Victor Urquiza, UFE’s Workers’ Rights Organizer, reflects on UFE’s recent Fall 2025 Training of Trainers at the Avila Center for Community Leadership in Durham, NC.

Victor Urquiza, organizador de derechos laborales de UFE, reflexiona sobre la reciente capacitación de capacitadores de UFE para el otoño de 2025, en el Centro Avila para el Liderazgo Comunitario en Durham, NC.

Victor Urquiza, right / derecha

As we prepare for our Fall Training of Trainers later this month, we bring you this beautiful video. Click through to see and feel the experience of a typical UFE Training of Trainers.

ToT participants learn popular education methodology, deepen their critical understanding of economic inequality, experience circle work, join in art-making and cultural experiences, and build connections across generation, language, race and class, place, and more.

UFE’s Grassroots Organizing School of Alabama (GOSA) is meeting the need in Alabama for a pipeline of skilled organizers – and so much more. Three years in, GOSA has spawned a constellation of contributions that bolster the infrastructure for making change.

Over a long weekend in August, frequent UFE collaborator Luana Morales hosted the Interdepence Restival, an annual gathering she founded, in Western Massachusetts. The focus of the Restival is to restore and bring healing to people working on the front lines of social justice movements.

Interdependence Restival 2025 practitioners and participants. Luana Morales is in the second row to the left of the altar table. Eroc Arroyo-Montano is in the back row, seventh from left.

VERANO 2025 español abajo

Summer is a season to enjoy the warm weather with family and friends, over cookouts, swimming in lakes and beaches. And these are great opportunities to share worries and concerns about the moment we live in, this difficult time. At UFE, we found new opportunities in our work, and through rest and recharge.

Despite all the challenges we are living with and devoted to finding a way beyond, it is an exciting time to be a part of UFE — with the support of our donors, supporters and allies.

North Carolina holds two dubious distinctions. It is ranked worst for workers for six years running (Oxfam 2025). And it scored best for business for three of the past four years (CNBD 2025). 

Together, these achievements tell the story of a deeply unfair economy that delivers outsized rewards to companies that enrich themselves through low pay, limited worker rights, and scant social obligations to NC people and communities.

UFE and our Responsible Wealth project joined Patriotic Millionaires and others in supporting the Equal Tax Act -- landmark legislation which would ensure that investment income is taxed the same as income earned by workers.

UFE Gathers with Avila partners USSW, Self-Help, and Peace Hill

Community altar / Altar comunitario

ENTENDER NUESTROS TIEMPOS: FORMACIÓN TRIMESTRAL SOBRE EDUCACIÓN POPULAR

UFE se reúne con Partners de Avila  – USSW, Self-Help y Peace Hill

Earlier this month, UFE proudly hosted a powerful interpreter training in Alabama, bringing together 12 passionate participants committed to language justice.

A principios de este mes, UFE tuvo el orgullo de organizar una potente formación para intérpretes en Alabama, que reunió a 12 participantes apasionados y comprometidos con la justicia lingüística.

We are thrilled to announce Erika Arévalo Arteaga as the newest member of UFE’s team! She joins us as UFE’s Executive Assistant and Popular Educator.

Erika Arévalo Arteaga

Nos complace anunciar a Erika Arteaga como la nueva integrante del equipo de UFE. Se unirá a nosotros como Asistente Ejecutiva y Educadora Popular de UFE.

In late May, United for a Fair Economy (UFE) returned to the Avila Center for Community Leadership in North Carolina for our annual Spring Training of Trainers (ToT). 

Participants share stories, strategies, and laughter in a session at the Avila Center

Los participantes comparten historias, estrategias y risas en una sesión en el Centro Ávila

If you are reading UFE's blog, you are probably seeking meaningful ways to take action against the rising tide of authoritarianism. 

People reach out to UFE for political education and skill-building, to bring art and culture and healing into their work, and to learn how to mobilize communities across language.

With our fiscal year coming to an end, we are reaching out to you because we need your help.

This is movement infrastructure.

This is your impact.