DESIGUALDADES ESTRUCTURALES RESIDEN EN LA RAZA Y EL GÉNERO

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In honor of International Women’s Day (March 8) and Women’s History Month (March), we’re looking at recently-updated slides from UFE’s “Overworked and Underpaid: Women, Race, and the Economy” workshop.

UN MOVIMIENTO DE LUCHA POR LOS DERECHOS DE LOS INMIGRANTES DEBE ABORDAR LAS CAUSAS FUNDAMENTALES DE LA MIGRACIÓN

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We are living through unprecedented times, where millions of people are searching for solutions to the crises they face under systems of inequality. To help participants make sense of these crises, UFE’s Inclusive Economies Project - NC hosted “How to Fight Evil Empire” as part of a training series focused on developing leaders in the South at the Avila Center in Durham, NC, on February 28th.

CONSTRUYENDO PODER COLECTIVO EN ALABAMA: PRIMERA CAPACITACIÓN DE GOSA CON LA COHORTE 2026

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Bringing community members together for a weekend to collectively analyze the inequalities we experience is an act of power building. That was the spirit of the first Training of Trainers for the 2026 Grassroots Organizing School of Alabama (GOSA) cohort, held from February 27 to March 1.

GOSA 2026 participants, facilitators, and interpreters

CELEBRANDO LA RESILIENCIA EN EL DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA MUJER

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We were honored to have our Executive Director, Jeannette Huezo, participate in an early International Women’s Day event yesterday on the theme of "resilience" organized by the Boston International Newcomers Academy (BINcA), a public school in Boston.

LOS INGRESOS SIGUEN CONCENTRÁNDOSE EN LA CIMA, MIENTRAS QUE LA INFLACIÓN AFECTA CON MAYOR FUERZA A LOS TRABAJADORES PEOR PAGADOS

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In honor of Black History Month, we share reflections on racism and empire from UFE staffer Eroc Aroyo-Montano. Eroc serves as the Director of Cultural Organizing at United for a Fair Economy.

Every January they sanitize Dr. King. They quote his dream while burying his rage.

photo by Robert W. Kelley

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DESPUÉS DEL DÍA DE DEFENSA DE LOS INMIGRANTES: LO QUE EL TRABAJO POR DELANTE NOS EXIGE

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Yesterday, we stood inside the Alabama State House, many for the first time, carrying stories, concerns, hopes, and determination.* 

We prepared for months. We hosted trainings, coordinated rides, printed materials, sent reminders, answered questions, made folders, and worked through logistics that most people will never see.

And the day mattered. It truly did. It was a success if you ask me.

But as I drove home, I couldn’t shake a deeper realization: if we are honest with ourselves, we still have much, much more work to do.

Over 140 grassroots leaders showed up in early February 2026 for the 3rd Annual Immigrant Advocacy Day at the Alabama State House. Participants shared their personal stories with elected officials, and spoke with them about the harms they would experience if any of a package of proposed anti-immigrant bills were to pass. 

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United for a Fair Economy is excited to support the release of the State of the Dream 2026: From Regression to Signs of a Recession by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, under the leadership of Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, a long-time UFE collaborator.

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What are the connections between U.S. immigration laws and historical processes in immigrants’ countries of origin? How have these dynamics shaped migration patterns, influenced displacement, and impacted the realities our communities face today?

CONSTRUYENDO UN ANÁLISIS COLECTIVO: COMPRENDER LA HISTORIA DE LA MIGRACIÓN PARA FORTALECER LA ORGANIZACIÓN COMUNITARIA

¿Qué relación existe entre las leyes de inmigración estadounidenses y los procesos históricos en los países de origen de los inmigrantes? ¿Cómo han influido estas dinámicas en los patrones migratorios, los movimientos de población y la realidad que enfrentan nuestras comunidades en la actualidad?

Over 30 years ago, United for a Fair Economy (UFE) was founded with a mission to warn about the serious risks that concentrated wealth poses to our collective well-being. Today, the stakes are higher than ever.

UN LLAMAMIENTO: TU DONACIÓN FOMENTA LAS CONDICIONES PARA MOVIMIENTOS DE JUSTICIA ECONÓMICA IMPACTANTES

Hace más de 30 años, Unidos por una Economía Justa (UFE) se fundó con la misión de advertir sobre los graves riesgos que la concentración de la riqueza representa para nuestro bienestar colectivo. Hoy, hay más en juego que nunca.

Erika Arévalo Arteaga, UFE’s Executive Assistant and Popular Educator, shares her transformative experience at a UFE Training of Trainers.

TRAINING OF TRAINERS TRANSFORMADORA: DE PARTICIPANTE A MIEMBRO DEL EQUIPO DE UFE

Erika Arévalo Arteaga, asistente ejecutiva y educadora popular de la UFE, comparte su experiencia transformadora en una capacitación de formadores de la UFE.

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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.

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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.

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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.