Community Voices Heard (CVH) is a membership organization of low-income individuals and families based in New York City that organizes around welfare, jobs, housing, education, economic development, and other policy issues. CVH is currently on the Coordinating Committee of Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ), an alliance of grassroots organizations working to connect global and local struggles and change the face and perspective of the global justice movement. Over the past three years, CVH has sent members and staff on GGJ delegations to the World Social Forum, which has introduced CVH leaders to global movements and issues. Delegates have come back energized, and have driven several projects within the organization and the New York City community that engage global issues.
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Community Voices Heard (CVH) has been active in partnership work with CONGESCO. To facilitate this work CVH sponsored 2 CONGESCO members to spend a week with us in New York City and sponsored 3 CVH members to go down to Brazil for a similar week in the favelas of Rio with CONGESCO. Recently, CVH co-sponsoring a workshop called "Cross Border Partnerships in Social Change" at the World Social Forum V. Also, there's a documentary about this partnership soon to be released entitled "Network in Progress."
This movie portrays the emerging transnational relationship between Community Voices Heard in New York and Congesco in Brazil. This film is available for purchase at http://www.videosocial.net. Look for the link to Fernando Salis for purchasing information. Also, this film can be purchased directly through Community Voices Heard. Proceeds of the sales will be split between the Video Social Project, CVH and CONGESCO. We're charging $50 for individuals and $100 for organizations
This has given rise to a difficult process within the organization of defining the relationship of this nascent interest in globalization to their more intensive and immediate local work. Sondra Youdelman, CVH’s Policy & Research Director , and Paul Getsos, CVH’s Executive Director, discuss the risks and opportunities that integrating the global perspective has introduced and the challenge of striking a balance between local priorities and global movement building. Euline Williams and Yvonne Shields, one leader and one Board Member within the organization that have participated in international forums and CVH’s global justice efforts, reflect on some of the connections they’ve made between their lives and activism at home and abroad. The role of popular education in bringing CVH’s base into these global-local discussions is also described.