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.

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. 

Earlier this month, Ana Delia Espino, UFE’s Director of Inclusive Economies – South, moderated a powerful Spanish-language webinar uplifting a local movement for automatic voter registration in Alabama. What might seem like a simple policy proposal is part of a much deeper story — one rooted in the long and ongoing struggle for civil rights and the full inclusion of immigrant and marginalized voices in our democracy.