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Dear United for a Fair Economy Community, As spring blooms, and as we witness conflict at home and abroad, we are cultivating community-based leadership and tending coalitions and campaigns that we hope will bear fruits of change. We're excited to share updates about our trainings, workshops, and coalition building, and the progress of our partners as we advocate for change. Thank you for your ongoing support and for your partnership in the struggle for a fair and inclusive economy for all. National Trainings of Trainers (ToT) —
Multiplying the Movement in Fall and in
Spring!
United for a Fair Economy hosted our
annual Fall Training of Trainers (ToT) at the
Highlander Research and Education Center last November. At the
four-day inter-generational bilingual event, UFE supported
participants to cultivate their popular education, language justice,
and healing for liberation practices, to help create a deeper
understanding of the world we envision with economic equity for all.
Participants came from Alabama, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and
beyond.
Fall 2023 ToT participants at the Highlander Center In April, we held a bilingual four-day
annual Spring Training of Trainers
(TOT) at the Avila Center for Community Leadership in Durham,
NC — where UFE is a co-founder — to learn and reflect on economic
inequality and its impacts, cultivate popular education and
facilitation skills, experience practices for healing from the traumas
of oppression, and connect across language. Participants again came
from Alabama, North Carolina, and Massachusetts.
Spring 2024 ToT participants at the Avila
Center
Emerging Alabama Leaders — Stepping into Power in a Year of Training with UFEThe 2024 cohort of UFE’s Grassroots Organizing School of Alabama (GOSA) – co-founded with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice – is a group of organizer-leaders from Alabama’s Black, Latinx, and immigrant communities who are preparing to advance base-building initiatives that promote economic and racial justice. They have already completed two trainings this year, co-led by two participants from GOSA 2023.
GOSA 2024 cohort members, facilitators,
interpreters and children
Curriculum Development — New Resources for Reflection and Action Against RacismFollowing a months-long development process, UFE and Equipo Maíz launched a new training curriculum – “Racism in the Mind, Skin, and the Action” – earlier this year. It is a resource for learning and reflection to change anti-Blackness in Latinx communities. 
Equipo Maíz's
Maira Monge, Facilitator and Iveth Velasco, Senior Trainer
with UFE's Executive Director, Jeannette
Huezo
Coalition-building and Movement Support — Where Workers are Organizing, UFE is ThereThe UFE-coordinated Raising Wages NC (RWNC) coalition converged with the NC Families Care (NCFC) coalition for a strategic planning retreat earlier this year. Member groups settled on four priority areas to strengthen their base-building and impact to raise the minimum wage and support low-wage worker organizing statewide in North Carolina.
Raising Wages NC and NC Families Care member groups in a pair share activity at the strategic planning retreat at the Avila Center in January 2024
One of the strategic objectives of the Raising Wages NC coalition in 2024 is to come out in robust coordinated support of local policy campaigns. We see local campaigns as key spaces of opportunity to achieve victories for workers over the long period until we can change statewide policy. UFE and Raising Wages are supporting organizing of UE150 municipal workers in Durham to achieve key wage and worker rights victories. UFE recently supported production of a video to uplift their demands.
Staff Highlights
UFE welcomed the newest member of our team – Victor Urquiza, Workers' Rights Organizer – last fall. Based in our Durham, NC office, Victor coordinates the Raising Wages NC coalition and supports worker organizing statewide.  Victor Urquiza
UFE intern, Gabrielle Dominique, interviewed Eroc Arroyo Montano, UFE’s Director of Cultural Organizing, earlier this spring. Eroc reflected on the value of “working small” to build our movements, prioritizing deep relationships over scaling up bigger and more shallowly.  Eroc Arroyo Montano, UFE’s Director of
Cultural Organizing
Thank you for all you do to promote social and
economic justice! We are who we are because of you. Warm regards,
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