April 6, 2012 — steveschnapp
Education is crucial to the success of the rejuvenated organizing and mobilizing that is taking place with the Occupy movement. Join UFE's next Training of Trainers Institute in Baltimore this June to help expand this work to build a powerful and more sustained movement for economic justice.
April 5, 2012 — Shannon M.
Our tax code is rigged to benefit the richest 1% among us. We need Tax Solutions for the 99%. 2012 is a pivotal year; not only do all of the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of this year, but the outcome of the November elections could very well determine the future of our tax system. Here are five ways you can be a taxivist this April.
February 13, 2012 — Shannon M.
October 10, 2011 — mlapham
Join United for a Fair Economy and Responsible Wealth on Sunday, October 30th for two events in Brooklyn, NY. Please RSVP for one or both of these events to Kathy Lique at klique@faireconomy.org or 617-423-2148 x121 to get directions and tell us how many will attend with you.
September 30, 2011 — Shannon M.
September 13, 2011 — steveschnapp
September 7, 2011 — steveschnapp
UFE's Popular Economics Education team will host an intensive Training of Trainers program in South Haven, MN on November 3-6. They will prepare activists, organizers, educators and community leaders working for social and economic justice to lead workshops that will help to build support for campaigns to reduce economic inequality. The application deadline is October 21.
September 1, 2011 — Shannon M.
Community organizing is about meeting people where they’re at. Well, these days, people are online, and dozens of digital tools have been developed that can enhance political organizing. This free webinar will discuss how can tax fairness advocates can strategically make the most of new media tools.
June 17, 2011 — Maz
Q: Ty, what's your story, and how did you get involved in popular education for social change?
Whew! That’s a packed question.
Well, I’m a black man, eldest of seven and raised in Harlem and the South Bronx. I came of age during the social ferment of the 1960s – a time that shaped my understanding of the world as it was, and quickened my hunger to play a part in shaping the world as it might be.
The fight for social justice found me at a young age. I was six-years-old in 1955, when I discovered those photos from Emmett Till’s autopsy and funeral in a magazine in my parent’s livingroom. Till had been brutally beaten and murdered by a group of white men because he was young and foolish, and had broken one of their most sacred cultural taboos: he forgot his “place” in White America.
Those horrifying images brought my childhood to an abrupt end, and I became the black kid who refused to comply.
