Social Class
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Eugene/Springfield:
ESSN – Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network
Brings together labor unions, religious congregations and community organizations to support civil and economic rights of working people, especially right to decent standard of living, right to a stable job and right to organize. Includes newsletters and action items.
The Labor Project
Portal for researchers to access the documentary history of labor in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Collections of documents, photographs, personnel papers, and ephemera provide a window on the lives of workers as well as the politics of labor in the region.
University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center
Makes resources and expertise of the higher education system available to workers, unions, policy makers, and community partners throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Includes research on labor and employment issues, technical assistance and consulting, provides public service and assists with public policy issues, publications, academic programs, classes, conferences.
White Bird
"...collective environment organized to enable people to gain control of their social, emotional and physical well-being through direct service, education and community." Programs include CAHOOTS - Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets, drug treatment, acupuncture, counseling, crisis center, homeless services, volunteer and human services training, dental and medical services.
Oregon:
Oregon Single Payer Campaign (OSPC)
Made up of several dozen affiliate organizations from many different constituencies; grassroots movement working to pass single payer legislation in Oregon and working toward national legislation. Formerly Health Care for All Oregon. Includes calendar, info on Oregon and Federal legislation and resources.
Community Action Partnership of Oregon: Oregon's Poverty Fighting Network
Network of organizations across the state that fight for struggling Oregonians and the conditions they face every day; provides services to eradicate poverty in Oregon. Includes news, events, resources, advocacy info.
CASH (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope) Oregon
Committed to improving the financial health of low income working families and individuals. Includes info on tax and financial programs.
Oregon Action
Broad-based, multi-racial community organization dedicated to economic justice; focus on low-income people, people of color and others with limited access to traditional structures of power and policy-making. Includes events and resources.
Regional:
PCUN - Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Del Noroeste - Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United
PCUN En espanol
Union of farmworkers, nursery, and reforestation workers, and Oregon's largest Latino organization.Fundamental goal is to empower farmworkers to understand and take action against systematic exploitation and all of its effects. Includes job and internship openings, calendar, videos and photos, radio, publications and leadership institute.
Fair Contracting Foundation
Educate contractors and awarding agencies about state and federal wage laws, and to promote compliance with those laws.
Portland Jobs with Justice
Regional chapter of Jobs for Justice. Coalition of labor organizations and community groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people and supporting community struggles to build a more just society. Mobilizes support for labor and community struggles at rallies, picket lines, educational settings and at meetings and hearings. People pledge to turn out to support other people's struggles at least five times a year. Includes campaigns, worker's rights board, resources, calendar.
National:
UFE en espanol
Raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. Includes Activist Network, Economics Education, Research Library, and Events. Includes outstanding info on issues, workshops, trainings, action items, media, blog, jobs and internships.
The 99 percent
Blog that includes articles, videos, info on conferences and workshops.
We are the 99 percent
Blog with stories and photos from "lowest" 99% of people in the economy.
Occupy Wall Street
Online Resource for Occupy Wall Street Movement. Includes Resources, chat rooms, forums and live streams.
Center for Working Class Studies
Creates social spaces for civic and academic conversations on working-class life and culture and its intersections with race, gender, and sexuality and serves as a clearinghouse for information on working-class culture, issues, and pedagogy; develops courses, organizes conferences, newsletter. Includes much info on working class studies and projects in the U.S., blogs, bibliographies, links, digital libraries, and more.
Class Matters
Includes info on class and community organizing, cross class alliances, class and other identities, workshops, surveys, resource center.
Class Action: Building Bridges Across the Class Divide
Interactive trainings, workshops, presentations, organizational consulting, and public education for people of all backgrounds to address issues of class and classism. Includes info on programs and support groups, definitions, intersection of race, gender, and class, resources, and blog.
Poverty and Race Research Action Council
Connects advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues, promotes research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues; sponsors social science research, provides technical assistance, and convenes advocates and researchers around particular race and poverty issues; supports public education efforts, including the bimonthly newsletter/journal Poverty & Race, and curriculum guide. Includes job bank, calendar, publications, policy briefs, grants, research and resource info.
Labor and Working Class History Association
Organization of scholars, teachers, labor educators, activists seeking to promote public and scholarly awareness of labor and working-class history through research, writing and organizing. Includes events, grants and prizes, info on activism and the history of labor in the arts, and extensive resources and links.
Labor History Links
Labor History Links
Very extensive bibliography of information, documents and links of U.S. labor history.
Coalition on Human Needs
Alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies that address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable people. Includes news, jobs, action and issue information, and publications.
Jobs with Justice National Office
National network of local coalitions of labor unions, faith groups, community organizations, and student activists to fight for working people.Includes news and updates, jobs, campaigns, blog.
Center for Study of Working Class Life
Includes info on conferences, research, seminars, calendar, working class studies association, online gallery, links, including labor links for women and minorities.
Stand Up for Kids
Organization to help homeless and street kids. Includes info on outreach centers internships, news, resources.
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the U.S. by improving policy, building capacity, and educating opinion leaders. Extensive info includes statistics, interactive tools, fact sheets, policy and legislative info, library, trainings and many resources such as the Ten Essentials Toolkit to end homelessness in your community.
Labor/Community Strategy Center
Multiracial "think tank/act tank" with campaigns, projects, and publications rooted in working class communities of color, with a particular focus on civil rights, environmental justice, public health, global warming, and the criminal legal system; build consciousness, leadership, and organization among those who face discrimination and societal attack--people of color, women, immigrants, workers, LGBT people, and youth.Includes blogs, news, publications, links, and political analysis.
NLC En espanol
Promotes and defends human, women's and workers' rights in the global economy; in-depth research, public education and popular campaigns to support workers struggling to defend basic rights --dignity, healthy and safe workplaces, earn a living wage and organize independent unions; demands corporations be held legally accountable to respect core internationally recognized worker rights standards. Includes reports, news, publications, videos, campaigns and alerts.
Center for Community Change
Helping low-income people, especially people of color, build powerful, effective organizations through which they can change their communities and public policies for the better. Includes info on jobs, immigration, retirement, housing trusts, genealogy project, media.
Results: The Power to End Poverty
Results: The Power to End Poverty En espanol
Create long-term solutions to poverty by supporting programs addressing root causes — lack of access to medical care, education, or opportunity to move up the economic ladder; empower grassroots activists to leverage millions of dollars for programs and improved policies that give low-income people the tools they need to move out of poverty. Includes blog, action items, skills center, events, info on poverty campaigns, and job and internship info.
Change To Win Strategic Organizing Center
Organizes campaigns in the private-sector economy to ensure working and middle class Americans use strength in numbers for jobs with benefits for everyone who wants it through unionizing. Affiliated unions – United Farmworkers, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers Union. Includes news, research, reports, videos, campaigns (e.g., Fair Treatment for Farmworkers, Make Change at WalMart).
Worker Rights Consortium
Independent labor rights monitoring organization, conducting investigations of working conditions in factories around the globe; combats sweatshops and protects the rights of workers who make apparel and other products; conducts investigations; issues public reports on factories producing for major brands; and aids workers at these factories in their efforts to end labor abuses and defend their workplace rights; primary focus is the labor practices of factories that make university-related apparel. Includes factory database, news, investigation reports, resources and links. Info available in Spanish, Chinese, Thai, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Indonesian, Khmer, Swahili.
Workplace Fairness
Provides information, education, and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide and promotes public policies that advance employee rights. Includes news, blog, info on job survival, special reports, legislative and court info, and extensive resources and links.