who and where
These are some of the contacts i’ve put together so far of organizations I’d like to be in touch with. If you have ideas, suggestions, recommendations or – especially – personal contacts, please let me know.
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California
Applied Research Center
(on racial justice, health, poverty, etc)
Oakland CA
Brown Berets – Watsonville (near SC)
406 main street, suite 408b
brownberets@msn.com
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
1714 Franklin St. suite 325
Oakland CA 94612
Tel. 510 893 7106
Info(at)workingeastbay.org
Linked with
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
** Women Working for Economic Justice
participant research collective
www.womst.ucsb.edu/projects/crwsj/collaborative
through UCSB womens studies (contact: Eileen Boris)
**Mujeres Unidas y Activas, SF
Challenging white supremacy workshop
2440 16th st. PMB#275
San Francisco, CA 94103
cws@igc.org
http://www.cwsworkshop.org
415-647-0921
whole pedagogical system for training anti-racist white people…
People’s Institute West
PO box 9334
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-540-9400
peoplesinstwest@hotmail.com
http://www.peoplesinstitutewest.org
one branch of the national (?) Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond. Run workshop ‘undoing racism’
DC
Al Fishawy café
4132 Georgia Ave NW
Washington DC (petworth metro)
202 437 6199
encounter space, organizes lots of courses, discussions, local political tours…
Georgia
Project South.
Inst. for the elimination of poverty (education, toolkits…)
9 Gammon Ave,
Atlanta GA
404 622 0602
Illinois
Mess Hall
www.messhall.org
an autonomous self-managed space running a variety of events, media projects, etc.
Interfaith Worker Justice
1020 Bryn Mawr Ave, 4th floor
Chicago, IL 60660
Tel 773 728 8400
www.iwj.org
interfaith religious people trying to forge labor/religion relation, use religious criteria to defend worker organizing, organize care work…
Louisiana
Common Ground Collective (antiracist grassroots hurrican relief)
www.commongroundrelief.org
(looking for summer volunteers, mostly destruction/construction)
Common Ground community (christian/new monastic)
Shreveport, LA
New Jersey
New York
Urban Justice Center
666 Broadway 10th floor
New York, NY 10012
Tel. 646 602 5600
www.urbanjustice.org
legal advocacy, litigation, research and resources related to: community development, domestic violence, homelessness prevention, human rights, mental health, LGBT youth, sex work and street vendors. Also provides support/resources for new organizations like sistas on the rise.
Sistas on the Rise
PO Box 740581
Bronx, NY 10474
Tel. 718 991 6003
www.sistasontherise.org
self-managed school and advocacy center for teenage mothers/pregnant girls. Education through organizing.
Living Wage Resource Center
88 3rd Ave
Brooklyn NY 11217
718-246-7900 x 230
www.livingwagecampaign.org
Families for Freedom
25 Chapel Street 703
Brooklyn NY 11201
Tel 718 858 9658 x 204
www.familiesforfreedom.org
support, legal info and action against deportations.
Personal contact: Aarti Shehani
Domestic Workers United
Casa Atabex Ache
471 East 140th St
Basement level between Brook and Willis Ave, Bronx
6train to Brook ave, Brook to 140th or 2 train to 149th 3rd ave
718 585 5540
www.casaatabexache.org
women’s center: self-empowerment, health alternatives, spirit and sexuality, etc.
Sista II Sista
89 St. Nicholas Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
718 366 2450 x 0#
www.sistaiisista.org
young women of color self-organization: leadership training, workshops against racism, violence, etc.
Mothers on the Move
Tel. 718 842 2224
www.mothersonthemove.org
initially mothers organized against collapsed bronx public education system, now a center for organizing around economic, migration, tenant and other questions.
Chinese Staff and Workers Association
one of the oldest workers centers, started with restaurant workers in Chinatown, now works in collaboration with lots of other projects
Make the Road by Walking
301 Grove St.
Brooklyn
info@maketheroad.org
Consulta del Barrio
Coney Island Avenue Project
1117 Coney Island Ave
originally a worker’s center/immigrant rights project in a largely Pakistani neighborhood, since 9/11 it has become principally a legal defense and anti-deportation effort
DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving)
clearly a point of reference as community/workers/legal defense center for South Asians.
Pennsylvania
Kensington Poor Peoples Union
The Simple Way
Christian community (new monasticism, connected to Durham)
Kensington, Philadelphia
www.thesimpleway.org
New Jerusalem Center
Addiction recovery community
Scribe Video Center
Contact: Louis Massiah
4212 Chestnut St., 3rd floor
Philadelphia PA
www.scribe.org
Fabulous community video production space, training for self-production… good contacts w groups (housing, women, etc)
Quebec
Colours of Resistance
“anti racist thinktank and actiontank”
c/o student-worker solidarity
QPIRG at McGill
University St. 3rd Floor
Montreal, Quebec
H3A2B3 Canada
cor@mutualaid.org
http://www.colours.mahost.org
Tennessee
The Highlander Center
www.highlandercenter.org
1959 Highlander way
New Market TN 37820
865-933-3443
Texas
Southwest Workers Union
San Antonio
La Mujer Obrera
El Puente
Vermont
Institute for social ecology
Bookstore in montpelier (?)
National
Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond
www.pisab.org
antiracist training and…?
ACORN
IWW
www.iww.org
the reinvented Industrial Workers of the World, now organizing principally precarious work
Walmart Workers Association
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[...] One of the comrades from Precarias a la Deriva has a project about precarity in the US. Along the way she plans to visit with people from a number of organizations – bitter ultraleftist that I am I find myself wanting to dis some of them, which isn’t particularly productive. She links to an interesting interview of the Precarias with someone in the US, and another exchange with the same person about conditions here in the US. [...]