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Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ) is an organization of Black workers that promotes social democracy, economic justice, social justice, and racial equality within the United States. [1] BWFJ has worked closely with United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE).
Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) was a nonprofit and nonpartisan interfaith advocacy network comprising more than 60 worker centers and faith and labor organizations that advanced the rights of working people through grassroots, worker-led campaigns and engagement with diverse faith communities and labor allies. IWJ affiliates took action to ...
[6] [7] [8] In addition, she created the award-winning Bandana Project, an art activism project that raises awareness about workplace sexual violence against farmworker women. [ 3 ] [ 9 ] From 2012 to 2014, Ramírez served as acting deputy director of Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc., the first transnational migrant workers’ rights ...
The fate of trans healthcare lies in the outcome of a presidential election and next summer's Supreme Court ruling. But these LGBTQ+ healthcare workers are determined to provide gender-affirming care.
Justice for Janitors organizers drew upon lessons from the civil rights movement to conduct demonstrations that increased public awareness of the economic grievances and racial discrimination that service workers encountered in large urban areas, such as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Justice for Janitors was founded on June 15, 1990, when ...
Anti-oppressive practice is an interdisciplinary approach primarily rooted within the practice of social work that focuses on ending socioeconomic oppression.It requires the practitioner to critically examine the power imbalance inherent in an organizational structure with regards to the larger sociocultural and political context in order to develop strategies for creating an egalitarian ...
Jewish Funds for Justice maintained a blog [13] that served as an online hub for Jewish netroots action and Jewish perspectives on contemporary issues of social and economic justice. Jspot.org, a project of Progressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice, supported protesters at Occupy Wall Street, stating, "Many of us have found this ...
Arise for Social Justice is a grassroots organization focused on furthering the rights of low-income people formed in 1985 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Founding members centered the early activism of the group around their shared identity as women on welfare.