John —

It’s the last day of our fiscal year. I’ll be direct: we have stretched beyond our capacity in this time of uncertainty and fear. We need your support to meet our budget and continue responding to community needs. 

I want you to hear from my staff in their own words, to witness the loads they are carrying as they receive fear and anxiety, and move people to take action for economic justice.

“As a mentor and trainer deeply rooted in Alabama’s immigrant communities, my weeks are a whirlwind of training, advocacy, and action. I’m responding to crisis calls from people seeking tools to organize community safety from deportation, leading trainings for the third annual cohort of the Grassroots Organizing School of Alabama (GOSA), mobilizing immigrant and worker-leaders to the State House to fight back against harmful immigrant and voter suppression bills, and more. This is my work to support and mobilize the changemakers who are building economic justice with UFE.”

— Ana Delia Espino, UFE’s Director of Inclusive Economies South

“Here in North Carolina, we are answering calls to action from allies fighting for better pay, and against cuts to social safety nets, schools, and jobs. They are looking for political education, organizer trainings, facilitation, and communications and culture work. Perhaps most importantly, people reach out for solidarity in action, because UFE is known for cultivating relationships with groups from communities that have often worked separately. We are doing all this while managing our own anxieties and fears about the administration's attacks on our movements, people being disappeared for speaking out, and the ever-present threat of deportations.”

 — Kayan Cheung-Miaw, Director, UFE's Inclusive Economies Project, North Carolina

“I am receiving many calls, emails, and requests for healing and cultural organizing in regards to economic justice work. I’m booked heavily with multi-day UFE trainings and mediations. Many times I hold space for people directly impacted by recent policies and actions who are processing the experience. I am moving through all of this myself as well, while maintaining my commitments to my community and my family. It can be overwhelming. Amidst all of it, I’m feeling anchored by the struggles endured by our elders.” 

 — Eroc Arroyo-Montano, Director of Cultural Organizing

The work we do is essential to grassroots mobilization for economic justice. My staff and I are in community every day with people who are bearing the brunt of repression, criminalization, and economic instability. They reach out to UFE for political education and skill-building, to bring art and culture and healing into their work, to learn how to mobilize communities across language. Please make your most generous gift to ensure we can maintain a high volume of work in the year ahead.

We are doing all this while managing our own anxieties and fears about the administration's attacks on our movements, people being arrested or disappeared for speaking out, and the ever-present threat of deportations.

Make YOUR impact today. Your gift – of any amount – by June 30 will directly support, mentor, and train grassroots leaders this summer and fall.

Empower grassroots leaders with the resources they need to build power and increase community safety in the months ahead. Thank you for all you do.

In love and struggle,

Jeannette Huezo
Executive Director and Senior Popular Educator, United for a Fair Economy

United for a Fair Economy
https://www.faireconomy.org/