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Issues: Housing
Gentrification:
Miami Workers Center
This is one of the topics covered in MWC's Circle of Consciousness series. The curriculum helps participants define gentrification, place it in a global and historical context, and then apply that knowledge to current trends in their community.
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POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights
Jason Negron-Gonzales, interviewed here, is POWER’s leadership development and education director, and coordinates the popular education activities. He offers valuable insight into their organizational model and commitment to bringing up leaders from within the membership base. Jason also discusses POWER’s reaction to post-9/11 issues and their decision to focus in on the connections between global forces and local struggles.
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Globalizing in San Francisco:
POWER
This is a practical, user-friendly workshop developed by POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights), a grassroots organization based in San Francisco that works with low-wage and no-wage workers, predominantly from Bay Area communities of color such as the Mission, Tenderloin, Hunters Point and Richmond. The workshop puts housing and gentrification issues into the context of historical and global trends, starting with scenarios developed from the stories of POWERs members.