initiative, a partnership with SEIRN, Blueprint NC, NC
Collaborative for Strong Latinx Communities and Unites for a Fair
Economy, seeks to bring together grassroots immigrant and refugee
leaders from around the Southeast to advance their leadership and
organizing skills. The deadline to apply is April 16th.
We launched are our new
Economics for Everyone
Conversation Deck:
Inspired by popular education and conversation card decks
that spark dialogue, this bilingual deck of 52 open-ended questions
about our personal experiences with the economy is a tool for building
community and inspiring action for economic justice. The virtual
version is available to all for free. The deck includes the beautiful
artwork featured above.
We are continuing to support healing retreats
for youth in North Carolina
Working with partners across North Carolina, UFE is part of the
collective that emerged out of the healing retreats we facilitated
last year called CHILL (Collective Healing for Love and Liberation).
CHILL hosted a mental health retreat at the Avila Center from March 31
- April 3rd which included mental health trainings, healing circles,
drumming workshop and other support for BIPOC youth leaders in NC.
Stay tuned for a blog post about this retreat!
Welcome to the UFE team Kayan!
We
welcomed a new staff member to the United for a Fair Economy team in
February! Kayan
Cheung-Miaw is our new Wages and Workers Rights Organizer and will
be supporting the Raising Wages NC coalition work to raise the minimum
wage in North Carolina. Welcome Kayan!
UFE is hiring a Resource
Mobilization Director:
UFE's
Resource Mobilization Director Sara Sargent will be heading to
graduate school so we are hiring to fill the role.
Are you passionate about economic justice, movement building and
fundraising for social change? Please apply!
We have a flexible 32 hr work week, excellent benefits and this
is a hybrid position based in Boston, MA! Please spread the
word.
Upcoming UFE work and events:
- The Raising Wages North Carolina coalition, which
UFE coordinates, is gearing up for a series of actions in April to
advocate the state legislature to raise the minimum wage to $15/hr!
These include a Lobby Day and Building Worker Power
Convening on April 26th in Raleigh, NC.
- The much respected popular education organization Equipo
Maiz will be visiting the US from El Salvador in April and
co-facilitating trainings about anti-Blackness in the Latinx
community and building solidarity with United for a Fair
Economy. UFE's Executive Director Jeannette Huezo has been working
with them closely to develop and pilot this new popular education
curriculum.
- UFE will be hosting a donor briefing for our
community in May- look out for the invitation!
- We will be sharing our Impact Report 2022 with
our community in the coming weeks.
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